ATHLETICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1241, 29 January 1914, Page 13

ATHLETICS.

TEAM CHOSEN TO REPRESENT OTAGO. PERKINS’ FINE PERFORMANCES. (By Telegraph—-Dunedin Correspondent) The first interprovincial a emetic championship meeting ot Otago was successiuny inaugurated on Saturday. The purny ot its amateurism is evidenced by the tact that certificates were to. be the sole award to the wmnmg competitors. The entries were large, and the racing interesting. The oest penormance was put up by Perkins, who penormed well at the American meeting a tew weeks ago. Pei Kins won the lOuyds. ifi 10 •2-osec., the 220yds. in 24sec., and ran second in the quarter-mile, won by awinney in 54 3-tisec. Perkins is the most promising sprinter m Dunedin, and it taken in hand will get into the champion class. He should run well in the New Zealand championships on February 7.

Swinney ran well in the half-mile, but the strong wind prevented fast time, and he took 2min. 15sec. for the distance. Crimp won the mile as he liked in the slow time of smin. 3 4-ssec., and Frys, a clubmate of Beatson (the new Australasian champion), won the three miles in 16min. 25sec. Fisher and Pittaway tied in the 120yds. hurdles, and in the runoff the former won easily. A promising broad jumper was unearthed in Holmes, who, for a novice, did well in clearing 20ft. 4in. The high jumping was poor, the winner, Reid, doing nothing better than sft. 2%in. The shot championship was won by the University lad with 34ft. 2in., ’ and Hewitt won the hop, step and jump with 42ft. 2in.

The meeting furnished a try-out for the selection of the Otago team for the New Zealand championships, for which the following have been selected: —100yds. and 220yds. Flat-, Perkins, Barton, Caddie and Christie; 440yds. Flat, Swinney, Perkins,, and Bishop; Half-mile,. Swinney, Bishop and Crimp; One Mile, Beatson and Crimp; . Three . Miles, Beatson, Frye, Thompson; One .Mile Walk, Buchan and Stewart; Three Mile Walk, Buchan; 120yds. Hurdles, Harris, Fisher, . and Pittaway; 440yds. Hurdles, Withers and Fisher; Broad Jump, . Austin, Withers, and Reid; High Jump, Reid, Fisher and Glasgow; Pole Jump, McLachlan; Putting the Weight, McKeefee and Paterson; Hammer-throwing, Boyne; Hop, Step and Jump, Hewitt, Glasgow and Thomson.

The Otago team is strong numerically, but the one real champion in the lot is J. Beatson, who won the three miles in such a sensational manner at the Australasian championships in Melbourne on Saturday. The Otago man’s victory was received here with a deal of enthusiasm. Beatson was expected to have a good chance, but we did not expect him to win against the pick of Australia on an Australian track. The surprise is that Beatson won in the sprint to the tape, for the Otago man has never previously developed this.