ATHLETICS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16895, 21 November 1922, Page 2

ATHLETICS

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FIXTURES. i .November 21, 6 p.m.—£ veiling Meet- j mg. Lancaster Park. Decerned 1 2—Uublic School Sports, Lancaster Park. December ‘J—C.A.A.C-. Spring Meeting, Lancaster Park. | Decerniier lh—-Cui-t Sports. December 16 — Lliesmerc Sports. December 16—Canterbury Amateur Championships, Ashburton. ’ December 26 Papanui Sports. The Y.M.C.A. Amateur Athletic Club conducted tbe second evening meeting of the season at Lancaster Park bust Tuesday. The programme consisted of a 220yds handicap, one mile handicap, hop, step and jump handicap, and a 440yds race for boys. The one mile handicap was run in the good time of 4tnins 66sec by -1 - H. Xalder, who was on the loyds mark. H. F. Cult who ran second from 73yds. made the pace for the first two laps, but N alder was always handy, and entering on the last half mile he went away from the rest ol the field and won very easily. Xaldcr has boon a problem to the hanrlieapper as on his present form he appears able to win half ami mile races from verv liear the scratch mark ami could be depended upon to give the scratch men a hard race if placed on the mark with them. He is a tine runner at any distance from a half mile to three miles, he being the present three miles crosscountry champion of < 'anterhury. . . H. Taylor started in the mile handicap, but pulled out after covering three laps at a useful pace. The 220yds handicap was run in two heats and a final. The final proved the handicapping to he sound, as the runners were well hunched on entering the straight. Ft was anybody’s race Iwcnty yards from home: lmt then Ratstonc shot out by two yards. Inches separated the second and third men. R. AV. Christensen won the hop. step and jump with 37 feet 0% inches. AA . H. R. Kueklmrst. who was «n scratch, finished second, clearing 11 feet. The Okl Bovs' Chill will he responsible for the evening meeting to-night at Lancaster Park. The first rare will start at n.-lo p.m. sharp and the pro gramme is as follows: cap. three miles handicap, throwing! the javelin and a 7oyds race for boys. As noted last week tbe C.A.A.C. has been successful in securing the use of Lancaster Park for its Spring Meeting on December 0 commencing at 2.13 p.m. The programme will consist of' twenty-nine events, twenty of which aro open. The open events include 120yds maiden handicap, 100yds ■ handicap. 220yds, 440vds, 880yds, one i mile and three miles flat races. The programme also includes a. full list of field events, all handicaps. The second • annual race for the Francis WilJey 1 Challenge Cup is also on the programme. The race is a 100yds scratch ; event, and was won last year by A. . M'Leod. The cup is a valuable one and • should draw entries from the best sprinters in and around Christchurch. . Three secondary school championships l will he decided at the meeting, a 220 ‘ yards and 880yds and a. 120yds luiv--1 dies. The last named carries with it a challenge cup. which is at present held by Boys’ High School. Three events P are set apart for hoys under seventeen r. years of age on October 1 of this year 1 and two events for hoys under fifteen. r The firms' relay rare for the Baliantyne Chip, teams of lour men,.will also . he decided at the meeting. A great * deal of interest was evinced in this P event last year and the contest was a r keen one. The Farmers’ Co-op. team * proved the winners last year and are sure to put a team in the field again f this season. Fntries for all events close i ori December 2. [ The Ashburton Amateur Athletic r Club will hold a sports meeting on the 1 Ashburton Domain on Saturday, De- * cember 16 when seven Canterbury championships "ill be decided. They i aie as follows: —100yds, 880yds, 3 r miles, high jump, long jump, pole t vault, and liop. step and jump. Gold and silver medals will be presented t for first and second in each champion- ; ship event, and the entry fee is 2s 6d. handicap events are on the prob gramme. They are a-s follows:—7syds, 100yds, 440yds. ladies’ bracelet, 1 mile ; 120yds hurdle (3ft-); long jump, high I jump and a relay race for teams of four . men ; each to run 200 yards. Two • cycling events, a one and two miles handicap are also included on the pro'r gramme. Entries for all events close > with the secretary, Mr AN . K. Thomas, j j Box 113, Ashburton, on December 6. The annual meeting of the St Pat-

| rick's Sports Association will ho held in j 1 hi- Hibernian Hall on Thursday. November 23. at S p.m. The annual rei port states that, the club wa-s allotted i the Nov.- Zealand professional championships and some very fine racing was | witnessed. A large number of new j members were elected during the last j season and this augurs, well for the success of the. association. The bala nee sheet shows a credit balance of £7O 6s 2d. Wellington athletes seem to he having trouble with the Cricket Asociation in regard to the holding of evening meetings, according to the following paragraph which appeared in tho New Zealand “ Times ’ of recent date . When will our athletes receive any consideration from the Cricket Association in the way of a fair go with the Basin "Reserve? Just fancy having to v ait till 7 o’clock of an evening before one can start to train. The same cricketers who have been practising every night in the week except Monday are now applying to the City C cup.cil for permission to use Monday. I he amateur bodies were forced by the cricketers to hold their evening meetings on thi< night : now it sems to me that we '' ill have to ask for Sunday. As both Wellington and C’hristcdiurcli have held their secondary school sports a v-unparison lx?tween tho times >•- of interest. The following is the list. (Wellington times mentioned first) : (06yds. 10 4-os.ecs: 10 4-ssec. 220yd:-. 23 1-osec; no event. 1 -!oyds, 51secs ; 34 1-osecs. 880yds, 2mins Tosco ; 2mins 6 2-osec. Due Mile, Amin 22-3 sec; smins 1 l-ssecs. 3?oyds hurdles. 16 Loser; 16 3-ssec. High Jump. 3ft. lin ; oft 1 l-Bin. l ong Jump. 10ft l.Jin: 10ft 2iu. Some excellent performances were put np as, tj;«' Sweai-Ji national championships at the Stockholm Stadium at the end of August. A. Engdalil won the TOO metres in Usee, 200 metres in 1-osec (a new Swedish record), and •JOU metres in 40 .-10?oe. Other winners in-eluded : 1300 metres, F. Wide, lmin 3£scc; 5000 metres, E. Backman, lomin 1- 3-10sc*e; 10.000 metres. Ik Bacbuian. 32min 274scc; .110 metres hurdles. C A. Christiernson, 15 4-osec ; 400 maLes hurdles, ( . A. ( hristiernson, 36 (LlOsec ; running broad jump, Ahrahamson. 23ft 6-16 in ; running high jump. H. Jagenburg. 6ft 1-lOin; running hop, step and jump. F. .7 an son. 47ft 4 9-10 in; throwing the javelin. F. Blomquist. 200 ft 1 6-i"oin (best hand), and 367 ft 6 8-1 Oin •both hands); throwing the javelin, greatest best hand performance. Lindstrotu. 203 ft 7 3-lOin; throwing 161 b hammer. ( . J. T.iud. 136 ft 4 7-10 in; putting I6lb shot. B Janson. 46ft 7in (best hand) and 88 ft 1 3-10 in (both hands) ; and throwing the discus, O. Za II ha gen. 138 ft 9 7-10 in (best hand). , and 263 ft 6 T-lOin (both handb). America has won the running high jump at every one of the six Olympic Games held thus far. and judging from the great array of talent in competition at the present time and tho improvement being shown by high jumpers all over the country. America’s supremacy in this particular event "ill not j be questioned for some time to come, I states a writer in the New York Herald.” Never before, within the recollection of the oldest athletic experm I have there been so many great high , jumpers in competition at one time. True, we. have had our Sweeneys. Bee- . sons. Hor-nes. Larsons, Richards, Bor. ders and others, hut when they "ere .soaring over heights between 6 feet k 3 inches and 6 feet 6 inches they were alone in the field. To-day we find no lower than a dozen jumpers all doing 6 feet 3 inches orbet-ter, and mane of them clearing 6 feet 4 inches and better within the last couple of months. This seems to be the year for high jumpers. No one seems to l>e able to account for this influx of great high jumpers. Ji cannot be claimed that they have all hit the correct form of high jumping and that this is responsible for the great number of 6 feet 4 inch jumpers this season, for the simple reason that no two of these athletes use the same . style They seem to have mastered a style all their own. but the styles used are- in great variance. Of course there are many more, hut mention is made here of a few of the jumpers who hav© cleared the bar at 6 feet ?. inches or better within the last nine months : I.e Roy Brown. Dartmouth--6 feet 5 5-16 inches; John Murphy. { Notre Dame University, 6 feet o inches*, ! William Flatten. University of Wisconsin. 6 feet 43 inches; Harold Osborn, University of Illinois, 6 feet o inches; D. A'. Alberts. Chicago A. A.. 6 feet 4 inches; FT. I*. Muller. University of California. 6 feed 3s inches; Dick Landon. New York A C.. 6 feet 4 inches; O. D. Corev. Los Angeles A C , G feet 3 inches.