SUNDRY SPORTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 82, 11 August 1913, Page 8

SUNDRY SPORTS.

CRICKET. TWO FINE SCORES. [ Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, August 9. At cricket, .Mead, playing for 1 iampsliire against Somerset, scored 97. Ho is the first batsman to compile 2000 runs this season. Against Essex, playing for Yorkshire, W. Denton scored 230 and carried out his bat. THE AUSTRALIANS DEFEATED. New York, August 9. The Germantown Club (Philadelphia) playing 12 men, defeated Australia. Germantown, in the second innings, s wed 271 runs for seven wickets, and Australia was all out for 270. BardsIcy scored 61. INDIANS’ SMALL SCORES. (Received 8.10 a.m.) New York, August 9. The Australians have commenced a 1 ,vo days’ match with a West Indian eleven at Long Island. The West Indians,'in their first innings, made l tirteen runs, Macartney taking seven v. ickets for seven runs. In the second innings they made sixty-one. The Australians, in their first innings, made ■ 213.

boxing. i I GH'JV WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP. Sydney, August 10. In the international light-weight caampionshi, Mat Wells (England) d feated Hughie Mehegan at the Stadium on points. An enormous crowd attended the match. It was a great fight. The Englishman’s science asserted itself early, a id served him well throughout. In suite of the Australian’s gameness and b I rd hitting, he kept the issue beyond o mbt. CHESS.

IXTKUN AT lONAL CHAMPIOX SH IP Berlin, August 9At the'lnternational Chess Tournan cut, Schoveningen won the first p iac. Ho is aged 22. Ganowsky was second. Lasker and Yates competed. ATHLETICS. CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONS. Brisbttiie,! August HO. Hamilton, of Toowong, won the five miles cross-country championship in .‘ll min o;)scc. [Per Press Association. 1 Dunedin, August 10.

The New Zealand cross-country championship wasidOcidedat W iagain! yesterday over'll course of about five and h-'Mlf miles.! H’Rain in the m.orr.ing made the - course somewhat heavy. TliTeo teams, ' representing Otago, Wellington "and Southland, competed. Otago iron easily, securing the first live places with Beatson, Jack, Mac Night, Thompson and Frye. Fyrn© (Wellington) was sixtli, Crimp (Otago) seventh, Ballantyne (Wellingt i) eighth, Murray (Wellington) i hth, and Hodson (Wellington) tenth. No Southland men finished. Beatson LOmin) won the individual champions’, ip, with Jack (29min 11 l-ssec) seco.id, and McNight (29min 23sec) third. Tie sealed handicap was won by Thompson (Otago), with Byrne (Wellington) second and Fry© (Otago) third. HOCKEY. WELLINGTON v. SOUTHLAND. Wellington, August 10. Wellington defeated Southland hy 4 g als to nil.

FOOTBALL. RANFURLY SHIELD MATCH. Auckland, August 10. The' second Ranfurly Shield match of the season was played at Alexandra Park on Saturday, when AuckI iiid defeated Poverty Bay hy 27 punts to 3. Ideal weather conditions prevailed, and everything conduced to a fast, open game. Auck--1 ;nd’s superiority was most pronounced in the forwards, though the hacks g ve their host display of the season. 1 ite visiting hacks included several li to individual players, notably Kaip ra, Hyland, and lluakingi, but their combination was not at till good. The Shield deserved to remain in Auckland, despite the good light put up by poverty Bay. The game ended with the scores; Auckland 23. Poverty Bay 3.

QUEENSLAND v. N.S.W. [United Press Association.] Sydney, August 10. Queensland defeated New South Wales hy 22 points to 21, at the Union g ime. Heath, Hughes, McMahon and Cody u II replace Duffy, Massie, V illcocks a d Lloyd, in the I niou team for Now Z ‘aland.

THE LEAGUE CAME. AUCKLAND v. CANTERRURY. [Per Press Association.] Auckland. August 10, A crowd of sihout 7000 witnessed the Northern Union Cup match, Auckland v. Canterbury, on \ ietnria Park on Saturday. Although beaten by a very largo number of points, Canterbury nlavod n plucky game, and were

lat times brilliant. The game was very open and spectacular. Canterbury 1 hold their own in the forwards, but j the Auckland backs wore too good, I although some of the Canterbury j backs, notably Smith and Harding- | ham, played well. The final score ' was Auckland 18, Canterbury 12.

TARANAKI v. CANTERBURY. League teams representing Taranaki and Canterbury will try conclusions on the New Plymouth Recreation Ground on Thursday next, and a keenly-fought game is confidently looked for. Preliminary particulars appear in our advertising columns. N.S.W. TOURING TEAM. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association, j (Received 8.10 a.m.) Sydney, August 11. Messenger, Holloway, and Pearce will not accompany the League team to New Zealand, and Collins,. McKivat, Butler, and Barnett will fill the vacancies.

TARANAKI TOURING TEAMS. The Taranaki repesentative team, which will meet Auckland on Saturday next in a match for the Ranfurly Shield, leaves for Onehunga to-mor-row evening. The team will return to New Plymouth on the 19th iust., proceeding at once to Palmerston, where a match will be played with Mauawatu on the 20th. The B team meets the Auckland B team at New Plymouth on the 21st, and leaves for South on the following morning, matches being played with Levin, Wairoa, and Wanganui before their return on August 30th.

ASSOCIATION. Wellington, August 10. At Association, Hospital beat Swifts by o to 1, Y.M.C.A. drew with St. Johns 2 each, Rovers beat Brooklyn 3 to 2, Diamonds beat Wanderers 8 to 1. Thistle beat Corinthians by default. Thistle won the championship. BOWLING. In practically every Bowling Club in New Zealand there is opposition to the use of intoxicating liquors on, or about, the greens. At the annual meeting of the Waverley Club, a motion to bar the introduction of alcoholic beverages on the green for social and moral reasons was brought forward, but it was lost. The Tribune says that the idea behind the opposition to the motion appeared to be that there had never been any abuse of the privilege in Waverley and that to abolish the use of alcohol on the Club’s grounds would be to penalise visitors who were accustomed to “the social glass,” and, at the same time, render the Waverley Club chargeable with lacking in hospitality.