AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

NZ Truth, Issue 444, 20 December 1913, Page 6

AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

Wellington's Two-Days' Carnival.

Comments on tho Candidates.

(By "Fed.")

The performances of our American visitors at Chrlatc.'jurch last Saturday siiow that they arc striking form nnd that by Boxinfc* Day thoy should bo aa v near their best form as will enable us to «et a. clean lino as tv their real merit. At present the star of the party Is l>arker, and for all-round brilliancy his performances at Chrlstchurch hay« probably never been etiutiUad m Au«traWnsla. When a man can do 7 -l-6sec Vnr tho 75yds, lOsoo for the hundred, 32ft 2ln with tho shot, 21ft 3ln In tho broad jump, winding up ny being' beaten by a foot In the quarter In fcO «i-ssee, all,, thin on a heavy track, ho ts "Rome athlete," as our visitors would my. The result of the. tii«arU>r Is Inter* estinff In that H shows both \ Parker and Thomas to be bettor than was hitherto realised. Thomas, absolutely fresh, had a bl» advantage which he made the most of, WSna* «* one stapij seven or fctglu yards ahead of Parker, who, however, coining v/lth n «reat burst, juat lulled to r.oi tip. li they inco* again I'arUcr will win. In a way the hiK OnllfornNin Is prov. Ing mther a freak. At home on the cinder paths he coula *lo no uottot than 52stc t»r the qtmrt«,»r. Out horc on tho gra«» and within 10 duya ot landing, ho has beaten Slsoc. As a broad jumper he threatens to beat 22ft lieforc the tour m flnlfciuU, and itt his own p:irtie.uUir dlßtan«<.«« 'no la running | rl^ht at, top. T!ie change to Kr«*s has i made not the Hlljfhtc^l vlifTtrenco to ))lm. On TJoxliw Uft>' J»« will u<^ right r»t the top of his form, and with a r;ood Held to extend him h^ may even equal- liio Australasian hundred yar<l» record of 9 M-Skcc. and e^rushjjy ho will reduce th« Dominion mllo record. His oi*pon«atH will be Duncan and .Jimmy Vlltoa. New ZoitJand champions, find »»«■ Aucklander, L. J. Mark, who warn runner-up m all thr^o uprlnt cbnn>plwn»hip« ln«t yt'ttr. J>e«plto «h« fact ih«t an injured Ihh*j kopt !>l»n ort the track all laai wc<jk T«Mnpl<Hon po.rformcil brllUantly at Chrlwtcliurch ln«t s^»tur«Uiy. Slac<? landing he hnn had but o. co-jplt? or fjpin* over th«i nurdlt**. and that he got u» within ft few inehoi* of K«dc)r.Jl i» mrlklng tosimxiny to Hi* talibrf!. Kcddcll, t<?<», vrjtM unwell, but when the

pair meet on Boxliw B«y -hWJh««W liavo no complaint to nufco "« «»«« scojv of unfltno«J». 35 the records In th« hl«h Jumi| S the iH»te vault, t.ta B/l 9 3.«n B»d im. 'respectively, on. Sftturday taut Ikin« the Uncut oerfornuince* put up m thene event- l«calljr for *» w « | t J»';Caogiwy te nwlnuUnliur bU form. a»d In uUdlllon U blaming iwmcnvJvnt na n sprinter, tout Power ha* yet to «rl!e nWanir like cq»UIUon. One o£ the HUnuk-Mt and «ron«e»i looting ot ! tho whole party, ho wm the must u^ j,et by the w* v*y»»«. BUU ;,, W V week he way w» «« * otDO r °, rm h at lht gathering oo Boxid* I>ay urt me noxt day. If »o, H wl» I* f«d;»»y* »o tho nreaent New Skuland*aod AnatraUaian mn! wrord of 4min 22j.ee e«tabll«ih«d by A. tfhrubb at AucKtond away tuck m 1903. Tne vißltom will not b<s tho only aitracUon* ftt th« ioectln«. AH ;h« local crack* will be eompetlwr— Duncan. Doyle. Wilton »nd C«».— n «tronK conlin^ni i« comlne down from the Waimrat>». I- <!- * llU " k J * c<JWjn « fr '" n Aodtlan«J. a« IJ Auiiirnla»Utn r<?2c>r4 holder A, Mellotm \* v^minr frnni N?kp»r,.r to throw agttltuil Coughcy with tho hamrnor. '