FIELD SPORTS AND AQUATICS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 193, 22 August 1885, Page 4

FIELD SPORTS AND AQUATICS.

(BY ACTION.)

Rpoffurfh has intimated that ho does noi intend joining Iho next Australian Eleven.

•I. L. Sullivan nnd Jack Burke wer^ to box four rounds at tho Chicago Driving IVk on Juno I'J.

It i-< *t*ted that tho celebrated cyclist Hon. J, Keith Falconor intends going out to China «a a missionary.

Wallace Rojs is again cogor to try his skill .it rowing, and ban ipsuod a chaliam*o to row Ohas. E. Courtney for .€2OO c. side."

Tho Canadian Argonaut four-oared crow were defeated by tho Cambridge! crow easily, in London, on July 2.

Playing f»r Horshnin against Froo Forest ars on Juno 13, F. M. Lucas made 11!) and M. P. Lucns 103 out of a totnl of 4IU.

Mr Slciyh.of Dunodin,loaves for tho Old Country aflor tho Intorprovincial match in August. Footballers ami many othors throughout tho whole colony will regret his locs.

Thus fays tho "Now York Clipper":— " Tho Australians could hardly Imvo treatod Edward ITanlnn bettor tlinn they cKd had ho omo out winner of his matches with Beicb."

Daniol O'Loary, the cx-c!mmpion longdistance pedestrian of tho world, is attracting largo crowds by walking fair hool andtoo against, roller skaters in tho various rinks throughout tha Unitod States. Tho match between Surrey and Essex ended in an oasy victory for tho former by an innings and 147 runs. W. W. Road, not out, '214, was at tho wickets for four hours find lifty-fivo minutes, while 345 runs woro mado.

Tho result of tho meeting at Buffalo on June IS botween Edward Hanlan and John Teenier was tho signing of articles of agreement to roiv a pories of five races, for HOOdols a sido oach, with tho privilege of increasing tho stakes to l,ooodols a-sido. Scott's backora havo sent £100 to Sir J. D. Astley with tho request that ho will endeavour to linda man in tho United Kingdom to meet Scott in a twolvo or twenty-four hours' walk for £500 each match.

Captain Richard Brown, a veteran Sandy Hook pilot and sailing master of tho yacht America when .she won tho Royal Vaclit Squadron Cup In English waters in the suinmor ol 1 Sol,died on Juno 18th athis residence, in Brooklyn, N.Y., aged 72 years.

A San Pranoieco papor nays :—"Hanlan h.19 invented a new stylo of metal shoes with which to walk on the water. Some years pince, a man walked across tho East River from New York to Brooklyn by means of eomo fucb device ; but it was found that if by chanco ho capsized, thoro waa no show of riuhting himself-" Tho .supporters of Hearn, tho champion Fcullor of Kow Zealand, placo bo much confidence in tho ability of their man that they have forwarded a cablegram to Sydney challenging anyono in Australia, exenpt Beich, to row him for £'200 a side. Tho message stipulate? that any match that may bo arranged must como off in Kew Zealand within throe months.

While rowing on Toronto Bay, on Juno 18, llanlan'n boat, a purchase from Tricltett, ;ho Australian oarsman, broke in two when 10 was tlneo quarters of a milo from Rhoro,

A'< there was not enough loft of thu craft, to cling to, Ifjwilan swam until ho was nearly exhausted, when, fortunately, ho was picked up by some sailors on v sdioonor and taken ashore.

E. Donovan, tho well-known Aucl*^ light-weight boxer, has issued a din \» jj." offering to box W. Burcombe, of ( church" for l'sO or £100 a-aido. c l Ins accepted tho challenffo, and will ''"• _ D jnovan in a fight to a finish, in a a, fortnight's time, for .C23a sidD, tho # ""« to take 75 per oont and tlio loser P I lcr cont of tho gate money. rwland Notts suceeedo,! in defeating nn Wg»« team by an innings and 14 runs. ll™ • very creditable porformanco, con^""h the county representative, wore »PP°by such players as Ulyctt, Hall, l' ' Date- Bri""--- Peel, Chri.^P 1C : 0"' OV to en C U\ bright, ami B^'f ' BarnoTwa, the mo,t>o C eß,ful bof°* J« Notts, taking nine wickets for ' J, rli i against a good batting team on hiiru> m' wickets.