ATHLETICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12523, 16 March 1904, Page 7

ATHLETICS.

I To-morrow (Thursday) being St. Patrick's Day, the Roman Oatholio section of the comv munity will celebrate the occasion with the annual fete on the Domain Criokot Ground, following with a national concert in the City Hall. A capital programme of sports _ has been drawn up in connection with the fete, ; including running races, wrestling, J shotputting, hammer-throwing, sack and obstacle races, etc. An art union is to be held in ':-. connection with the sports, the first prize in which will be a mineral specimen valued at ! £30. ■ '',-,■:'-■:';■. wi;::-" ....'--'-.'/,'.'';- -i'/Ki • : C. H. Manson, the well-known •'-Welling--j ton athlete, has been on a visit to Sydney, and in the course of a chat with "Prodigal," of tho Sydney Referee, gave it as his opinion that L. B. Webster should not have been disqualified at -he New Zealand championship 'meeting, as the bumping that took place was quite accidental. As a result of the wrestling revival in England it was recently deoided to form a national wrestling association of Great Britain I in order that an official code may be drawn up to govern future tournaments organised i in the United Kingdom. Amateurs and professionals are to be governed by the same body. . ! Mt. J. Bolfield, amateur billiard champion , of New South Wales, and Mr. Eugene Boyle, | ■ one of tho most expert'amateurs, played an j exhibition game of 500 up at tho Glebe Working Men's Institute recently, when the first-named succeeded in putting on a break of 225, the highest ever made by an amateur , in Australia. _ : _ I An interesting case was hoard recently in ' the Bolper County Court before Judge Lind- : ley, in which Edgar Whiteley Swift, landj lord of the Turks Head, Castle Donnington, I sued his father, George. H. Swift, musical • instrument dealer, Belpor, for the sum of £50 ; or the delivery of a number of prizes won at athletio sports in various parts of the country (says the Manchester Athletio News). From about 1888 to 1894 the plaintiff was ft fairly successful amateur runner, winning prizes at Manchester, Huddersfield, Beeston, Clay-Cross, Belper, and many other places. The articles were taken to the home of the father and remained there until a, few years ago, when some were removed by the son on his marriage. At the time when most of the prizos were won the plaintiff was under 21, and the contention of the father was that the articles belonged to him, as he had to pay for the training of his son, which he stated had cost him iJISO for extra food and for fares. For the defence it was further argued that the action was barred by the statute of limitations. On behalf of the plaintiff it was contended that both legally and morally he had a right to the trophies he had won. After a lengthy hearing His Honor decided that the statute of limitations applied in this case, and as there had been no demand for the prizes within six years after the marriage of the son in 1894, the. defendant was entitled to keep them. The action was therefore dismissed with costs.