Untitled

Free Lance, Volume XVIII, Issue 972, 13 March 1919, Page 10

The Basin Reserve on Saturday next will be given up to an amateur athletic sports meeting; practically for the first time since the world war broke out in 1914. In the fight for freedom many of the finest sprinters and long-distance gunners Wellington has produced "went West," and those who contest the various championship and open events this week-end will be mainly hew to the game, at least as far as outstanding performances are concerned. But we have some youthful athletes in the community, and it will be surprising if the performances do not reach the high standard of the be-fore-the-war period. The competitions are bound to be interesting, and these should be a good attendance of the public at the first sports gathering since hostilities have been suspended, -x- * * itWellington's loyal Irishmen are going to celebrate the anniversary next Monday of their patron saint in time-hon-oured fashion. During, the day a sports gala will be held at Newtown Park, winding up with the usual national concert in the Town Hall in the evening. An attractive programme for the sports should draw, a big crowd. Besides the usual sports events there will be Highland dancing and Idish jig competitions and a baby show. The evening's programme should pack the Town Hall to the doors, the performers including Signor Cesaroni, Mr Forquhar Young (of Christchurch), Mr Ke Kevin Dillon, Mr Herbert F. Wood, Misses Violet Lamacroft, Teresa McEnroe, and Anne Sullivan.