MARATHON MEETING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 657, 6 November 1909, Page 5

MARATHON MEETING.

| The Basin Beserve:is,presenting an aniinat appearance 'every.evening with athletes; pi 1 Ung ; the finishing touohes ;on,their preparati' for,the. ■Carnival on Tuesday n« The' teams' for the: "push-ball" game,' the fii 1 played; in",publio in ,■.Wellington;-.'!- have be; trainingi' and' an exciting exhibition : of' an- i teresting game'is.anticipated.; A new vaulti; pole has been imported, ;for the_ occasion, • enable :L. M'Kay, ■'. the .Australasian. champii . pole-vaulter ; and > record-holder, to show.lh he'is capable of,a better performance than; did at' Brisbane 'in. August last, when, it w: be remembered,, his pole broke. ; ; ; . Most of the, Marathon men have done.the ' distance trials, and good form is reported. i ! round.-Bennett and Mulcahey have done, I and 15-mile:runsrespectively against time wi' vorysatisfactory results...The.oontingent-fro ' Canterbury has been augmented by tho/adc ' Won thereto of G. Wilkins, who will. am' '■':■ with Simpson and Hill to-morrow.■„.-•', ■;■ ■ i •: Twenty-one entries. have been. received'! > the so /W. W. Woodge'.VtJ . Australasian sprint ohampion, will have; eve] opportunity of showing his best form, ai ; the various '.. other, events have, filled .equa.l well. '•:.', ''•■.-■■■: i-, ':,'-■ ■■■ - - ■''- ,'• < ■ ' Bs Excellency the Governor and Biute or members of the, Ministry and both; Houses wi be present, while the comfort of the publio hi . been'well, catered for.inthe way, of afternoc V tea. and,a band.., ■'- -.■/■...•'.'.-,'■■■. .:-;■---: '.-:■>•'.