SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 6761, 28 November 1884, Page 4

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

WELLINGTON SPRING MEETING. The following events were decided yesterday : Wellington Jockey Club Handicap, of 200 sovb. One mile and a-half. Black Rose .. .. .. - 1 Leonora .. .. .. ..2 Ugly Buck 3 Administrator, Bayard, Refrigerator, and Normanby also ran. After some little trouble the horses were sent away to a somewhat indifferent start, of which Ugly Buck had the best and Administrator all the worst. Derritt, with Ugly Buck, held a leading position, and came past the stand with Bayard and Leonora in close attendance. Black Rose, pulling, was leading the second division. At the bottom turn Bayard improved his position, but could not pass Ugly Buck. Going along the western stretch Black Rose was let out, and was quickly alongside the leaders, Administrator helplessly in the rear. Nearing the straight Black Rose assumed the lead ; and although Leonora and Ugly Buck fought hard to catch the winner of the Christchurch Derby they failed, and Sutherland won hands down with Black Rose by two lengths, Ugly Buck a fair third. The others were nowhere. Time, 2min 45*ec. Dividends, L 3 12b and L 3 lis.

Island Bat Handicap, of 80 sovs. One mile. Speculation (late Hippodamia) .. .. 1 Consul _ ..2 Mata 3 Armorer and Putangitangi also ran. After an exciting struggle with Codbul, Speculation won by a length, the o'd horse being two lengths away. Time, lmin 47sec. Dividends, L 3 5b and L 4 ss. * Tramway Plate, of 40 sovs. Three-quarters of a-mile. For all beaten horses. This was won by Witiora (7st 121b), beating Normanby, Laurel, Barbary, Dynamite, and Lady Albany. Time, lmin Dividend, L2 3b. L 4,000 passed through the totalisators during the day.

CRICKET. The Cariabrook won the match played yesterday afternoon against the Pirates Football Club by 87 runs, the scores being 152 and 65 respectively, For the Cariabrook Mallard made 46 in good style, Dixon 29, T. Austin 16, Rose 11, and H. W. Raitt 10 ; F. Smith obtaining four wickets for 25 runs. For the Pirates (who batted one man short), E. Bowler was the highest scorer with a well-played 22, Drabble (20) being the only other to reach double figures. Cooke obtained seven wickets for 23 runs. The Southern Club had an easy victory over the Alberts First. Scores : Southern, 28 and 71 for two wickets (Buchan 19, Prentice 22 not out, C. Home 19 not out); Alberts, 17 and 71. Carroll obtained eight wickets for 3 runs in the first innings, and eight for 17 in the second. The Southern Second defeated the Union First by 30 run?, On the Oval the Warehousemen and Dunedin Woodware Company played a match. Scores: Woodware Company, 109 (Larnach 27, Fleming 31, L. Harris 13) ; Warehousemen, 85 (Harraway 22, North 19, Hadfield 12). There is a disease well known in the hospitals as "housemaid's knee," brought on by too much contact of the knees with hard substances in washing, scrubbing, dusting, and the like. A new development of the disease, which merits the speoial attention of cricketers, is reported from Nottingham, where William Ofnroft, the famous professional, is in danger of losing one or both of his legs. Oacroft, whose cricketing days ended a few years ago through ill-health, was out leg-before-wicket perhaps oftener than any other well-known player of his generation, and the result of much contaot of the haid cricket ball with his leg has been to reveal a serious disease. Messrs W. G. Grace and A. G. Steel, and other celebrated cricketers, whose besetting sin is to place their legs where the bat ought to be, should take a warning from the case of Oacroft, and beware of " crioketer'B calf."