ATHLETICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 830, 1 February 1906, Page 15

ATHLETICS.

N’gel Barker, who has been selected to represent New South Wales at the Olympian Games ’n Greece, is 24 years of age. His athletic career may be considered to have started when he was at Newington College (says the “ Sydney Mail”). On September 8, 1900, he won the 100yds, 220yds, and 440yds championships of the college, and the quarter-mile handicap from scratch. On September 22, 1900, at the Great Public Schools’ meeting he won the 440yds championship from G. U. Garvan and V. S. Futter. From 1901 he earned all before him, his victories being all schools’ 100yds scratch race, 120yds hurdles, high jump, and 220 and 440yds flat championships of Newington College; the 150yds all

schools’ scratch race at King’s School meeting; the G.P.S. A.A.A. 100yds, 220yds, and 440yds champ’onships. In 1902. when he went to the University, he secured 100yds, 120yds, broad jump, and 440yds at the ’Varsity sports, and later, at the Melbourne University meeting, he accounted for the 100yds (10 l-ssec) and the 440yds (53sec). In the Old Boys’ Race at the G.P.S.A.A.A. he was timed to run the 100yds Old Boys’ Race in 9 9-10 sec, and was second to Morse, who was “ clocked” to do 9 4-ssec. In 1903 the 100yds State Champ onship was won by Barker in 10 4-ssec. In the inter-’Varsity games he won the 440yds in 52 4-ssec. In 1904 he retained the 100yds State Championship, won the 120yds handicap from scratch in 12 4-ssec. At Melbourne he annexed the 220yds champ onship, 100yds, broad jump championship at Sydney . ’Varsity sports. Then came the question of sending Barker to St. Louis, but a football accident prevented him from go ng. and also from competing in the championship meeting at Melbourne. The visit of Duffey in company w’th Shrubb was remarkable for the great race run between Duffey and Barker. That was in AprT, 1905. In a 100yds race Barker defeated Duffey by 6in, Stanley Rowley being third, and the time was 10 l-ssec. Later they met, and Duffey beat the gun, and of course Barker also. It was in a 60yds handicap. The latter secured the 220yds Championship of New South Wales in the Australasian record time of 21 4-ssec. The following week at Concord he won the 75yds handicap from scratch in 7 4-ssec, and ran a deadbeat with Duffey in the 100yds ’n 10 sec. Duffey declined the run off. In the 1905 Sydney University sports Barker accounted for 100yds, 440yds (50 2-ssec), and in the challenge meeting between Sydney University and other clubs he was first in 100yds (10 l-ssec), 220yds, and 440yds, and broad jump (21ft). In the Australasian championships in November, at Sydney, he won the 440yds. a beautiful run, n Australasian record time of 48|sec, 220yds in Australasian record of 21 4-ssec (grass), running broad jump at 21ft 3in, and 100yds. On January 1 he secured the 100yds State Championship at the Highland Society’s meeting.