AHIARUHE-PONATAHI SPORTS.
NEW FEATURES. The athletic programme to be held on Saturday night at the AhiaruhePonatahi sports meeting promises to be even better than th© splendid meeting held last week. Entries are particularly good and include Randolph Rose (on© and three mile champion), T. Oakley (three and five mil© cycling champion), Oon Casey (Manawatu cycle champion), M. Strange (Manawatu sprint champion), and all tho first-class running and cycling men from Wellington. In addition, three of the Manawatu top-flight runners (A. Weston, A. Comber, J. Walker), and three leading cyclists (J. Spiers, K. Donald, and S. Powell), will compete. Mr. C. A. Gray has donated a £3 3s medal for th© athlete who scores the most points in the running events. Other day time events which arc new to the public, are a polo ball race, which will bo staged by the Wairarapa Polo Club, and in which it is expected all the local polo players will take part. A wheelbarrow race will be a novel event in the afternoon. In this event, riders will gallop a distance and dismount, then their lady partners will mount, gallop round a peg and back to the gentlemen, who will then wheel the ladies in a wheelbarrow to the winning post, j
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Wairarapa Age, 16 March 1927, Page 4
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208AHIARUHE-PONATAHI SPORTS. Wairarapa Age, 16 March 1927, Page 4
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