FOXTON ATHLETIC CLUB.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 440, 5 November 1908, Page 4

FOXTON ATHLETIC CLUB.

The following handicaps have been declared by Mr J. Collingwood for the Foxton Spoits Meeting, to be held on Monday next, November 9th :

The origin of the word “ Australia ” has been accounted for so satisfactorily in Australian history books as the suggestion of the explorer Flinders that it comes rather as a surprise to learn that the Spaniards claim to have originated it two centuries earlier. The ancient Grecian and Phoenician navigators surmised the existence of a continent closing in the Indian Ocean in much the same way as the Mediterranean Sea was bounded by Africa, and this dream-country was given the Latin name “ Terra Australis,” “ the Southern Land.” From this latin adjective Flinders manufactured a name for the fifth continent at the beginning of last century. According to Mr Popelaire, a journalist on board the Chilian training ship General Baquedano, now in port at Sydney, the name of ‘ ‘ Australia ’ ’ was bestowed by the Spanish navigator Torres x 606 on the land he sighted to the south when passing through the straits that now bear his name. In this case, however, the Latin word counted for nothing, the name being given in honour of the House of Austria, then ruling in Spain. A descendant of the famous Spaniard is an officer on board the General Baquedano.

RUNNING EVENTS. 100 220 440 yds yds yds L. Alzdorf 4 6 15 A. Morrison 4 6 — J. S. Taylor 5, 12 25 H. Murray 7 16 __ W. J.Southerwood 8 18 28 R. Taylor 8 18 — F. Bell 9 18 30 H. Reid 9 18 — A. E. Rickleben 9 20 35 E. Shanley IO 18 35 N. L. Hirst 10 20 35 A, Palmer IO 18 38 K. H. Futiie 10 20 — H. Crowe 11 22 38 H. Nichol 11 22 38 W. Cade II 22 — J. McGovern — — 38 K. G. Suisted IX — — A. L. Wilson II — — W. M. Williams 11 — — R. J. Sexton — — 38 A. E. Wright — 22 3« 88oyds. i mile. W. Gosling scr. 10 E. Alzdorf 15 — C, Stratford 25 50 E. Waid 35 45 H. Reid 35 80 V. Carroll 40 60 Mi Griffin 40 50 A. McCann 6o no W, Caithness 6o no L. Shanley 6o — J. McGovern 6o no H. Nichol 6o — R. Moxon 6o no T. 0. Hagan 6o no R. J. Sexton 6o — H. Henderson 6o no P. Adams — 90 S. C. Gascoigne — no E. Geule — no R. C. Chamberlain — no W. George L. Alzdorr C. Stratford R. Taylor N. E. Hirst A. E. Rickleben E. Shanley H. Nichol J. McGovern H. Crowe 110 300yds 10 15 22 2.S 25 26 28 28 28 CYCEING EVENTS. 1 li 1 mile mile mile A. K. Parkes 10 15 20 R. J. Jones 10 15 20 G. V. Dunn 20 30 40 W. Brough 25 35 50 H. Henderson 40 50 60 E. C. Young 40 50 60 M. I’Anson 50 65 80 G. Hooker 6o IOO 120 A. Walker 70 90 120 R. E. Vincent 70 90 130 S. Porter 8o 120 140 A. 0. Parkes 90 120 140 C, N. Harks 90 120 130 J. Coulter IOO 120 140 H. J. Cavill 100 130 180 E. Wilkinson IOO 1 5° 200 W. G. Johanson IOO 180 200 A. Greenlees no 140 xgo W. Vincent I to r6o 220 E. G. Paul 120 160 230 W. H. Schultz — 180 230 P. Clifton 130 — — B. Sandilands 130 180 240 , A. Thompson 130 180 240 E. G. Martin 130 180 240