SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXI, Issue 7274, 23 June 1884, Page 4

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

, THE AUSTEALIAN CEICKETEKS. I [BF ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COP TEIGHT.J. [Eectee’s TeLEGF.AHS. ' fßeceived Jane 21, at 1.15 n.m."! LONDON, Jl-.vs 19. The North of England team, which is now playing against the Anstr ilians at l Manchester, is composed of Messrs Docker, L and Hornby, and Barlow, Barnes, Bates, r Briggs, Crossland, Peate, Sherwic., Shrewsbury, and Ulyetr. In their first innings Hornby was caught, 9-1; Barnes, bowled, 07. fHeoarved June 23, at 12. :i 5 d.n.l i LONDON, June 21. The match was resumed and concluded to-day, resulting in the defeat of the visitors. The Home team, with six wickets down for 187, continued their firs : innings, and put together a total of 220. J. Briggs, caught 22, was the principal scoter. 1 to Australians, being 12S behind their opponents, then went in for the second ’ time, but their wickets again fell rapidly, * and the whole were put out for a total of 107, the Homo team thus winning by an innings and 21 runs. The highest scorers . were M'Donnell b 23, and Blackham c 32. Peate bowled splendidly for the Homo team, taking 3 wickets for 20 runs. FOOTBALL. SYDENHAM v. EAST OHKISTOHI.'KCH. The return match between these Club? , took place on Saturday, on the Sydenham ground, and ended, after a tough struggle, in a draw, neither team scoring. The ! match was a most oven one throughout. For the first quarter of an hour or so. Sydenham had a little the best of it. and then East Christchurch gained the advantage. Both teams wore forced down once, and Iloban, after getting over the East Christchurch goal lino, was thrown into touch in goal. The ball was, however, ordered back by the Sydenham umpire, as it had been knocked forward. The second spell was, if anything, a little in favour et East Christchurch, who, for a considerable portion of the time, had the game jwst the half-way flag. The game was fairly fast. Sydenham give their backs every possible show, while, on the other hand. East Christchurch being weak in this department, confined the game as much as possible to their forwards. Hobau played good, honest, forward game for Sydenham, and M‘Leau, although doing little work in the scrimmages, considerably helped his side, especially towards the end, by his runs. lies played well at quarter-back, and Allardyce and Fleming extricated their side from a difficulty on several occasions, the former by his kicking and running, and the latter by bis long punts into touch. Fooks played about the best forward game for East Christehurch. being of groat service in the scrimmages, and also in the loose play. Fooks is improving every match ho plays, and should develop into one of our best forwards. Holmes did a tremendous amount of work in the scrimmages, and Atkinson was to the fore in the dribbling line. The collaring of the backs showed a little implement. We observe that the Sydenham men aro getting into a habit of playing off-side, and there wore one or two glaring instances of this, which wo w'ero surprised the umpires took no notice of. There was a largo attendance of the extremely noisy class, who seem peculiar to the Sydenham ground, and who, as usual, amused 1 hem* selves by keeping up an incessant booting of the visitors. CHKISTCHUROH CLL'B v. COMBINED COLLEGES. . , The First Fifteen match of the Christ-

I -hurch Club on Saturday was against a I Combined team from the Canterbury and I bimvln Colleges, and very strong oppo--9 nonts they proved. The College back play I really good. White and Glasgow making some very successful runs, but they were prevented from scoring by the good collaring of the Christchurch barks. The .rstnie wiw a well contested one throughout. In the first spoil, Knight, succeeded in .vtting ever the College goal line close to touch, and Short, who whs entrusted with the place, landed the ball over the bar with a splendid kick. Play during the stH . o nd half of the game was much faster than the former, alt hough too much packed scrimmaging was resorted to on both sidles, whereas more scoring might have been done had they played the loose game. The (.’allege did their utmost to wipe off their opponents’ score, but to no avail, Berwick (who was in great form). Knight, and 11‘Kay Kang too much for the College. C. Cotterill passing the ball well on to jjathias. the latter, after a good run, try number two for Christchurch, (ho kick at- goal being a failure. Fiom this to the end the game was up and down the field, the repeated rushes of Watson, Cohen and Mathias being stopped hv the good collaring of the brothers (Glterill. No further score was made, and when time was called the ball was within a few yards of the College goal line, the game ending in favour of Christchurch l',v 1 goal 1 try (7 points) to nil. For the College. White, as full back, showed his running and kicking powers (o great advantage, and Glasgow, Watson, and Mathias, backs, and all the forwards worked hard right through the game. For the Christchurch side, llcswiek and Cotterili. backs, and Dobson, Knight, Helmore and M’Kay did yeoman’s work. CHRIST'S COLLEGE v. KAIAPOI. This match came off on Saturday at Kaiapoi. and resulted in a win for the visitors by two tries (four points) to nil. The game was very evenly contested, and considerable interest was taken in the match by the large' number of spectators that wore present; and, as one part of the ground was about twelve inches under water, the onlookers were much amused at the aquatic evolutions of some of the players. At 3,15 p.m., Hargreaves (captain) kicked off for the College, and the game was fast and furious right through. The runs made by Harman and Cotterill, quarter-backs for the College, and also those of Delamain, half-back for Kaiapoi, wore much admired. The two former obtained the tries, one in each spell, but, although in easy positions, no goals resulted. Of the forwards for the College, Hargreaves, Cooke and Harris played a good game ; while for the home team, Jones, senr., Fantham, Winterbourne, Smith and Champion were conspicuous in the scrimmages. James Jones was also in excellent form as quarterback. The game was played in two spells of 40 minutes, and although perhaps a little too much talking was indulged in, owing, in a measure, to the vacillating opinions of the umpires, it was contested with the utmost friendship. The Waikari team visited town on Saturday, playing the Christchurch Club’s Second Fifteen on the Exhibition ground. The visitors played a good hard forward , game, but were decidedly weak behind. On the other hand, the C.F.C. backs played well together, the p;issing and running at times being particularly good. The home f«mi eventually won by ,4 goals .and 5 tries (29 points) to nil. For Waifcari. Partridge, Lane (2) and Maxwell were most prominent, and for Christchurch tries were obtained by Brown (3), Matson, Alabaster, Webb, M‘Dowell and Palmer, from which goals were kicked by M‘Do well, Matson and Flint, M'Dowell also potting a very neat goal from the field. The Second Fifteens of East Christchurch and Sydenham met on the East Christchurch ground, the match ending, like that between the first fifteens, in a draw. The game was a pretty even • one, Sydenham having a little the best of it. The Third Fifteen of East Christchurch met a strong team of the High School on the school ground. Several old boys played for the school, who won by a try to nil. Merivale met North Canterbury on Saturday, and were defeated by two goals to nil. Both goals were kicked from the field, one from a mark, and one the result of a flying shot at the posts. No try, however, was obtained, whereat there was much cause for congratulation among the Merivale men, who, after the drubbing administered to East Christchurch, fully expected a severe thrashing. A match was played at Temuka on Saturday, between the Timaru Crusaders and the local Club, resulting, after a veay close contest, in a draw, neither side having scored. Temuka had the advantage in weight, but the dribbling and passing of the Timaru men made up for this. In the evening the visitors were entertained at dinner by the Temuka men at the Wallingford Hotel, where a very pleasant evening was spent. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, June 22. When the Telegraph Office closed this evening, there was no sign of the Wakar tipu from Sydney with the footballers. On her arrival, the team will be met by a large Committee appointed from all the local Clubs, and, as the Wakatipu has been detained until Tuesday, the representatives will be entertained at a banquet to-morrow night, at which His Excellency the Governor will preside. It is probable that a local fifteen will be chosen to try conclusions with the team. HAWKE’S BAY STEEPLECHASES. [Pee Peeks Association.] NAPIER, June 22. The following are the final acceptances for the Hawke’s Bay Steeplechase Handicap, of •100 BOVS. fit lb ! st lb Clareuw* . 13 ‘i I Grey Morans ... 10 7 Chandler 11 7 | The ftrui-i 10 « Bateman 11 3 I Usoiucdcs 10 3 liartery ..11 0 Past laws 10 0 Scrutineer". . ‘ ... 11 0 ! WiM Ifeyrell ... 10 0 RIFLE MATCH. The team selected to represent the City Guards in the match with No. 2 Company, Prince Albert’s Light Infantry, of Bath, fired at Hillsborough Range on Saturday afternoon. Firing commenced at 2 o clock. The afternoon was bright, but very cold, and the ground very damp. Owing to the number of shots fired the match w ns not finished until 4.45 p.m., the light being then so bad that it was with some difficulty that the men could see the target, which fact will account for the low score made at the last range l . The following the conditions:—Ten men a side j ranges, 200, 300, 400 and 500 yards; seven shots_attach range; position, any; no sighting shot; Wimbledon target and scoring. The following are the scores; —

255 225 21U ir—azu Staff Sergeant-Major Blackmoro was present, and took charge 0 £ the scoring aa representative of the English Company. The scores will bo forwarded Home by the next outward mail.

200 300 400 500 T1 Vila yds yds yds Capt.N. Wolfe ... 22 19 23 IB— 92 Lieut. I’.W. Francis ,27 20 IB 12— 83 ~— —G. Morris ... 24 1(5 23 15— 78 Scrgt. T. A ulscbrook 23 21 27 4— 75 bergt. J. Caliill ... 23 23 13 10— 09 Sergt. Hall. 2G 20 21 13— 80 Corpl. J, Parker ... 24 22 23 C — 7u Lrivt. A. Aukebrook 27 20 24 1C— 93 Lrivt. Lav cry 23 21 21 1C— 81 Lrivt. G. Balfour... 20 25 23 14— 88 or.r. 0*7 K •>i n i j ■ivn