ATHLETICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14644, 1 April 1911, Page 9

ATHLETICS.

UNIVERSITY TOURNAMENT. The athletic meeting in connection with the New Zealand University tournament will be held at the Domain on Easter Monday. Three amateur handicap events have been placed on i the programme, and entries for these close on Monday with air. Bruce Scott, hon. secretary Auckland University College. The handicap events are 100 yds and 440 yds, and one mile. Mr., H. J. Fielder has been appointed handicapper. , AUCKLAND CLUB'S SPORTS Tho Auckland Athletic Club will hold a meeting on Monday evening at Eden Park. A five-mile handicap will bo held, in which L. J. Ornstein and J. F. Fitzgerald will meet. The latter hopes to show greatly imi proved form. Tho entries for events dose this evening at 17, _ CoombesV Arcade. ■ ATHLETIC UNION NOTES. During tho week tho following sports' bodies have affiliated with the Auckland centre of the New Zealand Athletic and Cycling Union:— Athletic Olub, Thames Foresters' Fete, Hamilton A-.blcJfc and Cycling Club, Papakura Athletic Society and Auckland Athletic Club. For the convenience of Auckland competitors, tho entries for the Thames Foresters' fete sports have been, extended for a few days. Among the leading events is a Thames handicap, for which the first prize is £14 and i; two-milo bicycle race, with £7 as firuS prize. Programmes may be had i from Mr. Ornstein. V t ' I Tho Hamilton Club. putting on eomo j important cycling events, and, judging from j inquiries being made, competition promises Ito bo keen'. All cycling will be under the rules of , tho New Zealand Athletic and Cycling Union, and registered cyclists may take part in other events without extra registration. • C. N. HiP, of Auckland, who won the mile and three-mile championships in such sensational manner,, was the discovery of the meeting (writes "Amateur" in the Otago Witness). It was known that tho Aucklander was an exceptional performer, | but it was not realised that he was such a brilliant one. Hill, and not Huskies, is the manor ■ that saonld "have been, selected in th« New Zealand teams for the Empire | *p-~-rta Festival', although Haskins has a j p•■rlu'i-mr.hce pi" Urn. CDs. for the mile to hi." Lcredu, that v;as done four years ago m f America, wheie the conditions are exceptional. Hill did .not do \ that time for the mile on Saturday '-/rook, but tho easy way in which he ran suggested that it was only p matter of . being extended to do it. Hill is ■ the man of the moment, Haskins tho man of four years ago. ' The Now Zealand Council, it appears r to me, was ovorhasty in despatching Haskins. ; Even r if Haskins is' a better performer over a mile than Hill, and the point is extremely doubtful, the Aucklander is a brilliant three-miler, and as such would have proved a most worthy ' representative in that distance at the CoroGRtiori Festival Sports. If Auckland realises what ft brilliant man it has, that province should at onco raise funds arid deauatch Hill to London. It, matters not that Hill may havo his chance to represent Australasia at the Olympic Games at? Stockholm next year. Many things'may happen before the Olympic Games, and New Zealand is j to bo denied a certain representative in London this year for a" problematical representative in 1912. , •