SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

Evening Star, Issue 12870, 20 July 1906, Page 4

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

A VETERAN CRICKETER. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, July 19. (Received July 20, at 11.11 a.m.) Playing in the match Gentlemen against Players, Mr W. G. Grace scored 74 on theoccasion of his fifty-eighth birthday. SWIMMING FEAT ABANDONED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 19. (Received July 20, at 11.11 a.m.) Wolff abandoned his attempt to swim the English Channel after being in Hie water for ten hours. THE LATEST RACING SWINDLE. A TELEPHONE~BOY BRD3ED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, July 20. (Received July 20, at 9.17 a.m.) A telephone boy who sent a message from the Flemington racecourse on Saturday altered the Footscrav Steeplechase winner from Error to Bluejacket. A number of the " tote" shops paid bets on the supposed winner. The boy confessed that a man, formerly employed in the Postal Department, had induced him to send the wrong name, promising him £2O. When he met the man to receive the money he was told that somebody liad made trouble, and he could not have it. THE RACECOURSE TRAGEDY. MELBOURNE, July 19. Another man, named Howitt, has been arrested in connection with the murd r of M'Leod, who was kicked to death at Flemington owing to his alleged attempt at welshing. HARRIERST"" The following clubs hold runs to-mor-row : Dunedin will be the guests of Mr J. B. Callan, Leven street, Roslyn. Dunedin Anglican run from the St. Glair School. St. Joseph's will be the guests of Mr J. B. Callan, Roslyn. Y.M.C.A., with the Port Chalmers as their gueris, will run from the Albany street School Gymnasium. Southern Bible Class w3l run over the inter-club course at Wingotui. Civil Service will run from Wingatui. OaverKham will hold their annual Vicepresident's Cross-country Handicap, distance four miles, to be run at the Cliffs, St Clair. The following are the handicaps:— M'Knightt lmin 15& ec behind scratch, Beatson scratch,* Allen 10 seconds. Dray 20, Lindsay 25, Bourke 30, Spence 30, Me© 35. Stewart 35. White 40, Pearce 45, O'Connor 50, Frew 55, Miller 60, Westwood 60. Seofield 65, Hooper 65, Connor 70, M'Kechnie 90, Taylor 105, Mackay 120. HOCKEY. The Gymnastic Club will play a match" A Team v. No. 1 Team at Forbury. The followinp; teams will represent the Dunedin Club at Forbury Park:—Whites: Dr Williams, Howden, Boyd, Fisher, Drake, Falk, Roberts, Shennan, Fenwick, and Baldry. Colors: O'Beirne, Birch, Hooper, Coates, Ferguson,, Duncan, Gow, Styche, Norman, and Kellman. FOOTBALL. Zingari lE. v. Pirates, at Montecillo.— Zingari: Cavanagh, Jones, Hood, Davie*, Fletcher, Whittaker, Wilson, Thorn, Brown, M'Guffog, Kleeber, Stirling, Guthrie,Young' O. Turnbull; emergencies—Morrison, Paton, J. Turnbull. [lß] Zingari IY. v. Du&edin A, at Forbury No. 6.—Zingari: Morrison. M'Neill, Mljauchlin, Fox, Pelloe, Breese, Clarke, G. Anderson, M'Donald, M'Lauohlin, Pollock, Tansey. Plum, Caradus, M'Donald; emergency, D. Anderson. [l9] A Melbourne cable states that Windy goes to India, but will be raced in Melbourne first.