ATHLETICS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19532, 13 March 1926, Page 11

ATHLETICS

NOTES AND COMMENTS (By 11 Track Watcher.”) Fixtures. To-day.—Bulls Sports. March 20.—Turakina Sports. March .19 and 20. —New Zealand championships at Dunedin. March 27.—Waitotara Sports. Easter Monday.— Patea Sports. R. A. Rose, New Zealand’s greatest distance runner, has accepted an invitation to compete at a special sports meeting on Cook’s Gardens at the conclusion of the Dominion championships meeting. Congratulations to the Wanganui Club on winning the championship banner. The Hawera Club put up a great fight, but lack of material in the running and cycling events made the test too hard. Ken Johnston (Y.M.C.A.) ran a great race in the three mile. He is one of the gamest finishers in the game. Local sports are still hopeful of getting H. E. B. Newton away to compete at the New Zealand Championships next Friday and Saturday. Newton, who is the most promising middle distance runner in the Dominion at present time, looks a certainty for the half-mile title, and has a great chance of winning the quarter mile event. It will be very hard luck for Newton should he be unable to make the trip. The three cyclists, Couch, Ross and Ericsson, should all show up on the banked track at Dunedin; but they must remember that team work is what counts in championship events. Congratulations to Stan Lay on [breaking his own record in the javelin [throw, 187 feet 7i inches. This is sow throw for a boy of nineteen. A world s I mcord (216 feet) should not be beyond him later on. A. J. Darby was not at his best last Saturday. He had been off the track for a week and journeyed up from Wellington on the Friday night. Darby put no punch into his work. He is not making the trip to Dunedin. One of the most promising boys seen out on the local track this season is M. B. Wellington. He has a beautiful natural stride, and with proper attention to his training has every chance of turning out a champion up io a quarter ; mile. Congratulations to Jack Dillon, hon. secretary to the Centre, on winning the pole vault. He won on the bit! At the meeting of the Auckland Centre of the New Zeand Amateur Athletic Association on Tuesday evening the honorary secretary, Mr W. Morion, suggested that at least three of the Auckland provincial champions, say J. W. Shirley, L. C. Williams, and M. P. Bryncs, should be sent to Dunedin for the Dominion championship meeting, to be held on March 20. If each member of the centre would subscribe £2 he was prepared to give £5. The suggestion was not accepted. However, members of the Auckland Amateur Athletic and Cycle Club have decided to send J. W. Shirley, and the champion allrounder is to make the trip. Hopes of sending Williams and Bryneg have not been abandoned and if sufficient money can be secured by to-day, the provincial champions will go south.