SPORTING NOTES.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 41, 24 September 1892, Page 4

SPORTING NOTES.

The following letter has been received by the Secretary of the Ohinemuri Jockey Club under date Sept 20 :—" Mr Edwin Edwarda, Paeroa: My Committee have considered your application arid allotted you the X7th 'March for your annual meeting. — W. Percival, Secretary A.R.C." # * •■* . ■■■• i We note with much disgust that 'the A.R.C. have refused to pass the Thames Jockey Club's Christmas programme. 'We are glad to see that the Thames Oommittee -are going to fight the matter out. ' The sooner this sort of ■tyranny gets the fiat foot of public opinion on-it, the better. = ■ . *** ■ ■'■■"■' whipped'^tago on Saturday by # to 4 - - ■#■■■■■■•■ . : As showing the deep-rooted love "for (football possessed by British juveniles in general, a sceue presented itself the other day 'to our reporter that would have made a'first-class-study 'for an Tartist, bringing to mind at once Max CRell's remarks oh the -subject. A small paddock, two goals :ef ■ti-'triee' stuck about twenty paces apart. Fullback, an old-fellow in knickerbockers, somewhere between 7 and 9:; forwards, all stalwart fellows, like himself,%ave gained a try, and are about to have a" tplace-kick at goal. One of them is lying down, with only shirt and "breeches on, kept together 'by a piece of flax, and seemingly his pocket handkerchief protruding through the gable end of the latter. An apology for a ball was a defunct starling, held by the wings asunder to better enable the

kickesfc to catch the body with hie formidable toe. The opponents, all breathless and-eager to stop it, rash op simultaneously with the kick given, and, amid a deluge of feathers, they all collided, falling pellmell on the top of one another, utterly regardless of the" vehement yells of the old fellow from the bottom of the heap that the .ball was "held." V In the coarse of a powerful sermon against gambling, which the Archdeacon of London preached at St. Paul's lately, he very properly put gambling on the Stock Exchange on the same level as gambling on the turf. " I have myself/ said Dr. Sinclair, "known pious and respeotable women who daily prayed with fervent earnestness to Almighty God that they might make. 30 per cent, on the Stock Exchange.". . . ; The cricket averages for the yeatf ate just out. Shrewsbury heads the batting: with an average of 42. "W". G. Grace , ' has 31; Murdoch 29; and Woods 19*^1 In bowling, Woods took 158 wicketsfor an average of 16 runs a-piece,-; '■• Ferris, 80 for 24. Spofforth, who-has played butiittle, only appears with nine. wickets to his name, at an average of -31 runs each. * The " St. James' Gazette" welcomes the prospect of a visit from an Australian' ■ team next year. ■If it represents the . real strength of the colonies, the " Gazette" thinks it will make things hum in the cricket world. \L. V The Auckland cricket authorities in* tend to celebrate the opening of the cricket season to-day by aciicket match . between a local team and a team repre- . senting the Opera Company. There will also be a drop-kicking competition, and a competition in placeikicking. * The defeat of. Sullivan by " Pompadour Jim," as Corbett is familiarly styled, is one of the biggest surprises of ! the year, for, notwithstanding the rate at which the once-fistic marvel John L., i has been living, he was generally sup-. ■ . posed to be quite equal to settling, the,. • pretences of the ex-amateur, even, though the latter includes in his ring • record a draw against Professor Jackson. Even among his staanchest sopporters Corbett is not considered capable of holding his own with such fighters. as Jackson, Slavin, or Mitchell, and if . the general opinion is correct, Sullivan must have deteriorated in a remarkable manner, which it is but reasonable to suppose he has. 'Like numerous other good ones, invincible at one period of their lives, " the slugger" has realised the truth of the saying that it is " the pace that kills';" for a few -years ago Coibett's latest victim was on all conceded to be a veritable fighting phenomenon. • *** A correspondent of the "Herald," writing arient the totalisator, gives figures relating te the doings of the runners of the -machine at last Saturday's meeting in Auckland. He saya that the total amount received being £3055 and the total amount paid away being £2677 4s leaves £377 Bs, then 377.4X100 — = £12.3666, which gives 3055 rate per cent, as £12 7s Ad.; so that, instead of the racing public having deducted from their winnings lO.per cent. it is shown that no less than £12 7s 49 has'been deducted. V 3n vhe big eculling tournament on Monday Creese defeated Lambert on a foul. Neilson, with lOseca. start defeated Stanbury by 20 lengths,; time, 22m. 465. The betting was 5 to 2on the champion, bat he was never in it. ■ : V Mr D. O'Brien's horses Freedom, at present iv Sydney, (by Captivator— Maid of Honour) and Florrie (by Tasman—Rubina) were submitted to auction; but both were passed in, the former at 400 guineas and the latter at 450 guineas. ■HIEPOS.