TROTTING BREVITIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 22

TROTTING BREVITIES

Gallant Knight, Lucky Jack, and Pot Luck are the nominal favourites for the Ashburton King George Handicap. Although it is two years this month since Te Kahu won, he has been three ■times second in his last four starts. Recent winners in Australia include the" New Zealand-bred Marion Axworthy, by Travis Axworthy—Monica Galindo, and Pendant, by Native King —Belle Logan. , At the Wayville (Adelaide) Meeting on May 22, Red Bee, winner of the President's Handicap, paid more than £40 on the win machine for each two shillings invested.If all the talk about Red Pigeon is correct, Indianapolis will have to look to his laurels. But this Adioo Guy Gelding, who certainly won well at Forbury, was nevertheless very lucky to beat Bill B. Two of J. T. Pauls horses to lose their novice status recently were Bold Venture and Lady Bunker, but Eyre is still on the limit of the slowest classes. The last-named is a shapely young mare by Great Parnsh from Great Eyre, dam of the good trotters Great Admiral and Golden Eagle, and the two-year-old Axminster. When Royal Jewel won his flrst race 16 months ago in 3min 24sec off 3mm 43sec, it was expected that he would make a rapid rise. However, it was not until this year's February fixture that he scored again, and on a dead track he ran only 3min 30sec. Having his first outing for I. R. Morrison, he ran a creditable-race under conditions that did not suit him. Morrison's other charge, Proletarian, who has not been in a place since winning the Wairarapa Cup, has not been bustled With the conclusion of the Canterbury Park and Ashburton Club's trotting meetings within the next few days, the light-harness season will come to an end in the South Island, and the only interest for sportsmen will centre in trotting events on racing club programmes. The first will be the Ashburton County Racing Club's Meeting on June 26, and the club has allotted a stake of £110 to the Lyndhurst Trot Handicap, a 3min 43sec class race, of a mile and a half, and £122 j to the Winchmore Handicap, 3min 38sec. one mile and a half.

Walker will be wrestling under the control" ol the new organisation. Walker-has done very little wrestling during the past two or three years, but has repeatedly indicated that he was prepared to maintain his active connection with the game if he could do so outside the control of the union. With this end in view he has been keeping himself fit and his preparations for this season's work included a period in a secluded' training camp. Walker has only to show that his form is as good as ever for him to win back the large following he commanded in the past and there are many who would be pleased to see him raise himself to his previous eminence. Ted Thye brought the information that Ed "Strangler" Lewis will be leaving America on'a Pacific Ocean voyage on June 22. Lewis, whose first wife died two or three years ago, recently married again ; and he is spending a honeymoon in which much attention will be paid to his business— -wrestling. After spending a couple of weeks at Honolulu he and his wife will. come on to New Zealand, where he will have a series of matches, and Thye has stated that he will not confine his matches to the union's men if others are willing to enter the ring against him. From here he will go to Australia and thence, in due course, to India, where he has some important matches in . view, notably against the Great Gama. ARRIVAL OF COX. "King Kong" Cox is a professional wrestler of about seven years' standing and, in private life, is a grape farmer in the famous Lodi Valley, California. He is 29 years old, about sft llin in height, and weighs 16st 81b. He will open his tour against John Spellman at Auckland on Monday night. Thye expects that, unless Cox's tactics are curbed too much by the New Zealand authorities, he will prove an exceptionally hard man to beat and, in support of his assertion, points to Cox's victories against the German strong man, Hans Steinke, and also against Dr. Carl Sarpolis, Howard Cantonwine, and Jaget Singh (among others). Cox also held Dick Shikat to a draw in a world title bout. It is expected that "Jumping Joe" Savoldi and Glenn Wade will be back again from Australia shortly, while Chief Little Wolf is on his way from America from where Earl McCready will sail early next week. The time is also drawing near for Dean Detton s visit.

terweight i title. The other bout will be between Stan Smith, whose fights with Glengarry at Petone aroused great enthusiasm, and Henry Dunn, the Moera lightweight, who has not yet been beaten in a professional bout. Each of these contests will be-over ten three-minute rounds and can be relied upon to provide plenty of fast action. EXCELLENT FIGHT. The bout between Gildo and Raynet is generally regarded as one of the best fights seen locally, at least for some years. While Rayner is to be applauded for his courage, and the ilianner in which he kept coming in to his opponent, the real star in the. piece was, of course, Gildo.' The tactic 3 adopted by Rayner suited him right down to the ground, but all his work was of the highest order. The fact that Gildo was unable to terminate the proceedings sooner was due to the fact that he injured his right hand on Rayner's head in the sixth round, and, -as this was the weapon that did most of the damage, the handicap was a serious one. The injury was actually a recurrence of an old trouble, but no bones were. broken, and GTldo has no doubt that his hand will soon be in proper work : ing order again, tfhere is a possibility, however, that he will be unable to go through with his return bout with Billy Aitken at Hamilton next Thursday. If that fight is put back, then Gildo's appearance against Hall in Wellington will also probably have to be kept for a later date.