SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

Mataura Ensign, 16 March 1909, Page 4

SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

CRICKET. GORE V. RIVERSDALE. 9 The following will represent Gore Cricket Club in the match against Riversdale at Riversdale to-morrow, the team leaving by. > the 1.3 p.m. Waimea express:—Bowler, iWatkins, flee, Thomson, Laurenti, Scott, Ferguson, McJjeimnn, Stephens, Maude, Jone3. ATHLETICS. CHAMPIONSHIP MEETING. The twentieth annual New Zealand amateur athletic championship sports meeting, which is to be held next Saturday at the Caledonian Grounds, Dunedin, is creating great interest in athletic circles. The Canterbury team is a strong one and includes H. St. A. Murray (who represented New Zealand at the World's Olympic (James in London), C. L. Orbell (the Australasian high jump champion and record-holder), L\ H. Stubberfield (three-mile New Zealand champion walker), S. AV. Moore (who recently ran second in tho New Zealand Marathon Championship at Auckland) and Guy Raskins (the American inter-collegiate half and onemile champion and record-holder). It is not often (says the Auckland 'Herald') that the outside public has an opportunity to observe the results of the practical training which our volunteers are undergoing to lit them to defend our shores. On Saturday however, the College Rifle Volunteers were called upon in connection with the Marathon race to stand a seven? test of elficiency in one of the branches of the defence service, namely, signalling, and it was evident that at least in the opinion of the crowd at the Domain thev carried out their task in a most satisfactory manner. In order to report tin' progress of the race at different stages to those waiting in tho Domain it was necessary to establish road stations along the route and to connect these with transmitting stations upon Mounts Wellington and Hobson. Krom these latter stations the results were transmitted to the Domain Hill within a few minutes after tliey were received from the road stations. Although the distances negotiated were not great compared with those with which the signallers' instruments enable I hem to, deal, yet the task involved a complex scheme of co-operation and it is greatly to the credit of Captain Dawson and ihe officers and men of the College Rides that the result was so successful. BOXING. .JEKKIUKS v. JOHNSON. j T. Hums, when seen in Melbourne concerning the probable meeting of, Johnson and Jeffries for Ihe boxing' championship, expressed doubt whether Jeffries would ever again enter the ring. "He could (rain down to good, form again if he wished," said liunrs, "hut, 1 doubt if he will. It has always been a hard matter to gel Jeffries into solid training work. 'Jell" is 100 easygoing, too good-natured for the lioxing game to be congenial to him, lan there is no man so formidable when Hound up (<> meet an opponent. If Jeffries trains to meet Johnson, and 1 hope he will, Johnson will assuredly be beaten, ami beaten badly. Johnson's one effective blow is his uppercut--a terribly dangerous blow against a short man like myself who'lights with a crouch, but absolutely useless against .lelfnes, who would stand well up away from it. liesides, Jell'ries can uppeicut worse than Johnson, and in addition can deliver a blow any way ai all iliat would knock out any man. lOvcry blow Jeffries strikes, and his varieiv is great, is a serious matter. If ii comes 10 the .wrestling and holding tactics that John, son employed against 1110, (hen Johnson against Jell'ries would, lie of no account, for 'Jeff' could hold him as easily as Johnson held me. Hut 'Jeff does nol fight that way; he knocks his mauclean out. If the American people can force Jeffries into the ling they will, and if they do it, will be '(loud-live, Johnson.' "