ATHLETIC SPORTS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1388, 14 March 1912, Page 7

ATHLETIC SPORTS.

CRICKET. IiOVS" LEAGUE. The pluy-011 , I'm , the liovenior'.s f'up mill tin; MMiior Hows' League championship will tiiki: piiice mi Saturday next «t Kelbnnie Turk behveiMi the Mnys' Institute (last veal's winners anil fir.-t holders of the Cup) .lull tin.' V.M.C.A. tpain. A wcll-eontesled g.ime is expected. The otlipr matches fur Saturday arc:— Si'iiior grade—Donald M'l.ean P.M. v. Trinity, at Duppn Street. Junior grade— Y.M.C.A. v, Trinity, at Hasin lie-servo. The Mnrist. ilron. v. St. Anne's match has liepii postponed uu account of Hit , St. I'al rick's Uav sports at Xowlown J'ark. JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP. The following are the fixtures for March 16 ami -S-ii-Welliiigton College v. Catholic Club, College ground; East v. St. Mark's, Basin lte.-;prvo Xo. 3; Central v. lliitt. Mutt ground; Y.M.C.A. A v. Victoria College, Kclbimie I'ark; Xorth v. South, Jiasin Reserve Xo. I. On .March 30 the only fixture will be the conclusion of the Central v. St. Mark's game, commenced at l'etono on October 21 Inst. ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL W.F.A.'S AXXUAL 3IEETIXG. The twenty-first annual meeting of the Wellington football Association was held last evening, .Mr. .1. .1. liolierls piT.-idin;. The r.nnuul report and balance-sheet were adopted. It was decided that a capitation fee of ."s. bo charged each team entering for the L'o;irUi Division cnmpetitioii. •Mr. J. Lewis (Corinthians) moved: "That each club affiliated with the association should hr> represented on tlie Management Committee by at least one incm-l:-w of each club." The speaker stated th.it his reasons for .moving the motion were that he was of the. opinion that in the late nianasinnient there was too much elulj feeling evident. Under the present system seven members I were elected by club delegates at the ai\)iu,il general iiieetinp; of the association. -Mr. Lewis said that'he thought flint considering there were numbers of enthusiasts in the. "'fijccor" (,'fline wiui had never been iipproarhed for .support, greater facilities would be given for the game k> progre.-s ir' the .Maniigament (Joniniittou consisted •j," representatives from each club. Mr. Jt Y. Walls, who was a member of tlie late; Manaijement t'onimittee, in opposing the. motion, stated that, during I ];is coii'iw.tion with the conimitteu (he had attended 21 meetings of the V, held la-tt season) lie had never seen any club feeling demonstrated at any meeting of tho W.F.A. In his opinion, a committee of 30 members (there would he M clubs TcpreSß-itecl) would be too unwieldly. .Seven coninitteemen were quite enough. Several other delcg;il?s spoke, some in favour of the motion, but most of them against changing the constitution. The motion was lost on the voices. The election of officers resulted as follows:—l'ntl'on, Mr. .(.'. 11. Iznril; president, Mr. C. V. Skerrett, K.C.; viceliiesideiils. Jvlaior (',. D. Mackintosh. Dr. Ilasscl, Wilson, 11. X. M'T.eod, K. H. Davenport, V. <_!. Jiolton, .1. ,1. 1 licbeiis, 11. irKcowen, I , '. .1. Courteney, T. Shields, A. J. Abholt, It. Tye-Smjtli, H. Mnver, W. AuH, C .1. Crawford, J. G. "W. Aitkin, Y. J. Andrews, L. M'Keiizie; Management C'nnimitten. Messrs. J. Lewis, James I'aton, 1!. L. Salmon. 11. 1,. Undher. T. Thomjison, IT. Yeoman, I!. AValls; hon. secretary, Mr. A. Williams; hen. treusmvr, Mr. W. Duncan; hon. auditor, 3lessi-5. .11. 1). Vickery and A. lianiett; delegates to She Xew Zealand ITootbnll Association, iMessrs. J. J. Koberta and A. "Williams. A recommendation to tho incoming committee was that a dinner and smoke concert be held to celebrate the twenty-first "birthday"'of the Wellington football .Association. . : i 'rowing. UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. B> 'lelegraph-Preei Assoelatton-Copyrlsht London, 'March 12. ' The Oxford crew rowed from Barnes Bridge to the Chiswick Steps in 3min. 52sec—a record. BILLIARDS. ROBERTS CHALLENGES GRAY. By 'ic'eECSipti - "l'rcßS AssociQtioo —OoDynfllil London, March 32. John Roberts has challenged George Gray, the Australian billiavdist, to piny a match for any sum that Gray likes to name and with any kind of balls. SPORTS PROTECTION LEAGUE. IBy-Telecraoh—l'ress Association.! Nelson, March 13. ' A well-attended meeting to-night; decided to form a. branch of the Hp'orts Protection League. Tlie secretary (.Mr. Vaape) addressed the meeting. BOWLS. The Kelbiirne and Xen-town Clubs played a match for the Hill P.ins trophy yesterday afternoon. The result was as follows :-Kelbiirne (holders): White, Church, Gannaway, Koutley (s.), H; Xewtown: J'. Martin, Porter, Barnes, Wylie (s.), 29. ARXST SAILS FOR ENGLAND. , (liec. March 13, 9.20 p.m.) Bj TeleEiaDh—J'rcss A«»,->ciat:=n--CooyrlKhi Sydney, March 13. I?. Arnsr, sculling champion of the world, sailed to-day in the Orient liner Otway for. England to row Barry on tho Thames.