AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14016, 22 September 1909, Page 3

AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

MOVEMENT IN THIS DISTRICT-

\ meeting to consider the advis- , • ability of forming an amateur athlelu : club in this district will b© 11014 in the Town Hall on Friday ovcning. The want of such a club has for long been severely felt, and it is hoped that there will be a large attendance at the nicotine. The recent success in Brisbane oi the New Zealand athletic team has shown what New Zealand athletes can 1 rlo aeainsl adverse circumstances. ! Would-be athletes in this district maj ( well ti<ko a lesson from that team and •■ do their best to promoto a pure sport. 1 Owing to tho isolated condition oi athletics in Taranaki, there being 11c • amateur athletic club within 200 milw ! of New Plymouth, that is, inland o the town, it is understood that presoni young runners who have for that reosoii Van as professionals will have no difficulty in being reinstated as amateurs, ' 1 , •