Athletic Bill

NZ Truth, Issue 1173, 24 May 1928, Page 6

Athletic Bill

NO amateur athletic meeting . m Christchurch is complete, if W. C.

Flewellyn is not the marshal thereof. .

One of the reasons why amateur sport m the province has made progress by leans and bounds of late is that ■"Bill" Plewellyn has been president of the Canterbury centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association for the last two years. Let a rumor arise that the germ of amateurism ia alive m any suburb or country district— -and he will be out there the next week addressing a meeting and forming a club. Since he -has beeniri office, the sport he loves and lives for has grown so much that the constitution of the centre has had to be changed m order that it might be controlled properly, . 'Way back m .1906, Flewollyn ran third' to Hector Burk and the 'great Englishman, ■ Shrubb. ■ and his enthusiasm for the sport is as great now as it was then.-- < . - ; /-; ■■••'■■. \ '■■; ■ ■. '. - ■

In private life a commercial traveller, he puts into athletics all the. pu3h and boost that typifies his class.