COLLEGE ATHLETES

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11685, 24 November 1923, Page 6

COLLEGE ATHLETES

CHAMPIONSHIP MEETING TODAY. The secondary schools amateur athletic championships, which’ were postponed last Saturday on account of unfavourable weather, are to be held at Athletio Park to-day. With the leading athletes from all the local colleges as the competitors the sport should he of a very high order particularly as a number of the students have recently broken records at the colleges. The championship will be decided on the aggregate points scored in the three grades of competition—senior, intermediate, and junior—and. the college gaining the highest aggro? §ate will hold the Dr. McEvedy liield for one year. Last year a very high standard was shown at the sports but it is fully expected that performances will be even better to-day Notable among the competitors will be O. H. Jenkins, who recently established two new records at 'Wellington College, and who is already spoken of as a probable New Zealand representative at big gatherings in. the near future. The programme is to be commenced in the morning, when a number of cvento will be decided, hut the main attractions will he reserved for the afternoon proceedings, in order to give the public an. opportunity of witnessing the splendid advance which is being niacin athletically in the secondary schools. In the" event of favourable weather the gathering should he the host of it* kind ever held in tire Dominion.