SPORTING.

Evening Star, Issue 14964, 26 August 1912, Page 8

SPORTING.

THE TURF. The following is the result of the Adelaide Grand National Steeplechase, of sQosovs, about 3m, run on Saturday: Lockwing (10.7) 1, Yalwarra (11.2) 2, Kia Ora (10.9) 3. Seventeen horses started. A great finish. Won bv three-quarters of a length, with Kia Ora three lengths away. Time, 6min lO^sec. At the Warwick Farm (New South Wales) Meeting the race for the Stakes resulted :—Euron 1, St. Antoine 2, Welcome News 3. Fifteen horses started. Won by a head, with half a length between jecond and third. Time, lmin 45Asee. OLYMPIC GAMES. [Pia U.rfmD Press Association.] WELLINGTON. August 25. ' At a meeting of the Olympic Council it ■was reported that £3O had been forwarded to Ausvvaiia, making ft total of £286, on account of Hill and Champion. Tho New Zealand Swimming Association forwarded £25 for Champion's expenses, making a total of £75, and asked the council to accept it as final payment. It was pointed out that £IOO had been expended, but it was decided to take no further 6teps until the final accounts had been received. A resolution was passed in favor of collecting an annual fee of, say, 6d from each member of the sports clubs interested, to establish a permanent fund. A motion to treat New Zealand as a separate nationality was deferred. LADIES' HOCKEY. Waiata (6 goals) defeated Otago (nil) on Saturday. Ravensbourne (5 goals) beat Milton (1 goal). The following will represent Wellington at the New Zealand Ladies' Hockey Championship Tournament at Christchurch next month :—Misses Shearer. Tinney, Permain. Cameron, Warren. Turner. Brown, Wor boys, M'Donnell. G. Harris, Dement, M. Harris, Benge, Burr, Luing. SPORTS PROTECTION LEAGUE. There are numerous ways in which the New Zealand Sports Protection Leagu? could assist the various sport bodies should the occaeion arise. The league, with a united and an ever-increasing membership, will be able to do much to impress those in authority with the necessity for a " hands-off" policy wh'.'n that small but persistent band of extremists desire to rripple the reasonable enjoyment of those whose ta6tes do not run parallel with their own. Throughout the Empire there was being experienced a wave of sentimentalism, which made some organisation on the line> of the league absolutely necessary. H was fcit that it was not fair that men not connected with sport should dictate how games were to be played—that those who participated in the sport should have control, and not extremists. The Sports Protection League, with a Board of Control consisting of Sir George Clifford, Hon. Dr Collins, M.L.C.. Messrs H. D. Bell. K.C., C. P. Skerrett, K.C.. and Mr J- H- B. Coates. are rapidly becoming a powerful organisation, and will be able to checkmate effectively any further move of the small but misguided band of mthusiasts. Although it is barely 12 nonths since the inauguration of the league, Ihe work of organisation is proceeding ipace. and already over 60 branches have been formed in the Dominion, and when the general secretary has completed the preliminary work the' Board of Control expect to have the number increased to 100. > The general organising secretary (Mr A. A. Paape) has commenced a tour of the Otago district, and to-morrow night addresses a meeting at Waikouaiti. SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP. Eddie Dro-nan asks for £3OO for expenses In a match for the sculling championship, and offers to forgo his share of the gate receipts. Ernest Barry offers £SO for expenses and a half share of the gate receipts. BILIARDS. Present scores in the game of 16,000 up on cyan terms at Sydney:—C. Harvenson, 7,928; F. Lindrnm, 5,072. Senator T. D. Sullivan, of New York, intends to endeavor to restore horse racing to popular favor in his own State. He ■will prepare for submission to the Legislature in the summer session a new Racing Bill, which will embody the best features of the various systems in vogue in England and France. It is most probable that the Bill will provide for the regulation of betting on the lines of the pari-mutuel, with a percentage of the money wagered on the machine going to the State for the encouragement of the breeding of thoroughbreds.