ATHLETICS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1930, Page 1

ATHLETICS

NEW RECORDS.

vJBy Telegraph—Press Association)

WELLINGTON, May 7

A statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Lermonth—Golding athletic tour was received from the Canterbury Amateur Athletic. Associating at a meeting of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association to-night. The two meetings held in Christchurch showed a loss amount-

ing to £lOl 9s lOd. In asking the Council to' make good their losses the Secretary said that it would be remembered that the ’Canterbury Centre took the early meetings when the athletes were more or less un-

known in New Zealand, and when they were not in the best of form, and it was considered that a good deal of the later success of the tour was a result of the' careful manner in which the Centre nursed the visitors. On the motion of the Chairman (Mr R. W. McVilly) it was decided to request the Wellington Centre to forfeit £6O of their profit of £lB4 17s 4d, which, combined with half of the New Zealand Council’s share of £36, would compensate Canterbury for their loss.

The following were granted New Zealand records on the application from the Wanganui-Taranaki Centre. Don Evans (Taihape), 1,000 yards 2 min 12 1-5 sec.

Miss Thelma Hench (Wellington), 100 yards: 11 1-5 secs.

Wellington Centre: —Relay team one mile (880, 440, and 220, yards) 3 min 35 2-5 secs.

U.S. ATHLETICS

(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 7

Australian and New Zealand athletics are expected to compete in the third of international track and field meetings between the British Empire and the United States at Chicago on August 27. It is announced that meetings between Britain and United States are ordinarly post Olympic fixtures, but the Empire Games at Hamilton this year make the forthcoming Chicago meeting possible.