SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2221, 26 October 1907, Page 2

SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

LAWN TENNIS. The Whataupoko Club opens its season this afternoon. Friends or members are invited to be present, and a largo gathering will doubtless mark the occasion. ROWING. LECTURE" FOR LEARNERS. At Dustin’s rooms last night a lecture on the theory of rowing was delivered by Mr. D. E. Dustin to a fair number of members of the Gisborne Club. The lecture dealt thoroughly with all points in the theory of the sport, and the lecturer gave further his own experience of the matters dealt with. Owing to short notice the attendance was father small, and Mr. Dustin has decided to again deliver the lecture all young rowers may have an opportunity of hearing it. ” Press Association. NAPIER, Oct. 25. Two hundred pounds is offered in prize money for the championship regatta here in March next, allotted as follows: Champion sculls, £lO and gold medal; maiden fours, £l4; maiden sculls, £9; champion fours, £7O; youths' fours, £l2; junior double sculls, £9; champion pairs, £l6; junior fours, £18; champion double sculls, £l6; Napier fours, £24. CRICKET. To-day Te Ran will continue their championship match against Taruheru at Taruheru, and a team of “colts” will meet a team from the Waingake club at Victoria Domain. CYCLING. United Press Association—Copyright SYDNEY, Oct. 25. Brook, the young Australian champion cyclist, has returned from a tour of Europe. He has renounced the track owing to his religious conversion. He declares the stream of , professional cycling is_ too muddy for a Christian to swim in. Brook, who v won considerably over £IOOO on the track in four years, owes his conversion to Mr. Proctor; of the Christchurch Young Men’s Christian Association, who he met journeying to :• London and back. RIFLE-SHOOTING. United Press Association—Copyright SYDNEY, Oct. 25. At the Rifle Association meeting Cutler, of Bathurst, put up a record of 238 out of 250, thus winning the King’s Prize for the second time. Linn, of Orange, with 230, was second, Raven, of Great Britain, third, Tatlour, Great Britain, fourth, each with 229. Of the New Zealanders Craw was sixth with 228, and takes £B, A. Ballinger 222 £3, Mills, Perrin, W. Speck, C. Speck £3, Cameron, Ayson, Purnell, Hadfield, Masefield, and Wilkie £l. SYDNEY, Oct. 25. To-day the New Zealanders, having become more accustomed to the conditions, got into third place in the Australia match, for teams of eight from any part of the Empire. Twenty-eight teams competed. Syd- ' ney Eastern Suburbs team secured the first prize, £4O, score 758; Victoria A ie-ain, second (£32), 753; New Zealand A team, tliird (£25), r 46; Victoria B team, fourth, 715. THE TURF. RIDING OF APOLOGUE QUESTIONED. United Press Assooiation—Copyright . MELBOURNE, Oct. 25. There is much gossip concerning the running of Apologue in the Caulfield Cup, the popular idea being that the. New Zealander should have won, It is now rumored that the owner, Clelland, will probably ask the Caul-"’ field Club Committee to hold inquiry, and it is also stated to be possible that Clayton will ride Apologue in the Melbourne Cup, for which race both Tartan and Mountain King are hardenng.