SPORTING

Southland Times, Issue 17783, 12 July 1916, Page 5

SPORTING

’ NOTES BY SIR MODRED. The Wellington R.C.’s Winter meeting? opens at Trentham this afternoon and continues over Thursday and Saturday. The principal events to-day will lie the Wellington Steeplechase, of 3 000 sovs (.about three miles and a quarter). Winter Hurdles, of IiOO sovs (two miles), and the Parliamentary Handicap, of 400 govs (one mile and a quarter). The nume of Inverlea Lass has been claimed for the filly by Pallas—Cisco Rose, bred at Mr H. 'Rubber's Heddon Bush Stud on behalf of a Palmerston North owner.In his opening speech at the annual meeting of the N.Z. Trotting Conference yesterday the president stated that during the past season the sum of £68,225 was given away in stakes by the combined trotting clubs during the current season, being a little over £SOOO in excess of lust year. In addition to tha trotting club’s stakes, owners also rewived approximately £7OOO subscribed by racing clubs for 90 trotting events included on racing programmes, making an aggregate of £75,000 given in stakes during the season.

At the monthly meeting of the Winton .T. C. last week the offer of the Winton Trotting Club to pay a third of the cost of the installation of the telephone was accepted.—The secretary reported that ho had supplied the Racing Confer, ence with the necessary information as to the amount contributed to war funds and the amount paid in war tax.—lt was decided that any member two years in arrears with his subscription be not supplied with a copy of the annual balance sheet and report.—Accounts amounting to £l9 5s were passed for payment.

During: the course of the presidential address at the opening: of tlje Trotting Conference yesterday some interesting figures were given showing the amount subscribed by trotting clubs alone since the outbreak of war. In addition to the £12,000 odd which constituted the trotting club’s subscriptions during the first year of the war, they have been responsible this season for nearly £40,000. Tins sum is made up in subscriptions to vari- - ous funds, total net profits of race meetings and war taxes, and does not include, roughly, £30,000 to total amount paid by the trotting clubs as the usual tax imposed annually by the Government. As< the war tax was not imposed until November, when the season was well advanced, several clubs were not affected, otherwise the amount would have been much greater. These figures are apart altogether from those of racing clubs.

■A special drag will leave the Post Office at 2 o’clock this afternoon for Wallacetown in connection with an outing promised by the Birchwood Hunt. The runs pf the hounds should prove interesting, as several well-known horses will be stripped for qualifying runs- in view of the forthcoming Grand National and Birchwood Hunt racing fixtures.

Followers of trotting will be interested in an advertisement appearing elsewhere, announcing that Wright, Stephenson and Co. will sell at Gore Horse Bazaar on Saturday, July 22, on l>ehalf of Mr Friedlander, five three-year-old geldings and fillies and seven two-year-old geldings and fillies, the whole being by Harold Dillon and King Cole from wellknown mares.

At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Trotting Conference yesterday (says a Press Association telegram) the following office-bearers were elected for the ensuing Urm: John Howe (Auckland): vice-president, Mr J. W. Gore (Dunedin); executive ami dates committee, Messrs Fox, Roberts, and Mackay® APPbnmnarr op srnpEin>iAßY STIWABDS, (I’er United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 10. The New Zealand Trotting Association Annual Conference opened to-day, Mr W. J. Gore presiding. A motion by th« Forburv Park delegate that the Conference take steps to obtain a private opinion from a judge of the Supreme Court as to the majority required to make a resolution of Conference regarding the appointment of stipendiary stew, ards effective, was lost by 24 votes to 2. It was decided that the Forburv Park Club be asked to reconsider its decision to test the legality of the manner of the appointment of stipendiary steward* in the Supreme Court.

HOCKEY. Tile following are the referees for today’s games—Union v. High School A (Biggar street), AH’ Batten; Collegial® v. High School R (High School ground), Mr Smith: Winton v. College (Queen s X'ark), Air I'ogo. FOOTBATH.. Athletic to play High School, Rugby Park, Z p.m. :—Cosgrove, Fogarty, Coakley, Clarke, Cooke, AVells, Mein, Clark®, Mitchell, Aieffin, Shepherd, Dec, Rogerson, Adamson and Rutledge. Southern v. Star, Rugby Park, at X p.m. ; —.Jenkins, Adamson, Rcwe, Simm, Waddell, Owen, Hamilton, Hall,, McKenzie, Daly, Barnes, Jamieson. Phillipson, Lopdell, Dawson, emergencies : Walsh, Dawson. Star to play Southern at Rugby Park at 2 p.m. shun) Rillcy, Campbell, Christie, .McDermott, Oughton, Bell, Smellie (2), Agnew, Gilbertson, Carnahan, Smith, Patterson, Adamson, Hunter, Kmergcncy : Cartwright. Invercargill A v. Invercargill R, on No. 2 ground, at "..ir, p.m.—lnvercargill A : Fleming, Aieffin, Adamson, Rice (2>, Reekie, Williams, Lyttle, Dawson, Lopdell, Fraser, Smith, Hall, Cameron, Hunter. Invercargill B : Young, Stout, Tennant, Galbraith, Gilman, Lindsay, Whitaker, Garrett, .Mills, Davidson. Sutton, Vial, Broad, Davis, I'aimer. Rmergency : Officer. LADEES’ HOCKEY. Collegiate team to meet High R at S p.m :K. God ward, R. Godward, L. A. Findlay, D. Pope, G. Kilby, M. AIoAlillan, 1. Kissell, H. Davis, M. Healey, U. .McGregor, AI. Porter, K. Dykes. ■ The following players will represent Union girls against High School A on Biggar street—-Misses. AleAlullan, Hayward, Rain, Walker. Siorrie, Agnew, Kona Ids, ■ Taylor. lories, Hawke, and AlcQuarrh". LADIES' GOLF. Draw for to-morrow :—Airs Lewis and .Miss Rush, Airs Handyside and Mis* Henderson, Mrs Giltuonr and Miss Card-, ner, Aliss Rrodrick and Miss Greive, Mrs A. AT. Macdonald and Miss Carswell, Air* Galbraith and Mrs Roberts, Mrs A. K, Smith and Aliss Alacaliste.r, Mrs Jones and Mrs Haggitt, Miss Tucker and -Mrs Scandrett, Miss AieCaw and Miss Thomson, Mrs Gilkison and Miss Kwart, Mr* T. AI. Macdonald a bye.