CHAMPIONSHIP CHANGES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1315, 19 December 1911, Page 7

CHAMPIONSHIP CHANGES.

A GLANCE AT PRESENT FORM. - There is every prospect of .good sport at the Australasia Amateur Champion'-' snip"- nieetjng on Tuesday and Wednesday next; ■ . The Dominion is represented by a very stron.n; combination, which should have an excellent chance of winning the banner. Of the fifteen championship events, fix should certainly be won by New Zenlanders, and it is by no means improbable that our men will have a likolv chance in others. ■ Keddell should -be yards better than the next man in the 120 yards hurdles; M'Kay is in form at the pole vault,-und ought to beat his opponents very comfortably; Kerrhas alTeady shown that he is better than hi* f-vdney rival in the walks;- and unless they, have discovered in. Australia someone very good, then Hill has no serious rival in the one and three-mile runs. . So ■much it is snfe to say—if he is beaten oa n fast track there will be records broken. Opie, too, is likely to bo in the rimniu" lor some of the sprint events. Of the other States, Victoria sends bv far tho strongest team. Their star performer will be J. 1.. Davis, who runs 20yd?., MOyds.. and BS(lyds.. on the flat. 120 yd:--. and IJflvds. over hurdles, and al<-o Je has entered for tho broad jump. ])avi'< holds tlii> world's record of 57 i-ssec for the .440yds'. hurdles. Other sprinters are J. Burton, who was credited with JO l-osce ; for the hundred in the New r>outk Hales chnmnionships a few days J," 1, , and A. D. Ellis, who rnn second 'to ttcodger in the i'fl.vd.*. at Brisbane last yar. Ibere are also two sensational J'injiws h. H. Kelly and Eric Russell, noih college boys, who each have a record of Gft. in tho high jump. Otiier members of tho team are J. Troup (credited with' 10 seconds dead), D. O. Carter, jpntitnr,-Knislun. hurdler, h. R. Walfcnr (wli'i tied with M'lOiy in tha poio vault at Brisbane), nnd W. Murray. In the New South Wales team. Gcorw rJiminrt lias b?en chosen for the mils nnd three-mile runs, and J. J. Harloy tor the walks over the same distances'. Aoitlier should have much chance awinit t.ie Mk Zealand representatives. Denis Lane has been cntpreit for tha lit) flat, 1(0 hurdles, 16lb. hammer, 161b. shot, ond tho broad jump. He holds the record of 4iit. uin. for tho. hop, and jiimn, but unfortunately tor him this is not "a r hampionshtn event. • W. F. Patter?ou is the Sydney I. nivsvsify quarter-mile champion, and he. i≤ reputed to bo tho be-t roan in the State over the iournev. V T.. H«dmer.d is n useful perfoniW. H" Tims the. 440 ami tefl atthe meeting, but lie-, too, is credited with u run of 10 dead •" .1 J 1 '""! 1 ' 0,1 ,, J - W - i ' competes in the two hurdlo events. Hi 3 b«t most recent time was CO :j-osec. for thp. 440 hurdles. E. A. Sou Mice enters for the 100 yards, p yards, bread iump, and.high jump but. mostly he is known for his record ni 22tt. 1111. in the broad jump. S'.rip championships mutt i;o 'to QueensJaiitl. In* most interesting member of the team.js Trevor Francis, still a schoolboy, ivh'i is supposed to have run a f[iiartr'rrmlo in September last in Slsoc, and who is ;:ud to have excelled that verv fine •jierfonnanco by runninir tha distance, pac»d. in sft l-Hsec. nn November 11. Tfe is nmninatod for all distances from ""0 yards to one mile. It. T. O. Ronwiclt, nnofMr ollp,wd 10 seconds man, ; .s supposed to liavfi a good chniien in the hundred yard", nnd a very fair one in the S ,1 !) yiird? nml HO ynrds. j>. M'Grnth must win Hie shot nnd hammer events unless Tie b:<*. rr-nne off very much. It was repprlH that Dave Smith, the reinstated rrnfoKijonal long distance runner, v/ns ».' 'irr. but he is now written off a' d'"Mf.il. . Th-.-o nrhlcfes rnly nro coming from T.i-mr.rin. nml little is known of them. Ellis -nl! start in tho walks. Gourlay is n lon-; runnor with no sensational tup.' in hi<; record, and Tlart is a sprinter rrp'itwl to havi> done 10 l-seee. for 100 y.-ir-U i:i tin; State champinnsbins. In vMiHon to the championshi'n event.=, pnpip \'i imnditnps nrp to b= inclndcxl in tlic Dvncninme, and in (he latter tho chiniipionshin rnon. fis well .is other runn»r; from all over the country, will tr.ke part.

TAYLOR TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND. A. A. Taylor, tho crack professional runner, is leaving Sydney on Saturday next for Wellington, and will go on to Timaru to compete at the South Canterbury Caledonian Society's, meeting on January 1 and 2.