SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 9567, 12 December 1894, Page 2

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TURF CHIT CHAT.

[By This Admiual.]

Crown Prince, who won the Flying at Gore last year, lias passed into the hands of Mr George lluthven, owner of Swivel. Claremont, Maribyrnong, and The Winchman have been entered for the principal handierps at Invercargill on BoxiDg Day. A trotting match for £IOO a side has been arranged at Hastings between the trotting stallions Morning Herald (owned by Mr Adani Mundoll) and Electioneer (the property of Mr Mangin). Scot Free, Melinite, Eoseius, and Musket are booked for an Australian invasion.

THIS AUCKLAND SUMMER MEETING,

AUCKLAND, December 12.

Roscius and the two-year-old colt Orion's Belt have arrived to take part in the A.R.C. summer meeting. Betting on the Cup is a dead letter, but there has been a good deal of wagering on the Cup and Steeplechase, Prime Warden and Bombardier being the favorite combination. CYCLING. The following are the handicaps for the Otago Cycling Club's Three-mile Roadster Handicap, to be run off to-morrow evening on the Caledonian Grounds : S. 11. Stedman scr W. Gibson ... 250 yds 11. M'Kenzie ... sc.v T. Mason ... 250 yds J. Buchanan ... 50yds S. Wright ... 2Soyds H. Cameron ... 100 yds C. Brodie ... 300 yds L. Barclay ... 150 yds J. Mnuro ... 300 yds C. Home ... 150vds G. Watts ... 300 yds C. H.Arndt ... 190 yds J. Osborne ... 300 yds W. Bess ... 190 yds H. Gibson ... 300 yds J. Muir 1110 yds J. Denniston ... 330 yds O. IMiiller ... 250 yds K. Partridge ... 350 yds A. Tliomsoii ... 250 yds 11. Wright ... 110 yds It. .lay 250 yds J. Dey 050 yds J. M'i'lice ... 250 yds J. Ferguson ... 050 yds

The following are the entries for the Dialed in Cycling Club's Road Race to Hendley on Saturday next, for three trophies, presented by Mr W. Melville :—W. Begg, J. Buchanan, L. Barclay, C. Home, R. Mackenzie, J. M'Phee, S. Wright (Otago Cycling Club), J. Greatrix, E. Boot, G. Cameron, W. Bell, J. Lethaby, S. Minn, J. Dodds, G. Tonkinson, K. Melville, W. Marshall, D. Murchison, J. Shepherd, G. Methven, A. Griffen, R. Emerson, W. R. Burgh, J. W. M'Millan (Dunedin Cycling Club).

Skirmisher has been nominated for the Wanganui Cup and Stakes. The Committee of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association have agreed to February 22 and 23 as the dates for the championship meeting at Napier. The Association's local officer at Auckland wrote stating that the North Shore Club had cautioned five of their members for suspicious running at the recent meeting. The secretory was instructed towrite to the men mentioned endorsing the local club's decision, and warning them that if they were reported again they would be dealt with severely. Goosander and Blarney have been scratched for the Wellington Cup. The Canterbury Jockey Club have received entries as follows for the under-mentioned events :—Welcome Stakes (1895), 86; Oaks Stakes (1896), 39 ; Derby Stakes (1896), 84 ; Champagne Stakes (1896), 82. The Auckland Racing Club will iocrease the added money to the Great Northern Foal Stakes from 300 to 500 sovs.

A Brisbane telegram states that the Queensland Cup was won by Battalion, with Trent second and Premier third. Ten started. Won by a length and a-half. Time, 3min 43sec. The cricket match played on the Oval yesterday between teams from the Railways and Post and Telegraph Department resulted as follows : —The Post and Telegraph scored 54 in their first innings and 14 in their second innings, making their total 68. The Railway scored 38 in their first innings and 30 for five wickets in their second (total, 68), when time was called, the match thus ending in a draw greatly in favor of Railways. Chief scores were as follow: Dobbie 19, Best 7 for Railways ; and Millar 18, James !1, Marryatt 8 for Post and Telegraph. Crawshaw, for Post and Telegraph, and Dobbie and M'Laren, for Railway, bowled well. Special mention Bhould be made of Weir's (Railway) wicket-keeping.

Entries for' the Temuka Caledonian Society's sports, to be held on Boxing Day, close on Saturday.