ATHLETICS.

Southland Times, Issue 19757, 3 February 1923, Page 13 (Supplement)

ATHLETICS.

(By

“O.M.”

February 10—Caledonian Sports, Invercargill. February 17—Otautau. February 21—Tokonui. The Invercargill Amateur Athletic Club’s team put up a very good performance at the Otago championship last Saturday, particularly Morgan, who carried off every event in which he started. His winning of the Reid Challenge Cup was very appropriate, as the donor is at present president of the club to which Morgan belongs and went up to Dunedin with the team. Harrington, who is only 17, also did very well and is bound to improve a good deal, providing he does not overdo it in the next few years. Morgan is ope of the most promising runners turned out in this part of the world for a very long time, and he has a better chance of getting down to even time than any other young runner I have seen so far in Southland in the past season or two. J. Richardson, the All Black footballer, and a good athlete to boot, has taken up his residence here, and should be a valuable addition to local athletic ranks. He won the discus throwing at the champion ship meeting in Dunedin last week and was second in the weight put, while he is a useful performer over sprint distances, as witness his win in a 300 yards handicap the same day. The attendance at Tuatapere on New Year’s Day appears to have been greater than was at first estimated, a large number of people who took refuge from the rain in motor cars evidently being missed from the rough estimate made on the ground. Over £l5O was taken at the gate, and the Society will show about £lOO profit on the meeting. J. McDonald followed up his win at Riverton in the high jump by annexing the same event at Otara yesterday, with H. G. McLeod again in second place. McDonald won at Riverton at sft 2in, while McLeod cleared an inch less than five feet, although the absence of the handicaps from the results received made it appear that their efforts were a good deal better. Some years ago McDonald was a very useful performer in the high jump, clearing sft sin against E. G. Sutherland in some army sports in France, but he is not now as young as he used to be.

C. W. Paddock, wrecker of world’s records, is having another year at the University of South California, and all going well in the meantime should be heard of on the track again this year. The hundred and furlong at the New Zealand championships this year should be worth going a long way to see with Carr, Kirksey, Tracey, Davidson and Wilton probably competing. Carr, who is only 23, is one of th" most promising sprint runners produced in the southern hemisphere in late years, and his 9 4-5 hundred the other day shows that he is in fine form.