ATHLETICS

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 822, 7 December 1905, Page 15

ATHLETICS

The time for closing entries for the approaching Spring Meeting of the Auckland Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club has been extended until this evening.

The next Amateur Championships will oe held in Dunedin on March 3.

The dates of future Australasian championships have been fixed by the A.A. Union of Australasia as follows:—1907, Tasmania; 1909, Queensland; 1911, New Zealand; 1913, Victoria; 1915, New South

Wales; 1917, West Australia; and 1919, South Australia. The big sports meeting of the Public Schools A.A.A. takes place on the Domain on Friday, the 15th inst. The annual general meeting of members of the Auckland Amateur Sports Club was held in the club rooms, His Majesty’s Arcade, on Thursday evening, Mr T. Davis being in the chair. The seventh report of jhe committee of management stated that the club had passed through another successful year. The active membership had been well maintained,thus indicating that the institution had ’lost none of its popularity. Several Additional athletic bodies had been affiliated for the coming year. The billiard tables have been liberally patronised, and the revenue from this source showed an increase compared with the previous twelve months, the receipts amounting to £358 14s 6d. The steward (Mr G. W. Smith) was, during July, granted six months’ leave of absence to visit England as a member of the New Zealand Rugby football team, which had been meeting with such success in the □ld Country. Towards this success Smith appeared to be contributing his full quota. The capital account stood at £336 17s. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as under: —President, Mr Wm. Coleman (unanimously re-elected) ; vice-presidents, as last year, with the addition of Mr Leo. Myers (president of the Auckland Amateur Athletic Club); management committee, Messrs J. H. Watts, F. J. Ohlson, W. S. Dickey, M. J. Lynch, T. Davis, O. Creagh; secretary, Mr W. H. Toy; treasurer, Mr E. J. G. F. Greville; auditor, Mr P. R. Fraser. ♦ » • • A team of Birchfield Harriers (Midland Counties champions) has won the big French Road event, the Marathon Race. It is run on the roads near Paris over a listance of 18 miles 1130 yards, and the ilaces taken at the finish by the English •epresentatives were second, third, eighth, ind ninth (22 points), with the Mont--ouge Societe Athletique second (first, ’ourth, tenth, and twelfth), 27 points. The best runner in the “field,” however, was the Italian, Pietri Dorando, who ran clean away from the rest, but as he was club’s sole representative, he, of course, could not count, first place going to J. Bonheure (Montrouge S.A.), smin 55sec behind Doranclo, with G. Wigginton (Birchfield H.)* Second, iniin 40 sec behind.