Late Sporting.

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 53, 17 September 1881, Page 5

Late Sporting.

— The priviliges of the Cambridge Jockey Club Spring Meeting were sold on Saturday last by Messrs H. E. Cotton and Co., and realised £57 10s. The gates were purchased by Mr Adams, Auckland, and brought £28.

— To the Editor : Sir,— ln your issue of the 10th inst. I notice a paragraph under the heading of " Waikato Whisperings" stating that Mr Pantham had given the promoters of the Cambridge Grand Stand notice that he would not allow the race meetings to be held on the present coiirse. As a report of this sort is likely to be detrimental to tho well-being of the Cltib, I take this opportunity of denying your correspondent's assertion. So far from its beinj true or even having 'ithe slightest semblance of truth, in it, Mr Fauthain has offered tlie Club the fee simple of the paddocks through which the course runs, an offer which I hope, in the interests of the Cambridge Club, will be accepted. Why your correspondent should try to damage the Club I don't know, unless it has trod on his bunions at some time or another. Even that, however, would not excuse his mendacity in this matter. But even he has paid us a compliment which I have n© doubt will be balm to our souls. He speaks of the C.J.C. as " The" Jockey Club. —I am, &c, Robert Fekgtjsson, Gorton, Cambridge, September, 11,1881.