SPORTING

Evening Star, Issue 17920, 16 March 1922, Page 9

SPORTING

WAIMATE RACES t THIS DAY-

•Dull weather and good attendance for the Wsimato Racing Club’s Annual Meeting. Going good. Results:—■ Studholme Hurdles, 150sovs, 1m 51— J. J, Lewis’s General Retain (All Red' — Lady Lillian, 12.9) 1, Mandrake (10.8) 2, Admiral Talbot (10.5) 3. Scratched; The Digger and Telamon. Won by four lengths, with a length and_a-half between second and tiurd. JLuno, Omni t'r.rcc. Trial Plate. 125sovs. 6i.—Many Kittle ,’.O) 1, Frisco Mail (8.0) 2, First Aid (8.4) Scratched : Trcs Lon. Length; length and half. Time, Imin 16sec. ; PROFESSIONAL SWIMMER REINSTATED. : OFFICIALS RESIGN IN CQK- | SEQUENCE. Press Association—Ry Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and K.Z. Press Association. SYDNEY, March 16. (Received March 16, at After a stormy meeting the New South Wales Swimming Association reinstated Clarence Hardwicko as an amateur by 75 votes to V. The president (Mr James Taylor) ruled the matter out of order. This decision was dissented from, whereupon Mr Taylor and the remainder of the officials resigned, but the meeting persuaded the .secretary (Mr L. Dull) to withdraw his resignation.

BOWLING : OTAGO v. SOUTHLAND. The following players will represent Southland against Otago in the match to bo played on the Southland green, comniencing <*it A p.in, to-nioirow Gox (Gore). Smith (Hokomu), Bishop (Hokonui), Brown (Gore); Stowart. and Batcholor ' (Ma-taura), Lopdell and Murphy (Wvxlham); Stevens, Cunningham, Pry do, Donaldson (To Rangi); Torrsneo, Stewart, Donaldson, Piercy (Southland ; Piper, Stevens. Stoans, Service (Northern) ; Miller, Batten, Macdonald, Strang (Invercargill); Buddie, Allen, Willett, Bailey (Riverton); George (Bluff), Brass (Wniton), Philn (Aparhna), Sedges (Bluff); emergencies—Allen (Wintou), Dro (Riverton).

Tho entries for the Trentharp Gold Cup, £1 000, w.f.a., 2m, comprise Winning Hit, A ray Enas, Kick-Off, Gloaming, Pluto, Palestrina, Trespass, Vagabond, Insurrection, Aureate, and Foo Chow. Gloaming is also nominated for the North Island Challenge Stakes, so it may be concluded that Randwick will not bo tho mission for Mr Greenwood’s team at Easter.