ATHLETICS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12530, 16 April 1935, Page 6

ATHLETICS

• PRO’ SPORTS TO-NIGHT. The fallowing programing of events lias been arranged for the Poverty | Bay Professional Athletic and Cycling Club’s floodlight Sports meeting to be conducted! on the Victoria Domain to. night:— j Championship events.—loord s lad- j ics, 100yds junior. two-mile senior : cycle, two-mile junior cycle. Handicap events.—7syds- ladies’, j 220.ydg senior. 220yds junior, and men’s four laps. CVcling events. —Senior four laps and junior four laps.. "Pin Hare’ raring :—Novice hurdles for dogs that have not won a hurdle race: novice flat event; open race. The programme will include also a number of wrestling bouts. The club’s meeting is to be held tonigTi instead 1 of Wednesday to prevent a clash with the Gisborne Savage Cluh’ s korcro. Several special features are to fie introduced, including a challenge match in the ‘tin flare’ me" ing between R. Humphries’ Mack and E. Soderston’s Silver Ring. In order to encourage the hurdling side of 'tin flaft'e racing- a novice event has been arranged! and nfl does that have not won a lmrdle race will have an opportunity to show their merits. The athletic championships should Provo interesting as these events will be the final distances of the series. Arthur Road has returned to the wrestling ring and will meet. Carl Bus eke in a five tliree-minute round contest. Two additional bouts will bo staged between Hayward and E. Harris, and F. Lee and J. Thomson.