SPORTING NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 194, 18 August 1890, Page 4

SPORTING NEWS.

In the advertisement of the Auckland Trobbing Club's Summer Meeting, published on Saturday, the dabes of nomination were omitted. Entries for, the principal events of bhe firsb and second days close on Friday, sth December. We learn from a private letter that Mr'T./B.: Merry lost one of the Australian thoroughbreds that he took with him,'to San Francisco. This was the mare :hy Goidsbrough—Queen's. Head, wlio succumbed to lung fever.. The old boys of Christ's College (Canterbury), now in the Old Country, hold a dinner annually in' London. This yoar •''■■■ ifo was held on July I, the Rev. H. ,H. Mabbhias occupying the chair. Mr A. H. Williams, M.8., was elecbed Secrebary for the year. During the year Mr W. H. Montgomery, one of the "boys," Won the first position in bhe firsb class in bhe Honor School of Jurisprudence at Oxford. In athletics Mr G. E. Rhodes has been president of the Brassenbse College Boat Club. Mr H. R. Bloonifield, of Auckland (an old Auckland College boy) rowed in the Trinity Hall/eight, which was head of the river ab Cambridge bhis year; and he and Mr Lord, an Australian, won the Challenge Sculls in. the i'riniby Hall races. Mr Percy 0. Williams (anobher Auckland boy) : has played twice as a football representative for Cambridge against Oxford. ; ;.;'