SPORTING.

Evening Star, Issue 14525, 29 November 1910, Page 4

SPORTING.

A BOXING CONTEST. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 28. (■Received November 29, at 1.25 p.m.) Mr Hugh 1). M'lntosh has arranged a twenty-rounds contest between Bill Lang and Jack Burns. PEDESTRIAN V. HORSE. [SraciAL to 'rnr, Star.] WELLINGTON, November 29. A novel wager was made in a local club, the parties being two woll-];now7i racing men. The .'.aim at stake is £2.000. The conditions of tho l>et are that a Wellington owner eeleel.s a pedestrian to beat a honse on tho road to Auckland and back to Wellington atj.iin in February. Tho horsema v bo ridden by tho lightest weightavailable and may go at any pace, while tho mar. is not to be restricted to walking. The horee selected will probably bo a musterer, while the man selected may be a well-known champion, at leapt tho backer hopes to rectiro the services of such. Both rider and pedestrian will l>e. allowed the services of a man on a motor cycle to convey information as to tho position of the opponent. The, time (lmin 13sec) recorded by Pilgrim's Way in the Flying Handicap at Timaru last week constitutes a fresh New Zealand record for six furlongs. Tho Australasian record of lmin 12isec is-held by Soultline, a New Zealand-bred horee. Though Trafalgar did not win a race, his placo money during tho recent V.R.C. spring meeting amounted to 1,400 sovs.