ATHLETIC.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8374, 21 July 1905, Page 1

ATHLETIC.

NOTES. (By SPRINTEB'.! . The veteran athlete, Matt Roseingrave, is at present in Christchurch. I met him the other day in the street, looking hearty and well. By .the transfer to Christohurch of Mr A. E. Taylor (writes the Dunedin correspondent fcf the "Star"), the Civil Service Harrier and Amateur Athletic Club loses one of its most valued members. Albeit not a racing man, Taylor took a keen interest in the welfare of the club, 6f which he was one of the founders and the first secretary. • In R. G. Waddy, the Sj-dney University Athletic Club has unearthed a; distance runner of undoubted ability. jEarly this month he won the Sydney Earners' 1320 yds handicap, from Scratch, in 3min 23 3-10 sec, beating K. F. M'Crae's Australasian record of 3min f?4 l-ssec, which had, stood since October, 21, 1893. . " ■ ■•' Between 3000 and 4000 people attended at Fitzgerald's Circus, Melbourne, on July 1. to witness the struggle for the wrestling championship of ' Australia between Clarence Weber, the young Victorian athlete, and Buttan Singh, the Hindoo, who for some years claimed to be the champion. The contest -was in the catch-as-catch-can etyle, the man securing two' falls out of three to win. The first bout lasted lmin 31sec, and was won by Weber. The second bout lasted Bmin 2235ed,-aml, was won by Buttan Singh. The third bout "lasted over half art hour, and the referee adjudged .Bnttan Singh, to be the winner. This decision was rec&ived with dissatisfaction. Mr W. W. Furlong, who died in England on May 30, at the age of forty, was an athlete of some note in his day, and won the Irish Amateur Seven-mile Walking Championship fifteen years ago. At the spring meeting of the London 'Athletic Club in May, a team of eight men from the club scored a win by ten yards in a mile relay race against the Rest of England. Last season, the club ■was twice defeated in similar contests. Writing to a friend in England just before he left for Home, Shrubb stated that he did not intend to take part in any athletic sports for at least three weeks after landing. He was well enough in health, but had had enough of running for a time, and felt that he would be all the better for a rest. Commenting on the whereabouts of

cld-thne champions, an "Athletic News" writer says: "Among national chanipious^of old "W. G. George, erstwhile mil© 'champion and long-distanco runner, is now a London editor : E. W. Parry. TV. H. Morten, H. Watkins ami S. J . Robinson, all ton-mile men, are in 'tho trade'; J. T. Ri miner is a Liverpool policeman ; F. E. Bacon, the trainer of Manchester United Football Team ; R. W. Wadsley, trainer to Calif ornian University." Athletes have had much to engage their attention from a legislative and a competitive view alike, during the mouth which has just gone by (says a writer in " Fry's Magazine" for June). On the legislative side there has been a wholesale revision of the Association's rules. Tho A. A. A. has also turned a deaf oar to the application from South Africa for Shrubb to extend his tour, and for Morton to join half-way. Opinions were greatly divided, in the first instance, as to the wisdom of hall-mark-ing Shrubb's visit, at New Zealand's expense, for the purpose of competing in colonial championships/ It was in order not to appear churlish that the request was granted. Morton could have availed himself of that permission then, but he did not do so. When the South African Association asked a similar favova* the English A. A. A. replied politely, yet firmly, in the negative. And it is S leasing to know that the ruling body's eterminod attitude has met with the approval of its affiliated clubs.