SPORTING

Evening Star, Issue 18045, 12 August 1922, Page 8

SPORTING

AUSTRALIAN JOCKEY CLUB. The report to he presented to the annual meeting of tho Australian Jockey Club shows that the stakes distributed for the past year totalled £152,518, compared with £121,939 for tho previous year. _ The amount passed through the totalisators was £1,280,000, from which the State rev fiiue benefited to the extent of £113,547, and the Federal entertainments tax realised £13,647. AUCKLAND REDUCES STAKES. Tho Auckland Racing Club adopted a programme for 1922-23 providing for £70,550 in stakes, against £75,100 last year. The Great Northern Guineas has neon increased from £I,OOO to £1,500, the Auckland Cup reduced from £3,500 to £3,000, the Railway Handicap reduced from £2,000 to £1,400, the Great Northern Derby increased from £2,000 to £2,500, the Autumn Handicap reduced from £1,500 to £1,200, the Islington and Auckland Plates reduced from £I,OOO to £750, and the Great Northern Hurdles reduced from £2,500 to £2,000. COUNTY CRICKET. Yorkshire dismissed Gloucester for 58 runs. Rhodes took five wickets for 24 runs.—A. and N.Z. Cable. MAORIS v. ALL BLACKS. Mr W. T. Parata has selected the following players to represent the Maoris against New Zealand at Wellington on Saturday next: —Borrell, Barclay, Blake, Phillips, Bell, Potaka, Mill, Jacobs, Bevan, Tresize, Love, Ta.ngitu, Gemmell, Bannisj ter, Garlick, M'Gregor, Matai, Peina, Akuira. BLOOD STOCK SALE. BIDDING "MISERABLE. [Special to the ‘ Star.’] CHRISTCHURCH, August 11. At the blood stock sal© to-day there were nine entries, and of these two only ] were sold. Generally prices were low, and I bidding anything but spirited. Tho fonr-vear-nld bay gelding Tempter {by I'esarion). offered on account of Mr George Fulton, was passed in atloogs;the I bay gelding Hillock (six years), offered. ou account of tho estate of the late Mr I H. Cassidy was passed in at2ogs_; and in ■ other cases bidding was equally miserable. Following were (he two sales effected : ■ On account of Mr -T. J. Cor-ry, bay geldbur, In The Pink (six years), Mr Cooper (Invercargill), at cOCtes; on account of tho estate of the late Mr 11. Cassidy, the bay filly Dame Strait’ace, to Mr J. S. Barrett . at 160 gs.