SPORTING NOTES.

Lake County Press, Issue 589, 25 January 1894, Page 3

SPORTING NOTES.

[By Don Pedro.]

d The Queenstown Cricket Club have e declined the challenge of the Arrow g Club fora match to be played at Queens'S town on Saturday next, they not being able to gat their team together, e I hear that the Lumsden Cricket k Club intend playing Arrow and Queenst town abmt the end of February, and would like to play Cromwell at either r of the above places at the same time, f The Invercargill Club are endeavoring to send a team to the Lakes about i the beginning of next. mon*h. ) Wildwave did not get a look-in at / Gore. The Company were too fast, J presumably. 3 Mr W. Scoles’s Rebec and Getaway i and Mr Barnett’s Wild wave are nomin- > ated for the Lumsden meeting, Febru--1 ary 7. Wild wave and Modesty (Mr i Baird’s), are nominated at Tapanui. The captain of the Balclutha Club > (Mr H. P. Sanders) has broken the cycling record on the journey Dunedin

to Invercargill. His time, 12 hours 56 minutes; the former record, 18£ hours. The New South Wales-Auckland cricket match was won by the former by nine wickets. The Dunedin Star reports;—“A well-known local punter invested five pounds on Manilla in one of the events at the Hprorata meeting on Thursday, thinking that he was backing Vanilla, winner of the principal race at Oamaru on Boxing Day. The backer profited to the extent of .£7O by his error.” Daily Times says:—“ The Gore Racing Club appears to have foolishly decided to boycott one of the local papers for some strictures without any direct local application--on things j done in connection with horse-racing.” j The committee of the Duval Athletic I Club in Jacksonville declare that, in the event of interference by the militia

to prevent the prize tight between Mitchell and Corbett, the club will be prepared to resist, and can rely on the support of 6000 men. Mr C. W. Alcock, the popular secretary of the Surrey County' Cricket Club, a gentleman almost as well known as Mr Perkins, of the M.0.0., has just been interviewed, and has given a description of his ideal cricketer. He sees in the devoted cricketer a sound and able-bodied man, a pairiot, a cleanliving, straight-going specimen of manhood ; he regards cricket as a means whereby England and her colonies cun bo knitted and welded together as they could not be by all the policy and all the theories of Imperial Federation put together, ar.d he is not fur wrong.

A water-drinking contest was recently held in Paris. The winner swallowed 12 quarts, the second nine, and the third seven.

Professor Beaumont, the man-fish, put up a lecord at the Alhambra Palace of Varieties (Melbourne) by remaining under water for 4min 35aec.

The . racecourse is ever fruitful *in examples of daring villiauy. There is probably no type of scoundrelism in Christendom which does not find a representative among the criminal section of racegoers. The presence of these persons may or may not be held as evidence of the innate viciousuess of the turf.—Pall Mull Budget.