NELSON COURSING CLUB.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13873, 15 September 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

NELSON COURSING CLUB.

PLUMPTON MEETING

(From "The Colonist," Aug. 30.)

The Nelson Coursing Club's meeting at Richmond Park on Saturday was the most successful yet held by the club. The weather conditions were perfect 7 and the sport attracted between three and four hundred spectators. The National Reserve Band was in attendance, and played selections at internals, adding materially to the pleasure of the outing.

Considerable interest was evinced in the challenge match, £30 a-side, between Mr W. J. Rose's Moree Statesman and Messrs Opie ajul H/>llister's Katipo. Moree Statesman proved the faster dog, and won two heats straight out, with a good margin of points in each case.

The Novice Stake attracted eighteen entries, and there were some good contests, Dr. W. G. Meade's Whatever winning the final. The coursing was excellent, the hares being strong and well trained, fourteen out of the twenty-one let loose reaching: the escapes. Mr H. McArtney, of Spring Creek, aglain officiated as judge (coming to Nelson at his own expense), and Mr G. Dryden, as slipper, was most successful. . ; Theiohject of the meeting was to \yipe • .'off the deficit-of th©-pTOvious meeting, ] .and-«s the rosult the indebtedness will j ■be liquidated.. and. a . ■■■.small-'' balance/ handed to the Sick and Wounded Soldiers' Fund, ■'-Thechib. is indebted to the Agricultural and Pastoral Association for the free use of Richmond Park. Appended are the results: — CHALLENGE MATCH. £30 a-side: First heat: W. J. Rose's f d Moree Statesman (Lapsus LinguaeStately), 16J points; Opie and Hollister's b and w d Katipo (Masonic — Mosquito) 1\ points. The first course was •declared off, Katipo not sighting the hare. From the slip the pair raced together, Moree Statesman gaining 3 for the lead and 4 for turns. Katipo then got a half and three turns. Most of the work was then done .by Moree Statesman, who finished with a clean kill. Second heat: Moree Statesman scored 2 points for the lead and two turns ; then Kla.tipo got one for a turn ; Moree Statesman then scored a half and killed, for which he was not allowed any points. N.C.C. STAKE. Winner £4 17s 6d and trophy presented by the president (Mr H. J. Harris), also Mr Kitchingraan's medal; run-ner-up, 17s 6d, and Brown Bros.' trophy. First round: Dr. G. W. Meade's Whatever, 14 points, beat E. Prout's Major, 6 points: L. Schroeder's Dingo, 11 points, beatV. Spiers's Bayonet, 4$ points; A. Priddle's Little Jim, 8, beat M. Crooke's Royal Signal 6; J. O'Leary's Gaba Tepe, 19, beat W. E. Mitchell's Darktown Dandy, \o; 11. Holda\vay"s Flying Foam, 111, beat M. Crook's Exile, lOfr; Tib. Draper's Warstrain beat C. White's Princess Lou (disqualified); G. Bennett's Walnut, 11, beat Len. Ohallies's P.U.U., 10; Coleman Bros.'s Bonny Boy, 6, beat W. Woodward's Maitai Tim. 3; 0. Ruffell s Bobrikoff, 4£, beat A. Tear's Mavourneen, 0. _.. < Second round: Whatever, 7, beat Dmgo, 0: Little Jim, 4, beat Gaba Tepe. 3.; Flying Foam, 17, beat Warstram, -11; Bonny Boy, 111, beat Walnut, 4J; Bobrikoff. a bye. ' , Third round: Whatever, 17, beat Little Jim, 13; Flying Foam, 3, beat Bobrikoff (disqualified);. Bonny Boy, a bye. . , "Semi-final round: Whatever, 9, beat Bonny Boy.. 3: Flying Foam, a bye. Final: Whatever, 3£ points, beat Flying Foam, nil.