ATHLETIC SPORTS.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12724, 21 February 1910, Page 4

ATHLETIC SPORTS.

""""7 Onited Pbess Association.] Wellington, Feb. 20. At the Civil Service Club's sports on Saturday, J. I. Wilson, tho Wel-lington-champion and a competitor at Auckland next Saturday, covered half a mile in lmin 58 4-5 sees. Woodger, from scratch, in the final of the hundred yards, was just beaten by Cunningham, off 7jyds, in 9 4-5 sees. - , J. Wilton did the 440 yards in b 2 2-5 sees, and Higger, a mil© in 4min 32 2-5 sees. Another attempt' will be made tomorrow to obtain leave of absence for L. McKay, the New Zealand and Australasian pole vault champion,and record holder, to enable him to compete at Auckland. Should tlie attempt be unsuccessful, the vacancy I will be filled by the inclusion of ""V Hubbard, ' long jump, * 100" and 200 yards. Hubbard has already notified cessary a t his own expense, his r intention of competing, if ne-