Our Illustrations.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 439, 22 December 1898, Page 11

Our Illustrations.

We reproduce a snapshot photograph of Mr D. Wilson, the amateur three-mile champion walker of Australasia, in the act of spurting the last hundred yards of the Three-mile Championship Walk at the last Australasian Championship Meeting in Sydney. The illustration being from an instantaneous photo, is proof positive of his fair heel and toe action. Our readers who are interested in running affairs will be pleased to see depicted W. Huckstep in running costume. This fine runner holds the championship of New Zealand for distance running, and including last season he has started in sixteen one-mile races, nine of which he has won, the majority of which have been from scratch. In the other seven he secured seconds. He has also started in fifteen half-mile races, four of which he won, five times second, and once third. His last two performances were winning the one and two-mile handicaps from scratch at the Exhibition Sports. During last season he ran the mile from scratch in the fast time of 4min 27sec. We also give two large group illustrations of the Pollard Company, showing the members when the company was first organised in 1891 and the complete staff of to-day.