OUT DOOR SPORTS

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 59, 29 October 1881, Page 100

OUT DOOR SPORTS

— The amalgamated cricket club at tlie North Shore has been called, the United. — There will be no sculling race at the North Shore Regatta. ■ — Both the yacht races at the North Shore Kegatta are expected to be well contested. — Robinson and Mitchell put together 14 and 10 respectively last Saturday. Both were bowled. — It is expected that eight or ten entries will be received for the trading cutter race at the North. Shore Regatta. — The programme for the season was not definitely arranged at the cricketers' meeting on Tuesday. It will probably be fixed up next. — Colbeck lias gone to Cambridge as teller of the Bank there, and F. Dufaur has been elected as secretary to the Cricket Association in his place. — Auckland, Ponsonby, and North Shore clubs have crews in training for the junior and senior amateur races. — The United and West End second elevens are expected to play a match, in the Domain on Saturday. — Entries for the Ellerslie Athletic Sports on the Prince of Wales' birthday will close at the Custom House Hotel next Wednesday evening. • — Hanlan has accepted a challenge from Edward Trickett to row for the championship of the world and £400 a side, at St. Louis, on November 22nd. — Messrs Webster, Quick, and Wynyard will probably form the North Shore junior crew at the approaching regatta. — Watson, of the Victorias, won Captain Clark's belt last Saturday. — The scratch match in the Domain on Saturday was a very one-sided affair, the scores being 18, and 85 for the loss of six wickets. — Billy Robinson is bowling better this season ; the way he took the wickets on Saturday was a sight for sore eyes. — Dan Lynch has evidently not lost, his last yenr'sform. His score of 29 (not out) in the scratch match on Saturday was all good cricket. — None of the rowing club crews for the North Shore Regatta have been definitely fixed, but we shaH endeavour to give them in next issue. — Charlie Niccol has been elected a committee man for the North Shore United Club, amid great rejoicing, and he considers himself thorough bon ton now. — The Pastime has had a new suit of sails supplied her, which fit very well. They are very large, and ought to enable her to hold her own in the best company. — The Amateur Athletic Club have decided to postpone their sports till the 3rd December, as the Pakuranga Hunt Club's meeting has been postponed till the 26th November. — Canavan bowled and batted very well indeed in the scratch match on Saturday. He was caught at 13 by Colbeck, and was applauded on his retirement. Four wickets were credited to him. ■ — Walter Jones, in the Maud, with a wretchedly fitting suit of sails, and only a third of her centre-board down, sailed "rings round" the Queenie, and the Maud had two reefs in at that. — Jupiter Pluvius seems determined that the present cricket season shall be a late one. The weather could not be more uupropitious than it has been so far, all cricket matches as yetj having been interfered with by the rain. — The race spoken of as likely to eventuate between Hutton and Hulston can hardly come eft" now, as the former, with his brother and a tailor named Stevenson, late of Grey-street, have cleared for fresh fields and ash-paths new. — The Pastime's sails would be too large for her under ordinary circumstances, but then, you see, Jim O'L — y is such excellent ballast, she can never " turn turtle " with him in her bottom, still less when he sits out to windward. — The 1000 yards Handicap seems likely to attract a good field at the A.A.C. Sports on December 3rd. Waters, C. and E. M. Clayton, Culpan, Lees, and Kinder are spoken of as certain starters, while it is likely that Sims, Griffiths, and others will also compete. — The Madge's new owner had better take a few lessons in sailing her, if he does not intend to " give her away "in the first race he competes in. In one board, on Safoirday, though the Madge beat the Queenie in speed all to fits, the latter weathered on her nearly a quarter of a mile. — The new open boat Queenie, built by Matthews, is undoubtedly a well-built craft, her planking being remarkably well put in, and her finish excellent. She has also as nice and well-setting a suit of sails as any in harbour, but with all this she is as slow as a hearse, and was beaten on Saturday by every hooker she met. — The twenty-foot sailing race at the approaching North Shore Regatta is expected to bo well contested. Some doubt exists as to the probable starters, but amongst those pretty certain to go are the Madge, Queenie, Observer, Hattie May, and Fernandez's and Garnaut's boats. A number of others will compete in addition to these. —The inrigged gig race for all comers at the North Shore Eegatta shotvld prove to be a very interesting event. There is considerable probability that the Ponsonby crew which contested the race at the last Auckland Regatta will be got together, while Smith, who stroked the Auckland representative men in the championship race, is trying to get up a crew. It is also said that North Shore will enter a boat, and there was some talk of a Thames boat coming up, but this is improbable.

— We hear of a clever piece of bluff played by Hutton in— we think— Lyttelton. Some country ped, not knowing who Hutton was, made a match for £20 a side, £5 deposit. Hutton rather funked it as he had no time for preparation, so he met the yokel, and enquired, " Do you know who you are going to run ?" •' No," says the chap, "and I don't care a d ." •'"Why," said Bob, "I'm Hutton, the champion, from Auckland." The other forfeited rather than tackle the "lone un " Clover Bob ! 5