HARRIERS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 527, 7 June 1909, Page 6

HARRIERS.

:■■ NOVICE HANDICAP. Hntt Park'racecourse was the scene of tlrt Wellington ' Harriers' weekly run on Saturday; and also of a handicap :race for this sea- . sons, novices; which was decided before the , commencement of i the club run. a Of the fourteen entrants only nine faced the ' starter, who' dispatched them from tho following stark:—E. 8. Fornei F. Hodsbn, and W. ■~, J. Chartres, scratch: W. Power, . 20sec.; G. Whincbp, 25SCC 1 ; W.' White, 30sec.; S. If'Dowall, and K. Westwood, •lasec.';. E. Robinsou,., GOeec. . : .•.•:.••' " ■■'■ ■. ■ The race, whs over two lops of the' race-, courso,: being a distance of 2$ a miles, and tho,; pace sot by the scratch men in the first lap enabled them ..to catch • the field ' before com- '■ mencing the second and final ono. P. Hodson led past the judge's box the first time, and, running very freely, kept his position to tho finish,' despite. . determined .. challenges frotri . M'Dowall' and Chnrtrcfl, who finished fifteen and twenty yards respectively behind the winner. Hod6-on's time for, the first lap was Gntin., and. for the full-distance, 12inin. 4flsoc. . Whincop finished a good fourth, some distance ahead of -White. The handicaps for the race, were framed by Messrs. W. n. Pollock and F. . Wilton, and: other, officials 'were: Messrs. A. ' C. Johnson and A.-W. Jinir, judges; W. Press and Tl.'A.'Lamb, track stewards', and E. Wilton, starter and timekeeper. '■■".- ~. ; Other club members took advantage I 'of tho ' opportunity, afforded them of indulging in soma good training, work, in-view of-tho-approaching' Palmer-Cup contest,, and finished up with a fairly solid lap'dild a fast-run hundred yards at tho fijiish.: ' Next Saturday members will meet at Kai'oiX for their weekly run.