THAMES VALLEY COURSING
MEETING AT TE AROHA THAMES, Today. The Thames Valley Coursing Club held its first meeting of the season on Wednesday. Some exciting courses were run in deciding the winner of the maiden stake. Mr. P. Cook handled the slipping admirably. Mr. A. D. Wallace was judge. Results: First round: F. Firkins’s Nurmi won from H. Rosenfeldt’s Revolution by default; J. Fitzpatrick’s Blue Heaven beat Mr. Minochxi’s Boston Bells, 8 —1£; N. Kinns’s Timtatis beat M. Timmuns’s N.S. Gold Lance, 10—9; C. Cronin’s Cinder Williams beat L. C. Buckingham’s Tui Lines, 14 —3i; Bottomley and Charters’s Rapine beat Bridges and McMahon’s Alleluia, 4—2: Flay amd Poole’s Diggers’ Chorus beat R. O’Byrnne’s Killarney Boy, 11—7; F. Firkins’s War Lord beat C Martelli’s Dickens Hope. 5—2. Second round: Nurmi beat Blue Heaven, 4—3; Cinder Williams beat Timtatis, 12—5; Rapine beat Diggers’ Chorus, 6—l; War Lord a bye. Third round: Nurmi Cinder Williams, 6—2; Rapine beat War Lord. 8- 4. Final: Nurmi beat Rapine. 5—4.
In America there are institutions known as Barbers’ Universities, where are taught all the latest methods and fashions in hair-cut-ting, etc. One college has a “yell” which runs: Cut his lip* Rip his jaw, Leave his face Raw! Raw! Raw! This battle-cry could be appropriately adopted by one or two Auckland football clubs.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 671, 24 May 1929, Page 13
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