OTAUTAU SPORTS.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 1395, 18 October 1932, Page 3

OTAUTAU SPORTS.

V ._ ■ ; ..»,,,.■,-■■ '■ • ■■:■■■■ ■ / • ■ .. • ■ •■■ The annual sports are to be held on : th 6 Recreation Area next Monday. Special train arrangements have been made, which are .much., more convenient than, for previous .years, m" that it -leaves Invercargill Jater m the -morning and is delayed longer In leaving Otautau m the^ evening. The tracks have never been m bef--ter condition - and the whole area is looking like a picture. The nbminations are ' not yet complete m that a number of the runners- have entered with the handicapper instead of with the' secretary. The cycling events have filled splendidly, while the bushcraft ■''are; also all well filled, as the comparison shows. ' Bushcraft . '1932 1931 12in, Standing Chop , 17 16 18in. Block Chop 17 16 D. H. Sawing 6 8 Cycling — Amateur Mile . Ml* '.■—■ Amateur §-Mile / • 12 — Professional Mile' , , 12 , ' r>l4 "^ Professional 2 Mile 11 13 Running — - 75 Yards 10 ■ 12 Sheffield 10 12 220 Yards 6 15 440 Yards 9 15 880 Yards 14 18 MUe ; 11 ■:, 18 Dancing events and schools' v Relay Race are post entry. Given a fine day, the, sports promise to. be equally successful with any previous year." A ball is to be > held m the .hall m the, evening. . . '