ATHLETIC NOTES.
(By "Spectator.")
Tho following dates and distances liave been drawn up. by the coiumittee of the W.A.'A.C, for future evening meetings:—
, Thursday, \*ov. 13.—2%ds handi- ! cap;' one-mile handicap*; 220 yd* ma iden novice Face, , '■■■., I Thursday, 2%. 2U hanctji cap j 880 yds handicap; lOOytb llovice I .handicap; putting tlio shot. Thursday, Kw'. 27.—120 yds hurdles handicap ; -140 yds handicap; 440 yds novice handicap; high jump. ■'■'■■.
Tfc is proposed, during tlio the American team to the Dominion, to hold lectures on American methods of training, etc,, illustrated hy lantern slides, in all the towns and where the American team will compete. Mr Wm. Unmaok, manager of the team, will be the lectxirer, and it is .proposed to hoid a lecture in Masterton befolse tho Ideal District High School breaks up for the mid-summer holidays. This series of lectures will luive a very- beneficial effect upon runners througliout tho Dominion, «nd will, no doubt, be eagerly looked forward to by local amateurs. j
The evening meeting held last Thursday was not remarkable for the size of the fields, and! it behoves local amateurs to turn out in far greater numbers if they wish to keep up llio reputation oi' the club on New Yeiir's Day, when competing against the American champions.
The American team to compete .fit the Caledonian Society's annual sports meeting .on' New- Year's Day will bo comprised of the. following athletes : Reggie Caughey, shot, hammer and javelin; Jim Rosenbergen, 100, 220 and 440 yards; Power, 880 yds and one mile; Templeton, 75yds and 120 yds. hurdles and high and broad
It has been suggested by members of the Amateur Club that a ladies' committee bo set up to act in conjunction with the men's committee in connection with tho entertainment to bo given..-by Messrs ThdmpsonPayno in the Electric Theatre at a date to be-fixed.. Any ladies desirous of helping the club will kindly hand their names to the secretary (Mr A. C. Bowman).
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 November 1913, Page 6
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