ATHLETICS

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume X, Issue 479, 28 September 1899, Page 7

ATHLETICS

[By

Vigilant.]

It is about time the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association set to work to select a team to represent the colony at the Australasian Championship Meeting. At the present time even the men who are most likely to be chosen do not know when they will be asked to do a trial.

I am informed that New Zealand’s champion miler, S. Pentecost, is keeping himself in form,' with a view to being selected as a member of the New Zealand team. Pentecost, so my informant writes, thinks that the selection committee of the New Zealand Association should select the team without any further delay so that the men may get into form. I hear several long-distance running men complaining that there are no three mile running events nowadays. All the other big centres have a three-mile run at their athletic meetings, and I feel confident that a large number of entries would be made for a. three-mile race, were it placed on the programme of the next meeting of the Auckland Amateur Athletic and Cycle Club, to be held in the Domain on November 25.

Should D. Wilson, Auckland’s walking champion, be unable to visit Brisbane, I understand that Messrs Dickey and McAffer are anxious to give trials, with a view to their being included in the team to visit Australia. The New South Wales Amateur Athletic Association has chosen the following men to represent N.B.W. at the Australasian Championship Meeting, to be held at Brisbane on November 9 and 11: —Stanley Rowley, 100yds and 200yds; J. English, high jump ; J. vV. M. Laidlaw, 120yds and 440yds hurdles. Me -Affer, the walking man, is confident of breaking 7min for the mile, if given the chance, with a view to his being included in the team to represent New Realand in the forthcoming Australasian Championship Meeting George Smith has been trainingall the winter, bo he should be in splendid form when be goes to compete at Brisbane in the Championship Meeting* The management committee of the Auckland A.A. and 0.0. met on Monday night to arrange

the spring carnival programme, and to transact other business. It was decided to give 0. McAffer and J. Dickey a one mile test walk at the Domain at half past five on Wednesday, October 4 It was also agreed to invite the members of the New Zealand team, competing at Brisbane, to take part at the Club’s spring meeting if possible, and the secretary was instructed to send an invitation to Mr J. W. Laidlaw, the N.S.W. hurdler.

The programme for the spring carnival of the A.A A. and C C comprises the following events : —One Mile Walk Handicap, Putting the 161 b Shot, 100yds Handicap Flat. 120yds Hurdle Handicap, 100yds Secondary Schools Championship (not less than ten entries), 250yds Handicap, One Mile Handicap, Broad Jump (not less than six entries), 440yds Handicap Flat, Steeplechase Handicap, One Mile Novice Bicycle Handicap, Half-mile Bicycle Handicap, One Mile Bicycle Handicap, Two Miles Bicycle (bracelet) Handicap, Five Miles Bicycle Handicap, One Mile Bicycle Handicap for schoolboys. The Auckland Amateur and Cycle Club has decided to ask Mr W. B. Eyre upon ; what conditions he would be prepared to accept the position of handicapper to the club. W. J. Sturgess, the English cham pion walker, recently covered a mile in 6min ,32 4-5 sec, thus beating his own British record by l-sth sec. The Metropolitan Championship Meeting the AA.U. was held at New York on August 12, with the following results: —Track Event 8 (Final Heat)— 100yds Dash: Won by M. W. Long, New York A.C- Time, 102-5 see. 800yds Run Handicap: Won by John Bray, New York A.C. Time, Imin 59 l-sth sec. 120yds Hurdle Race: Won by A. C. Kraenzlein, New York A.C.- Time, 15 2-5 sec. 440yds Run : Won by M. W. Long, New York A.C. Time, 52 2-5 sec. One Mile Run : Won by Alex. Grant, New York A.C. Time, 4min 33seo. 220yds Run : Final

heat won by P. u. Walsh, Xavier A.A. Time. 23 3 5 sec. Three Miles Run : Won by A. L. Wright, New York A.C. Time, 15min 48 3 5 sec. 220yds Hurdle Race : Won by A. C. Kraenzlein, New York A,C. Time, 27 1 5 sec. Field Events-—Putting 161 b Shot: Won by R. Sheldon, New York A.Q., with 45ft |in; John . Flanagan, New York A.C., second, with 40ft 6in; R. J. Sheridan, Pastime A.C , third, with 37ft sin. Running High Jump: Won by J. K. Baxter, New York A. 0., with 6ft lin ; A. O. Kraenzlin, New xork A.C., second, with sft lOin. Throwing 161 b Hammer: Won by John Flanagan, New York A. 0., with 159 ft Bin ; J. F. Coffey, Knickerbocker A.C , second, with 147 ft sin ; Chas. Chadwick, New York A. 0., third, with 144 ft 2|in. Throwing the Ijiscus: Won by R. J. Sheridan, Pastime A.C, with 110 ft 3in ; R Sheldon, New York A.C., second, with 109 ft lOin ; John Flanagan, New York A.C., third, with 107 ft ll£in. Running Broad Jump . Won by A. C. Kraenzlein, New York A.C., with 24ft 2Ain. Pole Vault: Angust Anderson, New West Side A.C., and D. Reuss. Knickerbocker A.C , tied for first place with 10ft 6in. Throwing 561 b Weight: Won by John Flanagan, New York A.C., with 33ft Ifin ; R. Sheldon, New York A.C., second, with 30ft Bin.