Auckland Amateur Sports.

Thames Star, Volume XXX, Issue 9028, 28 March 1898, Page 4

Auckland Amateur Sports.

iom Our Own Correspondent.]

Auckland, March 26. ["hereis fine weather for the Autumn bival of the Auckland Amateur lletic and Cycle Club.

>oyds Invitation Scratch Race toley Rowley (Ashfield Harriers)

9ydnev ... ... ... ... 1 :J. Patrick (Wellington) ... 2 W. South (Auckland) , 3 fime lOsecs. Won by half a yard, bw inches also separating Patrick 1 Smith. The trio got away from

L^start beautifully. was ;htly ahead at 75yds, bub Rowley a splendid sprint passed him, and n as above.

100 yds Handicap. "Firßt Heat. Miller, Byds ... 1 Rowley, owes 2yds 2 McKean, 7jyds 3 Rowley, who started two yards beid scratch, ran a great race, arid was ly beaten by 18 inches,, making his proximate time well within lOsec ller's time was lOsecs.

Second Heat. B. Scott, 6yds ... 1 J. Patrick (Wellington), scratch, W. E. Young, 3yds, dead beat .. 2 Won by a yard. Time, 10 l-sthsec. Third Heat. W.Payne, Byds 1 Stone, 6yds ... 2 ; Webster (Taranaki), 7yds ... 3 Time, 10 1 sth sec. Won by a yard. Smith started, but gave up when If the distance had been covered. Fourth Heat. ,V. Buchanan, s^yds ... ... 1 Jones, 2yds 2 J. Schnauer, s£yds ... ... 3 Time, 10 T-ssece. Won by a foot. Final Heat.

Miller 1 ott 2 trick ... ... ... ... 3 lime, 9 4 5 sec' In the Half-Mile Bicycle Handicap Wi Boyd, of Thames, with 70yds, la third in his heat, the final being m by Davis (80yds).