OUT DOOR SPORTS

Observer, Volume 2, Issue 38, 4 June 1881, Page 414

OUT DOOR SPORTS

— Parawai defeated Kauaeranga (Thames) in a cricket match by one innings and one run. —Ike Hunt -was not in the " Imp" on Tuesday. ( —Betting on Tuesday was 2 to 1 on the " Imp " agaiust>ny other boat. Somebody was bitten. — Carrs are building a yacht for Messrs. Robinson Brothers. — Alcock is putting a new keel andhotton on the yacht " Alfred." — Absence of wind caused the sailing race to be postponed from Monday to Tuesday. — J. Lecky lias been elected captain of the Parnell Football Cl.tb. — Six minutes and the rest was a serious beating for the " Imp " to receive from the " Madge." — The Parnell Football Club play a match against Newton next Saturday. —The " Observer" was doing splendidly on Tuesday, when her bumpkin carried away. — How could J. B. Graham expect to win the race on Tuesday after having blackleaded the " Hattie May" on Sunday. Take warning, ye Anti-Sabbatharians ! — The "Hattie May's " rudder-head carried away in the race on Tuesday. This militated considerably against her chance of success. — The "Imp" had not challenged the ■ " Madge " to another race up till Thursday. Perhaps ' her owners are satisfied now. —The "Hattie May" carried the "Witch's" sails last Saturday, but it is more than probable that she would have done much better with her own canvas. — An engrossed congratulatory address is to be sent from Adelaide to Elias Laycock. It had been intended to present him with it on his arrival there. — Seventeen New Zealand youths defeated twenty-six representatives of the world in the football match last Saturday. — The Ponsonby and North Shore Football j Clubs intend to play a match at North Shore next Saturday. — The Auckland and Grafton Football Clubs play a match on the Metropolitan ground next Saturday. — Hanlan has issued a challenge to meet anybody in the world for 1000 dollars, offering to beat him by 15 seconds ; the race to be rowed at Toronto, ] — Goldsmith and Cavannagh played well amongst the forwards in the football match between Town and Country, at Tauranga. . — E. Beale kicked a nice goal on Saturday, much to the delight of the young ladies who were looking on. — Bob Skeen played exceedingly well on Saturday. He secured a try after a severe struggle. He well deserved it. — Can- is building a pair-oared outrigger for Mr Glasgow, of Dunedin. She has just been commenced. —Edwards, finishing the 110 miles in live minutes under the twenty-four hours, did the last mile in eleven minutes and thirty seconds. — The "Hattie May's" canvas did not appear to suit her at all on Tuesday, and it was quite a mistake for those in charge to string a jib in the middle, throwing her off the wind every time she came to. — The open sailing boat race, under sixteen feet, which was to have taken place last Saturday, fell i throiigh, owing to the customary bungling. Probably it ! will take place to-morrow (Saturday). —The Prince Alfred Yacht Club and the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron are making active combined efforts to organise annual intercolonial yachting contests. —The "Imp" was sailed by the "best men Obtainable in the province last Tuesday, while Bigelow was in charge of the " Madge." It is not too much to say that the M Madge " might have been better handled.

— The most jubilant at Spofforth's victoiy over Rush, on Saturday afternoon, were Messrs Murdoch and Bonner. The Australian captain says he is in a position to match Spofiorth against any amateur in the Colonies tor a stake-bot of £100. —Mr Waymoutli, owner of the " Observer," challenged the "Madge" t9 another race on Wednesday. Mr Bigelow was quite satisfied with eight successes over the "Observer," and therefore declined to go. — The football match at Tauranga "between Town and Country was won by the former. The score was one gaol and six force-downs against one goal and a try. —In the Parawai and Kauaeranga cricket match, the bowling of Muir, O'Grady, Brown and Edwards, and the batting of Adlani and Brown, were excellent. —I was amused to see in the Star that Captain Stephenson had been humbugged by the other boat-owners in reference to the sailing race. I don't think the wary skipper is often "humbugged" in that direction, and he do.esn't deserve much sympathy. —The open sailing boat "Observer" has been greatly improved by the alterations effected to her centre-board. Had she not met with an accident on Tuesday, I fancy she would not have been far out at the end of the race. She was detained by the foul at the startiug-post, but, once underweigh, gained very rapidly on the other boats. Indeed, at the time her bowsprit carried away there appeared every chance of her showing the others around. She was abreast of the " Imp " and to windward of the " Hattie May." —An amusing incident occurred afc Carr's shed last Friday. J. B. Graham wanted the " Hattie May " hauled up and cleaned, and sent instructions to that eifect by Bigelow to Jim Carr. The message got missed some way, and the "Observer" was hauled up cleaned instead. Waymoxith appeared on the scene and professed anger, but it was apparent that he was only too glad to have his boat " cleaned on the cheap." At a nyrate the "Observer" went back into the water pretty nick, and strangely enough neither Jim Carr nor -gigelow care to talk about cleaning boats for races now