SPORTING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17726, 10 September 1919, Page 5

SPORTING.

AJ.C SPRING ENTRIES. Pres3 Association—By Tel?<;raph—Copyright SYDNEY. Sfptcmbf.r 3. Tho general entries for the A.J.C. sprint meeting total 831, compared with 823 the previous year EFFECT OF RAILWAY RESTRICTIONS. The various racing clubs which in tho ordinary course of events would be holding their spr.ng nwc-Uags this month cr early m tho next «re placed in a- quandary owin~ to the rc--tric:ed railway service. Tho \eh° burton Club has fcur.d it advisable to abandon its spr.n- dates in favour of some more favourably fixed part of tho calendar, and in ell probability others will wisely fcl/oy/ £ui T If the ciuba atdioro io existing dates thev are laced utider csieting circumstancoa with an almost inevitable- less, which will probably retard progress fer perhaps two or threo «««>«■. Tho Kuro-.r Club, however, i n to mako a strong effort to carry on, and as there «ki»s to bo no prcspocl oi an improvement m the railway eervice, ocr minion is b ? ing ecu-ht to hold th» anrua! race mcc-t.r.g en the X-or!h Otago raitcMw Ilie, ctoms of nonuwtions h a 3 been cstencW until a o clock this ovcaing , .