ATHLETICS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2200, 30 April 1896, Page 37

ATHLETICS.

NOTES BY AMATEUR.

• . • The committee of the Dunedin Amafcaw Athletic Club have voted 2gs to a testimonal i$ Mr L. A. Cuff on his retirement from the post* - tton of. secretary of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Assooiation. " . • The Victorian athlete Edward H. Flack, who won" the flcVt heat in the 600 metres rac©{n the Olympic games at Athens, and afterwards added the 1500 metres race to hi* liwireU, i> noar 23 years of ago. He is a son of Mr Joseph Flack, of South Yarrs, und was ftdnoated aUmi Melbourne Grammar School, where his staying powers' in long distance races flrefc beoami apparent! ' . ' The decision of the New Zealand Ama« tear athletic Association, requiring A. Borke, of Duuedin, to wait for praotioally two season^ before applying for reinstatement m an amateur has called forth a vigorous protest from the DanecEin A.A.C., Buike having already stood down for two yearn. * . * Upon the ere of bi? departure from Christthurcb, Mr L, A. Cuff was the recipient from the .athletic community there of a oup in the form of an emu eggshell,' lined with silver, richly gjlt, »nd is snpitortied on three cricket bats, with a ball in the centre cpon * raised base. Ito is engraved as follows :— " This egg # with a ohioken inside, wss presented to L. A, Cuff, on his departure from Canterbury, as * mark of cslesm, from his friends and comrades in sporfc., April "25, 1896." The " chicken^ consisted of 40 goU pieces.