ATHLETICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIII, Issue 800, 6 July 1905, Page 15

ATHLETICS.

The Auckland Wrestling Club championships, to be held under the rules of the New Zealand Amateur Wrsstla-.g Association (headquarters, Auckland), will take place on Wednesday, August 30, in the Federal Hall, Wellesley-street. The championships will be divided into four classes, and will be for gold medals, the classes being as under:—(l) Heavy weight, weight list 71b and over; (2) middle weight, lOst 71b and over; (3) light weight, weight 9st 71b and over; (4) feather weight, weight under 9st 71b. Entries are due with the hon. secretary (Mr. H. T. G. McElroy), not later than August 20.

A Swiss wrestler named Emile Deriaz, who has twice defeated the Turkish crack, Ahmed Medralh, has been taking on all-comers at Glasgow with success until the Scottish champion, Alec Munro, won £25 from him by lasting over his stipulated 10 minutes. This led to a match for £lOO, and here again the Scotsman came out on top.

Another boxing champion from Americe, this time Joe Tipman, of the feather-weight division, has arrived in London, and has issued a challenge to meet all-comers from 9st 41b to 9st 61b.

Under the heading “ A Family of Hurdlers,” an English writer says: “It is not uncommon fox* athletic excellence to be developed in several members of one family, but it is rare to find such special aptitude in a particular branch as obtains with the Garniers. Rather more than 30 years ago the Rev. E. S. Garnier gained his “ blue” at Oxford for hurdling. Two of his sons have likewise run against Cambridge, and in 1903 the latter carried off the A.A.A. hurdles championships. Now a third son has come to the front in C. N. Garnier. At the Royal Indian Engineering College sports he won the 120 Hurdles, in spite of stumbling at the second hurdle, easily indeed in 17 3-ssec.”