Athletics—a Hollow Win.

The high light of the Athletics was C.U.C.'s hollow win of the Shield. C.U.C. scored 23 points. V.U.C. were runners up with 8 points, A.U.C. were page 11 next with 7, and O.U. won the Wooden Spoon for the second time in succession with 6 points. Other noteworthy performances were F. H. Stephenson's win in both sprints (220 straight track record time of 22 3-5th seconds), A. T. Anderson's (C.U.C.) record of 57 1-5th seconds in the 440 hurdles, and Kerr's plucky jumping in the high and long jumps with a strained muscle. H. M. S. Dawson (C.U.C.) added 2 feet to G. J. Sceats' record of 150 feet 5½ inches for the javelin. A. P. Thompson (C.U.C. and ex-V.U.C) magnificently won the 3 mile flat by 200 yards in a time 4-5th second outside the 1914 record of A. Hudson (V.U.C.) (15 minutes 24 seconds) after running out on his own lap after lap. Splendid running and team work of the V.U.C. Relay team (A. S. Henderson, R. T. Street, N. Goodson, and F. H. Stephenson), resulted in a win and a new record of 3 minutes 44 3-5th seconds. V.U.C.'s team as a whole were disappointed in their performances, and we understand the greater number were adversely affected by the change from Wellington to Auckland. This was particularly galling to Rafter, who ran in the mile although obviously a sick man, and saw the winner come home in a time no better than Rafter had been consistently putting up during solo practice runs. These words are intended as an explanation, and are in no sense a detraction of C.U.C.'s splendid all-round performance.