ATHLBTICS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2120, 11 April 1914, Page 12

ATHLBTICS.

-$-> ~ .' ■,: ''<:■'-. "' :, '" f JiT "Wwtci;ftir."3 : . '■■■• ? : Trig UKABE OH CROUNO FEES. AHitotlo 3off anil Oofnerallon Our, 'IMhi tocsil hwrior ne.nmn v/m «(BeinH,y ojiwH'il ht.i, Kutnrdny by ili» Woiehip tm> Mujw. wbtt wkbeii tli«! opart nil Urn ijwid ii/vvuiital, !l- wilt ha ii.ik'rc«t----i«« i<) mU> wkvlkc-r j.)ift Worship is in tlio Bnwo jfVjHjwiUiiilifi immil when the City Coinicii ifl iwiwil to rccortoicier its decision Iα kill (Uinstottr athMres hi Wolliw«U>»-.for tliftt h tho ofet o( tlio recently ii.(fo|Horf scale <»f chui'fißS ww hy tlio too {sir tl'io Wits «f tho'pasin Jfc serve for a sports mwiiirifi; is iiswj at 15 jwr eont. uj;j to a £50 gate, and £20 Uieroiifter, Csoiistdering that the avwago gato at an oiVlinnry dub niectloj? h about £60, and that, even ivitlj tho hithciV cxistin<s n-ouf«l fco of £7 10s., ends 66iih! only bo uiiklo to moot i« mnny ca.ec.s by jmyiug df a.li charges, wicli »n adver- , tieinij", ete.j ond tl»n al|ocat)i)g tlm rest—-which in mftfty enscs hap, been nil —for trophies, it needs no g-fefit stretch of imngjiiatioii to jjielure tho couistenaueou worn at present uy eur local athletic heads wlron they nre faced with tho pj'osjicet oi giiothpr £12 iOs, being added to thoir graund rcitit. And for tt'hatP For nothing, for tiio City Council cannot point to o.no wnglo ; jusfaitqe in which it as a eounoil h:aß dono ttHythuig for tho sp&rt. liiiou.gh for tho present. "Mertury" will hava SQUiefliing ft.irtJjer to say iji the matter when tho. qwo.stipn bt'comes a bunting the beginning of next season. To got back to tho Harriers, who by ■ tho way have no groiiml fees to .pay : unless, in tho future, sumo munieipal genius brings fofword a. sehetnft to chftrgo . thorn -for rtuwing atross .tte i Town Bolt, tho opening run promisee I well for tho remainder of the season. ■ Both Wellington m"i Brooklyn Harriers turned out to finite force., and tho new Olympic Club kad doso iqion a £eoro of its members in action. It is to bo liogfid that Kofto oi' our would-be ! Jimmy Pouws will ctnulttto their masItcr by taking an occasionAl run with tho ctoss-country men during tji.o winter, thus laying tho grdaHtWork for an ■early yeUiih to form' during tho next trao« swweii.

Tho netiQia so provaic-ut. in tliesfr parts that β-wr -crack middle and distance runners require a, spell during tho whnJQ winter dies hard, buJ the*? aro signs that tib.o more ratkiial principle of having an oocasiflual jatint across hJH and dale duriflg the *j-ntor to keep wind and limb frmn&ettmß twstj' » gradually Sjoco.miftg -one ef tke art-teles hi tho ■athJfitic faith o-f on.r best perfortners. Runs Under Rugby Aegis. It is to bo- licpi-d that tiie races wind: occasionally took plaoo ft-t the Athletic I'a-rk at half-timo during tho las-t football season ftill. bo repeated this year at regular intervals' say o.f st month. Tho lttigby Union Cemmittee,. '.'}tec cary" is assursiij ate only too.-willing , that this bo doiifl, for las! year'flieveuts provnd highly atactic.; tlio crowd heeniy enjoying a litt-lo .exciwmfeni o.f a different nature .6a-ndwie.h.cd betwe'eii ■ t-heif football fare. It is further to be ; hoped that tlio split, or tmsundmtana.- ■ ing, or i-vhaterer it was iliat led tlio , Brooklyn Harriers to tafos .Uo part in ; these events has been fixed up. [ Wedding sells. "ittercury" has to ad-lfflowlfidgs wift thanks an mvjtfllkn to be. .present oh April 14 at the wedding of Ronald Qpio , to MiSji Bcrth.a.. Gadd, daiighve'r of Mr. ; G. Giidd, of Bair JEiilJ, Oaiitc.fbuxy, aiid ; to voice his con.gi'aWatioiiS along with . those of all Wetlingten athlete's,- ; ProI sunwbly we fiflall aence.fortli see no c more of the es-AfiEt-Mfian hundred , , ' furbnjg, and tiua-rtor diampiqii. Haftkr e4 wifli Sompton and WoiMlgcr as one ■' ' <Jf tho three b&st amateilr ' flpfinters ,- whom the Dominion proceed, Opio 3 lias tho ■ satisfaction of retiring as a , record-holder. His 22sc<;. for tho fur* 1 long, put up at ChristqhuFch in 1911, - frill probably itroaiji on the books for -■ some years. 1 t Handicaps—A Best Infant. 1 Last week "Mercury," in re-Eeifrng to 6 Mr. Peixotte's strictures on handicap 1 events, quoted instances, of handicaps V being contested in the Eastern States I of Anteriea. Latest advices frsm * America- t$W of a big meet-ing at Ea.nsas r City—which is within a- thousand miles &r less of which' AH tho s events, bar a Special iMrtcli fceMvebn Mol- > vm .Steppard "nnd fine Charles ofßo.u>0 f ßo.u> ; ' nel), wcro h-ft-ndica-ps-. It is interest--1 ing to note that over 400 aifchfcte's from * tho rolWos ami athlotie cWw-ttf fcbe 15 Jiiddle West competed, I-yitlently tlio " liiindicap is lusty infant in the; States, ? nnd even California, will, cro long, prob' * Bbly take to it. : i * Late Mr. Kaughton's Last Budget. I, The latest'Amoriean budget in the [, "Referee"—tho last by tlio way from I the hands of the lato Mr. Nawfliton— ~ contains Biorc th,an its usn.il prnnoriion , of iitTilfl-ties. Among oilier thin-ps it „ -j- recorded that, at 'the indoor ebain- .' of th* American. Amateur ■' Athletic ITiiioß, fivo records were b-foljei.i, Tin 4 two most proniiiwnt ntliletcs m the " wib-tic jfye at present vfl the Strites nre 1 T. 3. HnlptH and Hn-nnce Koleknwmeß : "tlw former on account of his brlllimrt 1 running, and tho latter because of n ,] series of uuotpociod ftefeats, „ Hnlpiti. frho will be rcmcnAered tint j. here n-s f.lio writer of several letters i<l . the in wbie-h ho exiircssed " !i rtesiri? to visit Austtalia- ai'd T>f(?w Zpulft'ntl. is a rnnuftr who lias maito I wmiderful strides during the last cnuti}« a of seas Mis. A fine runitor tltrcc y?nrs afto, iie ' s . far anrt nwnj? n Vinttor tna-ii ■ now. His most r-oeciit sucs-esscs in- * Aikh iwi'-foriii.Tnef'S in ivJs'il'li. lie* Wrtflhi T'-liert ft world's i.iulnnr resorrl *f tmi-H. p f o .j fiOflvdx,. pfrtmllecl In* '"■ SOOy-tJs. indoor rpeord of 33 2-ssec. mid ("/n'ved otit 100D|rrt«. in Smin- ISsoc, Wtei he -meefes J. E. MomJiHi and nthfrs, on the pinder' nath jliirilio; tho raininis sciso-tl, thnrt> -.slvonld he Soiiie startling times regi-st-ei-pd, Caerar Dross Ms Crowft, T \oli>hwniu i en was dnfMtod in ti)t> i**n. mi\r>i iiicloor chnroptaisWi) by lio-th H. .1. Smith aivfl W. J. Krwnfir in Dmm. iSseo., a fceowl. A few wwifcs oarliflT ?f frtmer Tient l)im at tl>« Irisli-Anwrjcan Club'* cntlierinc m 0-mhi. 18. ii-few-* i. ond. lif'twfimi thos? two defeats-, lio fn]l- - fd biidly in an irtfctwnt. nn TJotmi's L . Itoin* rwsrd of 11 «'iVs 14 , ? , !- yntMs. ccxj. vf'inw ln.it It Twite; 7iil ynrits in it'.fl Bist-y ,j minutes, All t-ln'so tw>rfo ! rtii>iipi(>e ore ,'[ ivnrfliv of P«tv on>fk. lill* Tf"Wn"n}-|<>« '.' hiwcjoif, i\ I vl tV i'l'aSWi for his r!nff>»tp. I '<'i!t wnJii'Wy Up tntmA in ( tlw het Mm* ~ l'» Tins b»rn rUPMIft rnntninftltielv fivs"! ... W>« t-i-Wo of l''P Jnsl Olympic OaiHfrs in '{ 1912, and Heeds n rest.