SPORTING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8006, 10 February 1887, Page 2

SPORTING.

HOBART COP. (eeuter’s telegrams.) (Received February 10, 1.15 a.m.) Hobart, February 9. The Hobart Cup was ran for to-day, and resulted as follows :—Maori Chief, 1; Harvester, 2; Knave, 3. Won easily, Time, 2mia 43sec, FORBURY TRAINING NOTES, (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, February 9. The weather continues beautifully fine, bat this was a light day at the Fbrbnry training ground. Patrician and Derwenter went out before daylight, and there being no spectators it is impossible to say what was done. Later on Pack did a long sweat, while Quibble, SUvermark, and Lady Ellen joined in with him for a short distance, each in succession. Ike and Argonaut did slow work together, and Trapper followed suit alone. Molly Bawn and Garibaldi were treated to two miles at half-speed. 3t. : Clair bad a long sweat With Mokoia for -.a' companion for two miles and St. Swithen for the rest of the journey. St. Ives covered a couple of milea alone. Disowned and Torrent Were scratched for all engagements at the Dunedin Autumn Meeting at 12,45 to-day. DUNEDIN CUP BETTING. - Dunedin, February 9. To-day’s Dunedin Cup quotations are as follow :—2 to 1 sgst Spade Guinea, 100 to 18 Disowned, 100 to 12 Derwenter, 100 to 10 Rnbina, Hermitage, Tit Bit, and La Rose, BOOKMAKERS LAYINGTOTALISATOR ODDS. THE CONVICTION UPHELD, . Christchurch, February 9. In Banco to-day Hr Justice Johnston dismissed the appeal la Porter v. Connor. Porter laid the totolisator odds on the Bio-’ carton course on November 8. He was arrested by Detective O’Connor, convicted at the Christchurch Resident Magistrate’s Court under section 18 of the Gaming and Lotteries Act of unlawfully' conducting a scheme by which prizes of money were competed for by mode of chance, to wit, a horse race. He was fined £25, and appealed. It bad been contended, for the appellant, that the voluntary selection by a person of a horse within appellants’ scheme, depending upon the skill and knowledge of that person, was not a mode of obance. Mr Justice 1 Johnston pointed oat that the totalisator itself is declared by the Both section of the Act to bean instrument of gaming within the meaning of the Act unless used in conformity with the Aot. ' He had no donbt that the appellants’ scheme, which had all the elements of chance which the totalisator had, was a scheme for gaining a prize by a mole of chance, and the license to use the totalisator game could not be invoked' as legalising such a scheme as that referred to. The dividends declared, or in the words of section 18, “competed for by dice or any other mode, of chance,” were not to be confined to modes, ejusdem geneils, with lot or dice. He ; maintained Chief Justice Cockbnrn’s opinion, that there being an element of obance in a transaction of any parties betting by the totalisator on a horserace, such betting might properly bo called a game of chance. The conviction waa confirmed, and costa (10 guineas) were given against Porter. .

NAPIER PARK RACES, Napier, February 9. Following are weights for Nap>er Park Autumn Meeting ! —Hurdle Race—Peter Osbeck, list 101 b; Erebus, list 61b; Kangaroo, lOat 121 b; Owhaoko and Volcano, lOat 4ib ; Magnesia, 9st XOlb; Bide-a-wee, 9st 9ib; Tim and Hurricane, Sst; Mountaineer, Sstfilb; Fiemington, Sat ,61b ; Snapshot, Sat 71b. Flying Handicap Pasha,9st 101 b; Pearl, 9st; Tigredia and Shah, Sst 101 b; Spade Guinea, Sst Sib ; Apropos, Sat 61b ; Molly Bawn, Sst 41b ; Silence, Strenuous and Soudan, Sst; Vinaigrette, 7at 101 b ; Miss Dargon, 7st 81b ; Orwell, 7st6lb; Rivulet, 7st 51b ; Warota and Trickster, 7»t 21b ; Soot Free and Revoke, t7st; Hnata, Sat 12!b; Kupe and Princess Royal," fist 61b ; Psycho, fist s!b; Loagwaist, Cat 41b; Kaihn, fist; Marama, fist. Welter Handicap. - Quibble, list Sib ; Erebus, list 41b ; Shah, list 21b; Strenuous, list ; Denbigh, lOst 12at; Kangaroo, lOat; Owhaoko; lOst lllb - Clyde, XOst 10lb; Mystery, Sst 81b; Poet aud Magnesia, 9st 41b ; Fiemington, 9st; Tawahine, Sst 131 b; Wararaa; Premium, and Marama, Sat 71b. Napier Cup.—Pasha, 9at 61b ; VVaitiri. Sat ; Administrator, Sst Sib ; Pearl. Sstfilb; Tigredia, Sst Sib; Spade Guinea, Sst 4ib; Quibble, Sst 11b; Silence, Sst; Apropos, 7st 121 b; Soudan, 7st 91b ; Tricbater, 7st 61b; Rivulet, 7»t 41b; Wapiti, Mystery, and Scott, 7st; Orwell and Salisbury, fist 12ih; Revoke, fist 101 b ; Fardingale, fist 91b ; Kupe;. fiat 71b ; Clyde, fist 4!b.