ATHLETICS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20056, 20 September 1920, Page 3

ATHLETICS.

'NOTES AND COMMENTS. CANTERBURY''. AMATEUR ATHLETIC CLUB.

(By "ONLOOfcBR.”)

Thursday nest, at 8 pim., theau« mtal mooting x>f tho Canterbury Amateur Athletic' Club will bo held at tho L mneor Club rooms. . It is to bo hoped lb at there will, be al large attendance or athletes oil this occasion, as the. meeting will bo practically tho begin-' mug ol the revival of the club, and it therefore behoves all runners who are mot members of tbo 'Varsity w Higb School Old-Boys’ Clubs to roll up and make the meeting a success, IV nch can be clone if the runners them-' fcefves w!!! take tho trouble to support aus. effort to revive tho club. •• : ■ ■ v At the beginning of last season <i looked, as it athletics would be a dead letter so tar as-Canterbury wore concerned, but towards the end of the season a strong effort was made to \ bung back the sport. A provincial "/ &«“*P meeting, with a.good ,;°S; ,u j e » «» arranged, the runners espoiided with good entries, and albough nobody bad had vorv much tranung and the general public were not particularly generous witi. their support, tbo Canterbury championship' meeting of 1919-20 can bo placed on da a c S f; MlcCeßsl!ul one-and to .o cicdit of those wlio organised it. Iho championship meeting was followed by the first annual meeting of the St ! feperts Association, which, hough it catered more for professional. Both these meetings, will beheld again during the coming season, and m addition, an effort is being made to secure the holding of tho -Now -Zea- , , Amateur ■.Championship Meeting at Lancaster Park. ' Thus local runners will have only ■ themselves to thank if the season is uoii a successful one. In Mr B: Cox be Canterbury Amateur Athletic Club has a secretary who is enthusiastic, oncrgetio and capable, and he has only 0 receivo support to be able to place ‘ the club on a sound footing. 'But noth?™ SUp r fc 110 wm V»W® ‘tw. do nothing. lor some years the club has been dead. It was only at the end of last season; that 'Mr Cox took over the secretaryship, and the club MIL have to start tins season with empty coffers. .Tile lack of money; lioucvcr, «no need for discouragement. . miit l ? ; hb gcts a S° ocl membership oil that can soon be remedied, and ,in two or three seasons tho club should be on a sound looting. There is a sound local swimming dub which two years ago would have, boon £3 3s in debt had not one memCcr made good tbp deficit. Last that dub ffnishecl a successtu l season with a useful credit balance And there is no-rea-son why Canterbury Amateur A tin letic Club should not start this season and go ahead in the same way.Those who arranged the’ Canterbury College annual meeting, which took P aco ast Saturday week, were quite pkased with everything. It looks as 1 the \ arsity Club is.going to Jiavc a blight season this summer. All the members of the Canterbury cross-coun-try team were ’Varsity men, and .'the meeting referred to showpd that they have a good number of keen members. > rNext {Saturday/their annual cross-coun-try run will lake place over the same course as was used in tho ijitoriirovinml event. The inco should bo a good one. Alter Saturday little will be done hy the dub till after November, r.xaminations in November will intercre with its activities to a certain ex- , tent, later a number of evening meet- i mgs will be held, and tin, dub should be heard ,of m championship events. Un October 1/ iTfull davV sports meeting is to be hold at Dunedin. Canterbury, I understand, will be represented by 0. H. Taylor, 0. AValden and Carnck. High School Ckl Bovs have ah-Jth-lotic club. Why not'Christ’s College* UJd Boys/ They- have formed a encketyduh, why not an athletic club? L robably the fact that main- of theirstudents go on to Canterbury College is the reason, but if an effort wore made it is quite possible that a dub could ho formed, '