AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

NZ Truth, Issue 443, 13 December 1913, Page 8

AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

Boxing Day Competitors.

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On Boxing Day and the day following local athletic enthusiasts will have, an opportunity of witnessing In action the finest team of athletes that has vlaited New Zealand. Young and enthusiastic Templeton, Power, Parker and Caugney, fresh from their latest American victories, promise to show form as brilliant as any they have dls« played at home. One often readß of the Aroorican athlete as a highly trained specialist who can perform well m one event only. The charm of our present visitors lies m their allround athletic merit. Take Temple* ton: At Walkanae, last Saturday, he competed m the high and broad jumptJ, the pole vault, the quarter fiat, besides giving exhibitions of buvdllng and javelin throwing. As a performer with the discus, too, he is well m the champion class. In build almost a replica of our one-time sprint and quarter mile champion, "Pal" Webster, the j little Stanford man is an ■ Q}>TTvpic champion fti the making. WltK^iß^ferr formances. Cft 2ln for the high jump,; im 21n with the pole vault, 15 2-fißeca ! for 120 yds hurdles, and over 22ft m the broad jump; he is the equal of the specialists m these events. On Boxing Day he will be opposed In tho lUtyds hurdles by Australasian record-holder, G. P. Keddelt, who has been m tKtlnlnff for some considerable time with the express object of attempting to LOWER THE CAUFORNIAN'S ' COLORS. The team's sprinter, G. l»arker, n. member of tno San Francisco Olyruplo Club, a mere boy In years, whose performances of lObpcs. for the hundred and 22&CCS. for tho quarter stamp him ub one of the fastest men oC to-day. Before leaving America he won m even time the furlong at th«j Portola Festival, the biggest meeting m California, defeating the cream of the Pacific Coast talent. Sinco his arrival here he has been going great guns. At Waikanaa last Saturday he gave Worry Pool 3yds and Frc»d Hubbard 4yds, and cantered home an easy win* uer In 10 l-osecs. on, probably, the roughest track m New Zcalaai. With the shot and m the broad Jump, he also makes good. Jinimy Power, of Boston, the rtnoat mller m America and holder or tho American and Canadian champion*ships, won the Pacific Coast championship a few weeks ago m San Francisco. Only two days off the train after his three thousand mll« journey across tho continent, ho won easily In «lmtn 23 3-sseca — halr-ralsln* time, yot not so. fast as his best time, 4mln 18 4-ssecs. In winning the American chanu-loaahlp he defe&tod Abel R. Klvlat, wlio ran second to A. N, S. Jackson m iho 15 W m«tre« at tho last Olympic Gomes. Power also lias a record of Imln »7 4-ssecs for the half, and 9mm 33«eca for the two ralics. Undoubtedly nU MOST DANGI3FUMJS OPPONENT In theae parts i» A. W. Dormer, who already thin mmsan Jus oqunlUHl th« Now Zealand hulf-milc record of Imln 58 1-Shcoi put up by Hector Burk «i the Dunedln Shrubb-DuJTy meeting ! nearly nlno yc&x* nRo. and ban ateo blossomed forth «w a. sprinter by win,aixu» the 220 yds championship «t

Auckland iaat week In 23 3-Ssecs on a sodden track. With Dormer showing such rare pace for a middle distance runner Pow.>r will be hard put to it to stave oft defeat when he meeu the Auckiandcr at Wellington on Box* Ing "Day. Tho baby of the team, nineteen* year-old Caughoy, ia a pocket ilwcule«. Baroly sft Tin In holghu he, »culw> m *he neighborhood of H eionc. With the ahot he ia the claasleat performer that has yet appeared ia tho Dominion. His training efforts of 43ft is 3ft better than th 6 Nuw Zealand record. With tht? hammer, howovcr. ho will be ttxtund«d by hi. JltAm. whose AujitralttJiiaa rocwd, 143 ft tJin. U» almost a« good tin the Am.'ricitr.'n best. The visitor* oi>cn Uunr proKmmm* at ChrlHlchurch to-day, untt with tb<» lMverc&rgiH mid Donrdtn me*UnK# nwet veck they nhouUl bo -n i»pU-ntUd nick on their uppcaruqec lv .TVcllinK* toa.