SPORTING NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 217, 3 November 1888, Page 3

SPORTING NEWS.

THE MELBOURNE CUP. The last forfeit ia connection with the Melb urne Cup became due oa Tuesday, when the following horses were left in :— Australian Peer, Mahia, Curlyon, Arsenal, Beu Bolt, Enfii.de, Bravo, Mentor, Cyclops, Recall, Spade Guinea, Aristocrat, Chicago, Dick Swiveller, The Yeoman, Lord Headington, Whakawai, Melos, Touchstone. Phaon, Pearl Shell, Newmaster, King of the West, Bonnie Spec, Maggie, Ensign, E.D., Ilex, Tradition, Beryl, and Menotti. CANTERBURY METROPOLITAN MEETING. The following weights have been declared :— The Criterion Stakes, of one mile.— Aprop s, 9st 71b ; Sextant 9st 11b; Sultan, Bst 51b ; Escutcheon and Escapade, Bst; La Rose, 7st 121 b; Dudu, 7st 101 b ; Quibble and. Lorraine, 7st 81b ; Erin-go-Bragh and Ravens wing, 7st sb; Engagement, 7st ; Kimberley, 6st 121 b; Matamata, 6st 101 b; Turantalus, 6st 91 b ; Rainbow and Parvula, 6st 81b ; Red Ensign, 6st 51b ; Patrician, 6st. Thatchpeg was not handicapped because his entry gives no particulars. Selling Plate, one mile.—Hermitage, 9st; Rewi, Bst 61b ; Duchess of Albany, 7st 13lb*; Jack, 7st 91b; Count D’Orsay, 7st sb; Captain Cook, 7st 41b ; Bronte and Bluelight, 7st; Wairuna, 6st 9ib ; Rosebud, 6st 81b ; Sir Julius and Temuka, 6st 51b; AHana, Forward, Doubtful, Fickle, and Idalia, 6st. Riccartou Welter, six furlongs.—Sextant and Maligner, 10st 121 b; Escapade, lOst ; La Rose, 9 t 12lb ; Erin-go-Bragh, Ost 91b ; Rewi, 9st 81b ; Son-of-a-Gun and Quibble, 9st 7ib; Raven and Richmond, Bst 121 b ; Tarantalus, Bst 7lb ; College Boy and Sir Julius, Bst 51b ; Red Ensign, Bst 4ib ; Repose and Matamata, Bst 21 b ; Fleurette, Credulity, Mikado, Vinco, and Moss Rose, Bst, Spring Hurdles, two miles.—Premier, li t 71b ; Mao, list 51b ; Marmion and Reuben, list; Irish King, lOst 12ib ; Raven, 10-st 71b ; Clyde and Ivanhoe, 9st 121 b ; Comet and Main boom, 9st.

The following peculiar incident is reported by the London Sporting Life, in its account of the second match between the Australians and All England :—Ferris had started bowling at the Gasworks end on Monday afternoon, and before the drawing of stumps had changed ends. Yesterday morning he bowled from the Gasworks wicket, and had so changed ends twice. Now, as every schoolboy knows, or, perhaps, it would be more correct to say should know, a bowler, according to the laws of the game, can only change ends twice in an innings, yet here was England v. Australia—the greatest match of the season —and after thia punishment Ferris was actually allowed to go on at the Pavilion wicket i.e., to change ends for the third time. The left-hander had scarcely o mipleted the infringment of the law (he had only bowled one ball) when Carpenter, the Umpire, recollected that Ferris could not legally bowl at the Pavilion end, and stopped him. Then, of course, arose a difficulty as to whether the over should be finished or no. On the face of it an over once started had to be completed, but against this there was the fact that the ball which Ferris had sent down was no ball at all. Eventually, after some consultation, in which W. G. Grace participated, it was agreed <iot to reckon the ball which Ferris had bowled, and Turner resumed. No better course could, perhaps, be suggested, yet we do not doubt that if Ferris had bowled Lohmann with that ball the batsman would have had t 0 s°- ’