SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 8769, 9 March 1892, Page 1

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

THE ATHLETIC TEAM. The hitch with regard to the Home trip has been settled. At a meeting of the Committee of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, held at Christchorch laet evening, a telegram was received that Hempton and Batger agreed to the regulations drafted for the conduct of the learn. The regulation giving the manager power to regulate the trainiug of the team was amended by striking out the provision for enforcing regularity in diet and sleep. The rule for deoiding disputes on matters not provided for in the regulations was altered so as to provide that such matters shall be decided by a majority of the team, the manager to decide in the event of the voting being equal. It was reported that subscriptions were coming in freely, L 251 7s having been collected in Christchurch. Hempton's record of 9 4-ssee for 100 yds, Batger's 16eec for 120 yds hurdles, and Cocks'a 23min 16 2-Ssec for the three-mile walk were passed. T. D. Harraan was elected acting-secretary of the Association during Cuff's absence. At a sale of racing stock in Melbourne yesterday The Workman was paeced in at 775g5, the reserve beiDg l,ooogs. Tuntallon was sold to Mr Glasscock for 300gs, Reprisal to Mr Southall (of India) for 500gn, Enfila*e to Mr W. Smith for and Whakawai for 77ge. Lady Woleeley, a sister to Carbine, has been purchased by Mr Dan O'Brien for 800gs. Whiinbrel was sold privately for 400gn, and will probably go to Western Australia,

In a recent book on athletics, jointly edited by H. Vassal (ex captain of the Oxford Football Club) and C. W. Aloock (secretary of the Eoglisb Association) a good suggestion is made for overcoming tbe difficulty of securing good referees. The writers Bay :—" This difficulty has lately been met in Lancashire end Yorkshire by the creation of referee societies on cooperative principles ; that is to say, that any club that send in the names of some competent referees willing to act under the society's orders can secure an impartial referee for their own matches by applying to the secretary of the society. * The annoyance of the game at present it the incessant interruption of tbe whistle, frequently due to the incompetence of the holder of it.