LAND AND WATER.

Otago Witness, Issue 3773, 6 July 1926, Page 58

LAND AND WATER.

HARRIERS. 10-MILE RACE. WELLINGTON, July 3. The 10-mile interclub race had 53 starters. The going proved very heavy. The individual placings were:—Bibby (Brooklyn), Ihr 7min, 1; Kent (Hutt Valley), 2; Cook (Olympic), 3. Hutt Valley won the teams’ race, with Wellington second, Olympic third. BOXING. JAMITO BEATS M‘DONALD. WANGANUI, July 4. Salvino Jamito (9.11) defeated Al. M‘Donald (10.4) on points over 15 rounds under the auspices of the Wanganui Boxing Association on Saturday. Although Jamito won easily, M‘Donald hung to him throughout and gave a creditable losing performance. The match was the best ever seen in Wanganui. Mr Alan Maxwell proved a " high-class referee and made the fight very open for the public. CONTESTS IN AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, July 4. At the Stadium, Havilah Uren defeated Tenario Pelkey. on points in 20 rounds. Uren fought a clean, fast fight, but Pelkey was several times warned by the referee for holding. Uren had a comfortable margin of points at the finish. MELBOURNE, July 4. At the Melbourne Stadium Joe Hall knocked out Bert M’Carthy in the eighteenth round of an exciting contest. GOLF. AUSTRALIANS IN ENGLAND. LONDON, July 30. Clark ? Popplewell, and Howard, the Australian golfers, concluded their appearances in the British competitions by failing to reach the match play stage in the Glasgow Herald’s thousand guinea tournament at Gleneagles. Though the trio are disappointed that they did not reach the top of their form in Britain they are delighted with the trip, and feel that they have learned a great deal from their experiences. They leave England during the week end to compete in the French open championship prior to embarking for Australia. Clark and Popplewell needed brilliant scores to-day to join those who qualified, but though they did not find an undue amount of trouble with their long shots their putting wae most indifferent. Clark after taking 49 out wae compelled to take the most desperate chances homewards, and his failure was the narrowest. He did a bad second round due to adventures in the terrible rough but it wag a putt which he failed to sink in the last of the six extra holes that eliminated him. OTAGO CLUB. ' The annual .meeting of the members of the Otago Golf Club was held in the 4 Express Company’s board room. Mr H. de C. M'Arthur presided over a fair attendance of members. The annual report and balance sheet, which disclosed a satisfactory state of affairs, were adopted. The following were elected office-bearers for * the ensuing year President, Mr G. R. Ritchie; captain, Mr E. J. Hocking; secretary and treasurer, Mr G. H. G. Smith; committee—Messrs J. Evans, J. G. Dick, A. N. Haggitt, J. C. Shand, and Dr O. F. Barnett. The prises won during the year were presented as follows Champion, K. Ross; runner-up, D. H. Butcher; medal handicap, S. C. Colbeck and t S. B. Adams; Bruntsfleld Medal, D. H. Butcher; Bruntsfleld Handicaps, J. C. Shand and R. A. Reed; Knock-out Competition, J, Rams*

den; runner-up, A. N. Haggitt; foursomes, S. C. Colbeck and A. L. Shield; Balmacewen Cup, Bryan C. Haggitt. GLASGOW HERALD’S THOUSAND. LONDON, July 3. At Gleneagles in the final of the Glasgow Herald’s thousand-guinea tournament, Boomer beat Herrington 7 and 5. BALMACEWEN COMPETITIONS. The St. Andrew’s Cross bogey competition was played on Balmacewen links on Saturday afternoon. The senior competition was won by E. A. Reed (handicap 4), —with a score of all square. H. C Rose (handicap 12), with a score of 1 down, won the junior competition. LADIES’ MEDAL MATCH. A medal match was played on the Balmacewen links on Friday. Some of the best scores were:— Sonior.—Miss O. Stevens, 91—13—78; Mrs Caffin, 99—19—80; Miss N. Glendining, 94—10—84; Mrs Lemon, 103 —19—84; Mrs Cook, 93 —6—87. _ Junior. —Miss Jones, 124—36—88; Mrs Milne, 114-21-93. ST. CLAIR CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP. The first round of the St. Clair Club Championship was played on Saturday, and resulted as follows: —C. B. Wight beat H. Carrington; G. Forbes beat W. Wrather; A. Laing beat E. Gregory; J. Kilpatrick beat G. Currie; W. Clayton beat L. J. Walker; A. W Alloo beat W. D M'Carthv; L. H. Marshall beat U. Drake; W. G. Wight beat W. M'Ghie. HENLEY REirrrfA. THE DIAMOND SCULLS. LONDON, July L At Henley in the third heat of the Diamond Sculls Beresford beat Gollan by four lengths. Time, smin 12sec. b LONDON. July 1. At Henley, in the Diamond Sculls (fifth heat). Beresford easily beat Lotbincere (Cambridge). July 3. At Henley in the final of the Grand Challenge race, the Leander Club beat Lady Margaret by one and a-half lengths. Time, 6min 56sec. In the Visitors’ Cup, Christ Chufch (Oxford) beat Corpus Christi (Oxford) easily in Bmin 15sec. The Ladies’ Plate resulted:—Jesus (Cambridge) beat Pembroke (Cambridge) by a yard. Time, 7min ssec % In the final of the Diamond Sculls Jack Beresford (Thames! beat G. Goddard {Cambridge) easily in Bmin 45sec. . In the Stewards’ Cup Thames beat Leander easily in ,7min 34sec. SWIMMING. OXFORD DEFEATS'CAMBRIDGE. LONDON, June 30. Oxford beat the Cambridge swimmers at the Bath Club by l£ points. THE CHANNEL SWIM. LONDON, July 2. Lieutenant-colonel Freyberg, the ex-New Zealander, who in August last essayed to swim the English Channel, will shortly renew the attempt. OTAGO HUNT. MEET AT “MOUNT GRAND.” The Otago Hunt Club held its weekly meet at “Mount Grand” on Saturday afternoon over the well-known property of Mr Thomas Dalziel, kindly placed at tne club’s disposal for the run. Although the day was wintry a good number motored up to see the jumping, among them being Mr Allan Speight, who is a follower of the Birchwood Hounds in Southland. The run was a short one, being a little* over a mile, and consisting of about 12 jumps, mostly post i«nd rails and gorse hedges, which were negotiated bv the large number of followers in good style, considering the ground was very bofgy and slippery after the heavy rair. during the week. The only two falls during the run being Glenoree, ridden by D. Jamieson, and Heather Grey, ridden by H. Abernethy, the latter hitting tne jump heavily and coming down on his head.- Fortunately neither riders nor horses were injured, and both were remounted and completed the run. A new jumper from Wingatui named Hard Prinoe, purchased in the North Island by Mr U. Obnn some months ago, shaped very well for his first time over the country. With a few more runs he should turn out a good jumper. Galaxy, whose lag had been troubling him, turned out again and jumped well. Thrfce of the and xncursio completed their qualification and Luoursio completed their qualification

in view of racing at the Waimato and South Canterbury Hunt Clubs’ meetings. Those following were:—Master (Mr L. Mowat) on Spanker, huntsman (M. Shine) on John Peel, huntsman (G. J. Harrington) on Dandy, Mrs F. J. Conn on Lark Hall, Mrs Wilson on a bay, Miss Bennett on Snappy. Miss E. Greenslade on Continuance, Miss E. Smythe on Messrs A. Ruthven on Toa Taua, D. Jamieson on Glencree, A. Gordon on Galaxy, W. Cooper on Hard Prince, R. Anderson on Incursio, J. Crawford on Decision, J. Walker on Rag Tag, C. Welsford on Jenny Lynd. J. Mowat on Elaine, G. Geddes on Golden Gift, B. Taverner on Queenie, L. C. Simpson on King Pin. J. Anderson on Mick, H. Abernethy on Heather Grey, and several others.