ATHLETICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11680, 15 June 1901, Page 7

ATHLETICS.

L. McLachlan, the crack professional sprinter, has issued a challenge to Irving j Sayles, of P. 11. Uix's Variety Company, j ami a runner with an Australian reputation, ; ottering to run him 100 yds for a sum of £100 • aside. McLachlan offers to concede Sayles j lyd in 100 yds, or liyds in 130 yds. j Another harrier club has been formed in ! Dunedin, and amateur athletics are brighteni ing up considerably in the Southern centre. R. Vrownlce. the crack juniper and exchampion of New Zealand, arrived in Auck- ' land, a few clays ago. As lie majority of my 1 readers are no doubt aware, Brownlee is a ! '• mimbcr av' the foorce," and meeting him ! on his "beat" the other day I had a word Icr two with him about athletics. He tells : me he has done nothing in the jumping line : for over 1?. months, and thinks of retiring ' permanently. Another effort is being made, in Dunedin to form a Public Schools' Amateur Athletic ; Association. It will he remembered that an ■ attempt was made last year, but failed, coving to a difference of opinion among the teachers. It now seems that the feeling in favour of the formation of an association is now more general among the teachers, and ike prospects of its formation are much brighter, such well-known enthusiasts as Hooper. M."c;is-ey. Lowe, and King-ton being among the number who are moving in the matter. j The international intercollegiate meeting : between the athletes of the Harvard and , Yale Universities (America) and the Oxford | • nil Cambridge Universities (England) has | been finally fixed up. and will lie held at Berkeley Oval, New* York, on September 21. 'Die Englishmen have accepted the propo- | sition of the Americans that two miles shall : be substituted for the three miles as the long- , distance race. | At"the annual spring meeting of the Pennsylvania University Athletic Club several fine performances were recorded. A. F. Duffy accounted for the 100 yds race in 10s., P. I Sheldon (Yale) secured first place in putting j the shot with 43ft 2in, A. Dewitfc won the j hammer-throwing with 155 ft Oiin, and ail j three placed men in the high jump cleared j over 6ft. the winner (S. S. .Tone*) securing j first place with 6ft 2-bn. M. Prinstein won | the long jump with 22ft 6|in. j According to the American correspondent j of the Sydney Referee, another phenomenon I has been located at the University of Pennsylvania, in the person of a Chinese youth, who is said to claim Australia as the land i of his birth. His name is Kiou, and it is j given out that ho used to make fast times over the cinders in the land of the Golden , Fleece. T do not remember having heard of I the young celestial, nor have I ever seen the j mono figuring in any of the Australian ■ papers. • j The secretary of the New Zealand Ama- j ■ teur Athletic Association (Mr. L. W. Harley) J has officially notified the Amateur Athletic j I Union of Australasia that his association pro- j i poses to decide the next Australasian chain- i I pionships at Auckland on December 23 and I 31, and the union is taking a mail vote from I | tho affiliated" associations on the question of j [ the suitability of the dates. 1 The application made by G. W. Smith for i I a record for the hurdle race against Rosein- ] ; grave at the Auckland Domain, last year i { (time recorded, 15 3 55.), which was duly forI warded by the New Zealand Amateur Atli- ! i letic Association to the Amateur Athletic J ' Union of Australasia for a ruling, has now j j been submitted by the union's executive to ' i tho Board of Control for a decision. The j ; union executive, according to the rules bear- j i ing on the question of records, have no power j : to accept Smith's figure-, and hand the ! : application along to the board because it in- ' v< ives not a matter of opinion, but a matter ! j of law. j