SPORTING

Evening Star, Issue 17365, 29 May 1920, Page 2

SPORTING

TROTTING APPEAL UPHELD. j The Board of the New Zealand Trotting J Association, meeting at Christchurch yes-1 terday, upheld the appeal of B. Shadbolt'! against the decision of the Manawatnl Trotting Club Committee in dismissing ' his protest against Ballin for gallopingin' the Palmerston North i Handicap. Tha' committee's decision was that it was a question of fact, in which no appeal could lie. It was agreed to issue a circular to clubs requesting that the rule preventing persons going on _ the track prior to the . start of a race without the permission of the stewards be enforced. WATERSIDE WORKERS' DECISION. TROTTING HORSES NOT DEEMED "BLACK." [Special to the 'Stah.'3 i CHRISTCHURCH, May 28. As the transportation of racehorses oi' the galloping class between the North Island ana the South has been declared " black " until the New Zealand Jockeys' dispute with the Auckland District Racing Committee and the New Zealand Racing % Committee has been settled, waterside workers at the northern ports have to be satisfied of the classification of horses which, are being transported. An Ashburton sportsman, R. M'Donald, has just experienced an instance of this. Ha brought his trotting stallion Hal Zolock from the North Island by the steamer Monowai, which arrived at Lyttelton from Wellington yesterday afternoon, but ho had some difficultv in satisfying the demand of the Wellington waterside workers that the horse is a trotter, not a galloper. It was only after he had shown them a gold medal and other trinkets presented to him in recognition of the performances of some of liis horses on the trotting track that they consented toput Hal Zolock on the steamer. " AUSTRALIA'S CRICKET BOMBSHELL." Mr Sewell. writing in the ' Daily Chronicle ' under the heading " Australia's Cricket Bombshell," says: "If the news from Australia be time, there will be a fluttering in the dovecotes of Australian cricket when the Marylebone team are announced. I hear that Au' «ralia is only considering' a choice of men who actually fought in the war. H the Marylebone Cricket Club made a similar decision the British team would be different from what it now is • likely to be." SOLDIERS' BILLIARD TOURNAMENT. Two more games of the first round of the championship billiard match for the Edward Cameron cup were played during the week at the temporary club premises in Dowling street. L. J. Nutting beat J. Low, the winner's beet breaks being 46 and 21 and the loser's best 22. L. Wynri defeated Umbers, the wiiiner making breaks of 27, 24, 20, 20, and the loser 31, 24, and 22. Both games were won fairly easily. One' more game remains to be played in the first round—T. M. Drain v. s C. Cooper. CANTERBURY PARK TROTS. Author Dillon, Dingo, and Guynemer will be non-starters at the first day of the Canterhurv Park trots.—Christchurch correspondent. *'