SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 7250, 29 June 1887, Page 2

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

There was quite a large muster of mem, bers of the Dunedin Chess and Draughts Club last night in the Club-room, Baldwin Hotel. Fourteen have entered for the draughts handicap tournament, and play will commence shortly. The draughts match against a combined team of the Port Clialmers, Sawyers Bay, and Peninsula players comes off in the Club-room on Wednesday, the 13th prox. At the Napier steeplechase meeting yesterday, the Selling Race, of 50 sovs, one mile and a-half, was won by Rimu (10.8), with Romeo (10.8) second; the Winter Oats Handicap, of 80 sovs, one mile, by Orwell, with Salisbury second, and The Laird third; and the Hurdles, of 100 sovs, one mile and three-quarters, by Owhaoko (11.12), Erebus (10.3) being second, and Belle (10.11) third—dividend, LI 1 12s. The glove-fight between Lang, of Wangamii, and Cunningham, of Wellington, for LSO a-side and the championship, resulted in a victory for the former. A sensible rule has just been adopted by the Canterbury' Rugby Union which cannot fail to satisfy both players and spectators. Punctuality has never been a commendable |eature of football teams, and jilus season more especially there has 'been quite a marked absence of it, 4-t the Union'meeting oh Saturday evening’ a letter was read from the Sydenham Club relating to the <|ejay in the cortimencement ’of the game with the East Christchurch on June 11,' and stating the facts. Mr T. L. Smith, for East Christchurch, gave his reasons for the delay. After some discussion, it whs resolved—- “ That every match shall commence within a quarter of an hour of the time agreed upon for starting the game, and the team failing to commence play within that time may be adjudged to have lost the game.”