ATHLETIC NOTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10652, 13 May 1895, Page 6

ATHLETIC NOTES.

[BY SPSISTEH IN “ CANTERBURY TIMES.” Arrangements arc being completed for an American baseball team to visit Australia. The visitors will utay a week iu Auckland. C. Wikoa writeo from Wellington to tho effect that if Cobkdick will put up a deposit for a match for £25 a side, in support of his challenge to walk a mils and run a mile against aay man ia Now Zealand, he (Wilson) will cover it without delay. Air D. Wood informs mo that he intends to resign tho position of honorary secretary of tho Canterbury Amateur Athiotic Club at tha annual meeting, rreu-ura of business prevents him attending to tho duties as ha would like. I also hear that Mr P, A. Lauria intends to resign tha position of honorary treasurer. Both Sir Wood nnd Mr Lauria hava done & largo amount of good work for tho club, and their positions will, I think, bo hard to fill. Corporal Clark writes from.. Western Australia to the Melbourne Sportsman, accepting the challengas cf Bowen and Laaiis. Ha expects to be ia Melbourao ia a few months time, and speaks confidently of breaking existing records up to tan miles. The executive ef tho New South Wales Amateur Athletic Association has summoned a conforsnca of delegates from the different athletic bodies, including Rugby Football Union, Cyclist Union, Lacrosse Association, and League of Wheelmen, to consider tho best way of approaching the Government of New South Wales to bring before it tbs desirability of granting a site of laud at or near Moore Park for the purpose of forming an athletic ground to be used for all classes of sport. Mr A, L. Baird, tha Inventor of tho patent “automatic judge” which has won such warm ‘approval from Press aad peda —both amateur and professions!—tolls me (“Tha Prodigal” ia tha Sydney Referee) that ho ia about to endeavour to float a company to put his clever contrivance properly before the public. Ha imagines that if ho took his two machines to England and America there would be a good healthy demand for them. To make hia invention known eequirsa money—hence tho proposed company. Mr Baird is such a believer in his machine that ha will be content with shares in lieu of cash.

An English writer states that C. B. Fry will undergo a special preparation for this year’s Long Jump Championship, and that J. S, M'ayne, the Oxford cpriater, will turn out a second Bradley. In tha Realm, Lady Jaune urges that woman may bo permitted to play at any gams or indulge in any sport that can conveniently be rjursued in a skirt. Where tha skirt ends, so to speak, there should women’s athletic activity end also. Shooting is banned because of its obvious and open cruelty. But for tha rest the petticoat is tho test. Tha English Amateur Athletic Association has declined to accept F. 33, Bacon’s claim to the mile record of 4min IS-laoc, on the ground of insufficient evidence j also Eorgaa’s claim to the shot putting record of 46ft 5-J-in, there being no evidence as to whether tha chat was an iron or leaden one. According to tho Association rales tha shot must ba of iron. Tho Scottish Amateur Athletic Association held its annual moating on Feb. 27 when the report and balance-sheet showed a Eatiafaotory state cf things, tho credit balance amounting to £3S 15* Bd. Mr S. Robinson (Baillieotoa Thistle) moved a new rule to*the following effect: “That this Association reserves to itself the right to sanction the payment of expenses to competitors if, in tho opinion of its committee, tha very exceptional circumstances of any particular cue a ecsm to warrant such permission being given.” On a vote, tho motion was lest by a large majority. A motion by Mr D. Mackenzie (Bangers), “That no member shall bo eligible for election to the executive whose club haa not held open oports for tho two aeaeona preceding tha annual general meeting,” was also negatived by nu oven larger majority. On the motion of the chairman, it was egresd to invite ths English and Irish Associations to a conference, in order that their views on the question of the Scottish, Cyclists’ Union’s two-class pchama might be ascertained, and some d-soiflioa coma to.