SPORTING NOTES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 21, 16 May 1876, Page 2

SPORTING NOTES.

Petrarch, the "winter Derby" favourite, lias been sold to Lord D'upplin for a large

The French \ToCkeiy~Chtb' ftaJf rejected an , offer by M. Oiler to pay a sum of £4,000 a-year for ten years, or a total of £40,000,.t0.be allowed to erect offices, on the racecourses of Paris and Chantilly for ready-money betting by himself or by persons to'' whom" he might sub-let places. •

-• Stanton has made a match with Messenger, 'the' American lorig-distance bicyclist, to ride 1,000 miles for - GOOdols. a-side at the Royal Skating Rink, New .York. . .. .

Messrs. Blackburne and Steinitz are to play a chess match for £6O a-side, the victor to win the first seven games without a draw. '

■ 'The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, whose jJace near Sandringham rivals the splendid \ country seat of the Prince of Wales, has offered' •to take the immense wager "of "I £IOO,OOO to £5,000 that within three ygars . he will kill a thousand, brace of ■■■■' with his own gun, on his -own estate, in a . single day. -t, Mr.' Hei'cules • Ross, 'tli6' champion' rifle : ? .shot of'lndia, carried off tlie I prize cup with the wonderful score- 'of 141' in thirty shots at 800, 900, arid 1,000, ' yards. t ' T6!e'following is the exact score,' the first "two shots at 'each rahgg..being ' sighting shots 800 yards, 55,5545554555 —4B ; 900 yards,.. ss, 0555456555 —50 ; 1,000 yards, y -total. rmi.. " '"" '

T On January 15, Geraghty walked twentyfive miles at La Salle,■ 111., in,-4Jirs. 33min. 35secs., winning his wager that hq do tlie distance in 4hrs. 35miii>. by liiiin. 2osecs. ' ' "\ xr. At Williamsburg John • John Gouldihg are walking against other 1,000 miles in 1,000 consecutive hours. _ They walk a mile alternately. . Du Wiiffis fifty-four yeravs of age, Gouldorty, and the betting is in favour of tlie latter. ; : »

G'Lcary -bet Ennis SSOO that he could not walk ninety miles in his, (O'jLeary's) time,, and the wager being accepted, the match came off in January. Ennis did the distance in 18 houivj 49 minutes and 40 seconds, beating - O'Leary's wonderful time by four miniiijgSv exactly. • .

"VV. F. walked .... for eighty consecutive hours without 'sleep or rest, eating liis''meals as he walked. He was-allowed a- few- minutes to take an : occasional bath. His neck and legs at the >' finish were very sore and painful, and he could not bear being touched.. He offers ~ to back himself. to walk"foiv'l2s coiisecii-T - tive hours without sleeper rest. ■ On March 6, - Georg£..Jlazel, the oV pion ten-mile runner wjSfsr-'io undertal£?.®to surpass. Deerfoot's unrivalled time foi a that ; distance of 51 minutes 26 seconds. .