The Feilding Athletic Sports

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 66, 22 November 1892, Page 2

The Feilding Athletic Sports

" Victor" in the Wanganui Herald, of Saturday last, has the following highly complimentary notice of our sports : — " The Feilding Athletic Club have issued the programme for their seventeenth annual gathering to be held on Boxing Day. There are altogether 20 events to be decided (including two amateur races, two hurdle races, two walking handicaps, the Sheffield, the Mile, Half-mile, Quarter, Ladies Bracelet, and the Champion, besides an amateur bicycle race and other events), the prize money for each being most liberal. I am glad to notice that two walking races are set down for decision, as was the case previous to the last year or two, for they always proved most exciting. Taken altogether the programme is a most attractive one, and there is no wonder that it is looked upon by peds as the athletic gathering of the season on this coast. The prize money given is indeed liberal, the management first class, and every one of the officials carries out his duties in a painstaking manner. I would like to point out, however to the committee that the dressingrooms are too small for the large number of competitors who have to use them. A tent or two set apart for their use would be considered a graat boon by runners, as nothing tends more to put a man " off" than having to get rubbed down in an over-crowded room on a hot or close day. By attending to this little matter the committee earn the gratitude of many, and make their already deservedly popular sports almost perfect in arrangement and conyenience to both competitors and spectators. Nominations close oa 9th of December." [We may inform " Victor " that a suitable marquee will be provided to prevent overcrowding in the dressing rooms.]