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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2120, 1 July 1907, Page 1

DAY V. McLACHLAN. THE DUNEDIN ENQUIRY.' A special meeting of tlie executive of the Otago Centre of the New-Zea-land Union was liehl (says the Otago Daily Times) to discuss the question of the Dav-McLnchlan running match. The president (Mr. 3M. Goughian) occupied the chair, and explained that certain expressions had been made concerning the running ,of Messrs. Day and McLaclilan in a quartermile, which, if the matter was not cleared up, might do these two gentlemen considerable .injury. Ho had heard that they had dolayed their departure from Dunedin in order to explain the matter, and it was the "duty of the centre to hear and care-

fullv weigh that-explanation, and, if satisfied witli-it, to put it in a favorable light fieforo the public. Mr. B. R Day, with his backer (Mr. Rufe Naylor), were then shown in, and the president said that it' had been suggested “<-in certain quarters that the 440yds had been run very: slow. Ho asked Mr. Day to "explain thh matter, as the .IThion would , not. like him to leave the country with anything to hLs detriment, t Mr. 'Day said that the faster a quarter-mile was run the better lie liked it. The buinping and-pushing complained of had occurred' owing to McDaehla.il wanting to keep -him on .the. outside, McLacldan' ih^d;; starfced [otf “quickly, the track was exception* "ally heavy,' -the wind was against him, and he. (Day) luid inn two stiff -wipes justr before; That was what made the. pace so slow. Had it been a “crook” niatclf ovens could not have been'got' ah- {Tie' fieTdr Thc odds would have, been-~D or SLo 1 bar one man. Ths 'race was run in !■...