ATHLETICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2128, 29 February 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)

ATHLETICS.

At the last meeting ol the A icforia A.A.C. council, George Blake was (selected to rim in the race, to be mu at the Olympic games. Loudon, in July. H funds admit. AN . V . Aitken will also he sent. In the Alai.it- !,,,„ race at the Athens gaums two wars ago Blake ran remai'Kable well, being a mile ahead ol the field at 15 miles, when lie was at tacked with cramp, and, I hough walking much ol tin' rest of the wav, lm finished sixth out of 37 competitors. He is in go«" solid training, and recently ran three tjnies round Albert Park—a total dixfane;' of II miles 1160 yards— in 67 minutes o(.) roe. lie will leave Alelbourno early m April. AA . A . Ailken is also a very line distance runner, and last season won a seven mile race in record time, was second ill the five mile cross-conn try championship, and wan the 10 inili' iTo.ss-mimtry championship in 58 minutes 57 see., equalling the best- previous record. As compet'tors must he 21 years of age, he ii only just qualified, as lie does not attain liis majority until Alay. So fas as New Zealand is concerned in the Olympic games, it: is to he presumed that C. AA". Gilray (Otago), the latest of the Dominion’s Rhodes scholars at Oxford, will he available, while every effort should lie made to get Guy Haskins (now at the University of Pennsylvania) to represent. New Zealand instead of tho United States of America.