SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 11152, 30 January 1900, Page 3

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

INTERCOLONIAL BOWLING,

On the Ponsonby ( Aueklan d) Green yesterday the New South Wahiß bowlera met two rinks from Devonport (Auckland), and won each game. Scores : T , . Sy ??? y : „ Devon-port. HaniKjn (skip) ... 30 Eaileton (skip) 22 l'orter (skip) 21 Harrison (skip) !.'. 19 Total 51 Total 41 In the second round Sydney scored 47 against Mount Eden's 41. In the third round Sydnoy totalled 32, and Feilding 3S. TROUT FISHING. '" Our Winchester correspondent writes ai follows:—Fly fishing has been confined to local streams, where visitors at short intervals secured small baskets of trout, averaging SJlb. Messrs Twigg and Sugden, of Geraldine, brought in thirteen, weighing 601b, from the Opihi, the largest lljjlb; while two local fishermen spending the 23;.h at the Rangltata landed a few fine fish, tSo heavy weights being 91b, 12Jlb, aqd 15.Ub. The river is clear ac the moment. Fjsrfermen from other parts have also taken some large fish from this water. Langdon's register for the week shows sixty-nineVfish, equal to 1471b. A Wellington telegram says :— *' Playing for Midland against Phceaix, C. Hickeon scored 115; and for Wellington v. Old Boys his brother made 96." Seven thousand persons attended the opening day of the Takapuna summer meeting yesterday, and the Bum of £9,092 was put through the totaliaator. The winners were: Handicap Maiden Plate, Brigham Voung (£32 9s); Calliope Handicap, Aleger (£3 19i) ; Zealandia Handicap. Tolstoi (£3 10s); Cup, Doctor (£6 8<) ; Ha.k, Cadiz (£4 2s) ; Hack Hurdles, Favona (£2 17s); Pony, Trooper (£6 sj) ; Stewards', Tolstoi (£5). In the first of the three matches between the Sydney-owned White Wings and the Auckland yacht Rainbow the former won by 40sec. In the intercolonial match Victoria v. New South Wales, now being played at Sydney, the latter in their second venture have made 232 for six wiokets (Trumper 41, Iredale 54, Noble not out 97). The annual meeting of the Otago Rugby Football Union will be held on March 24. Messrs G&llaway and Hutchison have definitely eecided to relinquish the offices of president and secretary respectively. A New Plymouth wire says that the acceptances for the Taranaki Cud, one mile and a-half, are: Boreas 10.0, Coronet 88, BattleaxeS 6, Wairongomai 7.9, Wilson 7 3 Lasting 6.10, St. Jack 67. Seahorse was shipped to Sydney to-day by the Mararoa to fulfil his V.R.C. engagements. So says an Auckland telegram. The Grocers and Drapers meet on the North Ground ti •morrow : Giocers : Gollar, Roscoe, Ogg, Irvine.Dreaver, Gallaway, Tavlor, Barrow, Robertson, Black, Wilson. Drapers: Glasse, Bolt (captain), M'Hutaheon (2), Wilson, Read, Cromhie, M'Ready, Ahlfeld, Smith, Barnett; emergencies, C. Stewart, Sinclair, S. Gregory. WELLINGTON, January 30. The chief amounts paid over the Wellington Club'a late summer meeting are : E. Cutts, £579 10s (including the valne of the cup); D. Gordon, £555 15s; Sir George Clifford, £4OB 10a ; K. J. Watt, £313 lol; Captain Rusaell. £247 ; S. Solomon, £285 ; W. Rohinaon, £261 s<; Hon. J. D. Ormond, £95 ; P. Tancred, £B7 10s ; E. V. Collello, £BO 15s ; Danes, £76 ; L. D. Nathan, £76. Smaller amounts raise the total to £3,282 5;.