ACROSS COUNTRY

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12181, 4 July 1925, Page 17

ACROSS COUNTRY

NOTES ON THE HARRIERS. (By "PACEMAKER.”) TO-DAY’S EVENT Vosseler Shield—lo miles at Miramar. COMING EVENTS July 18th and 25th.—Club Championship. August Ist.’—Provincial Championship, ; Hutt Park. August 15th.—N.Z. Championship, Dunedin. ■August 22nd.—Dome Cup. August 29th.—Australian-New Zealand Championship, Hutt Park. Sept. 19th.—Road Race. BALLANTYNE MEMORIAL _ The fifth annual contest for the Scottish Harriers’ Ballantyne Cup was held at Miramar last Saturday. The course, which started and finished at the Miramar School, was over last year’s championship course. The conditions could not have been mnch worse, the course being under water a good deal of the way, with rain falling continuously. Provincial champion, Fred Silver, was on the scratch mark, conceding starts np to six minutes. Willie’ Needham soon overtook the limit men. H. Waring (4min) caught up to Needham on the Scots College road, and the pair remained together till the finish. The scratch man made up a lot of ground in the first round, and it appeared that he would repeat last year’s performance, hut although he made up a lot of ground in the second lap he failed to reach the tape first. Waring and Needham kept together until the straight was reached, when Need'ham started to sprint. He started his run too soon, and Waring came away over the last 50 yards to win by about 10 yards. Silver, who was about 80 yards further hack in third place, established fastest time, 82min 48sec. Zander was some distance back, fourth. BROOKLYN CLUB’S COOK CUP The wet weather was responsible for three scratchings for the Cook Cup. The distance was five miles, the course covered being identical with that followed by file Scottish Club. Ten runners faced the starter. D. Todd had pride of place, conceding up to 6min. The limit man, S. Willis, made good use of his handicap, leading practically throughout. Doug. Todd passed Barclay (25sec) about 1) miles out. and at the end of the first lap was in sixth place. He moved up to third nlnoe in the sandhills, and crossing the golf links was lying second. Willis was soon overhauled, and Todd, finishing strongly, won by about a furlong. A. Meit, who was in sixth in the sandhills, finished remarkably fast over the last li miles, and filled third place, with Johnny Walker fourth. Todd’s time was 32min 20sec. , „ The club’s team for the 10 mile Vosseler shield race to-day is as follows Todd, Barclav, Tipton, Rose. Sherwood, Walker, L. Todd, Cornish, Futter, and Willis.

WILSON MEMORIAL HANDICAP In the Olympic Club's "Wilson memorial handicap, heid at Lyall Bay, 18 runners 5 arted. The course was the usual one of tnree miles. Peter Wilson was scratch TD an j limit being three minutes. Boyd, the second man away, soon .opened ?Pn a T * ap f * oin S through the f-and-hills Lankshear gained a lot of ground on Bovd, and at the fishermen's huts was only a few yards behind, with the rest of the field strung well out. Along the rough road to the Golf House the back markers improved their positions, and three-quarters of a mile from home had the field, with the exception of boyd and Lankshear, well in hand. The finish was very exciting, Boyd just managing to reach the tape with two yards to spare. The scratch man, who finished fourth, also established fastest time, 16min 51sec. Peter is running exceptionallv well at present, and will be a force to \>e reckoned with in the championships. EWART CUP By winning the Hutt Club's five mile Ewart Cup handicao, L. Hitchcox wins, the oup outright. Twenty-sevqn runners competed. Hitchcox won by about four yards from D. Dome, with J. Dome in third place. AT WANGANUI In order to assist the newly formed club in Wanganui, a team from the Hutt Club travelled to Wanganui last Saturday to take part in a two mile steeplechase. The team, consisting of Craig, Cunningham. McKee, Hutton, and Payne left Wellington about 6 a.m., and after a rough trip, due to the bad etate of the roads, arrived at 2 p.m. with the race timed to start at 2.30 p.m. As was only to be expected, the team were unable to show their true form, and in the circumstances their performance was good. McKee, the first Hutt man home, finished fourth, closely followed by Hutton, Cunningham, and Craig. The teams race resulted:—Wanganui (1, 2,3, 8), 14 points, 1; Hutt Valley (4, 5,6, 7), 22 points, 2. MASTERTON CLUft The Masterton Harriers held a ten mile championship last ‘Saturday. Rose took the lead early, and running easily, won by about 25 yards from Heffer. 1 Then followed Keats. Smith, and Carr in that order. Rose's time, 58min 27 2-ssec. is about smin faster than that recorded by McErchen last year. A sealed handicap, run in conjunction with the championship, was won by S. Carr, who ran a very dogged race. 3. Heffer took the second prize, with H. Orman third. PORT-DUNEDIN ROAD RACE Forty-six runners faced the starter in the Otajo Centre's annual race from Port Chalmers to Dunedin last Snturdav, and 43 comnleted the journey. Eddie Brown, the Otago champion, was n road racing not being to his liking. J. W. Tapp, the scratch man, again secured fastest time. 42min 36sec, finishing in ninth place. Results:— R. IH. Stevens (Civil Service), -Amin C. R. Hebbard (Caversham), 4min 30sec ’. 2 O. Gallngber (Cavprshamh 4min 15sec 3 J. C. McAra (Pacific). Imin 55see 4 The winner finished very strongly winning by about 50 yards., with the third man 75 yards further back.