NOTES BY AMATEUR.
At Auckland on Monday the visiting athletes were welcomed by the local Amateur Association. Mr Marshall (president) expressed regret that many of the touthern champions were unable to be pretend, but he recognised that among the visitors were competitor* who would give the local representatives. a hard nut to crack in their endeavour to recover the chare - pion b inner, which had been wrested from thci" by Canterbury last year. Messrs J. King, < '." Wellington (in the absence of Mr Grierson, o Chrutchurch), Ferguson, of Wanganui, an>l Hamilton, of Hawke's Bay, briefly responde< . Mr Seymour George (vice-prtsideut) aUo welcomed the \ initors, and cbeerd were exchanged. An Auck 'and telegram cays that Thomas Claries jn, of the Whiri Tere Club, Invercargill, ths half -mile champion of New Zealand, lowered the one-mile grass record on the Auckland Domain on Thursday night, putting up the fast time of 2min 26aec. The previous record of 2min 27 4 saeo was held by E. Reynolds, the amateur
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Otago Witness, Issue 2241, 11 February 1897, Page 36
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