ATHLETICS.

Mataura Ensign, 18 December 1911, Page 3

ATHLETICS.

GREAT MILE PERFORMANCE, PEE. UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION, WELLINGTON, Dec. 16. At a sports meeting of the Wellington Amateur Athletic Club on Saturday, G. N. Hill (Auckland) won the one mile handicap in 4min 22 2-ssec, being only 2-ssec outside A. A. Shrubb's Australasian record. In the three-mile event he failed to break the record of 14min 49sec held by W. F. Simpson, doing only 15min 7 2-ssec. He did not appear to push himself. R. Opie (Christchurch) ran well in the 100 yds and 220 yds events, but was not brilliant. He gained third place in the 100 yds to C. T. Young (11yds) and A. T. Duncan (2yds), the winner's time being 10 l-ssec. In the second heat of the 220 yds event he ran splendidly but stumbled and gained only third place, the time of the winner, J. Wilton (7yds) being 22 3-ssec.

In the 100 yds race, from scratch, A. T. Duncan won with Messenger (Masterton) second and Coard third. In the 220 yds race from scratch Coard won with R. McKenzie (Masterton) second and Messenger third. Duncan did not start in the hammerthrowing contest, and A. Bissett registered 122 ft 3in. THE CHAMPIONSHIP MEETING. SYDNEY, Deo. 17. The New South Wales and Queensland teams and some members of the Victorian team, including Burton, Kelly, Kaigan, audi Russell, who will compete at the Wellington athletic championships meeting, are passengers by the Warrimoo. Mr Park, manager of the New South Wales team, isaid that New South Wales was represented by her full 'strength. New Zealand would bo very strong, but he expected his team to give the New Zealanders a great go, and he hoped to capture several events. CLUB-SWINGING RECORD. NAPIER, Dec. 17. A now world's club-swinging record was completed by Tom Burrows in Napier on Saturday night. He started on Wednesday night and continued for 72 hours 5 minutes at 100 revolutions per minute, 50 with each hand, beating I his own previous record of 72 hours at 80 revolutions. i