AMATEUR ATHLETICS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12611, 23 November 1926, Page 4

AMATEUR ATHLETICS

SATURDAY’S BIG MEETING The first big alternoon 'sports meet* 1 ing of the season wil be held at the 1 Basin Reserve on Saturday afternoon - when the Wellington Amateur Athletic Club will decide an attractive programme. The very large entries that have been received indicate that | the athletic boom which has been in evidence since the war is assuming larger propprtions than ever. - • Seldom have greater attractions than next Saturday’s been offered at a meeting run by a club. The big cycle road race from Wellington to Akatarawa and back will finish on the ground. It has drawn a field comprising all the best city riders and a number of Wairarapa cracks, including the Oakley brothers and MacKwan. <l. Sutherland, who, while j abroad, proved himself to be the j greatest all-round athlete the Bomini ion has yet produced ,wiil be a competitor in practically all the field events, j and his exhibitions of the latest me* | tliods of high and broad jumping and ! javelin throwing will be interesting ( items. | Since the recent admission of .wust- | en athletes to a part in the Olympic j Games, the ladies, whose enthusiasm j has been an attractive feature of j sports meetings during the past three j seasons, have become keener thaa l ever. For the first time on record a ladies' team from outside the provI vince will take part, and it is no ex- • I nggerntion to soy that the meeting i of the Wellington team (which lasi I year put up time for tlie 440 yards j rolnv whicli equalled the world’s record) and the four girls from Gisborne will ho one of 'the star events of th* afternoon.