SPORTING

Southland Times, Issue 18962, 8 June 1923, Page 3

SPORTING

NOTES BY SIR MODRED. Ashburton Trotting Club’s Winter meeting will take place to-morrow. Whipcord will make his next appearance at Wellington Winter meeting. Mr W. R. Kemball’s string did not win a race at the Dunedin J.C. gathering. Horses trained by P. T. Hogan secured £1,642 10/- in stakes at the Dunedin J.C. Winter meeting. F. D. Jones has practically decided to take Urgency, Murihaupo and other horses across to Sydney. P. T. Hogan's pupils were in the money on twelve occasions at Wingatui, and might easily have improved on this showing. The latest son of Calibre to develop attractive form, viz., Guncaae, won £525 in two successes at Wingatui meeting. The representatives of Mr W. R. Kemball did not win a race at Wingatui, but secured £2BO in place money. It would not surprise keen observers if Vagabond should display greatly improved form at the Wellington and Grand National fixtures. The connections of P. T. Hogan’s stable expected Avispado to race well in the Empire Handicap on Wednesday, but Will Oakland was too good for him. One of the leading events at the Ashburton T.CTs. meeting to-morrow will be the New Zealand Sapling Stakes (harness), £630. for two-year-olds (one mile and ahalf). Having to jump out of heavy and sticky going on the second and third days at Wingatui did not suit Rorke's Drift and Portside, two unseasoned hurdlers. The winning combination at Auckland— Kohu G.N. Hurdles and Mary Bruce G.N. Steeplechase—was at a very long price in circles, where coupling wagering is understood. To-morrow's light harness fixture at Ashburton may or may not. decide the riders’ and drivers’ premiership for the current aeason. At the present juncture D. Bennett, J. Bryce and J. McLennan are equal, each having bad twenty wins. McLennan holds an advantage over his rivals, in that he is known as the better saddle horseman of the trio. When the last mail to hand left England, Town Guard was a warm favourite for The Derby, while the winner of Wednesday last, viz., Papyrus, was always second in demand. Writing of the great race recently Mr Allison, the Special Commissioner of London Sportsman, summed up the situation after renewing most of the pedigrees of the likely starters, as follows:—“This year I think the best will be Lord Woolavington’s selected Town Guard or Knockando. Papyrus is certainly next best, and I should fancy Pharos as the possible danger.” At the end of April the third colt, Parth, was a quiet tip backed at long odds to win and for a place. The winning sires’ list for the Dunedin J.C’s. Winter meeting reads as follows: All Red, £1645; Clarenceux, £905; Calibre, £705; Pallas. £700; Hymettus, £490: San Francisco, £455; Finland, £445; ViceAdmiral. £437 10/-; Kilbroney, £410; Winkie, £352 10/-; Markhope, £340; Buff Gauntlet, £332 10/-; Balboa, £280; St. Petersburg, £277 10/-; Rokeby, £175; Sarto, £175; Boniform, £150; Birkenhead. £145; Sunny Lake, £140; Martian, £95 ; lolferino, £80; Cronstadt, £75 ; Quicksilver. £6O; Sir Laddo, £5O; Achilles, £47 10/-; California, £45.

The pacer, Prince Burlington, who won the Lyttelton Handicap at the Canterbury Park T.C. meeting on Monday last, is partly owned by his pilot, F. E. Douglas, who at one time rode across the fiat and over hurdles in Southland. When a resident of this part of the world he was principally employed by Mr W. T. Hazlett.

Straw-littered lawns were in evidence on both North and South Island racecourses during the current week. At the OtakiMaori fixture the lawns and enclosures had to be liberally covered with straw to prevent patrons from becoming bogged in mud, and similar conditions at Wingatui brought about the use of many loads of bay.

In the mile harness event at Addington on Monday Bellfashion, who found the track to his liking (writes ‘Argus” in Christchurch Star) would probably have raced better had G S. Smith been able to handle him properly, but the driver was suffering from illness and had to get off Princess Zoe in the previous race on account of not being able to control her. Bellfashion, under the circumstances, went a fine race.

In the Great Northern Steeplechase at Auckland, Dick appears to have made most of the running. After making a slip and nearly falling at a jump on the hilltop, Mary Bruce was practically on terms with Dick at the last fence. A desperate race home ended in Mary Bruce beating Dick by a neck, twelve lengths away came Vociferate, who defeated Pittsworth by a narrow margin for third money. Tigerland, Oakleigh and Sea De’il were next to finish. After the race the stewards held an inquiry into interference that was alleged to have taken place between Vociferate and Pittsworth. They decided to place Pittsworth third and Vociferate fourth. R. Hunt, the rider of Vociferate, was suspended for six months.

The stakes at the Canterbury Park Trotting Club's meeting were divided among forty-one owners. Mr H. Saunders headed the list with £560 (Vilol, followed by Mr G. Barton £420 (Adair), Mr G. W. Watkins £291, Mr R G. C. Munro £2BO, Mr L. G. King £2BO, Mr W. H. Norton £240. Mr W. Smith £2lO and Mr W. J. Morland £2lO.

Alto Chimes qualified for the New Zealand Trotting Cup at the Canterbury Park T.C. meeting on Saturday last. He covered two miles in 4min 28 4-ssec when he finished second to Adair in the Paparua Handicap.

It is reported that Kohu returned a very substantial price when he won the Great Northern Hurdles at Ellerslie on Saturday last He was favourite for the Great Northern Steeplechase nn Monday, but fell in the contest and put himself out of court.

There is little doubt (reports the Christchurch Star) that at the conclusion of the present season the stallion, Ixigan Pointer, will easily establish a record in the trotting world, as his progeny have already won £17,364. The following are his principal •winners.Acron £2025, Loganwood £1699, Logan Chief £1695, Bonny Logan £1528' Onyx £1325, Sal Pointer £1065, Lady Joan £lOO5, Countryman £950. Childe Pointer £BOO, Latona £702, Enid £450, Proud Logan £374 and Her Ladyship £315.

The well-known light harness reinsman and owner, E. C. McDermott, was an interested spectator ar the trotting meeting on Saturday at Addington. He looks quite his old self again, with the exception that his broken left arm is very slow to mend, and is givnig him and his doctor a lot of trouble. He was warmly welcomed by many of his friends on his first appearance at a race meeting after his serious accident.

NAPIER PARK RACING CLUB. HANDICAPS FOR WINTER MEETING. (Per United Press Association). WELLINGTON, June 7, MOTEO HACK HURDLES (1$ miles), ( —Militaire 12.0, Mervotia 10.12, Triboulet I 10.9, Crowhurst 10.5, Toa Taua 10.3, Blue • Socks 10.0. Bodyguard 9.11, Palm Oil and ' Mountain Peer, 9.8, Nukumai 9.6, Westerner 9.5, Peppermint, Kilauea, Galicia, Manchester, Lady Hill and Tresor 9.0. PETANE HACK STEEPLECHASE (about two miles).—Multive 11.7, Maraltotara and Te Maire 10.10, Gold Scene 10.8, Active 10.6, Bill and Aurore 9.7, ■ Kovno 9.6, Blue Hall 9.3, Raumanuwhara 9.2, Birkwick, Malinhead, Mahia, Master Orifiamme and Noble 9.0. STEWARDS’ HANDICAP (one mile).— Joy Ride 10.12, Haurangi 10.8, Correspondent 10.7, Barriar 10.4, Teraiwhiti 10.0, Kilbird 9.10, Tenterfield 9.9, Queens Up 9.7, Blissfulness 9.4, Kilgour and Island 9.2, Soldier’s Love, Makepeace, Suspension, Crown Gem and Mosthenes 9.0. NAPIER STEEPLECHASE (about three Miles*.—First Line 10.9, Whipcord 10.7, Dick 10.5, Sturdee and Ranui 10.3, General Raven 9.11, Zeus 9.10, Gang Awa’ 9.9, Gold Scene 9.0. LADIES’ NECKLACE (one mile and a quarter).—Battle Knight 12.10, Blue Socks and Slave Mart 10.13, Tout Bon, Merry Bells, Venetian Munga, Heather Queen and Birkwick 10.7. AHURIRI HURDLES (1 mile and threequarters).—Black Art 10.8, Otauru Kid 10.6, Killard 10.3, Alteration 10.2, Wooden 9.13, Te Maire and Whipcord 9.12, Kyoto 9.7, Mervotia 9.5, Complex 9.4, Highway 9.0. SETTLERS’ HACK HANDICAP (six furlongs).—Patuki 11.0, Kahikatia, and Fera 10.7, Sunny Vale 10.2, Heathtr King 9.12, Soldiers Love 9.10, Treadwell and All Marimba 9.9, Ma Boughal 9.8, Pink Rose, Westerner, Moonstruck and Merry Imp 9.5, Kingly 9.2, Novoko, Carnbee, Heatherite, Merry Bells, Polonett and Miss Gazeley 9.0. AUCKLAND RACING CLUB, HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL SEASON. (Per United Press Association). AUCKLAND, June 7. Usually the Auckland racing season concludes with the final day of the Auckland Winter meeting, but with the special permit granted for a two-day meeting for country clubs, at Ellerslie the 1922-23 season is not yet closed. The totalizator returns, however, show that excluding the four extra days under the country clubs’ pool scheme, at which £159,800 was invested, speculation at race meetings amounted to £1,360,176 10/-, compared with £1,472,628 last year, while speculation at trotting meetings totalled £590,293 against £586,818 last season. The total investment at all meetings was £2,110.269. The principal figures are’ as follows, 1921-22 being in parenthesis:— Auckland Racing Club £888,717 A (£954, 440) ; Takapuna £233,610 (£249,493) ; Avondale £203,020 (£221,395); Auckland Trotting Club £395,273 (£391,865) ; Otahuhu Trotting Club £195,020 (£194,953).

RACING TAXATION.

PLEA FOR REDUCTION. DEPUTATION TO MR MASSEY. A deputation representing the racing clubs of Otago and Southland waited on the Prime Minister yesterday, reports the Star, with a request for a reduction in taxation. Mr A. C. Hanlon (president of the Dunedin Jockey Club) stated the case for the clubs. They were taxed to such an extent that it was only a matter of time when several would have to go to the wall. Any relief, to be of use, would have to come almost immediately. To illustrate the position, he submitted the following statement showing the working of the D.J.C. last year:—October Meeting, loss £514. taxation £4,201; February Meeting, loss £1,765, taxation £6.149, Summer Meeting, profit £4Bl, taxation £4,802; Winter Meeting, loss £340, taxation £7,536; loss on year £1,458, taxation £23.488. They suggested that the relief should take the form of the abolition of the tax of 24 per cent on investments, which was paid by the clubs.

Mr L. C. Hazlett (Vice president, D.J.C.) said that his club was gradually losing and would soon be encroaching on its capiUJ. He stressed the point that if the racing clubs went out of existence the breeding industry would be destroyed. As an instance of what this meant, he mentioned that Australian buyers had recently paid 2,000 guineas for a yearling colt. The Hon. W. Downie Stewart was anxious to know if the abolition of the investments tax was the true remedy. He considered that the restoration of broken fractions more than made it up. What he was concerned about was the stakes tax and the treble taxation to which clubs were subjected, as, for instance, the gate receipts, which were subject to the amusement tax, income tax, and another of 24 per cent. He did not know what the last one was. Mr Massey: It is the old tax.

Mr O. R. Wise (Oamaru) quoted sample country clubs which had made profits of £1,400 and £l,lOO respectively, and had been taxed £2,800 and £l,BOO. He suggested that the law should be amended so that when taxation caused a loss on a meeting it should cease automatically. In reply, Mr Massey said that relief would have to come through Parliament. He understood that many of the clubs had been hard hit, but there were also other factors in the case, for some clubs were quite prosperous. In Otago it had been a season of bad weather, and he thought that was the cause of the trouble there. Apparently the clubs feeling the pinch were small country clubs The Hon. Downie Stewart (Minister of Internal Affairs) and he were anxious to meet the difficulties if possible. A representative deputation had waited upon him a few years ago and asked him what he proposed to do in the matter of taxing racing. He had told them he wanted 5 per cent on stakes and one of the speakers had said: “Make it 10 per cent during the slump.’’ That was one of the most sporting things that had happened to him in his experience. That tax would repeal itself, and so far as he was concerned he would not ask the Governor-General to continue it for six months, because he. would be breaking faith with the man who made the above suggestion if he did so. He thought he could safely say that the House would not impose any injustice on any section of the community if it. could be avoided. He believed that the Government could do without the tax, but his first duty was to reduce taxation all round’. In spite of t .^ e t act that some racing clubs were in difficulties, a deputation had recently waited upon him in the north and asked for the granting of thirty additional racing permits. That, however, was a matter for Parliament.

THE SIGNATURE CASE. HORSE’S DISQUALIFICATION REMOVED. (Per United Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH. June 7. The judges appointed by the Racing Conference, Sir George Clifford, and Messrs George Gould and B. L. Lane, have given their decision in regard to the appeal of George Paul, owner of the horse Signature, against the disqualification of that horse, consequent upon the disqualification of J, A .C. Fleming, previous part-owner of the horse. Appellant said that he purchased the horse Signature from C. E. Walker, previous part-owner with Fleming, in perfectly good faith, and without any knowledge whatever, that a breach of the Rules of Racing had been committed by Fleming. ~ l eming was, some months after the sale

of the horse to Paul, disqualified for a term of three years, from March 15, 1923, for corrupt practices, committed by him on or about October 13 and 15, 1921. The judgment, after setting out the facts, is as follows:—“Though the judges are reluctant to make any exception in the stringent en- ' forcement of the useful rule disqualifying I horses owned by a disqualified person at i the time of his offence, yet after examining • the papers in connection with the purchase | of the horse Signature on May 4, 1922, by • George Paul, and being satisfied that George : Paul purchased the said horse Signature in I good faith, from C. E. Walker, former part- ■ owner with J. A. C. Fleming, we therefore j order the removal of the disqualification of the said horse Signature, as from the date of the purchase by George Paul from C. E. Walker and J. A. C. Fleming. We direct the deposit to be refunded to appellant.” RACING IN ENGLAND. PAPYRUS WINS EPSOM DERBY. LEADERS FIGHT A GREAT FINISH. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright). (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, June 6. Over quarter of a million people witnessed The Derby at Epsom to-day. The Prince of Wales received a great ovation. The weather was showery for the first time in the history of the race, which was won by the representative of a tenant farmer named Mr B. Irish, wto purchased Papyrus as a yearling in 1921 for 3,500 guineas. The leading horseman, S. Donoghue, who rode the winner, has accomplished the unparalleled feat of winning three consecutive Derbies, making five to his credit since 1916. A. Walker, an Australian jockey, who recently arrived in England from India, where he rode for the Indian sportsman, M. Gouldas, steered Parth into third place. The run-ner-up, Pharos, was piloted by E. Gardner.. Result:— THE DERBY STAKES, of £5O each, with £3,000 added. For three-year-olds. One mile and a-half. B. Irish’s b c Papyrus, by Tracery—Miss Matty, 8.10 (S. Donoghue) 1 Lord Derby’s b c Pharos, by Phalaris— Sc apa Flow, 8.10 (E. Gardner) .... 2 M. Goculda’s b c Parth, by Polymelus— Willia, 8.10 (A. Walker) 3 Nineteen started. From the entrance to the straight the race resolved itself into a desperate and prolonged duel between Papyrus and Pharos. The latter headed Papyrus below the distance, but the effort exhausted him and Papyrus slowly forged ahead and , won by a length. The third horse was a length and a-half away. The favourite, Town Guard, who finished thirteenth, was never prominent. Time, 2min 38sec. INTERVIEW WITH PARTH’S JOCKEY. LONDON, June 6. (Received June 7, 7.45 p.m.). Sporting Life interviewed Walker, . who said: “My first ride in the Derby was not quite as enjoyable as I could have wished. ►Parth was moving well forward, but for some unexplained reason, probably due to rising tapes, he stuck his toes into the ground and seemed disinclined to move. The leader must have been 20 lengths ahead before Parth set off. He failed to overtake much of the lost ground, until well into line for home. Here he began to gain rapidly and moved so freely, that I had just a remote hope that he would get up, though the winning post seemed too near. But for losing ground at the start, I feel pretty sure he would have won the prize.”

ATHLETICS (Per United Press Association). WELLINGTON, June 7. The Council of the New Zealand Amateur Olympic Association has unanimously decided to become an incorporated body. The necessary rules are being drafted. The Council also resolved to approach the Mayors of various centres requesting that a meeting be convened relative to the proposal to obtain funds to despatch teams to both the Empire and Olympic games.

GOLF

CORONATION MEDAL RESULTS. (Per United Press Association). WELLINGTON, June 7. The home links Coronation medal of the Ladies’ Golf Union was played for on all Golf Union courses in New Zealand last week. The best scores were: Miss Bruce (Hagley) 85, 15; net 70; on par 73; Mrs Cooke (Miramar) 91, 12, 79; on par 82; Mrs Wilson (Westport,) 91, 11, 80; on par 82; Miss Robinson (Poverty Bay) 97, 20, 77.; on par 78; Mrs Early (Avondale.) 101, 17, 84; on par 84; Mrs Murphy (Auckland) 95, 19, 76; on par 76. Miss Bruce and Mrs Cooke tie for first place, being both three strokes under par, and will play off the tie on their respective links during the third week in June.

BOXING

TIMARU TOURNEY. (Per United Press .Association.) TIMARU, June 7. At the boxing tourney to-night, Weston (Timaru) beat Ennis (Timaru) ; Andrews (Timaru) beat Lloyd (Oamaru) in the featherweight. Vincent Parker (Seadown) beat Joe Stewart (Timaru) in the welter. Nelson (West Coast) beat Leckie (Dunedin) in the catchweight. Eddie Parker (champion light heavyweight) beat Paterson (Sydney), the latter withdrawing at the tenth round after heavy punishment. At the commencement of the tourney, Mr Watson, the official announcer, made sympathetic reference to the death of Cyril Whitaker, and the large attendance stood in silence as a token of respect. In the Parker-Paterson bout the boxers took the ring wearing black sashes.

WORKERS’ EDUCATION

ANNUAL MEETING OF W.E.A. (Per United Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, June 6. At the meeting of the Dominion Council of the Workers’ Education Association, the secretary's report stated that there still existed the necessity for organising a method of purchasing books similar to that existing in Australia where great economies are being made in the interests both of the students and of the Council. The completed statistics for 1922 were as follows; Classes 75; students 2464; public lectures

The total number of subjects studied was 14. There were 20 classes with 550 students studying economics, and 55 classes with 1914 students studying other than economic subjects. Correspondence was read from the Minister of Education stating he would endeavour to secure again a grant of £5OO. It was decided that a deputation wait on the Government to urge that owing to the growth of the movement, extra financial assistance be given to University colleges for tutorial classes and extension work; that present statutory grants be increased, and that for every additional effective class beyond the first. 15, the Government should grant a capitation of £4O.

46 ; winter school 1; summer s school 1. District. Classes. Students. Auckland .. .. .. 14 375 Wellington .. 16 604 Canterbury .. 21 Otago 24 Total .. 75 -2464