A Successful First Season: Runs to Begin Next Week The first annual meeting of the! Shanghai Amateur Athletic Eh was held at the Rowing Club, on Thursday, Mr. R. S. McMillan, the captain, presiding. The report mentioned that the club was start-only on, January 19 this year, raining runs were started and a fair number turned out to them, it. was thought that the lack of mumpers wav due tothe lateness of the season and that it kept runners away. We lacked numbers, Dut enthusasism was not wanting in the few regular ronners who turned out every week and can sincerely say that all enjoyed the runs "A list of attendances was kept by the secretary and it shows, out of a possible of 11 training runs fand races, that the honours were divided for the first place between Mr. R. B. Brown and Mr. H. A. Atkinson, with 10 runs each to their credit; Mr. H. J, Atkinson was second with' nine runs; and Mr. Marcel Peniguel was third with sever vuus; and then the next in line has four and half attendances. (ise, half point is for those who turned out but do not run).
"Three cross-country races took place in our curtailed season of barely four months and they were very successful for so young a Club; we won two and lost the other.
The report and accounts were adopted and approval given to the Graft rules. Officers then were elected, namely:—President, Mr.
D. Rodger; Hon. President, Sir Edward Pearce; Hon. Secretary, Mr. H, A. Atkinson; Hon. Treasurer, Mr, D. M. Butt; Captain, Mr. RS, MeMillan; Vice-Captain, Mr. R. E. Brown; Committee, Mr. J.
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