SPORTING

Evening Star, Issue 18254, 19 April 1923, Page 6

SPORTING

MANAWATU RACES.

Tho totalisator registered £29,804, as against £25,090 for the first day last year. Concluding results: Awapuni Gold Cup, 520sovs. Tim. — Thespian (9.0, P. Raynor) 1, Many Kittle (8.6) 2, Enthusiasm (8.4) 3. All started. Half a length. Time, 2min 6scc. Linton Hack Handicap, loOsovs. 1m and If.—Gold Star (8,3, Goldfinch) 1, Red Helen (7.6) 2, Birkenella (7.5) 3. Scratched: Bonrina, Haligan, Santiago, Five-eighths, Sunny Yale, Admiration, Merry Ann, Half-length; head second and third. Time-, Imin 51isec. Telegraph Handicap, oOOsovs. 6f.— Lucius (8.8) 1, Tribonlet (7.0) 2, Hipo (6,13) 3. Scratched: Martian Miss, Some Red, Sardonic. Head; head second and third. Time, Imin 14[jsec. FRENCH JOCKEY KILLED. PARIS, April 17. Parfremont, tho famous French jockey, who won the Grand National on Rutteur, was killed by falling on a stone wall while riding in the Prix do Fragolotte at Enghien. —A. and N.Z. Cable. SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP. A. Felton (Australia) and P. Hannan (Now Zealand), who arc to row at Nelson on April 28 for the championship of Australasia, wore accorded a civic welcome at Nelson yesterday on Felton’s arrival from Sydney. BOXING. LONDON, April 18. Todd and Rainer are matched by the National Sporting Club for a twentyround contest in London on June 4. The ‘ Sportsman ’ says that tho mishap to Burns’s right hand during the fight on Monday necessitated his nursing it in tho later stages of the contest. It is expected that it will trouble him for a month.—A. and N.Z. Cable. AMATEUR ATHLETICS. The monthly meeting ojf the Otago Centre of tho New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association was held in tho Y.M.C.A. Rooms last night. Mr E. L. Macasscy was in the chair. Mr F. J. D. Rolfe reported on the progress made bv the newlyformed University Harrier Club, which, he stated, was doing well. It was decided to send a letter of congratulation to tho University Club on its fine performance at the recent championship tournament. PIGEON RACING. The North Dunedin Racing Pigeon Club flew an interval race from Oamaru last Saturday, an airline distance of fifty-eight miles. Mr W. Turvey liberated twentyeight birds, representing fourteen lofts, the winning bird completing the distance in Ih 46jmiii. Results;—ll. Spence’s Glenshine (velocity 936yds per minute) 1, C. Legg’s Silver Fern (931) 2, W. Watson’s Wild "Wave (921) 3, F. E. Frame’s Apple Blossom (899) 4, H. Brown’s Lady Knight (893) 5. Birds entered by Messrs Trewern, Hutchison, Thomson, Duncan, West, Conley, A. Brown, Umbers, and Casey and Reeves also flew.