SPORTING

Evening Star, Issue 16995, 18 March 1919, Page 2

SPORTING

YEARLING SALES AT MELBOURNE. A Melbourne cable says:—The sum of I.SOOgs was declined at the yearling sales for Gloaming’s half-sister. The reserve was 2,000g5. Mr G. D. Greenwood (Chrstchurch) bought a Welkin —Carissima filly for 430gs, and Mr Kemball (Wairarapa) h"'’crht a Welkin—Lord Rose colt for 900gs. SALE OF TROTTING STOCK. At the dispersal sale of Mr W. Kerr’s trotting stock at Christchurch the stallion ! Wildwood Junior was passed in at 350; a. The principal sales were: —Three-year-old colt by Wildwood Junior—Gertie, 250gs : 1 three-year-old gelding by Wildwood Junior : ■ —Lady Don, 200gs; two-year-old colt by i Logan Pointer—Thelma, 160gs ; two-year-old colt by Wildwood Junior —Wattle, 215gs; two-year-old gelding by Vv ildwood ' Junior—lmperialism,' 16Cgs and a yearling colt by Logan Pointer—Thelma, 250gs. TENNIS. The final in the junior competition on Saturday was won by North-east Valley (8 sets, 95 games), who defeated Roslyn (6 sets, 84 games). At the Opunaka annual meeting yesterday there was a record attendance. The totalisator handled £27,309, or £1.692 over last year. Gipsy Gem won the Cup, l-jm, in 2min Usee. The Maiden Plate furnisht' J - dead heat between Tetoa and Hid