ATHLETICS

Taranaki Daily News, 25 October 1921, Page 3

ATHLETICS

MEETING OF TARANAKI CENTRE. i Our Kaponga correspondent reports:, A meeti ing of the Tai ana ki Centre was held on Thurs- ! day, October 20, Mr. Hanson presiding. Correspondence received from H. H. Fraser, < T. Walker, H. Nuttall and T. Sherson was '■ dealt with. Messrs. O’Byrne and Rumball were granted permits to compete at sports in New Ply- i mouth. The centre applied to hold the champion- * ship meeting in Taranaki this year, and the ; ; head union left it with Canterbury and Taranaki to arrange, the running events being ■ allotted to Taranaki —vi., 220 yards and 880 yards. The executive finds a great disability in working those two events in as champion- . ships, and therefore decided to make application for the championships to be allotted to 4 Taranaki next year, which meeting will be. held in Eltham. An appeal from Gisborne Centre for a saw- j yer . named Gregory, who had the misfortune ; at the conclusion of the event to have a sinew in his leg cut by the saw, which rendered him ! incapable and necessitated his being taken ; to hospital, where he has been ever since. He , has now contracted .rheumatic fever, md has i a family of nine children depending on hint. The executive granted the sum of three guineas, j and any sports club throughout the centre whieb. feels that it would like to assist can do so through the secretary of the centr? at Kaponga.

THE NEW ZEALAND UNION. At the recent annual meeting of the New Zealand Athletic and Cycling Union the question of the revision of rules for wood chopping events was considered. The subject was introduced by a motion proposed by Mr. Edwards (Poverty Bay) as follows: "That a block must be chopped off clean with axe; any competitor pushing block off with his hands will bo disqualified.” The mover said he would like a definite ruling regarding this remit. At Gisborne, at the world’s championship chop, a man, had gut down from his block, but it did not break, and he had pushed It through with hla hands. They had searched the rules, but they could not find any ruling on this point, lie thought that a sub-committee should be set up to revise the existing rules.

After discussion it was decided that the rules in regard to these classes be revised. in the course of his address the chairman (Mr. J. Kennedy) said that the. question of resuming the big cycling races, such us the Timaru-Christchuich race, and the round-the-mountaln race (around Mt. Egmont), which were held annually before the war, had been considered, and it was hoped that this season both of those races would be resumed.

Mr. H. A. Nut-tall, the Taranaki delegate, was elected a vice-president of the union.

Applications for the New Zealand championship meeting were received from the North Canterbury and Taranaki Centres.—lt was decided to allow Mr. Lucas (North Canterbury) and Mr. Nuttall to come to a mutual arrangement regarding the allotting of the championship events between the two centres. The question of the locality at which the next conference should be lu-ld brought forward a number of motions, Wellington, Eltham and Blenheim being nominated.—On a vote it was decided to hold the conference at Eltham about September next year.