ATHLETICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14004, 9 March 1909, Page 8

ATHLETICS.

AUCKLAND AMATEUR CLUB. CHAMPIONSHIP REPRESENTATIVES. A meeting of the Auckland Amateur Athletic Club was held last evening, when it was decided to hold & series of championship list races at the Domain ; to-morrow evening, at six o'clock,- for the purpose of selecting runners to represent the club at tho New Zealand ' champions!) ip meeting to be held at Dunedin on March 20._ Any member of the club may compete in the lists, the distances. to bo run being 100 yds and 4*oyda, and one mile. At the conclusion of the trials the coramitteo will select two representatives—sprint and lons distance. The meeting -decided. to send Hill to Wellington to represent the club at the gathering to be held there next Saturday.

HARRIERS CLUB. A meeting is to bo hold at the Amateur Sports Clubrooms on Friday evening for the PIP purpose of forming a harriers club. Mr. White,- captain, of the Caversham Harriers - Club, Dunedin, now in Auckland with a fire brigade team, will attend the meeting. H| ' MARATHON MEETING. ( . Most of the Southern competitors in SaiurJ- ; «iv-'s Marathon woe returned home by Sun- ; , day evening's Main Trunk train. Shanahan, of Christchnrch. has taken up his residence V) , in Auckland, and it is understood that Mul•C»; MI" eahy, of Wellington, will return to reside : - this city. . ■ - ■ 'v. . ST. PATRICK'S DAY SPORTa Good entries were received last evening for - all events to be contested at St. Patrick's ggypDay. sport*.on' the 17th inst. The Marathon entry « as followsEl -W. Shanahan, J. » j Olliver, J; 1 . Balneavis, W. Trimble, S. A. Shaw, Wm. Wilahaw, " li., G. Cook, ■G. A. Underwood, T. J. Rainbow, A. Rogers, Chrw. Reid, N. M&hon(, y. S. H. Davis, B. OHare, Geo. Herring, J. Daniels, •3 B. D. - ; Mdlror, C. F. G. Ornstein, A. J. Byrne, L. • E. J. Ornstein, ; Chas. IRoscoe, and :W. T. Wynyard. ; The Marathon course will be from Lake House round Lake Takapuna, ? keeping the lake on the left, then by the main road to Takapuna racecourse, where six gfe&s complete circuits will .be covered, making a ;' , total distance for the raoe of II miles.