SPORTING SNIPPETS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 45, 4 February 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)

SPORTING SNIPPETS.

SOME SPECIAL PARS ABOUT ALL SORTS OF SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

Ono hundred and eleven horses raced on one day at the December Manchester mooting. This is a record, the highest previous number being 109. *

The King’s jockey always rides in plain black jacket and scarlet cap, and these colours will grace King George’s jockeys when he commences to run his late father’s horses on the Turf.

Hockey, which each winter becomes increasingly popular, was in a totally unorganised state up till the year 1883, when the first modern rules were reduced to definite shape by the Wimbledon Club of England.

Golf, like cricket seems to follow wherever the Briton <xoes. A golf competition has actually been played off in Lhasa, the forbidden city of Thibet, by the members of a British expedition. • • • ♦

R. Wootton, the racehorse trainer, is known as ' Old Man Wootton” to distinguish him from his two brilliant sons, Frank and Stanley, the jockeys. Fiank Wootton, bv the way, can no longer be regarded as a light-weight jockey, for recently he could not ride below 7 stone 13 pounds.

P. F. Warner, the famous cricketer, is an enthusiastic Territorial, and as an officer he spends much of his time at this period of the year looking after the interests of his local corps at Blasted. The Hon. F. S. Jackson, is another crieketei ‘ Terrier,” being a rr.cmlx'r of the Yorkshire Yoemanry. • Cr « •

Professional cycling does not pay in England, but or. the Continent a cyclist only remains an amteur until ho is good enough io ioin the ranks of the paid. Some of the “amateurs.” too. accept large salaries from cycle and tyre manufacturers, and receive payment per kilometre for every race they enter.

The English Automobile Association have erected special signs on the Folkestone and Dover roads warning foreign motorists to keep to the left. The rule of the road on the Continent is just the opposite to that here, and several accidents h ive been caused by foreign drivers instinctively taking the righthand side-of the road in an emergency.

A fox being nunted by the Cheshire Hounds was lost near Over Congregational Church. Two days later the catetakcr of the church found the building in great disorder. The font was smashed vases from the Communion table- lay in fragments on the floor, and hassocks were ripped open. Master Reward was discovered hiding in the chimney, and, after an exciting chase among the pews by the caretaker’s terrier, he made his escape.