SPORTING.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1374, 27 August 1895, Page 5

SPORTING.

i!Mr E. M'Nulty is going to start working Danluce again after his long spell. This pony, when well, is a clever little fellow over a short course, and he now has the honor of holding the up-country record for six furlongs, the official timekeeper of the Lake County .lockey Club having credited him with carving out that distance in lmiu 16£aec in January last. There are one or two disappointments reported re the restriction of the Cromwell Derby to the three, counties. Mr J. Glare purchased a two-year-old by Artillery—lrene in Duhedin last year, and we hear that Mr T. M'Kay has a three-year-old by Wolverine at Albertown, both of these old sports, no doubt, having the Derby in view when they made these aristocratic purchases. Mr J. Flyna took a long shot about his colt's chance for the Derby recently, one bookie having laid him 15 to 1. This horse is small, but, as one old gentleman put it last week, he looks like one of those that will be going .when the majority of the others will be "turning it up" on coming near the end of the Derby distance. "What constitutes a 'hack'?" is a question we had asked us last week while conversing on thß Tradesmen's programme. On reviewing this liberal bill-of-fare more closely, we notice that there are two "hack" races and three handicaps, but, as there is nothing set down in the regulations as to the definition of a "hack," we presume that these are all open events. If this is an oversight on the part of the committee who drew up the programme, we would recommend its rectification, as it would almost be impossible for a handicapper to classify some of the up-country "hacks" with horses competing in the handicaps. We notice in the Weekly J'ress that Mr R. Cotter of Arrow, has purchased Ulster, the horse that ran third in the Ladies' Biacelet at the Chiistohurch Grand National meeting, the price being L4O. We hear that considerable excitement prevails at the Bouthern portion of this county over the forthcoming tng-of-war between teams representing Matakanui and Alexandra respectively, which is' to be decided at the latter place on Saturday first. the Alexandra boys have been training vigorously, aad are fairly sanguine of their chance. A large amount of betting is taking plane over the event, even money being the obtainable price. The President of the Wellington ~ Trotting Club (.vJr Crawford) has devised • a svstem to prevent the "ringing in" of trotters. He proposes to brand maiden trotters by tattooing the gums of the teeth. A registered code ot marks would be kept, and would thus make a clear identification of the horse. The system v would be comparatively painless as against fire branding, and any tampering with brands would render the horse liable to disqualification for life. Mr Mendelson (says a London correspondent), the New Zealand athlete, has once more covered himself with glory by winning the odd event of the recent Inter-University Athletic Sports for Cambridge. He covered 22ft s£in in the long jump, beating Fry, the celebrated Oxford jumper. His college, and indeed the whole University, was wild with enthusiasm, as this success gave the victory of the whole affair to Cambridge. Mendelson evidently concealed his full powers to the last moment, but put out his force in the final jump, and then ran off the field laughing, amid uproarious applause.