AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 754, 1 March 1910, Page 4

AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

COMBINED SPORTS MEETING. ' Now. that the'excitement of tho championship meeting has abated, public interest : locally is swinging round to an event .nearer home—next---Saturday's gathering;, at the .Basin Reserve.- , 'j;he combination of the two oldest and strongest of the city clubs, should make a record. meeting, trad especially so at tho present juncture. All the Wellington representatives, except J. Wilton, and all of tho. southern contingent who competed at the big meeting in Auckland are now in Palmerston Nortli, on account of the snorts carnival 'there next Wednesday, and will be competing horc on Saturday. St. Aubyn Slurray, the champion hurdler, and 11. 13. Kcrr, the popular walker/will both be certain starters, and tho nominations include further foreign entries of note from Beatson, the.new. three-mile champion, C...1j. Orboll, the champion, jumper, Opio; tlv Canterbury .sprinter, 1 !!. E. I'isher,',one.time 220 yards champion, of tho Dominion, and now of Lovuka, Fiji, and all the local cracks who won tho champion shield so handsomely for ■ Wellington on!; , Saturday.' Kc-rr has telegraphed his intention of endevouring to ■upset the new. figures put up by D.

Wilson in Auckland in the thruc-mile walk, and Woodger will try to beat'the Australasian record that he equalled oa Saturday last over the 220 yards flat. The nominations closed last Saturday, and the lists number as under:—loo yards, thirty entries; 220 yards, twenty-five; •HO.yards, seventeen; half-mile, thirteen; one mile, twelve; 220 hurdles, nine; -while the field events and walks have filled equally well. For the. mile walk there are ten entries,. and for the three■;inile eight. In addition to the ordinary programme, the committee has instituted aii invitation scratch 50 yards, and in'cluded in the eivtry.forjthis are: Woodgerj rllarding, Opie, II." St. A: -Murray, E. K, I Ifishcr, and others tothenuiiiber of ninft.