HARRIERS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3613, 12 June 1923, Page 49

HARRIERS.

EDMOND CUP STEEPLECHASE. ANGLICAN CLUB WINS TROPHY. The weather was ideal on Saturday afternoon for the Edmond Cup Steeplechase, an event which is competed for annually and which is one of the principal events in the New Zealand harrying world. The runners had the advantage of a calm day, but they were severely handicapped by the heavy nature of the course, which was duo to the- recent rain and the race meetings of last week. There was a fair attendance of the public, but the absence of a number of prominent officials of the Otago Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association was particularly noticeable. THE COURSE. Tho race, which was run over a mile and a-half course, was held under tho auspices of the Dunedin Harrier Club. The course was as follows :—Commencing opposite the south end of the grandstand, the field ran north to the sod wall, then over the post-and-rails and the rail fence along the ordinary steeplechase course. It then led along the back straight, missing the brusli fences, over the ditch and the post-and-rails at the south of the course, across the water-jump, round the outside rail, running on to the course proper and up the straight past the grandstand. This course had to be covered twice, but this year, as there had been ice at the water-jump, the ditch had only to be cleared on the first round. Five teams —the Dunedin Anglican Harriers No. 1 and 2, the Pacific Harriers,_ the Caversham Harriers, and the St. Patrick’s Club —comprising 51 men, faced the starter, put several runners withdrew during the first round. This year llie Olympic Club, Wellington, did not have a team on the field. Individual Result. W. H. B. Hobbs (Pacific) 1 J. Tapp (Caversham) 2 C. W. Frye (Caversham) 3 F. White (St. Patrick’s) ... J. G. Forbes (Anglican) ... —. 5 E. T. Jolly (Pacific) ... Time, 17min 41sec. Teams’ Result. Anglican No. 1 (J. G. lorbes 5, J. B. Bibby 7, B. R, M'Kernan 8, 11. W. Horder 9, F. J. H. Rolfe 12, J. Henderson 13) : total, 54 points 1 Caversham (J. W. Tapp 2, C. W. Frye 3, W. Stewart 10, C. Gallagher 11, W. Gibbs 16, A. Frye 19); total, 61 points 2 Pacific (Hobbs 1, jolly 6, Hunter 14, Hill 15, Monaghan 17, Henderson 18) ; —7l points 3 St. Patrick’s (White 4. M'Allan 23. Bradlev 25, M'Eaneney 27, Davis 30, M'lroy 35) ; total 144 points 4 The Anglican No. 2 team started with only four men. At the conclusion of tho race, Mr C. \Y. Clark (vice-president of the Otago Centre of tlio N.Z.A.A.A.) presented the cup to Mr F. J. D. Rolfe, tho captain of tho winning team, and apologised for the absence of the doner, Mr W. F. Edmond. He congratulated the winning teams, and said that he was glad to see that the St. Patrick’s team was making such good progress. FORMER WINNERS. The Edmond Cup Race is oontestod over a three-mile steeplechase course by teams representing the different club 3 in either tho

North or South Islands. In 1997 it was won by the Caversham Harrier-; in 1908 by the Dunedin Harriers; in 1939, 1912, and 1913 by the Caversham Harriers; in iaAO by the Pacific Hamas; in 1921 by the Olympic Harriers; in 1322 by the Caversham Harriers; and in 1923 by the Anglican Harriers.