RACING IN FRANCS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1456, 11 October 1879, Page 19

RACING IN FRANCS.

August 4th.

CAEN.

Grand BaistLi?gbr T>e Fkakcr, rf 20 soys p*ch. h ft, and 4 only if declared wui 480 R'lded, frthre«year olds ; c >lt« 8-t 91b, fi'lies Bst 6'b ; ext a ; second leceived 4Q s^-s "ut af the en'rie*. On« milewsveu farlonga. V 0 subsctibers, 60 ot whom declur* d Baro 1 d« KotfcKihiks'H b cComtn»ndaut, by L" PftU, Caporal-Mnrcello B'tOlh .. (Wolfed 1 Count, do L&Erauttfe's Israafi. Bst 9'b (W. MM 'onald) 2 M. Lupiu'a Yicnemile E^t »lb ..(H'dfon) S Ciwndde La«r»nge** !1 l^»io 11. , 8«'«9lb ..(Wh«el--r) 0 M- Bouy's Fnt.lo-iie, Bstdlb •■ ..(G. wills) 0

Bdttißg: 5 to 2 on Kavio 11., 8 to 1 apat Tsmael, 10 to 1 easb. agss Commandant, and Yigaemale, and 20 io 1 agst Probleme.

Flavio attended by Probleme, made play, followed by Vignemale, Ismael, and Commandant until a furlong from borne, when tha favourite hung out signals of distress, ani Ismael closed up with Commandant an<& Vignemale, the lead being taken by Ismael aft the distance, but Commaudant came in with a. wet sail, and won on the post by a head, six lengths separating the second and third, with Flavio and Probleme pulling up.

Mr John Conway has written to the Sydney Morning Herald with regard to the resolution, agreed to by the Cricket Association m. Sydney, disapproving of his proposal that thtt next Australian team should be bound not to play in an intercolonial match. He states : — " If an antipodean team is ones more to visit England, I am of opinion that for the success of the visit they phould not be asked to plajr in the intercolonial matches. The unity of purpose, the machine-like regularity winch marked the play of the Australians during their English trip, can be mainly ascribed to the preliminary- practicing tour of four months which the Eleven went through in - the Colonies aud New Zealand. This system >wa& found to work admirably in the organisation of the last team, and on no occasion during our many contests and. travels did. th* question of Victoria or New South Wales arise.. The men all worked together for the tioiioue and glory of Australia." As to the .' de* sire expressed by the leading Sydney papers that the team should be selected by ths New South Wales and Victoria Cricket Associations^ he observes : — " I fear club interest would, dafeat the object in view, viz., the choice of> tha best men, for the appointment. of. the Mstchv Committee is not always regulated by the fitness of the candidate for the post. Club feeling, ia. Victoria at any rate, is very prominent, and iff is the opinion of many excellent judges of th« game here that the selection of the representatives of the next Australian team l>y'tb* associations would tend to create feelingH of jealoußy on the part of the clubs' in each; Ci-lony. and probably between the two statac associations." - . i The newly-elected Committee of the Otag» Cricket Association met at Mr J. S. Webb's offices on the 2nd, to appoint a Match Committee, to select players for representative matches,, and a Challenge Cup Committee, to act as handicap ocrs and arbitrators between club* playing for the Association's challenge . cup* It was resolved that as subscribing* clubs h*4 not yet teen able to send in nominations of delegates to ths Secretary, tbe election' of * match committee should be deferred till .sufS* oient time had elapsed to allow of this Being* done, when a fuller meeting could be called. For the Challenge Cup Committee, Messrs E* T. Collinson, A. H. Sbelton, and J. P. MaitlandL were elected ; and Messrs Mainland, Spring-, and the Secretary were appointed to draw upo a memorial to the City Council, calling .attention to the need of increased area for crickafe requirements.

Volunteering is a perfect mania in WeXw liogton just now. The success whioh afc* tended tbe starting of the Naval Brigadet (says oar Wellington correspondent), led to a corpa of City Guards bting formed with equally satisfactory results. One ofc the firel things, however, which the Guard* did was to fix their standard of minimanst height at five feet eight inches, which happened to exclude several members who ha& been most active and liberal in starting they corpß. They not unnaturally took umbrage at being thus left out in the cold, and pro*, ceeded forthwith to initiate another new company to be called the " Fusilier Guards/* which, I believe, is assuming a practical an<9. {>romising shape. Certainly we have no> ack of Volunteers now, if enly they witt not tire of the trouble involved. A. torpedo company also ia being orga* nised, and if judiciously managed would, be the most really useful of all plans, of defence, Bhould suoh ever be actually ra> qui'ed. The Naval Brigade, by-the-bye fc were to have been taken out for a trip in the*? Hinemoa on Saturday by Captain Fainshild\ but the broke down owing to the overworfe. she haß recently been subjected to in Sii? George Grey's electioneering, and the trig* had to be abandoned.

At a meeting of Volunteer officers %. Cbriatcburch on the 4th it was reaolve<& t^at the next revi»w of the Middle Islam?. Volunteers be held at Chrstchurch Iroaji. Friday, December 26'h, to Tuesday, 308*, in*, elusive. A cut-committee was appointed to* wait upon the president of the Licensed Viet— tuallers' Association, to obtain the coat oE billeting a thousand visitors. If the answers! prove satisfactory a collection of subscription*? will be at once commenced. The general opiuion. of the meeting wav in favour of th» review being held on the racecourse. Adepu*> tation wa^ appointed to wait on the Jockey?Clab re the terms. Major lroan is going tj>n Wellington to attend a meeting of the Ns*; Zealand Rifia Association, and was asked to*. intfrview the Minister fer Railways tsifchi respsct to giving free passes to Voluateerjfc attending the review-

It has been, decided to open the boafcitig^ season on Saturday next, the 11th instant,, with the annual procession of boats. The* following clubs have «xpr«>s9«d their intentions, of taking part therein, under ths management^ of the Otago Rowing Club :—: — Union, United Tr»'l*«innn'fl, Excelnior, Union B.B^.

Company, Telegraph, Halletuteia'a, &c.

The Dunedin Cricket Club's first nmtch for? the season will tak«i place on the Ovalou-iae*. 18<-.h inrt. It will be— First Eleven v. Nexter Eighteen, _______