SPORTING

Evening Star, Issue 19637, 17 August 1927, Page 9

SPORTING

CANTERBURY TURF NOTES. {Special to tub • Stab.’l CHRIdTCHUHCIi, August 17. The Otago jockey, A. E. Ellis, who rode so successfully at the Grand National meeting, will go north next week, having been engaged by the Awapuni trainer, L. New, to pilot his horses at the Taranaki Hunt Meeting. Ellis is making a good recovery from the injury to his shoulder which he suffered when The 1 Babe fell with him last Saturday, and ho that all effects of the trouble will have disappeared by the end of this week. There was some talk of the four horses purchased from E. S. Luttr.ell by. Lady Fuller going to Sydney, but the plans have since been changed. Bachelor bas not done well lately, but his trouble has now been diagnosed, and he is under veterinary treatment. Beau Gesto, Streamer, and the two-year-old sister to Streamer will remain at Riccarton, to be trained by W. G. Hobbs and raced in New Zealand in the meantime, though they may go to Australia later. AMERICAN CYCLING CHAMPIONSHIP, AVON BY AN AUSTRALIAN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, August IC. A Newark telegram states that Harris Herder, the Australian, became the bicycle sprint champion of America last night, when he was placed third in the twenty-second of twenty-four races to decide the title, scoring sufficient points to make his triumph a mathematic certainty. OLYMPIC GAMES. THE AMATEUR STATUS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August IG. Mr F. J. Wall, secretary of the Football Association, expresses the opinion that under the altered circumstances of the payment to athletes for broken time, the United Kingdom cannot be represented at Amsterdam in anv branch of sport. The decision, if carried out, would bo a revolutionary breakaway from British traditions. ‘Sporting Life’ says; “Amateurs will bo ‘ shamateurs.’ ”. CRICKET. larwoodtT injury. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August IG. Larwood is unlikely to play again this season. He broke down after bowling nine overs at Trcnthridge, and appears to have strained an injured knee when batting. Bowling aggravated the trouble.