SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 7505, 25 April 1888, Page 2

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

A meeting of the Caledonian Bowling Club was held last night, when it was resolved that the closing match of the season, between the Old Duffers and Young Buffers, be played on Saturday, May 5, and that the green be then closed to allow the caretaker to make improvements and alterations. It was also agreed that the green be closed for bowling on Saturday afternoon, owing to the football match between the English team and the local players ; at any rate until that game is concluded. The protest against Dudu in the District Race at the last Wanganui meeting was considered by the stewards of the Wanganui J.C. on Saturday night and disallowed. A reference to the Dudu disqualification correspondence was read, which showed that it is questionable whether Tattersall's ever sanctioned that Keith was a defaulter. Their secretary said he had registered a letter, but a search of the registry at the Post Office shows this is not correct, and the Dunedin Club have also written to Tattersall's to say that they had no communication respecting Keith, and would have received his entries in good faith. The boxing match between Slavin and Liing at Wanganui to-day was won by the Australian boxer in six rounds after a wellcontested fight. Laing took his punishment well, and up to the third round was considered to have the best of it.

At the third day's Lent eight-oared races on February 25, Mr E. S. Campbell, of Clare College, was killed while engaged in the contests. The Clare boat had bumped Queen's at First Post corner, and was drawing to the bank when Trinity Hall Third came up, hotly pursued by Emmanuel, who made their bump. The Hall boat by some means ran into the Clare boat, and the bow of the Hall boat went on to the Clare boat, and, running over one of the iron riggers, caught Mr Campbell on its sharp and metal-bound prow and literally lifted him off his seat, when two of his comrades jumped into the water and managed to place him on the osier bed. He had received the blow over the region of the heart, between two ribs, and blood flowed copiously from the wound. A doctor was soon on the spot, and pronounced life to be extinct. The deceased is son of a master at Uppingham School, and was in his second year of residence at Clare College.