Athletics

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VII, Issue 356, 20 May 1897, Page 10

Athletics

[By

Vigilant.]

The New York Amateur Athletic Club* after standing out for several years, has at last become affiliated to the Amateur Athletic Union of America. C. J. Kilpatrick, the American champion half-mile runner, who turned professional for the purpose of meeting Bredin in a series of races, arrived in' England near the end of March. Commenting on the Canterbury Amateur Athletic and Cycle Club’s recent meeting, “ Prodigal,” in the Sydney Referee, says the 16 3-ssec for 120yds. hurdles, by Moir, is rather too fast for that athlete if he was only beaten by 4yds, owing 15yds. Quite so, but evidently the Sydney writer is not aware that the hurdles were 3ft and not the regulation 3ft 6in. Our Napier correspondent writes:— The combined sports, held under the auspices of the Wanderers’ Bicycle Club and the Amateur Athletic Association, on the Recreation Ground last Wednesday, in aid of the funds for the sufferers by the late floods, were a great success, between £6O and £7O being taken at the gates. Pocock easily annexed the three and five mile bicycle races, and Sutherland the one mile. In the pedestrian events, St. Hill won the 150yds Club Championship, the 440yds, and 250yds, in a very easy fashion. C. Price proved victorious in the half-mile, and H. Marshall easily silenced his opponents in the two-mile run.