ATHLETIC NOTES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 87, 25 March 1911, Page 3

ATHLETIC NOTES.

(By “Four-Forty.”) FIXTURES. Te Aute Sports Club —Saturday, April 15th. Hastings United Friendly Societies’, Hastings—Monday, Apl. 17th (Easter Monday). Te Pohue Sports Club—Monday. April 17th. Maharahara Sports Club—Wednesday, April 26th.

As I wrote last Saturday, the Hibernian Society’s Sports were successfully carried out on the previous Friday. larrelly, of Hastings, won the half-mile run, ami I hear it said that he brought home more money than what the prize was worth. I am also informed that he is matched to run Terrill, of Blenheim, shortly at Hastings for a “little'’ purse of sovereigns.

| 1 am also told that T. Williams had a match on in Napier last week with a Petone man, and succeeded in breasting the tape. While talking about matches. I might mention that 1 received a letter from Alec. Campbell on Tuesday stating that he is willing to run Fitzgerald over a course of two miles at the Friendly Societies’ meeting here at Easter for £lO a side. He adds, however, “I will leave it with them (the club) and Fitzgerald to suit themselves. "Whatever suits them will suit me also.” I wrote to Fitz, the night

I received the letter, but have so

far not heard from him. The committee of the Club will meet on

Monday night to decide about this ; matter, so more anon. • The residents of Te Pohui are I holding a sports meeting up there ion Easter Monday. It is their , initial meeting, and I am sure my I readers join me in wishing them a very successful gathering. It is a pity that their meeting falls on the I day of the Friendly Societies’ I Sports in Hastings. j There is one event missing from j the programme of the Friendly Societies’ Club which is very seldom missed by any club, and that is the mile run. Why this has been omitted I cannot understand. In the 1000 yards event at the Hastings Club’s Sports there were twenty nominators, and in the Napier Club’s mile event there were 16. Surely it would pay this Club to put either a mile or a 1000 yards event on the programme. M. Lachlan and Trembath have been running very successfully lately. In three days the former ran in eleven events. At the , Geraldine Sports he won the 4-mile j off 10 yards. At the Invercargill ( meeting he was placed second in I the l-niile (off 12 yards), and second in the 220 yards (off 5 yards). At the Dunedin Cales he was again second in the j-mile (off 10 yards). Trembath secured first in the half mile at both the Invercargill and Dunedin meetings. Regarding his

win at the latter meeting an exchange says :—“The Gore runner W* F. Trembath, secured a most popular and meritorious win *n the half mile, being heartily cheered by the spectators as he breasted the tape. Trembath previously held the half-mile record for the Caledonian Grounds of 2min. and on Saturday he reduced his time by 1 4-ssee. He was practically up sides with the leaders at the end of the first lap, and put up a very solid first quarter—being' timed by one watch at 57sec and by another at 58sec. The champion half-miler then took things easily down the

back stretch, and covered the complete distance in lmin 58 7-ssec—a record for the Caledonian Ground. Judging by the easy manner in which he won and the quiet way he took things in the first quarter it is quite certain Trembath could have easily knocked at least two seconds off this time.”

Trembath and McLachlan leave Dunedin for Victoria on April 3rd, where the champion will be prepared to meet all comers, and probably a match will be got off with Donaldson, who is said to be a fine halfmiler as well as a sprint runner. The duo will then go on to England, where Trembath will meet Kanaly over half a mile about July

C. E. Hol way has left the Dominion, and is matched to run Donaldson at Bendigo and Kalgoorlie, in Victoria, shortl.y, over distances of JOO yards and J3O yards. The Maharahara Sports Club are holding their annual meeting on the 26th April this year. Previously they have always held them on St. Patrick’s Day. They have asked Mr. W. G. Callender to act as handicapper; usually they have had a local man to adjust the starts. The local Centre will shortly be busy considering «ome lor disqualification. i«o ruaiuts »i • to come vp for “riogi"" in.’’ n-c for incorrect nerformancea. and 5 two very well-known athletes for connirance at “ringing in’’ one of the above cases.

I notice that a motion is being brought forward that an Appeal Committee of three members of the Executive of the Union be appointed to deal with all appeals that may be received by the Executive. I think this is unneces-

sary, and in some cases it might prove to be unjust to the appellant. Where about a dozen men are considering an appeal it is more likely that a better discussion on the matter will take place, and a fairer decision be arrived at than if only three men were left to discuss it. A letter is before the Executive

from A. Alen Allen, who proposes to take Home on tour three wellknown cyclists, A. B. L. Smith (“Smiler”), P. O’Shea, and E. Wall. Mr. Allen is asking permission to tour England, the Continent and America. He also proposes to bring back with him one or two international “cracks.” It is to be hoped that the Executive will grant the necessary permission, as the appearance of the men, which Mr. Allen proposes to bring back with him, might give the snort a much needed impetus.