MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 218, 15 September 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

MISCELLANEOUS.

In San! Francisco, on June 9th, V. E. ; Sbhifierstein coverea ;i23ft. 2Jiiu..: in" a running long jump. JThe correspondent of the " Manhattan Athletic Club Chronicle" say% he could have - undoubtedly beaten the American record, but he, waoted to save himself for the. 100 yds run, which he. ran third.in, after beiny booked, in lCsee. He won: his he'sit in time variously; taken as 9|sec.,, 9 4-ssec., J) 4-ssecs., and lOsec. He must be a "rinper " for an amateur. . - • The Hawke's Bay Anjateiir Athletic Clup have decided to hold their next .meeting,On October 6th. the'prbgramme will include the-100yds Amateur Championship of New Zealand. ,H: £V Boyle, the Australian cricketer, says that Turner is their best all-round, man, aiid does not think, he has ever^eeh. a finer bit of batting tHan'MoDoniiell 8.0.4 against the North of England., He has not the slightest doubt' that W. G. Grace., is the best all-round cricketer there is.". but ' "for batting on allsorts ot wickets, Arthur Shrewsbury is as" gobd:"aß anybody; Wdeeci; on a; bad ;wicket, he,.- wpuld call him" the finest batsman in the world.,. Boyle' would giVethel "old main l" tile .preference over W. W. Read ; "in fact, he^s a better bafc all over, and from every point ot :vlewv" ''; ;L ' ' ■ ;'j