OUT DOOR SPORTS

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 54, 24 September 1881, Page 29

OUT DOOR SPORTS

[Secretaries of Clubs and others who take an interest in out-door sports are cordially invited to furnish particulars of any events which come within their knowledge. Special arrangements made with regular contributors.] — Young Lcßoy lias converted his fast sailing open boat, Lilly, into a yacht. — The rowing season in Auckland is to be opened with a procession of boats. — The West End Club lias decided to join the Association. — Webb's yacht Nympbe was out for her fh'st "trip this season last Saturday. — Parnell defeated Ponsonby second fifteen last Saturday by six fco four. — It is said that Hanlan intends to retire into private life after the present rowing season. — Bailey has received orders to build several pleasure boats for the Hawke's Bay Sailing Club. — A young man named Murphy is building a .handsome new boat in Hepburn-street. — Lanauze won the swimming championship of Bawkes Bay at the opening of the Napier baths. — The Cricket Association, which avjxs formed Last week, is meeting with satisfactory encouragement. —Edward Trickett was stopping with the Champion Hanlan after the Ottawa Regatta, but was to Saratoga and Harry Kelly at the beginning of August. — The English Amateur Championship at lawn tennis has been won by James Eeushaw by three sets to love. — The West End Cricket Club will open the season with a colt match, to be played on October Bth and 15th. —Young Culbertson, of Parnell, has bought the Red Kipple, and is engaged in making improvements in her for the forthcoming season. ■ — Waters is building a paper shell for Courtney, to be within two pounds of the lightest single scull ever made. — In reply to " Neptune :" — Trickett beat Laycock on August 29th, 1879, on the Parramatta Kiver for the championship and £400. — Charters and Tucker for Ponsonby, and F. Twiname, Whiteside, and Marshall for Parnell, obtained touch-downs last Saturday. — The football match, Auckland v. Tauranga, was won by the former by a goal and a try to nothing. — From kick off to "no side," the ball was seldom out of Tauranga " twenty-five." — Joe Warbrick did not play at all a good game, at least nothing like his Wellington form. — No scoring was done at Tauranga till Bob Whiteside took off his boots. j — Though Tauranga undoubtedly jri'iycd !l good hard game, they were no match for our boys, who kept the ball in Tauranga's " auarter distance " all the time. — It is the opinion of most of the Auckland team that had " Long Bob " been half instead of threequarter back, after the first spell, our men would have scored more than twice, as was the case. — Ashby looked awfully astonished when Charlie White hooked into the back of his jersey jnst when he was going to do a brilliant drop-kick. He stood on his head backwards before you could say " knife." — The footballers were unfortunate in their ] choice of a chairman at the dinner at Tauranga. He proposed so many toasts himself that no one else had a show. — What was Charlie Burgess doing to let Joe Warbriek give him such an awful purl as he did at Tauranga. Joe had the ball, nnd our North Shore heavyweight went for him straight, when down ducks Joe and lifts up Charlie, landing him on his head clear of the local clipper. — The " Grallery " was all one-sided last Saturday. It was "Go 'it Tauranga!" "Well played Tauranga !" Nobody cheered Auckland except four visitors —Captain Stephenson, Neil McLean, Billy Farquhar' and the irrepressible Snedden— who certainly did their best to counteract the general influence. — Talk about journalistic enterprise ! All the notice the Star took of the Taurauga-Auckland match was a ten-line local par cribbed from the short report contained in the Herald. Surely the proprietor could have arranged with one of the team to have had a decent report of the match and dinner. It is about time there was a good sporting reporter imported to Auckland. — R. Whiteside was " the shine" at Tauvan<rn. If his own captain, Tom Mackay, had been in command lie would have been up behind the scrimmages long before Mr Henderson brought him up— which was not till the last ten minutes — when off went his boots and he streaked over the line like a flash of greased lightning, getting both trys, one of which Jack VVebster converted into a goal. — Poor Jimmy Braund. The gentleman who proposed the toast of " The Ladies " coupled it with the name of Mr J. Braund. But Jim wasn't on, the ungallant fellow could not find words to return thanks, and tried to get his hat and slide, but was detected and stopped. Still he would not speak. And yet, ah ! Jimmy, what about the Western Park on the following Sunday ; you could talk freely enough there. — Messrs Paul and Roberts, of Wellington, are bnilding a paper boat, 13ft overall with a beam of 2ft 6in. When launched it will weigh only 35lbs. — Messrs Carr and Sons are engaged in building a 14ft centre-board sailing boat for an Auckland gentleman. — The boating season is expected to open, weather permitting, about the first or second Saturday in October. — A meeting of the Grordon Cricket Club was hold last Tuesday night (20th) at Parnell to settle matters with reference to the coming season. — In reply to " Neptune," we may state that in the fight between Tom Sayers and Heenan 37 rounds were contested, lasting two hours and six minutes, when the ring was broken in. — I hear Logan, of the North Shore, intends sending his new yacht over to Sydney if he cannot dispose of her here. It is a great xiity to see such a fine boat leave our waters. — In our advertising columns will be found the programme of sports to be held onthe 26th November next in the Doman Cricket Ground by the Amateur Athletic Club. Judging from the list of events, it should afford good sport and induce large fields. — James Riley, the well-known sculler, sustained a painful injury to the fingers of one hand while removing his shell from a railroad car, but the hurt will not interfere with any arrangements he may have made for for sculling work during the season. — Hitchens is trying to sell the open boat Magic, which he won in a raffle some time ago. She is a twenty-five foot boat, was built last year by Logan, and the woJk in her is said to excel in beauty and finish that of any other hoat ever built in Auckland. — The Auckland Bowling and Lawn Tennis Club will hold their annual meeting on the Bowling Green, Grafton-road, to-morrow (Saturday) at 3 p.m. About £1500 has been expended in improving the ground, which will no doubt add a large number of members to the club. — Wallace Ross is out in a fresh and unconditional challenge to row a four or five mile race for the championship cf the world, and two thousand dollars a-side. Should the champion decline the challenge, ' 2?m Iclx is uardl y probable, Boss says he will claim the title to which he aspires and wants to row for, — r -The Corwell University (American) crew have written to the London Sportsman, thanking the English rowing clubs and the Press for thefr courteous treatment, and expressing regret ag the assertions made by some American papers that the Corwell crew was purposely fouled at Henley. — The Northern Wairoa is going ahead. Next season we are to receive a challenge from the new club— the Kaihu Kickists-to play a football match, when, we are credibly informed, Auckland will have to send a better team than went to Tauranga, unless they want U^Y 11 ? A n \ '**8" "flitched" off their "bark." Bully for the bush-whackers ! Look at that now •

— The annual cricket match at Kennigton Oval between the North and South of England resulted in an easy victory for the former by an innings and 91 runs. The players were— North : Ulyett, Barlow, Lockwood, Barnes, Selby, A. If. Hornby, Bates, Einmett, Shaw, Pilling, and Peate. South: Ellis, Walker, Lucas, Studd, Read, Vernon, Shuter, Hearne, Perm, Bobertson, and Potter. — In reply to the challenge issued by Wallace Koss, Hanlan says he will row hxn whenever he likes for %vro thousand dollars is offered in addition to the stakes by the city or town in. the proximity of which the race takes place. Hanlan considers it very well for Ross to challenge him when he knows he can make more than the stake money where he propose to row out of railways and privileges ; but if Boss likes he will row him for five thousand dollars a-side— barring the usual expensenses — at any place designated. — A correspondent asks who Jim Mace fought for the championship of England. Mace contested the bolt on several occasions. In 1861 he defeated Sam Hurst, the Staleybridge Infant; in November, 1861 Mace was beaten by Tom King, who afterwards surrendered the belt to him ; in 1866 Mace defeated Joe Goss for the championship; and finally in 1867 Mace met Baldwin, the affair ending in a draw owing to a disturbance, and Mace was bound over to keep the peace ; but in 1870 Mace was victorious over Mike M'Coole, at New Orleans, for the championship of the world. Jem's last fight was in America, in 1872, when he beat Joe Coburn,