MILITARY SPORTS.
This Day at 1 o'clock, in the paddock attached to tbe Grammar school, which, has been kindly granted by Mr. Marshall for the purpose, the men of the 18th Royal Irish -will go though the following programme of rural sports : Foot Flat Eaoe, 100 yards (B company) . Ditto ditto, 100 yards (G company) Throwing the Cricket Ball Throwing the Shot Hop, Step, and Jump Foot Flat Race, 150 yards (open to all) Long Jump High Jump ; . High Jump Foot Hurdle Race, 300 yards, hurdles Bucket Race, 50 yards Old Soldiers' Bace (over 15 years' ''service), 100 yards . ■ Grinning through the Collar ' Non-commissioned Officers' Eaoe, 160 yards: Jockey Race, 100 yards , . : Sack Race, 100, yards ',„'" . : Champion Race, for Ist and 2nd, each; , company ,'• 4 ".•'', Marching Order Race, 3oo yards !'■"' ' Tbree-legged Race, 150 yards v • ''', { Goose in the Hole "•■ '•"'■'■ • > ;'■ ' Half-mile Raoe :»> ,c- • ;\r I ... - 1 All-comers' Raoe,* 400 yarda -■-••■*tP i -- :•> ' i ••■■ . ' ' . : ■"■,-<•,' •• .-.': i.-.o ■?. . J:, : i . , ii '■ <i . ■' ': . <1
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1114, 31 December 1869, Page 2
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158MILITARY SPORTS. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1114, 31 December 1869, Page 2
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