SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

Evening Star, Issue 13162, 19 January 1909, Page 7

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

MAXAWATU RACING CLUB. At a meeting of the above the balancesheet for the Christmas meeting showed <*_ profit of nearly £I,OOO. Mr J. R. Forester Pratt was appointed starter for the autumn meeting. Support was extended to the Wanganui Jockey Club’s movement towards the appointment of stipendiary stewards, providing it be adopted generally. LAWN TENNIS. Ihe Taranaki tournament was brought to a close yesterday. Tho Men's Championship Singles was won by Wilding. The Men’s Championship Doubles fell to , * ‘V;. P ai 'ker and H. W. Brown, who beat Fisher and Wilding, 6—4, 6—4, 97. Miss Nunnollcy and Wilding beat Miss Powdrell and Fisher for the Combined Championship Doubles. ATHLETICS ; NO WANGANUI DISQUALIFICATIONS. Tu view of the fact that last year’s conference at New Plymouth agree'd to leave the dispute with the Wanganui Caledonian Society in the hands of the Taranaki and Foildiug Centres, and both Centres having strongly recommended that competitors be allowed to compete at \\ anganui this year, also in consideration of the fact that entries had dosed for the Wanganui meeting before tho Executive had issued tho manifesto, the Atheltic L uion have agreed to accede to the recoinmondation of Taranaki and Feilding, and there will be no disqualification of Wanganui games this year. FOOTBALL. Mr MacMalion, manager of the Walla,i ,• ? Peking at Portsmouth, suggested sh™M"h futu , l i o ,.. venrs the union visited diould bear all the expenses, thus avoiding Jjectioiianle little, incidents, such as thceo J . by the Scottish T luion.