SPORTS OF ALL KINDS.

Evening Star, Issue 14496, 22 February 1911, Page 3

SPORTS OF ALL KINDS.

THE TURF. [Gossip bv Old Identitx.] Golden Loop, cno of the winners at Taranaki. is by L’jpiu. After Alerozo won the Kawau Hack Handicap at Taranaki on the second day tip owner was naked about her running on the first day. He stated that on the Wednesday he had made the mistake of running the mare barefooted, and had done las Jnoney in.” On the second occasion he hud [dates on Mcroze. The stewards considered Urn explanation satis factory. Lady Medallist started a hot favorite for the Taranaki Cup. Cranium and Vi made the early running. Going along the back the favorite, notwithstanding her weight of 9.11, wont up to the leaders, Sir Artogal dropping hack. Entering the straight Mcndip put in a challenge, but could not reach Lady Medallist, who won by ( two lengths. Monoplane beiim third, tmeeqnarters of a length behind Mendip. In tho Paul Memorial Handicap, on the second day, Lady Medallist had 19.6 on her back. A local report says:--At the three-furlongs mark the. mare got into the lead, and she and Vi (7.1), Monoplane I'-L-North-east (7.12), .lulin (7.5). ao.-i Lady Menschikolf (6.11) raced together. '1 ho finish was said to bo the lust seen on t..0 course. The six horses passed the post in a bunch, no one except the. judge being alii? to definitely give the number*. Lady MenscliikofT came with a rush on tho oatside, and gained Iho by a llc-.oi from Joint. The placing of Intnium war, questioned in the Press stand, the opinion being held that Lady Medallist, was certainly third, if not .-econd. John is logank'd as it likely horse for Wanganui, ami I’aisano is landed^ As to the Second Welter at Taranaki. ‘•Motnroa" writes; In more ways than ore Sir Artogal was lucky to get the stake.-. The chestnut. was one of the outsiders it; the Cup Letting, ami finished just about last. 'Hint the-clfori did not kilt Iron quite dead ho proved by beating nine fair pariormers in the Second Melect. Of course the distance and (lass wete dissimilar, and there was the advantage of a let ot iimghriding thrown in, but it could not he said that his Cup racing was aL-ulutrly pleasing. E. M’Combe. brother to our ,1. M’t oml-e, gnt a revere shaking by a fall at Hobart Recently. ... The Americans cherish tlm anticipation that they possess an excellent chance ot capturing the English Oaks with a. till’, named Pashti, hy Adam, out of Disadvantage. She shewed excellent in lie; United States last season. Bashli ha.; made a. very favorable imprr.--ion on the Newmarket e.xpctls since her arrival b. England, and there will be plenty of time lor" her to become thoroughly acclimatised before the beginning of June. James Trenoweth, a well-known AAestralian jockey, intends to try his luck in G'. vmttnv. He will accompany Prank Bul■lock. ' . . . , , • Sons of St. Simon (all bred in England! occupv the first, second, third, and iiltu places in the French list of winning sirro for 1910. It is a\-n rmiaikablo that nor one of these horses was in the first class as a racer.

Writing to a friend in Sydney, Mr R. Wnotion expressed liici fears that his hoy.', Frank and Stanley, would not much longer h--> able to do any light-weight riding. At (he close of last year they sealed about B.C each, with a tendency to get heavier. Mr Wootfnn also had a word to say about the Randwirk boy,. M. Huxley, who is apprenticed to hint. Tie entertains a very filch opinion of that youngster, and predicts that thisM'Mt ho will leave his maik <in the records.

The will of the late Mr W . M . 1 >:r 1 1 •-y directs that his lenses in training shall ha fcd-i. and tha proceeds distributed hy hi.-: nife for the relief of the poor in the County of Lhiierick. Mr Railev left a vast twtune. amirmilalcd out of rubber-planting. Mr G. R. Donnelly intends sending a rmnlwr of thoroughbreds to the Faster sales a: Sydney. Amongst the lot are the brood mates Kiltnorey. Brno, Lady Delaval. Louisa, Anther," Chrysopra.se, (Jirton, ami Geld Powder.

J. Goldie. sen., lias accepted the position of stud groom at the Karamu stud. The well-known sice Seaton Delaval Irs I,on purchased by Mr J. Patterson, o; Alotiti Island stud.

“Glencoe” reports that on the morning of the second day’s races at Xciv Plymouth. Mr A.. Morse, of (Ireyinouth, ofTcrad £f>oo for Lady Aleuschikoff,'but her owner would not consider the proposition. Later in tli*» dav the mare won the Paul Memorial handicap. worth nearly £2GO to the n inner. co that his judgment was correct. ~Uni.il Ormonde and St. Simon «-mm ,-don". Fred' Archer considered Wheel of Fortune the best lie had ever seen. \\ hen 'Wheel of Fortune was tried. Lord balmouth was present, and Mat Dawson said to him: ’ ThmvN a sight, my Lord, tie like of which you may never see again. ’ The “sight” was a trial in which the winners of the Derby, Oaks, St. I.eg-r. Twp Thousand, and One Thousand Guineas took part. i ids was the greatest tied reeorded in the annals of the turf. W heel of Fortune was fust home.

Mon Ami received such a kicking from Kareroa at the .-tinting pest in tlm Stewards’ Handicap at New Plymouth that it will be some time before she is again seen muh r silk. Some amusement was caused at a sale of blood stock that took place at New Plymouth on Thursday morning, when Tetikura. a eolt by Advance, was led into the iin rr . Bid- u',’ip fdnw in coining (s'tvs “I ho Jncltio ’ ;nul aftor avdnmw work on the auctioneer’s part he eventually succeeded in getting an offer of £2O. As a Lot resoun- h- appealed to the colt's owner for instructions. and Mr Rarleyinan said tint as Tetikura was for absolute sale he would take £3OO for him. When the auctioneer heard tlm- announcement lie nearly fell off his perch. An' Australian Cup candidate in Apple Pie was given a. run in. the Victorian t’luh handicap on the 15th. She looked a. little jiiovo herself, and it was generally thought that she would not see out the race. However. the field was rather a moderate one, and she won comfortably' by a length from the favorite, Aurofodina. W. 11. APLachJan had tho mount on Apple Pie, and he will have tho mount on her in the Australian Gup. Comcdv King, winner of the St. George Stakes of 650 sons c;t Caulfield last Saturday. had 8.11 to carry, and was probably ridden by APLachhin. Trafalgar carried 9 2 into" second place. and Son of the Marsh, placed third, had 8.13. Crucmella’s weight was 8.15. Tho Southland and Riverton Clubs between them hang up £2,500 to bo raced for writer tells us that Air G. P. Donnellv has appointed with him Air lv J. Watt, Air George Hunter, and Air J. C. APVeigh. to issue totalisator permits for tho district. This is perhaps meant as a joke, but ,a« some persons may take it seriously it is as well to state that the Racing Conference and that body alono has-power to issue permits.

BILLIARDS AND BRAINS. 'Hie interesting thing about George Gray, the young Australian who is piling up record breaks at billiards in this country, is that none of the English champions foresaw that his famous method, tno losinglazard stroke, had wonderful possibilities, ind was worth while cultivating seriously, it is another illustration of the old indictment that the Englishman does not put enough brains into his sport. Not till a New Zealand, football team played havoc with the English clubs did they begin to realise the possibilities of a systematic return formation. It took an Australian lawn tennis player, Norman Brookes, to persuade the English that the American service was a more deadly method of attack than anything they had been accustomed to. Hie South Africans introduced the “googlie” in cricket. The Englishman takes his sport very seriously—too seriously, often—but he takes it on strictly orthodox lines. Ho doesn't put hii;, imagination into it and think, out the possibilities of new developments. He is content to play a certain stroke in a certain way, and never worry as to why he plays it "that way, or whether better resuits might be atnievod. in aomo other way. Ho

concentrates bis attention on doing things in tho old familiar way, and the man with now ideas is a “crank” or a “theorist 1 synonymous terms usually in. English eyes —to bo viewed with grave suspicion or dismissed with tho laughter of contempt. In George Gray's case it is not a question of new strokes, but of a verv familiar scoring stroke made well-nig'h perfect by assiduous practice and tho. inborn gift of cuomanship. Tho departure from tho orthodox consists in Gray’s realisation of tho scoring possibilities of tho losing hazard, one of tho basic strokes of the game of billiards. He and his father, who has been his mentor and staunch supporter. refused to bo laughed out of the idoa that a match-winning method might | bo based on tho losing hazard. Tho re- ' suits have overwhelmingly justified their patient confidence. In bis first contest with an acknowledged first-rato professional, Gray lias defeated Higgle by 8,000 points to 3,823, and has set up a new record break of 1,318' unfinished, following on a break of 1,200 made tho previous day. “Tho probability is,” says ' Tho Times,’ “that Gray will dominate English billiards for years to come.” But tho curious thing is that it should hnvo been left for an Australian to discover tho losing hazard method. Amidst tho great array of English professional billinraists. past and 1 present, how is it that not one of them hit iijioii tho method which has made- Geoigo Gray the wonder of tho billiard world?—Loudon correspondent, January 8. I