OUR SPORTING CHRONICLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4399, 18 December 1875, Page 3

OUR SPORTING CHRONICLE.

« ' Amono the following are a few of thehighest priced yearlings sold at Doncaster, last September. It will be seen that blood stock still commands enormous prices. The late Rev. Mr. King's mares were also sold. , Mandragora, covered by Adventurer, fetched the highest price ever realised by a brood ' mare. ; YEARLINGS. Gs. I Central Fire, br c, by Pero Gomez out of Beechy Head, Sir. W. S.Crawford.. .. 1,500 J Hilarious, br c, by Brown Bread out of Hyceia, Mr. Johnston 1,200 ' Chestnut colt foal, by Sterling out of Chillia- : w.llah, Mr. Johnston 450 1 Brown colt, by Young Melbourne out of ( Makeshift, Mr. W. S. Crawford .. .. 1,100 Bay colt, by Adventurer out of Maid of the ' Glen, Mr. Jos. Duwson 1,800 ' Pelligriuo, by Thu Palmer out Lady Audrey, I Mr. K. Peck 1,600 ■, Many others fetched from £GOO to a £1000. ] LATE MR. KING'S BROOD MARES. T Gs. 1 Mandragora, ch m, by Kataplan out of Man- t ganese, covered by Adventurer, Mr. Gee.. 3,250 1 Agility, b m, by Adventurer out of MandraRora, covered by Palmer. Mr. Gee .. .. 2,500 £ FiUy foal, by The Palmer out of Agility, Mr. 1 Gee 200 Peradvcnture, b m, by Adventurer out of •, Manganese, covered by Hermit, Mr. Fisher, ' of Australia 1,250 ' Turning to the records of pedestrianism, ' we find that on September 20th E. Perkins, ' of twenty-three years of age, undertook, for ' abet of £100 to £50, to walk eight miles in i one hour at the ijillie Bridge ground, which * he accomplished in 59 min. 5 sec. Mr. J. ? Vardy, of Bell's Life, was referee and time- * Leeper, thus guaranteeing the fairness of the ' walking. The only thing approaching this T performance was when Charles Westhall, in ( 1857, walked 7J miles in 58 minutes 25 s seconds, on a turnpike road at Slough. The J following is the time : —

2m, 14—13 4m, 28-60 Cm, 44—24 Bm, 53— 5 When he pulled, up he was quite [fresh, and has since offered to back himself to do SJ miles in the hour, or 21 miles in three hours. Now for a •wonderful jump. Atßardsley, near Ashton, on September IS, Greaves, the champion stand-jumper, cleared 13 feet 7 inches with a 23-lb. weight; thus beating all previous performances in England, and equalling Searles, of America, who is credited with 13 feet 7 inches. The preliminaries of the Interprovincial Pigeon Match are at last all arranged, and I may state with certainty that Auckland, Canterbury, and Otago will take part in the contest, which is interesting as being the first of its kind in the colony. Each team will shoot on its own ground, a representative of each province being present to see fair play. As it is inconvenient for all the three provinces to shoot on the same day, it has been deemed sufficient that the shooting must be brought off within the Christmas week. The day fixed for the Auckland team to shoot is the 31st December, the place selected EUerslie race-course, and the time 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Messrs. Marks, Brown, and W. M. Hay were appointed a committee of selection for Auckland, and these good judges have made choice of the following gentlemen to do battle for our province :—Messrs. Middleton, J. Smith, R. Wynyard, Bishop, A. Aitken, A. E. Cox, Steele, Bcosie, S. Morrin, CC. Wood. The team is a strong one, and will take a lot of beating. It will he seen that the Waikato district supplies some capital shots. The match will be shot under the Hainley Gun Club rules. The value of the cup, which is to constitute the trophy of victory, will be £90. Should the Auckland men be fortunate enough to pull it off, it is arranged that a private possession will be contended for in a handicap among the whole number of the subscribers to the funds. I xmderstand that the Dunedin men intend to leave no stone unturned to take the prize down South, and they have been steadily practising for some weeks. I am sorry I cannot say the same for our own men, though I hare no doubt that now tho team is chosen the members will avail themselves of the time left them to get as much practice as they can. The entries for the principal events in the North Shore Rowing Club sports have closed, and appear elsewhere. Some close competition will take place for the two big events —the Devonport Cup and the Rowing Club Cup, both of which have secured several well-known names. A goodly lot of young aspirants to pedestrian honours appear as candidates for the Maiden Eace. The entries for the Yule Handicap and the Boxing-Day Cup Handicap in the Caledonian sports, to come off on the 27th instant, at Ellerslie Gardens, close this evening. The second and third prizes in both these events have been liberally increased to £5 and £2 respectively, so that the races will be well worth contesting. If the handicapper succeed 3 in bringing the men together as well as he did in the Birthday Handicap, a fine day's sport will be euro to result at this favourite holiday resort. The Auckland Rowing Club has been hatched into life by the genial weather of the last few days. The " Trial Foure" on Thursday were well contested, and the rowing was not bad, considering the little practice the men have had. The Treasurer's Cup, another four-oared race in this Club, will take place at an early date. I hear that a movement is on foot to get a fouroared crew to go down to Wellington to contest the £100 given for " Inrigged Fours." It will be much to the credit of those gentlemen who are moving in the matter if they succeed in saving Auckland the disgrace of allowing such valuable prizes to go without a. struggle. lam sorry to Bee that present appearances point to the fact that we shall have nothing going down to Lyttelton for the Champion Schooner Race this time. Cannot some enterprising merchant give the Peerlesß a charter in that direction ? Our own regatta is now fast approaching. A meeting of the committee is called for Monday next, to arrange for collecting subscriptions and other general business. I trust that all the members will see the propriety of attending and giving the -weight of their collective wisdom to have ererything as satisfactory as possible. As to last year's unfortunate misunderstanding about the yacht race, let all owners join in shewing a true sportsman-like spirit and forget and forgive. e 6 HOTSPTJH.

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