MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 147, 22 June 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

MISCELLANEOUS.

I have heard of three persons who intend having each a four-ton yacht built, and they are all to beat the Manola, so we can expect to see some good racing next season. The Maratea and Tawera have been hauled up for the winter at the North Shore. . •'•__! John L. Sullivan has at last made a match for 2,000 dollars and the .championship of the world. His opponent is the plucky Jake Kilrain, whom I think the big Yankee will find a hard nut to crack. ' V. E. Schrfferstein, the Californian broad jumper, who recently did some excellent performances in the jumping line, states that he wore the heaviest shoes he had, and recommends a stiff shoe to all broaq jumpers. Speaking of Jupp, the veteran cricketer, whose death was lately recorded, a writer in "Spotting Life" says:—Jupp's was a hard wicket to capture. When fairly cc . he—well, let me have the line in by thfi head and shoulders—" stood four square tC all the winds that blew." Once upon . time, though, an artful bowler of lobs, by name E. M. Grace, took his wicket. Such a ball had probably never been bowled before in a first-class match, and probably; not another like it since. Mr Grace, " bowled " it very high, as for the purpose: of giving the wicket-keeper a ball to gently] catch, against all the rules ot the gam 6 * without the intervention of bat or bails.; She rose like a bird and dropped like the stick of a rocket upon the wicket, and poor Jupp was oub. He was angry; he said it was nob crickeb; he reburned bo the dress-ing-room in palpable " temper;" tat—M was out. Jupp was in every way a cremo to the cricket field and the class to whicn he belonged. How many members of me team to which he was attached are Hying. Lockyer, Griffith, Southerton, Mortlock, Humphrey —bub why search the record further 2 Jupp joins the majority. .

« One would think that you lawyers wei4 wedded to one another, so closely do you stick together," remarked an i» d ignano Home Ruler to a legal Inminary who, camp» under the banner of Mr Gladsbone, « Wedded ! not a bib of it," wa| ss ; <PW'