OUT DOOR SPORTS

Observer, Volume 2, Issue 27, 19 March 1881, Page 9

OUT DOOR SPORTS

i ~\ c ™ ket match is talked of between eleven limbs of the law and a Ban* team. .. — A - Be . a le, of the Grafton foot "ball club threw the cnekefc ball 95 yards, last Saturday. luiK very easily.™ 1 **"**** ** *"> half ' « ~mP an-y Wlli *aker made 32 runs not out, in the Thames match. ' —The United club beat the Thames cricket club by one innings and 52 runs. —The half-mile at the Amateur Athletic bports was a gift to Lees, who won as he liked. ' —Albert AVhite is building a new scullinoboat for his race with Duncan. ° eeSft iS neW Captaln ° f tke EX—The Auckland Rowing Club trial fours is expected to take place to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon. a -T^ 11 11? 1 ' 0 is som e talk of a football team from Auckland going South early in the approaching season. —The yacht "Jessie Logan" went on a pleasure trip to Mahurangi, last Saturday. —The Excelsior Cricket Club, after being in a languishing state for some time, hns been reorganized and a new committee and officers appointed. ' tt T?}? firsfc elev e»s of the West End and United Clubs are expected to play a match in the Domain on Saturday (to-morrow). —A sixteen-feet sailing boat to compete at the Ponsonby Regatta, has been built for two gentlemen of the western suburbs, by Mr. Waymouth. — A cricket match lias been arranged to take place to-morrow at Mangare, between the West End second eleven and the local club. —The Civil Service team were so delighted with Kowe making three, not out, lnst Saturday, that they earned him oH the field shoulder high. —It is expected that there will be more than ten competitors in the second class open sailing boat race at the Ponsonby Eegatta. — L. Ganiant is building a twenty-feet open sailing boat, and she is expected to make her appearance at the forthcoming Ponsonby Eegatta. — Mumford's score of 61 was the feature of the Thames match. You can hardly imagine how delighted Mum was. —The match between the public school clubs of Cambridge find Hamilton was won by the latter with five runs and six wickets to spare. —Young Lankham's bowling in the match between Thames and United was very good indeed He took six wickets. —Von Stunner's bowling i n the Waikato match last Saturday, was remarkably good. He took six wickets m the second innings. —Stafford, who played for Auckland against the Australians, did the best bowling for the Thames last Saturday. —Graham 30, Von Strumer 16 (not out in the second innings), were the best scores in the Waikato match, last Saturday. — The prize for drop-kicking the foot ball at the Sports was won by H. Cooke, the distance being 148 feet -1 inches. —It is very improbable that the foot race for professionals, announced by Mr. J. H. Daltoil, will take place. Only eight entries have been received. - A pretty seventeen-feet pleasure boat, named the Nell, has been builfc to order by Mr. JR. Beid of Lower Albert-street. She joins the Ponsonby fleet. —A twenty-four hour race, for women, took place recently at San Francisco, with the following result : Madam La Chapelle 75 miles, Lillie Denhain 70 miles, Kittie Mason 65 miles. — A private letter received from Mercury Bay, this week, states that Albert White is out erery day training for his race with P. H. Duncan of Christchurch for the championship of the Colony. —The Ponsonby Regatta Club programme, in another column, comprises fourteen items. It is probable that an effort will be made to have a race for keel sailing 1 boats inserted. —Mr. Charles Wood, of Tauranga, has built a very light pulling boat to compete at the local Regatta. It is expected by many to be the winner of the Sculling race. — The final heat for the 120-yards, at the Sports last Saturday, was a grand race, all the men being in a bunch. Davy was expected to pull it off, but W. Sibbin was too much for him. — The cricket match between the employees in the ironmongery stores of Messrs Porter and Morrin, takes place on the Domain cricket ground to-morrow Saturday. — The open sailing boat "Madge," owned by Mr. Bigelow, was taken to Tauranga on Tuesday in order to compete in one of the sailing races at the regatta there. — The sailing boat " Madge " was a profitable speculation for her owner, Mr. Bigelow. She has won £32 in five races, and lost £10 it one race. This leaves a credit balance of £22. —The rumours to the effect that Mick Gallagher won a " pot of money" over the walking match last Saturday, are quite untrue. The only bet he had was one of £12 to £3. — Hearn, of Wellington, is anxious that the race for the sculling championship of the Colony should be in the form of a £50 sweepstakes, and that he should be allowed to row with Duncan of Canterbury, and White of Auckland. — A match between the Helensville and Kaukapakapa Cricket Clubs was played on the Helensville cricket ground last Saturday. The stumps were drawn at 6 p.m., the game being decidedly in favor of the latter team. — At the Thames cricket match, on Saturday, Laukham senior took three wickets in three successive balls. He was thus entitled to a new bat, and the necessary order for one was written out by the secretary and presented to him. —An Amateur Sculling Match is to take place on Saturday 26th March at 3 p.m., between " Doctor" Taylor of the Union Bank and Wallie Dignan. Course, from boat off Freeman's Bay Point to Flat Bock Shelly Beach, Ponsonby. Prize, not decided. Betting, _even.

—Sanderson s Wave," which has distinguished herself of late, does not belong to the genus racer. She is merely a good little sea-boat with some pretensions to shape. It was good management and plenty of wind combined that enabled her to leave the larger boats far astern in the race on Saturday last. —Mr. Quirk, champion bicyclist of England for 1878, was a passenger for Christchnrch, by the 3 s Kotoinahana," his intention being to compete at the bicycle contest which takes place at Christchurch ia March. He has taken with him a new bicycle, with all the latest improvements. — I am surprised at the arrangement of the smaller yacht races at the Ponsouby Eegatta. There are very few half decked boats of that size in the harbour, twenty-feet sailing boats being more suited to the popular taste. Again, for instance, it is rather rough, on say a3J-tonboat to make her contest against one of seve*. tons. I think the limit should not have been less tha* four tons, and that would have included the "Erin" and several other small fishing boats. —"Athlete" writes, "While watching that wretched jiasco on the Cricket Ground last Saturday, which was called a walking match, it occurred to me that it was an absurdly short distance for a walking match. A walk of twenty miles would be a fair test of the endurance of the competitors. It may be said that it would! take too long a time. That might be easily obviated bystarting sufficiently early to have the finish about halfpast one, the time when the spectators begin to arrive," —Gale failed to complete his tremendous task of walking 2,500 miles in 1,000 consecutive half-hours buthe actually accomplished 2.405J miles in the prescribed time— il days 16 hours— and has thus quite outdone the feat of Captain Barclay. The failure seems to imply that the limit to human pedestrian powers has been at last reached; but such is the infatuation attonmg- this inane species of sport, that a fresh attempt is talked of to accomplish what certainly appears na impossible task. — The last of the series of archery matches in connection with the Saturday Afternoon Recreation. Club, takes place next Saturday (to-morrow). There are tbree prizes for ladies and three for gentlemen, and, as the respective scores are very close, an exciting finish is anticipated. My tips are: Ladies' prizes; Misses E. Gledhill, E. M. McKay, and M. Edminston. Gentlemen's prizes ; Messrs H. Haslett, J. McLeod, and J. M^ Geddis. Misses Lamburn, Prime, Cole, Peace, and Messrs Steele and Shaw are all well up, and should any of thos* mentioned in my forecast fail, they may be ex pected to supply the other winners. — The London correspondent of the Liverpool Echo, writing under date January 24th, says:— "There are more things take place in London than even Londoners dream of. When on Wednesday last the 'great city ' was wrapped in Scandinavian fog and its denizens struggling hard to keep their blood coursing in the face of adamantine frost, there can have been little thought concerning a convivial party in a fashionable salon in their midst calmly engaged in witnessing a. battle royal between representative boxers of England and Australia. And yet such a scene did actually occur. It is all very well to make light of the business, to say it was merely an exhibition of glove-fighting, and so forth, but we happen to know that both combatants suffered a considerable amount of injury, and bore the effects of battering each other the day following. The names o£ the worthies who figured principally in the fight were Ned Donnelly and Jack Thompson, the latter of whoai. accompanied the scullers Laycock and Hanlan from Australia. We might go a shade further and mention some of the ' gentlemen ' for whose delectation the ' box ' wag arranged, but we considerately refrain, merely indicating that they were by no means persons of 'low degree' — considerably the reverse, in fact, for amongst them was at least one patrician if no higher. Well, what waa the result of the affair ?— why, that Donnelly, after pasting' his man from the mind to the mark, had all the worst of the rough fighting, and when matters were declared drawn, ' Jack ' had proved himself quite as good as ins master.