SPORTIHG INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 13100, 5 November 1908, Page 5

SPORTIHG INTELLIGENCE.

AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALLERS AT - HOME. Press Association—By telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 4. (Heceived November 5, at 10.20 a.m.) The Wallabies (three goals one try) defeated Northumberland and Cumberland. *iwo tries). V H C. SPRING MEETING. AN EX-NEW~ZEALANDER'3 v 7CTORY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, November 5. (Received November 5, at 1.15 p.m.) The Cnp Steeplechase, of 300 sovs, about 2m, run on Tuesday, resulted : Pilot (12.6, Cahill) 1, Player (10.5. Woodburn) 2, Findowrie (9.10, Hoyt) 3. •Seventeen started. Seymour fell at the first jump, Postboy at the second, and '■ Confederate at the third. Player and | Pilot led near the bridge, but on'the run i to t'uo abattoirs Player dropped back to third place. Pilot led from Roscommon Boy, and came on and won as he liked by four lengths. Player, with Finowrie, displaced Roscommon Boy in the run home. RICCARTON TRAINING NOTES. [Per Unitbd Pbes3 Association.] CBRJSTCHURCH, November 5. It was a fine morning at Riccarton. Whistlectaft went a mile and a-quarter comfortably on the plough in 2min Flitaway beat Broadsword over half a milo in 49jlsec. Vasa easily ran five furlongs in lmin ss?c Gl'encullocli beat ■Stratagem over a mile and a quarter in 2min llssec. Prim ran a mile in lmin 43sec. Klysian beat Dnvlcam over half a mile in 50pec, and Huslia tdman brat Sister Annie over five furlongs in lmin 4sec. Mahuta was bettrr than Riflemaid over a mile and a-quarter, run in 2min lljsec. Truganini easily accounted f:>r Penates over six furlongs' in lmin 18|see. Downfall defeated Signor over a mile and a-half in 2min 44sec. Lapland was given a mile and a-quarter on the plough, which was done in 2mju 14? sec. Zimmerman and Master Delaval finished together over a mile, the last seven furlongs taking lmin 32sec. Glenullin and Moloch, in company, ran a mile and a-half in 2min 40Jsec. Glenullin proving particularly pleasing. Dawn ran six furlongs in lmin 20sec. Diabolo beat All Red over a milp and a-quarter in 2min 14|sec. Probable and Heorthen were associated for a mile and a-quarter, and there was nothing to choose between them; the hist mile took! lmin 44sec. St. Joe and Armamento wore associated in a similar task. Stormont, ' Lyrist, and Whatakura gave a capital dis- : play of fencing. Master Snult defeated vologoa over five furlongs in lmin 2isec Bobrikoff, with a light weight up. cut out. six furlongs in lmin .A pa heat Frisco by several lengths in a mile and a-quarter go. Saga cut out ten furlongs in 2min 13see. After breakfast Provocation and Expansion sprinted lialt a mile in ; 47§sec, with a strong nor'-wester behind them. Provocation finishing in front under a strong pull. A number of other two-vearo-lds did fast times over four furlongs. NORTH END BOATING CLUB. The semi-final of the above club's Trial ' Fours was rowed off last evening under ' favorable conditions, and resulted" 1 as fol- ! lows: First Heat— W. Rennick (stroke). T. Fogarty (3). G. Dempster (2), AVf Sachtler . (bow) beat G. M'Kenzie (stroke). J. Watson * (3). E. Milner (2), F. Holland (bow). Ren. i nick's crew got the best of a fairlv even ' start, and maintaining this advantage eventually won a good race by a length. I Second Heat,—E. M'Lav (stroke). W. Nicholson (3), J. Hogg (2). B. Gillespie (bow) beat R, Watson (stroke), R. Binder : (3), O. Murphy (2). A. E. Payton (bow). An even race all the way, M'Lay's crew winning by a canvas*. The final heat will be rowed this evening at 6.30 o'clock sharp, when E. M'Lay's crew meets W. Rennick's crew. As both crews have trained consistently, a good race ; s expected.