GROSS-COUNTRY RUN
PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIP. The most interesting run of the season will take place at Miramar on Saturday neat, the 31st inst., at 3 ip.m., when the local Harriers will compete for the provincial championship over a fivo-milo cross-country course, with a team’s race for the Whyte-Mackay Shield. The competitors will be the Brooklyn Harriers (2 teams), the Olympic Harriers, and possibly .a. team from the Boys’ Institute, and with men like E. I. Bell, W. Burk© and D. Todd'in the Brooklyn team, and A. B. Wilson and W. Sorathard running for the Olympic, spectators are promised ‘an excellent and exciting finish, while the country over which the race is to take place permits nearly the whole of the laat half-mile’s run being witnessed from the finishing point, which will be at the Miramar tram terminus. The 1 present provincial cross-country champion is A. B. Wilson, while the Brooklyn Harriers are holders of the Why.te-Mackav Shield. Given a calm day, it is expected that some good times will be put up, and those members of the public making the trip should be well rewarded for their trouble.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10652, 27 July 1920, Page 8
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