LAND AND WATER.

Otago Witness, Issue 3584, 21 November 1922, Page 44

LAND AND WATER.

BOXING. SIKlb LAPSE. PARIS, November 11. Siki, interviewed, said that he was unable to explain why he attacked Prunier, who knocked out Balzac, of whom he was very fond. When he saw him knocked out he got mad. He jumped into the ring to protest, and coming across Prunier and Cluny he went for them.Siki. celebrating the armistice, donned the uniform of a Senegalese sharpshooter and promenaded the Boulevards. The police finally locked him up on a charge of illegally wearing a uniform. BECKETT AND CARP ENT IE It MATCHED.' LONDON, November 14. Joe Beckett and Carpentier have been matched to fight at the end of January. CONTESTS IN AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, November 10. At the Stadium Mel Coogan (America) was awarded the verdict on a foul against Archie Bradley at the end of a gruelling 71 - rounds. The men were evenly matched, and both frequently adopted tactics not in accordance with the rules, the referee being kept busy. The verdict caused much dissatisfaction. MELBOURNE, November 19. Eddie Rames (America) defeated Jerry Sullivan on a foul in the lSth round. CHRISTIAN BROTHERS’ SCHOOL. The seini-firuds and the finals of the boxing championships of the Christian Brothers’ School were decided in the King’.Theatre on Saturday night. Mr T. Gillies acted as master of ceremonies, Mr J. Kilmartiu was referee. Messrs Campbell and Finnerty. judges, and Messrs J. Isaacs and S Brown time-keepers. The contests were of three rounds each of two minutes.

PAPER WEIGHTS. Final. J. Richmond beat G. Haydon. Richmond did most of the attack, and won comfortably from his bigger opponent. BANTAM WEIGHTS. J. Gonlay beat J. Vallia. W Francis beat W. M'Alevey. Final Gonlay beat Francis. A good get-to Gonlay scored well in the (irst round, but the second and third were very even LIGHT WEIGHTS. J. O’Connor boat J. Beard. Final. O'Connor beat APCrossan. WELTER WEIGHTS. P. Butler beat .J. Chronican. Final. Sheehan beat Butler. MIDDLE WEIGHTS. Final. T. M'Carten (the school champion) beat M. Williams. MIDGETS. Final. Steve Carey beat J. Donaldson. FEATHER W FIG I ITS. Final, J. Hayes beat G. Mills. FLY WEIGHTS. Final. P. Ryan beat P. M'Alevey. BILLIARDS. SMITH DEFEATS INMAN. LONDON. November 12. Smith (IC.ODD) defeated Inman (14,200). BOWLING. Tim following shows the result of Saturday’s Dunedin Centre Intcrclub matches:—

The clubs in the South Otago Centre j are much concerned at present as to j whether the Centre interclub competitions j should consist of one or two rounds. A J couple of meetings have been held, and the I matter has been exhaustively discussed with- f out any finality having been arrived at. j Opinion seems to be fairly evenly divided L and another meeting has been arranged with | the hope of finally disposing of the matter. I It certainly appears that too much time has I .been spent over a matter that should have I been settled by, or at least very shortly after, the opening of the season. FOOTBALL. AITKEN S STATUS AS AN AMATEUR •WELLINGTON, November 14. At a meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union this evening, Mr C. Howe drew attention to the reports concerning doubt thrown upon the amateur status of Aitken, the weUknown Wellington Rugby player now at Oxford. The meeting felt strongly that tho English Rugby Union bad no right to question Ait ken’s amateur status in his position, holding as he did a letter of introduction from the New Zealand Union, signed by th-i chairman. The chairman (Mr S. S. Deaa) pointed out that they had only cabled reports to go upon, and it was suggested tliit it would be wise t«o suspend judgment until they had official reports. Mr Griffith said that he had intended to bring the matter up, although they could not act until they ha l the English report; but they could note that they liad seen reports, and then leave action until the English Union’s report was rereceived. A motion was moved to this effect. Mr Howe seconded, and the motion was carried. It was decided to inform those unions to which loans had been sanctioned that they would be required to pay interest on loans from date, to make prompt repayments in ord'er to enable the union to make advances In otkir cases only. The loan to Poverty BaV Union is held up for consideration by a larger meeting.

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL. ENGLAND BEATS IRELAND LONDON, November 12. In the amateur international Association football match between England and) Ireland, the former won by 4 goals to nil. SWIMMING. LADY SWIMMERS WELCOME-!) HOME. A u CKLAND, No vein her 14. Misses Hc<? ft and Shandl took part in a welcome-home carnival in the tepid baths last night. The invitation race of 150 yard's, was won by Mies S-hand after a good race, by half a length, in lmin 54sec. After the finish Miss Hceft fainted in the water. She speedily recovered on being assisted to the landing. WRESTLING. AUCKLAND, November 14. The wrestling middle-weight championship of New Zealand, with a purse of £IOO, was won by T. Coliedge, who defeated K. Thompson in the third round. YACHTING. HEATHER’S LUCKY WIN. The first of the series of seven races which are to be held in order to select the boat which is to represent, Otago in the Sanders challenge races in Auckland next took place on the Ravensbourne-Penin-sula course on Saturday. The result was rather unsatisfactory, as the Eunice, which beat Heather by about five minutes, was disqualified for starting over the line, while Winifred and lona capsized when holding good positions. Official results: W. ,J. p. M T'ulloch’s Heather (owner) — time 2hr 29min 55 sec, 4 test points ... 1 R. O. and A. Miller’s Agnes (R. Miller) — time 2hr 59min 13seo, 2 test points ... 2 F. B Francis’s Yalrnai (owner)—time 2br 43min lsec, 1 test point 3 Hudson and Burt ’s Eunice (C. French) - time 2hr 25inin llsec, disqualified. These were the only boats to finish. The other starters were: C. Speight’s Winifred (G. Kellett), B. S. Irwin’s lona (A. Wiseman), B. S Irwin’s Mona (W. Watson).

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