SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 7672, 24 July 1888, Page 2

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Our Wellington correspondent hears that M'Causland will captain the Native team at Dunedin on Saturday. The New Zealand dogs John Drumm and Rhodanthe 11. played a prominent part in the Victorian Waterloo Cup Coursing meeting, but were affected by the hard ground. In the first draw John Drumm beat Eeve d'Or, and Rhodanthe out-coureed Oughterside, and in the first tie she beat Nordenfeldt with 5t02 on him. John Drumm also won his second course. On the second day both were considerably knocked about by the hard ground. Unfortunately they were pitted against each other, and John Drumm had to go down. With 2to 1 and 5t02 on Rhodanthe she succumbed to The Giaour, who eventually was runner up to the winner Lincoln. The ( Argus' states that all things considered the New Zealand division made a bold bid for the chief coursing prize of Australia, and neither Rhodanthe 11. nor John Drumm were disgraced. The Chess-players' Society at Christchurch is much stronger than the local club. Its members are divided, according to merit, into ten classes, players in one class giving a handicap (ranging from a pawn and move to a queen) to those below. To advance a class one has to win fourteen out of twentyone games in a " status tourney." A gentleman now residing in Christchurch, and who more than once has taken part in representative matches in Otago, has been placed in the third class. The handicap he receives from a first class man is two moves and a pawn (the K B's usually). In accordance with a request from five leading Yorkshire clubs, the Rugby Football Union called a general meeting to discuss the case of J. P. Clowes, with a viewto his reinstatement as an amateur. Captain Bell, president of the Halifax Football Club, moved a resolution that the resolution of March 7, whioh declared Clowes a professional, should be rescinded. After a lengthy discussion Captain Bell's resolution was put, but only received 6 votes out of a very large gathering, the motion being lost by an overwhelming majority. In answer to a question, Mr Rowland Hill, the hon. secretary of the Union, stated that in accordance with a resolution passed the other members of the team now in the colonies will, on their return, be asked to explain the terms upon which they had undertaken the trip.