OTHER SPORTS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14013, 18 September 1909, Page 5

OTHER SPORTS.

(By "Argus ") "We ha\c alwiixv iirinit iiik d." ..i>s tho Moiiiing Piikt. "(!..U lh« i,. is In too much first < la^ s ci uk< ( pl.ncd. B,\ tho end of M:\\ main hntMii-'ii leol, i., if they would ju>,t :is soon !»• |>l;u m<_' golf, and howh-is lia v r- tho :iii nf pi i "Mors on the ticulrnill. 'I ho iomili is cricket which cannot hi- wi \ ple-'sant to play and is frequent l\ nut c\lnhr. tmg to watch." Tho A list™ hi m.i v \m,ituiT S.i, ninmg C'h-impionships uill !>e !n-!d m Melbourne from J.inuu.v 2H to !•'<'unary (>, 1!)1(». A. K. M. Rowlands, .it the Minimi Clvii it\ Spoit, Mo<iiu>, mi Jult -2\, won tho two-mile w.ilkii'^ haiuln ,i|> l>> fift\ >ards in Kiniin. J'_' ><■<•.. Imi'-liir. .;, ■~a.\ s the Lonclon Spoilsman, in ' ! is iiMi.il sc.-upulous s(\|c." At tin boll, Kollljicr, of till 1 l'A',l'\ Ifc.'tnles. UilN Il'ldni'i Kuw lands b.\ fiv<- var<K but the InriiM'i v ;is shortly afti r diMjirtlifx d, limi ing tho i\o« Z'-iilaudv'i in the le-ul. A common:, on the Au-.ti.ili.ui ti-nu now in England "The nornvj has net Imm'ii at all evenl.\ disli ihutcd among .t tho batsinoii. Tho bulk of tho runs hue been made liv four men— Hankie », Kansford, Arm->t iong> and Noble. JJctweon them lho.\ have made ne.irh ]'HU) mure than nil the ollnis put tugctho., and approximately one-thud of the runs of tho whole tour h.iie l/oon scored by tho two left-handers. Think of it • Bardslo.\ and ltansfoid havo practically made five runs between tho in to every ten made by the rest ol the t<,mi." The next Australasian athletic chnmjunnship mooting will be h«hl in New /calami, and tho charces «re th.it each of the centres will be claiming to secure the gathering at its headquarters. Christejiurch (in ]H!)(i) and Auckland (in 190] ) ha\e each ha.l a meeting. This leaves the choice between Dunedin mid Wellington, and tho latter, partly because it i\, the headquarters of the association, but more particularly because it is the most convenient point at which to :>ssonible the dominion ropioscnt;tti> c-.. should hi> tho place. The next mooting will, in all probability, be held some time between D(ccn.b^r, I'Jll and March. 1912. Interviewed after his win in the Nov. Zealand Cross-Country Championship at Timaru last week, W. F Snmx-on said that he hn<l had i> piettv hard, run over a fairly rough course. Jle has been competing in rates lor the past 14 years, over since he was 20 years of age. lie has won seven Now Zealand rhanipinnship<« an<l throe Australian championships. lie has started in nearly 600 races, ami has secured over 70 first places. One year Instarted in 17 races, and won II of them. He holdi the throp mile record for Australasia (14min -lOsoo). and cunio third in tho English championship about six years ago. Sinwon is a railway guard on the Kprinehurn- \slihtirton line, and ho did hnlt a day's work on Thursday prior to running his race. - From a London exchange: At I'ic Memorial Grounds. West Hani, on the night of July 31, Johnny Summers, tlio fair-headod, fair-skinned ICast-ondeil. boat Jimmy Britt, of California, in the twenty rounds. They boxed for £100 aside and 50 per cent, ol the gate receipts at catch-weights, smd the battle was rendered additionally important by reason of its being the "rubber." For Britt had obtained the decision in a ten rounds go at Wonderland. while Summers had won, and ».on will. tho more, important 20 rounds contest at the Nationl Snorting Ctub. 11.< latter was a splendid Itout, but it paid in comparison with tho really magiuii cept show last evening. AVe^ never remember lijjht-wuitsht* hiltijig so Jiorto, and so straight. It was cm inordnum tho power theoc finoly-musclotl lids put behind thoir punches, and vet more ex traordmnry was the iniiiiin r in whicl they took 'the vstitfj^t of jabs, swings and hooks, without flinching. It wjr apparent straightnwav tlmt no I<>\ < was lost between them, but dead n> earnest as they woie the purest of science was always in evidence.