OTHER SPORTS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14133, 12 February 1910, Page 8

OTHER SPORTS.

(By “Argus.”)

In.the llugby match between Oxford and Cambridge, tbe former side was compelled to play seven men in the scrum, owing to a forward being injured. Tbe (seven beat tbeir opponents pointless, and English writers pay a tribute to the N.Z. formation. Is it

possible that C. Gilray coached the Oxford pack in Maoriland’s style? The nations of Europe have an international federation of football couuu.e;> vivmcs in the Chronicle). The Turks ami ...o Hus-' shuts are not yet within the pale, but Austria, Belgium, Bohemia, Denmark, • Finland. France, Gernmny, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, (Sweden, Switzerland, and the British, Isles comprise the- “Federation Internationale do Football Association.” But there are leagues oven in St. Pctex-s----burg, and I have heard that the young Turks of Constantinople do not belie, their name- when a football is put down in their midst.

A handsome gold medal, weighing three ounces, has been presented to the New Zealand Amateur Athletic'Association by the Queensland Jubilee, Exhibition authorities to commemorate the fiuo athletic performance given by the dominion’s representatives when they won the inter-Stnte championship held during the progress of the exhibition in Brisbane last August.' In some reminiscences, given in the last number of Fry’s Magazine to hand, Eugene Corri, the well-known,.referee, Bays; —The greatest “fight” I ever saw? ’Veil, it was not one I refereed, and it was the over-memorable contest at the National Sporting Club between Peter Jackson, the black and Frank Slavin. I shall never forget what a thorough gentleman and sportsman Jackson showed himself on that occasion. Ho had Slavin beaten, reeling, half-blinded, but still game, unconquerably game. Slavin could scarcely, lift his'hands,-but still he stood, .up somehow, and Petor, taking pity on him.' turned round to the referee and said; “Have I won?” The referee shook his head, and very reluctantly tlic black man went on, though such was Slavin s extraordinary gamcnoss and capacity for taking punishment that Jackson had to give him four or five terrific puncjies before ho succumbed. For the science, the pluck, and the sportsmanship shown by both men, I consider that fight the best I have ever seen. In referring to the,sculling match botiveon A rust and Barry in Africa a Sydney writer says; “So far as Arnst is concerned, there seems to bo but little doubt among, Sydneyites that he can win, and easily, too, if ho wishes to do so. His already great reputation has gone up 50 per cent, since EUgrioy and a few other scullers uvho rowed against him in the recant New Zealand handicaps, have returned to Sydney. Hagncy, who stated, when entering into . the mysteries of'sculling, that, it was his ambition .to ' measure blades with 'Arnst for the championship of the world, and to. bring the champion-, ship hack to Australia, has now had the ophortimity of measuring blades with Arnst. and has come back-to Sydney with the opinion that he (Arnst) could give any nresent-day sculler 10 seconds over the fiill cliaranionship, and "shows that whoever beats him in a fair race will indeed ho worthy of the title.