Athletics.

Free Lance, Volume I, Issue 8, 25 August 1900, Page 13

Athletics.

The first sports meeting of the season is that of the Eight Hours Demonstration on Wednesday, October 10th. Nominations close on Saturday, 15th September. M. M. Koseingrave has started training with a view of competing at the Auckland \mateur Athletic Club's Spring Meeting in November. So far Boseingrave's leg has stood the work he has done all right. Prom a private source I learn that Boseingrave is to be invited to meet George Smith. If Boseingrave can only get well he will beat Smith in both 120 yards and 440 yards hurdles. The annual meeting of the Wellington Amateur Athletic Club last week was well attended. There is every promise that the forthcoming season will be a successful one. Members recognised the valuable services of Mr C. A. Knapp by electing him president. Two old and hard-working officials, Messrs J. H. Hempton and C. W. Tringham were added to the list of vicepresidents. There is some new blood on the committee, viz., Geo. Murdoek (torpedo corps) and Allan Cameron (police force). A. J. Bintoul was reappointed secretary, and is already looking for subscriptions and donations for special prizes. Members of the Empire City Athletic Club cannot understand why they were refused permission for a sports meeting to be held on the Basin Eeserve on 9th November. The reason given is because there are bicycle races on the programme. This does not seem consistent, as there are wheel events on the programme of the Eight Hours' Demonstration Sports. The Athletic Park is the proper place for sports, and at no distant date — when the road is made through the Basin Beserve — it will be compulsory for all gatherings to be held there. Mr M. C. Barnett will act as one of the delegates of the Wellington Club on the N.Z.A.A.A. in Chiistchurch. In a feeling reference to the loss the Club and members hnd sustained by the death of F. S. Broome, Mr W. F. Larkin, at the annual meeting of members of the Wellington Amateur Athletic Club last week, suggested a manner in which to keep the popular member's name green. He offered to give a cup tor a race over 220yds — " Micky's " favourite distance — to be called the Bioome Memorial Stakes. C. Graham, a popular member of the Wellington Bowing Club and Amateur Athletic Club, is on his way back from South Africa. The proposal to form a Public Schools Amateur Athletic Association here is a very desirable one. Doubtless the committee of the local Club will leceive the hearty co-operation of headmasters of schools. Mr. H. Goodwin, who spoke strongly in favour of the proposal, pointed out that as many as 30,000 people attended the Schools Championship meeting in Sydney. It would appear to be the salvation of Amateur Athletics in the Colony. At the International Swimming Championship, at Paris, Jarvis, the amateur champion of England, won the Thousand Metres Match in 13inin 40 l-ssecs. F. Lane, of Sydney, won the Two Hundred Metres Match in 2min 25Jsecs, and the Two Hundred Yards Obstacle Bace in 2min 39 2-ssecs. Lane competed at the Australasian Championships in Christchurch two years ago. Mr Spencer Gollan, the well-known New Zealand sportsman, has won the Calcutta Golf Cup, played for at St. Andrews. The experiment of holding a sports meeting on a Wednesday afternoon is not likely to be repeated by the Wellington Amateur Ath'etic Club. The annual meeting of the Wellington Athletic Park Company was held on Wednesday last. Beceipts for the year amounted to £654 4s sd, and expenditure £636 13s sd, leaving a profit of £17 11s. Donald Dinnie, the veteran exchampion athlete, was presented at Aberdeen recently with a puise of sovereigns and a champion belt from his Scottish admirers. The belt cost £50, and is composed of silver plates bearing medallions representing in relief the different branches of athletics.