ATHLETICS.
J. Griffin, New Zealand's ex-amateur champion middle and heavy weight boxer, has been matched against D. Moloney, of Sydney. This will-be Griffin's fust appearance in Australia, as a professional. It. J. Scott, of New Zealand, defeated Delhi Ncilson last week in Melbourne in a wrestling match, Cornish style, billed as the championship of Australasia. Tim English long-distance runner, Alfred Shnihb. appears to know something about howling, flaying in, a cricket match for the Amateur Athletics against he Jockeys in England the famous South London harrier took six wickets' for 20 runs. At the 38th annual festival promoted by the Widncs Athletic Club J. W. Morton, the English sprint champion, defeated 0. P. Stark, the Scottish crack, in the hundred yards scratch race by a foot in 10 2-ss,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12955, 26 August 1905, Page 7
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