LATE ATHLETICS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2086, 15 February 1894, Page 29

LATE ATHLETICS.

THE CHAMPIONSHIP MEETING. The passengers by the Wairarapa, which reached Dunedin from the north yesterday morning, included five Championship competitors. H. W. Batger, C. D. Morpeth, and P. J. Nathan arrived from Wellington, and F. E. White and W. Martin from Auckland. The Wellington competitors proceeded to the City Hotel, while the Aucklanders joined the two other representatives of their club, who came last week, at the Criterion Hotel. The committee of the D.A.A.C. have taken measures which, it is heped, will effectually prevent' betting at the Championship sports. The police authorities have undertaken to act in co-operation with them in, if necessary, ejecting from the ground any person who, after being warned, persists in either betting or offering to bet on any event. A Wellington telegram states that the remainder of the Wellington representatives to the Athletic Championship meeting left by the Takapnna yesterday aflernoon. Mr H. D. Bell (president) and Mr H. M'Cardell (secretary) were unable to accompany the team. A strong protest has been forwarded to the New Zealand Athletic Association against the inclusion of West, the Canterbury pole-jumper, on the ground that his entry was too late. The medals to be given to the winners and to the competitors running second in the Championship events are now to be seen in Mr J. Mendelsohn's window.