AMATEUR ATHLETICS.
CROSS-COUNTRY RUNNING. Tho usual weekly mooting of the Auckland Amateur Aihlelio t'bih was cancelled last Saturday, but several members of the club journeyed to Birkenhead and joined in with the Calliope Harriers over an eight, miles run under real steeplechase conditions. This enthusiastic young ebd) runs its meetings on the same lines as the harrier clubs of the South Island, keeping together in a pack for a few miles with different men setting (lie pace at intervals of a few hundred yards, and then finishing up with a race in from an even start over tho last 500 yards. I;. 0. Baiker scored a win by a baro vard from N T . F. Cooper in the run home with ,T. Sylvester, another five yards away, third. In ,). W'engdall and S. Andrews the club has two fine harrier runners. Both have represented Wellington in a Now Zealand eross-countrv championship, and with Barker. Cooper and J. Williamson and A. Browne, from tho Auckland Club, would form a strong com bination for the New Zealand cross-coun-try championship at Wellington on August 30.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20623, 23 July 1930, Page 20
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