AN AMUSING INCIDENT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4928, 20 January 1926, Page 2

AN AMUSING INCIDENT.

“ 1 WANT MY TIRE.”

CHILD HOLDS UP SPORTS.

A very amusing incident occurred a,t Athletic Park, Wellington on Saturday afternoon during the progress of the second meeting for the Dewar Shield competition.

The youthful competitors in the 440 yards motor-tyre race had just been allotted positions, and everything was in readiness for the event to (start, when a little boy, about three years old, toddled across the field to the starting The manner in which he gave vent to his feelings must have made the ma,n with the megaphone feel quite insignificant. A roar of' laughter went up from the crowd when tlie little fellow approached one of .the competitors, locked his arms round the tyre, and yelled as hard as, his voice would allow : "Give me—give me—my tyre.” Something bad to be done, so an official took it upon himself to t*”y and pacify the tearful one,' but it was of no avail. As the race had now been held up for several minuter somebody dashed across the field and returned with a motor-cycle tyre. But the trouble was by no means over, and the position became amusing in the extreme when the youngster, after having put one arm through the new tyre, still clung to and demanded, his brother’s as well. It appeared that nothing in the world would pacify him. Realising the position, his' brother decided to withdraw from the race, and walked off the field with the youngster still crying and' clinging to the tyre.