N.Z. WOUNDED SOLDIERS' FUND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2404, 9 March 1915, Page 7

N.Z. WOUNDED SOLDIERS' FUND

SATURDAY'S ATHLETIC BENEFIT ' MEETING. The Otago team competing at the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Championship Meeting in the Basin Reserve next Saturday, the proceeds of which are earmarked for the local fund for Wounded New Zealand soldiers and their dependents, has now been advised to the Athletic Association, and is as follows:—100, 220, and 440 yards: Perkins. Broad jump and 120 yards hurdles: Austin. 120 yards and 440 yards hurdles: Burrow. High jump: Kirk. One and threfl-mile runß: Beatson. Halfmile and one mile runs: Crimp. Ham-mer-throwing: Boyne. Of the above the most prominent is James Beatson, the distance runner, who is the present Australasian champion over three miles and the bolder of. five New Zealand championships. Perkins, the team's sprinter, is a good 6tamp of runner, who made his debut in championship running last season, when, he ran second to Martis, of Wanganui, in the 100 yds. championship of the Dominion. Austin and Burrow are not only both useful hurdlers, but are also broad jumpers. At the recent Otago Provincial Championships, Austin registered 21ft. 6in.and Burrow 21.ft. 2jm., good jumps both, Kirk is the holder of the Otago Provincial high-jump championship, and Crimp, the half and miler, already has a New Zealand championship performance of merit'to his credit. Last season he ran second to A. A. Dormer, the Auckland craok, in the one mile championship of the Dominion, and he has also some"sonnd half-mile runs in his big list of wins in Otago.