ATHLETIC NOTES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4467, 21 September 1901, Page 7 (Supplement)

ATHLETIC NOTES.

(By “Advance.”)

The annual meeting of members of the Amateur Athletic Club will be held on Friday next. The annual meeting of members of the Kimbolton Sports Club was held last Saturday evening. Over twenty member* were present. The report and balancesheet in connection with the late sports meeting was read and adopted. The re, ceipts were £9O 63 7d, and expenditure £7O 19s 7d, leaving a credit balance of £l9 7*. Subscriptions outstanding, £1 14s 6d. The balance sheet was highly satisfactory considering the unfavourable weather on tho day of the sports. The following officers were elected:—Patron, Mr F. F. Lethbridge, M.H.R,; presi, dent, Mr W. S. Poole; vice-presidents. Messrs Harden R..Mcßeth, Bray, A. H. Tompkins, Matheson, Fowler, Dick. J. A. Bailey, H. P. Taylor. W. John, ston, Ellis, W. Andrew, L, E. JaCKgon, H. V. Hammond, and Dr Qrejg; direo tor of sports, Mr Ohaa. Bray; hon treasurer, Mr W. Hansen; hon secretary, Mi W. G,. Hicks; assistant secretary, Mr J. W. Tompkins. It was resolved, that the sports be held on March I9th, 1902. General Committee: Messrs D. H. Baillie, Robertson, Bauer, Mclntyre, Jenkins, R. Burne, Isherwood, F. Gerke, Hogan. Conder, Nesdale, and J. H. Richardson. The sum of £2 2i wa« vot. ed to the Normanby Athletic Club towards their expenses in the late action against them in reference te a shootinggallery oh their ground. A. F. Duffy, 01 the Georgetown University, competed at the Leicester charity sports on July 22. The American covered the 100 yards in the invitation scratch race in the quick time of 9 4-5 seconds. He thus equalled the world’s amateur record.

On July 22 A. O. Kraenzleiu, of Penn, sylvani*. U.S.A., from scratch, won the 120 yard* invitation hurdle race at the public police sports in the British record time of Is> 2 5 seconds. For the future Mr W, H. Bell, secretary cf the Victorian Athletic League is to receive £75 a year. At the quarterly meeting of the Council of the Victorian Athletic League, hold in Milooutne last month M« Robert Oort, secretary of the Goldfields Athletic League of W.A. (Kalgoorlie), wrote ariang permission for the W.A. League to copy the V.A.L. rules for the government of footracing in Western Australia. This was granted. £. Sutherland, who played such a sound game for. Auckland last Saturday, was one of the A.A.A.C. team at the championship meeting at Christehuroh last December. He, however, spoilt any chance of success by taking on too much for one afternoon. He ran a great race in the half-mile, was second in tho mile and also started in the three mile. (Tat” informed' me he would he a competitor at the N.Z. and Australasian Championship meetings at Auckland in December, end would giva the best of the visitors a good go in the mile. ~

L. B. Webster, the New Plymouth •printer, has entered for the 100 yards handicap at the Eight Hours’ Demonstration sports. . It will be interesting to see how the Taranaki Waiuku shapes with the best of the local division. Eugene Bandow ha« been awarded by a jury £26 in an action for libel brought by him against a rival ''strong man,*’ who bad advertised that he—one Arthur Saxon—had defeated Sandow in a trial of strength at Sheffield in 1898. Hr W. Hastings: Bell, secretary of the Victorian Athletic League, writes me as under:—"At the rules commit' tee meeting held last Wednesday they decided not to go on with the Federal constitution. The V.A.L. constitution U being altered slightly; also the field rules. Pyobably at the conference in November a motion will- be a made to re-organise tbo V.A.L-, which will be carried out at the same meeting. After this I shall endeavour to hold an Intercolonial conference, giving each league the same representation. Meetings will be held alternately in each State. This Federal League will be a supreme court, and touch national questions { also, endeavour to establish »league la Sydney, one in Queensland, also New Zealand; these places in turn will have conference* held at their dcors.'V M’Grory’s Fifteenth Botany Handicap will be decided at Botany on October lltb. The distance .is 110 yards and the stake 40sovs and a trophy presented by Mr T. M. Malone. Nominations (3e) close on September 28th# and ao> ceptanee's (7s) on October 7th- Following four days after the a Sydney Eight Hour sportq,the handicap should at* tract a lot of country runners.. The fee to start is only WMha per cent, of the stake. In this colony gome of the, dubs charge as much as 7ft per cent.;

of the first prize, which really means asking the athletes to run for their own money. Feilding and other clubs charge 5 per cent, cf the first prize.