AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 746, 19 February 1910, Page 7

AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

i. . ' THE SPORTS TO-DAY. . The New .'Zealand Amateur Athlotic .Championships •;'ar£ • ; land next .'week;', and a ••strong .team will go north' to represent Wellington oil the. track. Prom. these; circumstances/ • special interest is attached to. the sports'of the' Civil Service, A.A.C., -to bo. held on tho Basin Keserve tnis afternoon, for all members of the' representative';team• 'are expected 'to compete. - VV'oodger, whose , sprfutiiig surprised Australia, will run in ,'tiie: lpu yarus and" : yards handicaps; and,, in his present' form, lie may,- if ox;tended,; breaic his own New Zealand record 'of 22 2-ss«c. ia. the -220' yards. event,! .established .at the \Vellington\provincial championships.' are 'numei ; ous trants -in 'the 410 yards event, for .the XaUies' Bracelet, and' Wilson inay •bo expected to issue a.'stern. challenge to J. iWilton, .who is tho: Wellington, champion over tliedistance. • Eeffer, who recently put up a Wellington record of 4min. 29 4-ssec, .in .the .mile championship, .competes in' tho'' half-hiile' and mile haudicaps, and his times ought to be riredttabio. Bvenson and 'AlUlay are en-, tered for the hurdle and jumping events and they will idso give an exnibit of pole-vauiting. .In,the mile-and-a-lialf walk hitzgerald and ~Cashnian. start- .from scratch; and ;a good light may' therefore, be looked - lor in this- race; . The first event is«timed for 2.15,0'c10ck sharp.'

A RECORD GONE WBONG. i It. Avdll bo remembered. by' followers of amateur athletics..that on Boxing Day, at. Wongauui; \V. G. Harding, the Wellington; representative quarter-mile runner,, was credited . with establishing an Australasianlooo/ ; yards- record.:-' tSoiiie little stir was made' over-tho -'performance • 'at the tiniei 'but since tnen thd mat bar • seemed- 'to drop.- .To-day,•• "Mer-cury/--our athletic- contributor, received a letter from Harding enclosing a-letter received, by him from the; secretary of the Wanganui A.A.C., • explaining : the delay. It appears. that 'through an unfortunate mistake 1 the track had been, measured' short, and that tho actual distance - traversed' by Harding was; tour' '.feet • short' of the, 1000 yards. - Respite the fact that tho previous .New Zealand record, established by Guy Haskins in Christchurch. last season, .-was beateu by Harding by threo seconds,' the bungle by -tho 1 Wanganui authorities has deprived the Napier orack of the honour credited to him;

' L-'MTvay, tho. selected Wellington-;re-presentative for : tho' pole-vaulting and. field events at the New Zealand " ohampionship meeting ;. at Auckland next Saturday, 'will? not be able to make the trip, as ho has' been unable to obtain tho necessary leave of absence. .: .