NATIONAL ATHLETIC TRIAL

Evening Star, Issue 22774, 8 October 1937, Page 4

NATIONAL ATHLETIC TRIAL

N.Z. COUNCIL'S DECISION MEETING AT WELLINGTON Thd decision of the Council of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association to hold a national athletic trial in Wellington on December 11 in connection with the selection of Empire Games representatives will be welcomed by all who consider themselves to bq in the running for places in the New Zealand team , (says the ‘ Sports Post ’). The matter was one calling for some definite direction from the authorities, and now that this has been given athletes will know just where they stand. Those whose provincial performances are sufficiently good to merit their being sent to Wellington will, it can bo assumed, rise or fall by their efforts on December 11. It is not very likely that the selectors will be swayed by performances which might be made at other gatherings. The meeting in actual fact will resolve itself into a national championship, except, that the fields will be limited and possibly one or two events in which our standard is pretty poor will be eliminated.

The meeting will occupy only one day', but in view of the fact that the programme will include a three-miles and a six-miles race, and some of the competitors at least will wish to run m both, consideration might be given to running, say, the three miles late on Friday afternoon.