SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 7290, 15 August 1887, Page 2

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

» The Timaru Racjng Club have decided not to amalgamate at present with the S.C. J.C. The Auckland Racing Club have reappointed Mr Evett handicapper on the understanding that his handicaps pass through the hands of the Committee before being lßßuejJ. This step was taken on the recom" : inendation of owners of racehorses. Remarking on the second day's play in the first of the Marylebone Club's centenary matches M.C.C. and Ground v. England-T'tije 'Sporting Life' of June l£j says:—" The chief interest in the day's cricket centred in the batting of 4. E. Stoddart and Shrewsbury, who. had cqmmenced the England innings on Monday afternoon, and at the drawing of the stumps had made 196 runs without either batsman losing his wicket, yesterday they kept together for nearly an hour and a-half, their partnership, which had lasted altogether three hours and forty minutes, having produced the enormous number of 266 runs. Stoddart was missed when he had made; 13, and appeared to give another ohanoe |when his score was 126, while Shrewsbury might possibly have been taken at the .wioket when he had scored 87. Apart from these blemishes—and the fieldsmen > had considerable excuse ip not bringing off the ; phances-rtlio performance wa3 ?a inost remarkable one, and reflected immense credit upon the two hatsmen concerned. The number of runs obtained for the first wioket was, we believe, within 17 of: the record—2B? made by W. 6. Grace and B. B. Cooper, at Bennington Oval, in 1869, for Gentleman of the South v. Players of the South. Stoddart's innings of Jsl was a grand display of free cricket, and it Included^nineteen fours, five threes, and ten twos. He had never previously nlayed an 1 innings of three figures In a good match at Lord's, Shrewsbury, who suoceed in heading Stoddart's fine soore by a single run, was at the wiokets for five houj-9 and a quarter. The famous Notts professional has played, so many great tantngs in his time that It will be unnecessary to; describe his play In detail. Suffice it to say that be wai seen at his best, and those who have teen him bat will readily understand how his cricket delighted the spectators. He stayed in until the total reaohed 390, and In his grand innings of 162 were afteen fours, eleven threes, ana eleven twos."