CHRIST’S COLLEGE SPORTS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2652, 6 October 1882, Page 3

CHRIST’S COLLEGE SPORTS.

The following events were run off yesterday after we went to press : Half mile. Open to boys under 12. W. Cantrill 1 F. 0. Perry 2 Seven started. Cantrill led the whole distance, but was olotely pressed by Perry at the finish, and only won by about a yard. Time, 2min 48tseo. High Jump. Open to whole school. W. H. Fiefier, 4ft + F. Kills, 4ft 9i>n t J. S. Lowry, 4ft 9in 3 t lie. W. B. Cowliakaw, J. Owen, A. H. Williams, A. 6. Cox, i. . S. Tumor, and Bhodes also eanv psted. 200 Yards Handicap. Open to whole school. (Mr Petarsan’a cnp). A. J. Webb, scratch f C. H. Hamilton, scratch ... t F. Hamilton 3 f Tie. There were nearly thirty starters for this race, who got away on pretty even terms. The finish was exceedingly close and interesting, Webb and Hamilton running together for some distance before breasting the tape. F. Hamilton was a good third. Time, 22 2-sth seo. Quarter-mile. Open to boys under 16. H. Miller 1 M. Stack 2 O. Harris 3 Seven started. Miller won by about eight yards, Harris a good third. Time, 61 45 th seo. 200 Yards Hurdle Eace; eight flights. Open .. to tfce whole school; run in heats. First heat. Time, 32^aec. H. Miller 1 A. P. Harper ... 2 Second heat. Time, 32seo. 0. Hamilton 1 T. H. Lowry 2 I bird heat. A. G. Cox 1 F. Mills 2 Final heat. 0. Hamilton ... 1 A. G. Cox 2 F. Mills Time, SO 3 s<ec. Hamilton won in very good style by about 5 yds, the other two being close together. Ladies’ Challenge Cnp. One mile. Open i» boys under sixteen. M. 0. Bobison 1 B. Owen 2 C. Peter , ... 8 Ten started. At the end of the first lap Peter was first, Owen second, and Bobison third. They passed the post the second time in the same order, and ran without a change of position until near the south-west corner, when Owes went to the front and looked a winner, bnfe at the turn home Bobison, running with great judgment, put on the pace and won ft fine race by about 6 yds, Peter a bad third. Time, 5 min 36seo. Walking Eaoo, one mile. Open to the whole school. A. H. Williams 1 G. Stack ... 2 A. P. Harper 3 Williams, who was the favorite, hod this race all his own way, and was not one# approached, winning by about 100yds. Stack, whose style was much admired, passed Harper in the last lap, and beat him by about 10yds. Time, Bmin 38«oo. Consolation Baca, 100yds. Boye under four teen. Archer 1 Garrick Hawkes 3 There was a large field for this event, which was gamely contested throughout. Time, 18 2-s«eo. Consolation Bace, 100yds. Open to the whole school.

F. Hamilton 1 Turner 2 Balgleieh S Eighteen came to the po»t. Hamilton won easily, Dalgleish a good third. Tims, 111 5 see

Old Boys’ Eace, 200yds Handioap. W. Mollif h, 10yd» 1 G. Palmer, syds 2 E Y. Hamilton, syds 3 This event was looked forward to with a great deal of interest, and is always an attrao tiro feature of the sports. There were no fewer than seventy four entries, and about thirty competitor* faced the starter, who got the men off on pretty equal terms. It was difficult to follow the progress of the raes owing to the very large field. The finish was exceedingly olsse, the first halr-a-dozen men being well together. It was almost a dead heat between Hamilton and Templar for third place. Eobiceon, the scratch man and the champion amateur athletic of Canterbury, was unable to get to the front, probably on account of the crowded field. lime, 21}feo. This concluded the programme, and arrangements were at once made for presenting the prizes, that agreeable duty being undertake® by Mrs Corfu. A square was formed on the ground, in the centre of which was placed a table containing the silver cups and other trophies. Before the presentation commenced, Mr Oorfe, the head master, said he had been vary much pleased at the hearty way in which the boys had entered into the sports, and at the grand fields which they had witnessed. Ha had often told them that he had just as much respect for those who, having dona their bast, knew how to take a beating, as for those who secured prizes, and thera wore on that occasion many oi both. It gave him great satisfaction also to see the way in which lha old boys had turned up for the 200 yards race. He hoped next year to have a better course for them. The hero of the day—the-winner of the Old Boys' Challenge Cup—was A. H. Williams —[loud cheers}who had obtained 15 points ; next to him was O. Hamilton, with 11 j points. [Cheers.] He explained with regard to the 200 yards bandies}), tbit the question haring been referred to the old boys, they had decided that if it ( wars included among the events in which the points were counted for the Champion Cup, too much importance would bo given to short distances, and it had therefore been excluded. It was vary satisfactory that the Cap should have been taken by a boy who stood eo well in the school a» William?, who was senior prefect. 1 Cheers,} He desired to express his thanks to the committee who bed carried out the arrangements, and was certain there would alwaya be found those who would be ready and willing to undertake this duty. The games committee were to be congratulated npan having fitted up the gymnasium, and engaged a coach for the coming cricket season. It was not necessary for him to impress upon the boys the desirability of keeping np their i.pcrti after they left the school, beosuse it was evident that the old boys had a great deal to do with athletics, not only here bnt id-30 in England, Only the other day hewaa ixld by an old bey who played in a football match at Cambridge that a college team of fifteen included no tower than five old Christ's College boys. [Cheers ] The prises wore then presented by Mr Corfe, each recipient being greeted with hoorty cheers by his fellow scholars and friends, after which the proceeding# temanated.