LATE SPORTING

Evening Star, Issue 19411, 20 November 1926, Page 9

LATE SPORTING

MAORI RUGBY TEAHt TOUR A FINANCIAL SUCCESS. . Press Association—By Telegraph—Oqpyrigi( LONDON, MC (Received November 20, at S.SS-a>,m.V, : It is expe ted that the. Maoris’ .tour will he a financial success/ ‘ .The. gates have been fairly good, despite .the coal strike, though the Welsh gates were effected. j The French Federation anticipated that tho tour , wouj . cost between £12,000 and £13,000. The first'half of the tour in France realised £4,000;,. The games in England, and Wales are expected to realise £6,000... Thus with the improvement in the rate of exchangj the federation should make £I,OOO, but much depends on the final match. •'I OTAHUHU TROTS. The Otahuhu (Auckland) TrottingCluWs Spring Meeting opened to-day in finq wjeather. Tho track is in good order.' ' Results I—' Introductory. Handicap, SOOsovs. Ijm. ■ —3 Red Dennis .(Set) 1, 14 Amberite (3Gydsi 2,2 Sister,, Beatrice (108yds) 3. All started. :: Three 1 lengths. Tune, 3min 45 4-sseo. Mangcre Handicap, SOOsovs. IJra,— 1 Great Peter (scr) 1, 3 Goldfinch (24yds) 2, 13 Moled Chief , (scr) 3. Scratched: Speed King, Papuan Gold, 801 lo’ Brass, Leewood, and Final M'Kinney. One length. Time, 2min 58. l-o&cc. .... Oneliunga Handicap, SOOsovs. 2m.— 2 Auto Machine (60) 1, 7 Reliance (scr) 2, . 4 Lord Nepean (24) A Scratched; Anslem and Ben Lomond One length- and a-half. Time, 4mk 34 2-ssec. LADIES’ BOWLING. Caversham v. Otago, at Otago Green, on Tuesday.—Mesdames Forster, Cole, ' Briggs, Stubbs; Muir, Graves, Dempster, Trotheway; M‘Connell, Hayward, Brough, Melville.