ATHLETICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume V, Issue 249, 2 May 1895, Page 3

ATHLETICS.

What is to be done with the Victor Ludorum. Also when is this matter re the Championship Hurdle dispute going to be settled. I understand the Committee of the Auckland A.A. and C.C. will meet on Saturday evening next, when the proposal of holding a cross country race will come up for discussion. How would the Ellerslie steeplechase course suit for an event of this description.

The Committee of the Auckland Amateur Athletic Club were to have held a meeting on Saturday evening last, but it lapsed as there were not sufficient present to form a quorum. This was doubtless due to the clause in the new rules stating that it shall require seven members to form a quorum, whereas five was prevously the recognised number. This is a sad lack of interest in matters athletic and no credit to the Auckland Club.

The English Amateur Athletic Championship gathering will be held at Stamford Bridge, London, on July 6th. J. Doyle, of Wellington, giving an exhibition of weight lifting at the Wellington Gymnastic Club’s rooms recently, put a 1001 b weight the full length of his arm no fewer than nine times. The Wellington Amateur Athletic Club have abandoned their cross-country race on account of the paucity of entries.

The New South Wales Amateur Athletic Association are congratulating themselves on the best credit balance of many years—£32 6s 4d. How does this compare with the credit balance of the Auckland Club ?

W. Cobeldick, of Rangitata, Canterbury, offers to make a match with anyone in New Zealand for £2O to £lOO a side to walk a mile and run a mile successively. At Blenheim Cobeldick was handicapped at 22yds in the Half and 30yds in the Mile. He, however, journeyed to Invercargill where he competed in the Mile off scratch, and was unplaced. Bowen, Leslie, and Warcup are all walking men who have gone in for running. The most successful walker and runner in this colony at present is E. Hall. At the Gore Hibernian Society’s sports, held on Easter Monday, J. A. Simeon, an Aucklander,

was the hero of the day, annexing the quarter and half mile events on the flat, and the quarter hurdles. The time for the quarter flat is not given in the local paper, but. for the half mile, 2min s|sec from the 20yds mark reads well, while the time for the quarter hurdles —61£secs from scratch —was a wonderful performance if the conditions were correct, as the winner had a large field to get through. The Inter-collegiate Athletic Association of New York have decided to send a team |to England to compete against a combined team of Oxford and Cambridge. Arthur Cavill, the well-known swimmer, asserts his ability to swim a 100yds under a minute.. If he can do this he eclipses the world’s best.