AMATEUR ATHLETICS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10677, 25 July 1912, Page 5

AMATEUR ATHLETICS

WELLINGTON PROVINCIAL FIVE MILE CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP.

i\i AST'FRTON HARRIERS W[.\' TEAMS CHAMPIONSHIP.

HRADBURY THE INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP.

(By Our Special Reporter.) The Croso-coiratry Champions V,j war, held at Pa!mersto:i North ycV.or(!nv d'ternoon, over u Sve-mile eour-je. Fo i -,iy -11: rce r u :?ci ers, rep r cscr, ti. r, r , tennis from the Wellington, Mast •?- ton, Keiiding (2), PaLmcivta], mul Central Ilarrie-ivj, faced the s.tarto: l : !i> weather was very rough, it hoinbitterly cblsl and wot, and- sheet? of w.'.ter covered a great part of j!:e c , o;m'o3. From the crack of th-e pi.st-il, Murray, of the Brooklyn Harriers, tehot .ut and led t.'iic field rt ;n hot j pace fur the first quarter of a irvilo, At -tbife stage he steadied a .little, am 1 . Drummond, cf tho Master toil Harr- j •id's, iforcing the paoe, was soon in> the , lead, and began to 'diraw away. Ho J ■war, clteeJy atte'nded by three of hie club-mates— Bradbury, Flanagan an;'. Pryor— aiid tk:e> order was maintained f(c ihc next twb mi lie s. Here Byrne-(Brooklyn) and PrtJ-fj (Wellington) drew up with the 'cinders, and two miles from horn..- the order wasBradbury. DriMrjincnd, Pryor, By.rn l , Frc:'\ -F'ianag-ai, CV.-c-k i.M'asterto'-.i), and Cook (Wellington), with sevcrai others well u,p. Biradbury here made a .splendid fciv.r-t, and cr;fti!b ; ]:Vlied a substantial lead, wihicli lie maintained to the finish, ultimate'v winniby about 70 yards from Byrne, wi:-h Preys third. Cbok (Mastert(vi), coming with a gircat ru>r>!i in the last "!;ile cut down man iiftCT man, rnd ra: l into i'(hi ill (place. The Mastciton tram i'S to be oongiratuiatcd on its performance, thd mcmibcrs sccuri::;: the following placa>:— Ist. Bracl'bnry; •Jtjli, C'c,ok ; 7th, Dirummond ; 9th. -i'ry<v; l lth. Mfr-s-.onger; lf)th, Flaitagau; 21st, MeJRi-ie. The Brcoklv'n team ihist yoa.vV.' winners) s?:iirert f-eeond , Wii|tli tlie following places. k, nd, .sth, Ctli and loth. Tin-, •winning team bo}:!' the Why'tc-w;-Ivay CHallengo Wiaskl for 12 months-, and in addition the first four receive gold medals, and the winmer a: special nicdril for fastest time. Mr Sykes' trophy fur the bnvt iWastert.r poiformer was won by J. Bradbury, thus making a total of three prir/.s secured bv liiiu in the race.

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