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The foregoing are only a few of the many events in which
Blackheath Harriers have achieved distinction, but a
glance through the list of Challenge Cup Holders will
reveal the names of manv sportsmen who have carried
the Club colours to the front and who have worthily
upheld what the late Vice-President C. Val Hunter always
referred to as the" purity of sport."
In the Cross-country Championships the Club's per-
formances have been consistent rather than notable and
neither the" Southern" nor "National" has yet been
won. There was, however, a good deal in the remark of
an unknown spectator who, as the tail of the Club's team
closed in one year in the Southern Championship, was Q_
heard to say: ':, They may be a long way behind, but they
are sportsmen.
All down the years the Club has engaged in a long series
of sporting events and social functions which have been
productive of much good fellowship and real enjoyment
amongst those who have taken part in them. Its members
can, without immodesty, say that they are proud' of the
past and full of hope for the future, for it is beyond question
that the position occupied by the Club-in both the Social
and Sporting spheres-will be maintained as long as its
mem bers continue to devote their energies to the promotiorl
and encouragement of that fraternal feeling which origin-
ated with its inception and which has ever since been a
feature of its existence.
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li
The foregoing are only a few of the many events in which
Blackheath Harriers have achieved distinction, but a
glance through the list of Challenge Cup Holders will
reveal the names of manv sportsmen who have carried
the Club colours to the front and who have worthily
upheld what the late Vice-President C. Val Hunter always
referred to as the" purity of sport."
In the Cross-country Championships the Club's per-
formances have been consistent rather than notable and
neither the" Southern" nor "National" has yet been
won. There was, however, a good deal in the remark of
an unknown spectator who, as the tail of the Club's team
closed in one year in the Southern Championship, was Q_
heard to say: ':, They may be a long way behind, but they
are sportsmen.
All down the years the Club has engaged in a long series
of sporting events and social functions which have been
productive of much good fellowship and real enjoyment
amongst those who have taken part in them. Its members
can, without immodesty, say that they are proud' of the
past and full of hope for the future, for it is beyond question
that the position occupied by the Club-in both the Social
and Sporting spheres-will be maintained as long as its
mem bers continue to devote their energies to the promotiorl
and encouragement of that fraternal feeling which origin-
ated with its inception and which has ever since been a
feature of its existence.
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