HARRIERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20182, 26 June 1928, Page 4

HARRIERS

WANGANUI CLUB TRIP TO TUBAIIINA SATURDAY’S DELIGHTFL’L OUTING On Saturday a most enjoyable outing was made by a party of twelve members of the Wanganui Harriers’ Club to Mrs Glasgow’s residence, Turakina. Messrs Keith Fear and Earl Pleasants kindly provided cars and the party set off in high spirits at 2.30 p.m. Unfortunately neither Gibbons nor Denford, of Marton, was able to make the trip. The run started with a spirited burst up a steep hill. This proved to bo the keynote and good grass running, interspersed with hills and bog, provided splendid training. Both packs kept together for a halfmile but then the fast pack forged ahead and put in a fast four-mile run. All were together for the first throe miles when Clarke and Moore went to the front to fight out a great, finish, the former winning by about twenty yards. The slow pack, led by Bramwell and Fear, indulged in a longer outing in which they had an acrimonious argument with a bog. Finally disentangling themselves from this they reached home after an hour and u-half having done some six or seven miles. The finish proved spirited, Carde getting home by a small margin from Spurdie, with Fox close up third. A hot bath was the next order of the. day and then followed some musical items by Mrs MacFarlane, and Fox, on the mandoline, and an improvised glee party of the visitors. Justice was done to the choruses and still more justice to the dinner provided by Mrs and Miss Glasgow. So much so that it was soon apparent that either the fare was especially good or else the run and singing especially arduous. After dinner Miss Glasgow took control at the piano and a further spirited period of popular choruses was very reluctantly ended by the need of several harriers to get back to the city early. Air Bramwell then thanked the hostesses and said that he thought all agreed with him in voting this the best outing of the season. A request to return soon was received enthusiastically, although there was a whisper that a certain bog ought to be removed! The songsters still being chirpy, both cars kept things merry and bright till the Town Bridge was sighted . It can safely be said with Henry V., that harriers who could not make the trip 44 wi1l think themselves accursed they were not here.”