AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5737, 4 November 1905, Page 5

AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

WELLINGTON CLUB SPORTS. Tlie Wellington Amateur Athletic Club will hold its twenty-ninth sports meeting this afternoon on the Basin Reserve, the first event starting at 2 o’clock. Since the reorganisation of tho club, about three years ago, the membership has greatly increased, and tho entries for tho various sports have grown larger. The number of entries received for this afternoon’s gathering constitutes a record for the club both in the distance and sprint events, and the competition should therefore be very keen. The New Zealand team for the Australasian championships will take part in the sports, and much interest will be centred in their doings. Hector Burk, of Dunedin, tho one-mile New Zealand champion, and who defeated the world’s champion A. A. Shruhh, will contest the distance events. With men of the calibre of J. Bradbury (Maslerton), who won the mile at the Shrnhb-Duffey meeting, and J. H. Prendeville, the club champion, who won the three-mile at the same sports, competing against him, Burk will not have matters all his own way. F. E. Drake, 220yds champion, of New Zealand, and H. S. Williams, who will represent New Zealand in tho sprints in Australia, will be pitted against the best men Wellington can produce. F. W. B. Goodbehere. the young Wellington College champion, will start in the open events, and it will bo interesting to note how he shapes against champions of New Zealand.