SPORTING.

Evening Star, Issue 15065, 23 December 1912, Page 6

SPORTING.

DUNEDIN JOCKEY CLUB RACES. [By Old Identity.] Wingatui, always a pretty course, i 6 now looking at its very best, and it if providing excellent going for the large number of horses there exercising in preparation for the races on Thursday and Saturday of this week. St. Aidan, Obsono, Thistledown, Gapon, Lupulite, Daringdale Taft, Pepin, and other!; are all doing well. The Canterbury horses are to arrive this evening, and we shall have a strong contingent from the South. PROFESSIONALISM IN FOOTBALL. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 22. (Received December 23, at 11.50 a.m.) The French Athletic Sports Union expelled two members of the State of Bor-delaif-3 for offering English Rugby footballers good appointments in the vineyards.' i STIPENDIARY STEWARDS. SYDNEY, December 23. (Received December 25, at noon.) For the first time in the history of the Australian Jockey Club Saturday's meet. ing at Randwick was solely controlled by stipendiary steward. Emerson, who will ride Masterpiece an<T Winning Way at Ellerslie on Boxing Day. will have the mount on Peronilla in thi Palmerston North Stakes at. Awapun next day. The finish of the Ponsonby-Grafton game on the 7th iivst. was one'that will long be remembered by those who were fortunate enough to be present (savs an Auckland writer). Grafton had made 216 in their first innings, and for a while it looked as if Ponsonby would fail to reach this total But by determined batting the West-enders drew up, and had actually equalled the score when nine wickets were down. There wa6 breathless excitement when the last two men were in. One run was wanted, but lo! Harvie, the Grafton bowler, sent down a wide, and thus gave Ponsonby a two-point win by 1 tun. In the next over one of the Ponsonby men was stumped without further scoring, .and thus concluded as exciting a match as one could wish to see.