ATHLETICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15664, 18 July 1914, Page 5

ATHLETICS.

CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP. The council of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association met recently. The Canterbury Centre asked that the following should be added to the amateur association rules : —" That competitors will declare all wins and placing after tho time of entering for any meeting to be held at a subsequent date." It was decided to invite tho opinions of other centres on the proposal. Tho Wellington and Canterbury Centres applied for tho 1914 cross-country championship. It was decided to allocate the fixtures to Canterbury, which would bo asked to arrange a suitable date, probably in September. There seems nothing in tho way now to prevent the annual New Zealand crosscountry teams championship being a most successful event. It looked at first as if this important race was going to fall through, but the Otago Centre thereupon slipped into the breach and said that if none of the other centres desired to control the championship it would carry the event out itself sooner than see it go by the board. Since then both the Wellington and Canterbury Centres have applied for permission to control the championship, and the governing association has awarded the holding of the raco to Canterbury. The Otago Centre will be represented by a solid 'team, headed by Beatson.