SPORTING NOTES.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1707, 23 January 1874, Page 3

SPORTING NOTES.

Mr.'R^ginaia Herbert Recently accompiished^nej.task ,of rpwipg from Maid,ep- •'■;• -head Bridgeto Weßtminßter Bridge within •i twelvd hours, for LlOOOarside. f He started •it ' thirteen ■ minutes tp jsk in, a new gi« ! inbuilt by 'Messenger; -''thei lumpire,. Mi ' fieaumofit, M.P;, 1 following' in a ateahD • launch. He board ' t^it ! ; 'u'rfipire T s boats, 1 'occupying^'thfee-qnarterf "of an nbuV^'aiid diiibaand xbok' a bath Teddingtpn, k occuping v an hour arid . s ; quariler, ha,ying_ the|,race well in.'hand. He reached- , WestnainsWr at thirteen ' minutes to four^ paying accomplished t|ie j distance, over 49 miles, in ten hbim , exactly. He was loudly cheered by a i large crowd. , l ' . ! A great golfing match for LSO a side, between Willie Park," of Musselburgh, and Davio Strath, of St. Andrews, was played on North Berwick, Links on sth and 6th September. ., The conditions were six rounds or 54 holes. At the end of the first day Strath stood three holes ahead, and on the following day he wias declared the winner of the match by six holes. The play is said, on the whole, jto have been good. Strath's driving was superior to that of his opponent, who, however, played a splendid short game. Strath's best round was 36, under which score the round was never taken at. At the conclusion of the match, an interesting foursome was played between the two Morrises and Park and Strath. There was a capital display of golfing skill throughout the game, which terminated in favor of Park and Strath by two holes. ; The Stud Company held their first annual meeting on the 20th September jat the Farm ,at Cobham in Surrey. After a capital luncheon at the cottage of Mr Bell, the manager, the business of the day commenced, Sir O. Legard taking the chair. 'The'chairinan said that this coin'- , pany. was formed on th^i death of the lite . Mj.jßlenkiion. ItVat once met with great support.' At the time of the great sale of Mr.Blenkiron's stud, so large an amount had been subscribed that it was determined to seize an opportunity which l^would probably never occur again, |to secure all that was possible of the best 1 blood in Europe. The result had been that the company announces a dividend of 10 per cent. The remaining proceedings were equally satisfactory. ; The writer of Athletic 1 Notes in Land . (17^ Water says :— •' Those ,two mighty men, Donald Dinnie and James Fleming, jhaye been astonishing. the' weak minds • of the inhabitants of Leeds by their feats ; of strength and activity, ;; The former ..put a 161bi8hot 45ft Bin, and threw a hammer of similar weight 122 ft 6in. These, although 1 not by any means the champion's best performances, ; would a -few ■ years ago have struck the boldest amateur with terror and- astonishment. ' Since .that, time, however, great .strides have been made in this department of sport by and the Royal Engineers could send out, a man who would be no contemptible antagonist) with the stone, , while ; Oxford University possesses an ..operator .with the hammer who would j. make: even Donald Diunie exert himself. : Tossing/, the caber has never been introduced into the southern- counties/n or is "it likely ever to be popular, as these feats -'■of strength' do' not afford the excitement ■which'is required to amuse an ordinary fer^wdy of ;' ' Spectator's, who usually >ote everything, except racing, sip w, "'.. and hardly even now submit with patience to the infliction of a protracted contest at weight-putting or lbhg-juin'ping." ■ Land and Water makes the following" remarks about a dog fight at New York ':— frdta the publicity given to an ■ J exhibitiph of this description lately held' „ at jtS[ejHf .' -York', ', it 1 would appear that certain ijdf our Transatlantic, cousins, are cultivating! ; a tfis.te for ..this -brutalising pasttime. It seems that two well-known do 's, !

called i respectively Scalper; land Brandy, were matched to fight' for 1000 dollars, and sueh 'was thd interest excited that other beft, amounting ; to 3000 or 4000 ; . dollars, were ; depending on the [result. Longprices wer6 paid^for seats, and the New York Herald; evidently, considered : the matter, of considerable public importance, as one of its columns was devoted to a detailed description, of the fight,' in which we are told Scalper, after twentyeight minutes' hard struggling,; managed r with his sharp teeth 'to grind the life out of the old veteran.' The sufferings of the beaten animal are facetiously described, . and its ' weak and plaintive cries' seemed to have whetted the appetites of the spectators for a further exhibition of cruelty, to satisfy which the victorious dog was separated from the . other in order that he might the better . make the onslaught on his exhausted and victim, whose life only would satisfy the crowd. Hundreds witnessed this disgraceful spectacle, but were not once molested, as we are told the police ' were not aroused.' " The' writer .of an ; article on "Sport in Japan'i''.in a home paper, giveß the following description of native wrestlers : — " I thought it Was a curious sight on that hot summer, day. There was the blazing tiun overhead, who^e: rays were tempered by" the "mala spread over the inclpsure ; .underneath there' was a dusky excited swarm, while there stood, on the wrestling pedestal, the cynosure of all eyeß, a pale cold, white figure. He did not have to wait long. A tall powerful Japanese was 'put up,' and there was a second's hesitation while the two men— types of their race— fronted each other ; the one very dark, almost copper - colored, with swelling muscles and fat stomach; the other five feet eight and twelve stone, skinnylooking, but as hard as marble. Right i well that day did the plucky Scotchman . ;(f«r Scotchman he was) struggle for the ; honor of the land that sent him forth. • Three men were sent against him, one after the other, and the total result, if I ' - remember right, was two to brie in favor of the foreigner. The match was an uneven one, inasmuch as the stranger was not • .; thoroughly .up in the laws of Japanese wrestling, and several points were lost through ignorance, the match being ulti.mately finished by the foreigner spraining one of his toes."