ATHLETICS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18617, 12 July 1930, Page 21

ATHLETICS.

TEMUKA-TO-TIMARU ROAD RACE THE TEAMS COMPETITION. The annual Temuka-to-Timaru Harrier Race, which is to start at 3 p.m. to-day from the Temuka Post Office, has attracted a record entry of nearly one hundred. Competitors from Christchurch (3 teams), Dunedin (2 teams), and all the Timaru Clubs will take part. The winner is expected to reach the finishing point, at the Caroline Bay rotunda shortly after 4 p.m.

In additiqn to the contest for individual honours —fastest time and a sealed handicap—great interest is centred in the teams race, for which eleven teams have been nominated. In this points will be scored by the first five runners in each team. The entries in this competition are as follows: Christchurch (No. 1 Team) —B. A. Barrer (captain), R. M. Barrer, J. D. Pascoe, H. Watson, E. H, Shirley, • J. K. Martin. S. Brown (emergency). Christchurch No. 2.—H. Carter (captain), C. R. Harvey, R. McKee, H. S. Bowden, S. Brown, W. Parrott, W, R. Olliver (emergency). Christchurch No. 3. —E. A. Sayers (captain), J. Farthing, W. R. Olliver, L. G. Willis, G. L. Austin. Dunedin (Civil Service)—J. G. Barnes (captain), B. R. McKernan, G. McKnlght, E. C. Brown, J. Kennedy, C. H. Tracey. Dunedin (Leith)—G. R. Ward, H. Livingston, R. N. Watson, S. G. W. Parker, S. A, Anderson. S. King.

Timaru (Representative)—J. Eaton captain (Timaru); G. Broadhead (Anglican); A. Harper (Timaru); E. Wilson (Methodist), R. Lund (Methodist), W. Taylor (Presbyterian), H. Cullimore, emergency (Methodist). Methodist, Timaru. —L. Wilson, W. McPhedran, N. Rose, R. Vincent, W. Holmes, R. Nelson. (In the event of Qnlllmore not running in the representative team, he will be first runner in the above team.)

Baptist, Timaru.—R. O. Holmes (captain); I. Anderson, N. Keeley, J. Kohler, A. Hopkins, M. Lawrence. Presbyterian, Timaru, No. I.—A. D. Evans (captain), W. Cormack, J. Marshall, G. MeKirdy, A. Irwin, W. R. Smith.

Presbyterian, Timaru, No. 2.—H. B. Dennison (captain), K. G. Maxwell, L, Maxwell, A. N. Evans, T. Evans.

Anglican, Timaru.—Team not to hand.

For the sealed handicap, a trophy for sixth place has been donated by Mr E. Firkin.