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Evening Star, Issue 22895, 1 March 1938, Page 12

LATE SPORTING

NAPIER PARK ACCEPTORS (Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON. March 1. Acceptors for the Napier Park Pacing Club’s meeting:— Omarunui Handicap, £IOO. One mile l and a-quarter.—Charade 10.4, Contact 9.8, Tommy Atkins. Iddo, Lord Hereford 9.6, Lady Wessex, Master Hector 9.0. Maiden Scurry, £IOO. Five jurlongs.—Hastings West, Allinetic. Kiki-a-eki, Wilful Lady. Charles Hugo, Hunting Mint, Hillside. King’s Hope, Short Circuit, Holme Fell 8.5, Mary Rose, Willonyx, Red Cockade, Sunny Lass. Jacvnth 8.0. Sapling Stakes Handicap. £IOO. Five furlongs.—Rakahanga 8.11, Lady Furst 8.3. Golden Memory 7.8. Hunting Royal 7.6, Laughing Song, Centrepoise 7.11. Napier Park Cup. £250 One mile and a-quarter.—Big Dook 8.9,' Master Cyklon 85, Hunting Cat 8.0, Pladio 7.7, Soho 7.4. Liinbohm, Buster Brown 7.0. Esk Handicap, £IOO. Six furlongs. —Sardius 9.0, Quake 8.10. Screen Star 8.8, Hamn.rin 7.11. Black Frost 7.9, Inheritance. Syncopate 7.5. Autumn Handicap, £l3O- Six furlongs.—Brunhild 9.0, Slippery. Lucnllus Lad 8.5. Bodylme 7.9, Kahikaten 7.4, Hatuma. Blygain 7.0. 1 Redcliffe Hack Handicap. £IOO. Six furlongs.—Granvale. Trailer 8.8. Seyfried 8.6, Ncrens 8.3. Parry 8.1. Agog 7.1 T, Lovelit, Tullamorc 7.7, Clavercourt. Patches 7.0.

TROTTING DERBY , MELBOURNE. March 1. (.Received March 1. at 11 a.tn.) Radiant WalU and Ben Walla, sons of the former champion, Walla Walla, comfortably won the pacers and trotters’ divisions of the £SOO Trotting Derby at Ascot.

V.R.C. MEETING MELBOURNE, March 1. (Received March 1, at 2 p.m.) The wekther is warm and sultry for the second day of the races. Elanage covered two furlongs in 25Jsec, Mananui three in 38sec, Conde three in 42Jsec, and Riff two in 24}sec. Sindicada has been scratched for the Australian Cup.

AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM

LAUNCESTON, March 1 (Received March 1, at 11 a.m.)

For the Australian team against Tasmania Fleetwood-Smith took four wickets for 22 and Ward three for 20. Australia in the second innings has scored 150 for three wickets (Badcock 42, Barnes not out 80).

GIRLS' TENNIS

PRAISE FOR NEW ZEALANDERS

SYDNEY, March 1

(Received March 1, at 11.30 a.m.)

Jack Crawford, writing in the 1 Daily Telegraph,’ says: The play in {he New South Wales girls’ tennis championships proved that the New Zealand standard is at least equal to ours. Misses Beverley and Wilson particularly impressed. Miss Beverley makes all her shots with a purpose, and when she strengthens her service she should be outstanding. Miss Armstrong has a well-produced game, and is likely to improve.

NEGRO ATHLETE 100 METRES RECORD PARIS, February 28. (Received March 1, at 11 a.m.) The International Committee has ratified Jesse Owens’s 10.2 sec record for the 100 metres, regarding which there has been a controversy owing to repeated measurements of his lane showing it either correct or a fraction •f an . inch under the distance. Scientists i attributed the variation to the earth’s minute shrinkages, due to changes in temperature.