ATHLETICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 248, 13 October 1908, Page 3

ATHLETICS.

ANOTHER MARATHON RACE. London, October 11. Eighty - nine professional rimnevs started in the Evening News Maratiion Race at the Windsor Stadium. Siret, a Frenchman, twenty years of age, bus the winner. Ilis time was 2 hours .'l7 min. 23sec., for the twenty-six miles. White, of I'reland, was second, his time being 2 hours -t'tiuin t.">sec. finished ahead of Doramto's time at tile Olympic (lames All came in freshly and strongly. l'ostle, of AWstralia, won this in the 100 yards race in 10 l-.isec. lie was third in the final, in which he injured his ankle. He had to be removed from the truck in an ambulance. Todd, who accompanied Postle, won the quarter mile race in 51 2-ssec.

SOUTHLAND'S SPORTS. I By Telegraph.—Press Association. luvercargill. Last Night. | The Southland Caledonian directorate tliis vear intend to give two days' sports, and the programme passed tonight showed cash prizes aggregating * £3OO, in addition" to over f ill worth of trophies. The hig item of the programme is the £7O Caledonian Handicap I-ist vear the prize money for tlhis event totalled £2l. The tola prize money for the meeting almost Equals the total Hint tvas ottered by the four principal societies in Soutnland.