GREAT ATHLETE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17175, 27 October 1926, Page 5

GREAT ATHLETE

A. I). S. DUNCAN'S RECORD

A. D. S. Duncan, who has now won Die New Zealand amateur golf championship for the tenth I tine, is an expupil ot the Wangsi nui Collegiate School, where he attended during the years 1888-1893. During lite career at the Collegiate School he excelled in every conceivable branch of sport. Jt is interesting to recall thai in 1893 Duncan was senior athletic champion, winning the putting i he-weight, Che hurdles, open, second in throwing tho cricket ball, second in the high jump, and third in the 440yds open. In the same year he won the senior swimming championship. He was a member of the school tennis four. Me was in the football fifteen in 1892 and 1895. and in the cricket eleven in 1889, 1890, 1891, and 1892. He is a valued member of the Wnnganui Collegiate School Old Boy's Association, which is to be congratulated on ranking amongst its members the most, successful amateni golfer the Dominion has known.

He played Rugby for the Wellington Club after leaving college, and early in the nineties lie secured a place as five-eighths in the Wellington representative team which toured Tarannki and Auckland. About the same year he secured a place in the Wellington representative cricket team, and played in a match against Canterbury. He was was also a good tennis player. In fact, old-timers recalls him in those days as an athlete who was successful at any game to which he turned his attention.