SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 7428, 25 January 1888, Page 2

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

ISLAND BAY RACES. The following are acceptances for the second day's racing at Island Bay tomorrow : WELTER HANDICAP. Ono milo and three furlongs. st lb Bt lb The Shah .. .. 10 2 Jim 0 0 Marlborough ..0 8 Cupid .. ..8 3 Kangaroo .. ..9 5 BTEWARDS' HANDICAP. Seven furlongs. Russley „ ..9 9 Marlborough -87 Forester .. ..9 6 Whisper .. .. 7 10 TbeSbah . ..8 11 CENTENARY HANDICAP. One mile and a quarter. Russley .. ..9 4 Marlborough ..8 2 Laurel ..8 10 Whisper.. ..7 6 Tho Shah ..8 9 Smooth .. ..6 10 Russley and Chantilly were scratched for the Stewards' Purse and Welter Handicap at the Dunedin meeting at 1.30 to-day. A Press Agency cablegram from Sydney says that there is a little more animation in the betting market over the Anniversary Handicap, the following being the latest quotations :—6 to 1 against Acme, 7 to 1 Dunlop and Cardigan, 8 to 1 Queen. Spade Guinea is quoted at 25 to 1. Considerable interest is being taken by members of the Dunedin CheßS and Draughts Club in a draughts handicap which is to be commenced shortly. Mr John Matheaon, of Hawkdun station, has presented for compe tition a very handsome board made by himself of thirty-two varieties of New Zealand woods. A detachment of twelve members of the Star Boating Club from "Wellington have arrived at Christchurch to compete at Lake Forsyth regatta on Thursday. The Club only bring one boat with them—viz,, a racing four, and they will row their other races in boats lent by the Canterbury Rowing Club. Mr Donovan, the winner of the recent sword contest, in which he defeated Captain Jennings, has received a letter from Sergeant J. C. Meats, late of the 2nd Dragoon Guards, challenging him to a mounted sword contest for LIOO aside and the championship of the world, the fight to take place in Sydney or Melbourne. The challenge has been accepted. A special telegram to the ' Lyttelton Times says:—"Butler's win in the Island Bay Cup was very popular, although had Little Scrub got away it is generally thought he would have won. He would have paid a great dividend. Just prior to the Cup, Nat '<

Nathan was expelled from the paddock for laying totalisator prices, but, being readmitted, he planked L3O on the totalisator on Marlborough for the Anniversary Handicap, and, Marlborough getting beaten, Nathan served the Club with a notice to return his L3O. Nathan informs me he is fully determined to carry the matter through, and as there have been two verdicts already given on the point, there it little doiibt that the Island Bay Racing Club will have to refund the money." Mr T. Dwyer, of Lawrence, has purchased Camerine from Mr Walker. The • Tuapeka Times' is responsible for the following :—" One notable feature of the race meeting which closed here on Saturday was the crowd of thorough-paced rogues and sharpers which they attracted. If there are many more idle rogues in New Zealand than we had the honor of sheltering in our little town last week, we can only conclude that the Colony is in a very bad state. There must have been, at a very reasonable computation, fully 100 professional vagabonds on the racecourse on Saturday, all making money, we doubt not, somehow. Each one seemed to have a distinct device of Mb own of swindling the public; and certainly those of the public who patronised them honestly deserved to be swindled. One yokel complained that he had been eased of LS by a pleasant old gentleman whose stock-in-trade consisted of three cards and a gin case. There were one or two winners of halfcrown sweeps who, we understand, are still lying out of their money; and a very respectable looking young man had to be threatened with a kicking before he could be prevailed upon to disgorge some few halfcrowns with which He had been entrusted. A larger crowd of blacklegs we have never seen together, and we hope never Will again." _ __