OUT DOOR SPORTS

Observer, Volume 2, Issue 50, 27 August 1881, Page 586

OUT DOOR SPORTS

— Newmarket defeated the Albert Club in a football match last Saturday by thirteen points to nil. — Grierson, Long, Cullender, and King all played well for Waikato. — Ring was only dangerous on one occasion at Hamilton, when he was well stopped by Whiteside. — T. Henderson secured the try for Auckland in the match with Waikato. — The match between Ponsonby second iifteen and Newton resulted in a draw. — McGechie met his match in Cullender, of Waikato, who, though not so heavy as he, is far stronger — Katikati defeated Tauranga in the return football match by one goal and a number of touchdowns. — Bullen kicked a goal for Newmarket in the match against the Albert Club. — Grafton succeeded in defeating a team from the itnited schools in a football match last Saturday. — Mowbray, an old Auckland football player, captained the Napier team against Gisborne. — A lawn tennis club has been formed at North Shore. —If Verity, N. Hunt, and Forbes could have played for "Waikato it would have been a toss xip which won. — Biudon played harder than usual at Waikato, and did a great lot of work, taking the ball about 50 yards by real forward play. — J. "Wood played splendidly for Waikato, and but for him I think Auckland would have won by a large score. —At the Ottawa Kegatta, before 12, 000 spectators, Hanlau was presented with a gold watch and chain in honor of his recent victories. —Charlie White and Harry Davy played hard at Hamilton ; but J-backs did not get much show, it being mostly a forward game.

— The return football match between Gisborne and Napier was played at the latter place on Saturday last, and resulted in a draw. — -The Waikato team this year was a strong one, and the Auckland men fouttd their work cut out for them. — Stanly and Sehvyn Football Clubs engaged in a friendly match last Saturday, and the former was victorious. — The back play of Braund and Whiteside was first-class in the Waikato match, Braund kicking quickly and sure ; "Whiteside kicking well and making some good runs, and tackling first-class. — The swimmist Paul Boyton has been writing a hook. It is called, " Eoughing it in Kubher." The sequel to it will probably bear the title, " Eubbing it in Rougher." — It is said that the football team -which defeated Waikato on Saturday last was the best that ever played out of Auckland. — Messrs. Tonks, Smith, Pilling, and Woodward (of Hamilton), and Kirkwood and Moore (of Cambridge), all did their utmost in the football match. — The Saturday Afternoon Iteereation Club has received £20 worth of bows and arrows from Australia. A consignment is also on its way from England. — The football match between Auckland .and Waikato at Hamilton resulted in a victory for the- town men by two points (one touch) to nothing. — The sculling match between Elliott and Blackmail, for £100, over the Thames Champion Course, takes place in September. — Skeen obtained a try for Ponsonby, and Bailey another for Newton last Saturday, but the attempts at goals were unsuccessful. — Wallace Ross has challenged Edward HanInn to row him for £500 a-side. The place, in American waters, to be named by Hanlan. — Only eleven Tauranga me7i turned up in the recent match at Katikati, and substitutes had to be found to fill up the vacancies in the visiting team. — In- the Waikato match Lynch made a splendid kick at the goal. The try was obtained only four yards from the corner boundary-post, thus having to kick at an angle. — The match of the season (club ties) on the football cards will be Auckland v. Grafton, when a close game is anticipated, us each have scored the same number of points as yet. — Excepting for the first few minutes at the start of the Waikato match, the Auckland players kept the ball within Waiknto's twenty-five almost the whole time. — A rowing club has been formed in connection with the Auckland Grammar School. The Committee are:— A. Harrington, Ansley, McCormick, Bloomfield, and Pounds. — The Capt. surprised the on-lookers a^ Gleeson's by his agility ou Saturday last, and verified the old adage, " That there's many a good tune left in an old fiddle." — Herbert Cooke, well-known here, distinguished himself in the football match at Gisborne between the local team and Napier. His running and kicking were both highly praised. — Hearn, who defeated Albert White in the race for the sculling championship uf New Zealand, is a probable starter for the Walker Whisky Trophy in September. — After all the talk, the Customs and Postoffice could only get together eight men for the football match against the Telegraph Department. The event will therefore probably fall through. —There was some talk at Katikati of playing a football match with Auckland, bub, as most of the men are now busy on their farms, it was decided to abandon the idea until next year. — A heavy feeder in Paris, France, where he is known as "The Jackall" has just won a wager by eating five feet of blood-pudding in twenty minutes. Ho used up a quart of wine with the laudable view of washing it down. — Berry, who played with Wellington against Auckliuxi fust season, formed one of the Gisborne team which pi iyed twice against Napier. In ( he first match he obtained no less than five touchdowns himself, and not a man on the Napier side could collar him. He also played remarkably well in the second match. Both the correspondents of the dailies call the try got by Henderson a disputed one. It is a mistake Newell got a disputed try for Auckland, the Waikato men saying the ball did not cross their goal line. Auckland yielded the point. A scrimmage was formed almost on the goal line. The ball corning 1 to Henderson, he ran in, and, after a maul with Bing, touched down. A. dispatch from Saratoga to the N.Y. Clipper of June 25th states that while Trickett was practising on the lake on the 16th. his shell suddenly broke into three pieces a mile from shore, and the oarsman was with difficulty rescued from drowning. " The wind'was high, the water was very rough, and he had gone down twice" before a party from shore rescued him. A «ame of "Fives " was played lastSatur-, day at Gleeson's Ball Court. J. M. Dargaville v. Capt. Daveney. Two games out of three to decide the match. Dargaville won the first by 15 points to " love." In the second game " The Gallant Captain " warmed up to his work but had to succumb to Dargaville, who proved too i handy with his " Bithoque," which eventually won him j the second game by 15 points to 10, anirdst loud ap- . ■plause from all parties. On the same day Courtney and Lynch beat Harry Thomas and Gleeson, after a well contested game. J3y the last mail from England, Mr John Conway received a letter from the promoters of the English team of cricketers who intend visiting Australia and New Zealand during the approaching cricket season informing him that the following nine men have been selected for the tour :— Ulyett, Midwinter, Shaw, Shrewsbury. Barnes, Morely, Pilling, Bates, and Lillywhice and that the remainder of the eleven would be selected from Gunn, Scotton, Selby, Flowers, and Charlwood. Some doubt was at first entertained as to the advisablcuess of bringing Ulyett, but, as that player is in such magnificent form just now, the promoters feel that English professional talent would not be properly represented without him. Moreover, they are sensible of the hi<*h standard which cricket has attained m the colonies," and feel that even with the very cream of English cricketers opposed to them the Australians will be hard to beat. It is not at all improbable that two first-class gentlemen cricketers will accompany the visitors to lend a hand to their professional brethren in the most important of the Australian matches. If suitable teams are offered by the Queensland cricketers, the openino- match of the tour wil be played at Brisbane on 25th, 26th, and 28th November. —The Auckland footballers speak highly of the way they were treated in Waikato. Traps were waithK' at the station to drive them to the Commercial Hotel After a general dusting, etc., all round, the team walked down to Mr Gwynne's, having been invited to lunch by that gentlemen. After the match they were entertained at a dinner got up in first-class style by Mr Milne assisted by Mr Koines. But the greatest treat was the dinner given by Mr R. Kirkwood, of Cambridge, on Sunday. All the team rode or drove over, and were accompanied by many of the Hamilton men. On arrival at Cambridge, after the horses were stabled, Mr K. shewed the visitors over his new hotel, and pointed out the different parts of Waikato from his large balcony. The dinner was all that could be wished for— got up in Host Kirkwood' s best style. After satisfying the inner man the visitors, accompanied by Messrs. Kirkwood, Cotton, and Moor (Cambridge men) took a stroll to the waterfall, after which " Dove Cottage " was visited, and back to the horses. Everbody mounted, three careers for Bob Kirkwood, and oil for Hamilton, arriving safe at 6,10 p.m. The Auckland men never tire of speaking of E. Kirkwood's, and, in fact, all Waikato people's hospitality.]