SPORTING.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1973, 2 October 1886, Page 2

SPORTING.

GERALDINE SPRING MEETING.

(UNITED press ASSOCIATION).

TiMAßtr, Sept. 30. The first day’s racing of the Geraldine R. C. Spring Meeting took plaoe to-day. The results were as follows MAIDEN BFBDfcKS. Cottan’s King Arthur ~ 1 Alexander’s Temuka.. ..2 Totalisator dividend LI 7*. MAIDEN PLATE. Thompson's Wairuna 1 O’Brien's Tasmania.. ... 2 Duncan’s Urland .. ... 3 Dividend L 3 2s. G. B. C. HANDICAP, Higgot’s Patrician I Rutherford’s Derweater .. 2 Lunn’s Kingask 3 A good raoe; time 2miu 18sec. Dividend L2 12s. ' sires’ pboducb stakes. Stead’s Chantilly .. .. 1 Stead’s Fair Nell 2 Dividend L 3 IQs. Novel Race and Selling Race were won by finance, and the Hurry Scurry by Rapid Bay.

NAPIER RACES.

Peb Pbbss Association.

Napier, October 1. Tha weather is grand for the inauguration meet ng of the Napier Park Racing Club, and the attendance on the ground is probably the largest ever seen on any Hawke’s Bay course. The ground Is is good condition, and the grand stand is the theme of uniy6r..al admiration. a'S—with the excepdq*» of 'f? {jopr lidered the finest in the cojoqy. [With customary stupidity the Preps Association h*s neglected to sand us the resalts of yesterday’s racing]. CRICKET CHATTER. “ Punch ” refers to the finish of the Ans rali.n’s match against Yorkshire thus .—Gre.t Scott 1 Mr H. J. Scott, Captain of the Australian Eleven, finished off tie second innings against Yorkshire this other day in‘a trn)y sensatlobal sty Id, Tt?e first hall of the Uaf'over he ];'jijif away” for six, the second ho ‘‘dispatched " for fdqr, the third ha “ persona ly condqmedl'over tfie seats beyond the cinder pqth for sis, and the fourth — and last ball of the over and m»‘fih—bfi ■mote “ okan ont of the play” for y»i another six 1 Tw.nty-two runs from ons over; That is Scott’s lot with a vengeance. How pleasant for the bowler and his average.” The Kaikoura Star says:—An effort Is being made to ar ange a cricket match between K’dkoura and Blenheim elevens to be played at Kekerangii on the ninth of November. Wi hope thi't inch will' tak& pl.ee as it woiid give an impetus to {he game here. And as there are, it is stated, some prospects of the Australians playing a match against a Marlborough teqm jn Blenheim a few jtaikqura representatives might be choaen. The aasiatanoa of. snob players aa Messrs] Halliday, T. Caokf, W. Smart, Maplesden aud A. Pearce would be of more service than many a Blenheim cricketer, and their inclusion in a Marlborough twenty-two would not be at .all improbable in the event of a matoh taking place between Kaikoura and Blenheim. Mr Ha Jiday and Mr Pearce have both played hgainsti Engfisfi’- tbqmaV JmcJ 'WjS d lieve Mr Cooke as Wei- as Mr M»pl e *’ ‘ . . Wg neqd hardly remind the appointed delegates from tfie various Clubs that the meeting re the formation of a Marlborongh Cricket Association will be held at the Criterion Hotel at 7 o'clock this evening.

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