FIXTURES

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 60, 5 November 1881, Page 116

FIXTURES

CRICKET. Feb.— Match, Auckland v. All England Eleven PEDESTRIANISJI. Nov. 9.— EUerslie Athletic Sports. Nov. 9.— Tauranga Athletic Club Sports. Dec. 3.— Auckland Athletic Club Sports. AQUATICS. Nov. 9.— North Shore Regatta. Nov. 22. — Trickefc and Haulan race. Nov. 2i & 26.— Sportsman's Challenge Cup, Tyue course. Dec. 26. — Championship Rowing Match, Mercury Bay. Jan. 2 — Scullers' Race, Northern "VVairoa. Jan. 2 and 3. — Northern Wairoa Regatta (Maungawhare) Jan. 30. — Auckland Annual Regatta. April— Ponsonby Regatta. — The yacht Toy is in the market. — J. Patten got six wickets for Onehunga. — Tripp has purchased the Coy from Armstrong. — The amusement at the Front on Sundays is iootball. — The Pastime was out on Sunday, but with small sails. — The entries for the North Shore Regatta will be received next Monday evening. — The Observer was in Messrs. Hewson and Melville's hands last week for an overhaul. — Several sailing races are spoken of as likely to he arranged after the North Shore Regatta. — The Madge beat everything she came across last Saturday. — The Saturday Afternoon Recreation Club will not commence its season until Saturday, 12fcli inst. — The Ponsonby Cricket Club intends to send a team to Coromandel on Prince of Wales' Birthday. — The well-known open sailing boat Sissy was launched last week. — There is some talk of converting the large open sailing boat Missing Link into a yacht. — The Mabel has been in Bigelow's hands for the purpose of undergoing an overhaul. — Waters played very well for his eleven runs at Otahuhn.but carelessly allowed himself to be stumped — The Zulu is expected to contest the smaller yacht race on Prince of Wales* Birthday. — Dufaur was energetic at Otahuhu, and succeeded in stutnpiiig two ni'en. — F. Porch got three, and Bowden two, wickets for Otahuhu in tbe match against the United. — Tom Farquhar intends to compete in the amateur scullers' race at the next Auckland Regatta. — Arneil batted very steadily on Saturday, and carried his bat for 32. — Matthews is expected to sail the Queenie at the North Shore Regatta. — West End defeated United second eleven last Saturday with four wickets and two runs to spare. — J. Waymouth will sail the Hattie May at the North Shore Regatta, should she compete. — T. Henderson intends to contest the amateur sculling race at the next Auckland Regatta. — A new centreboard sailing boat has been built by Waymouth for Clayton. — The Witch and Pcd are both expected to sail in the twenty foot race. — Swailes' Olga and Edmonds' Meteor both contest tbe third class sailing race. — E Mills intends to sail the Spray in the third class open sailing boat race at the North ' Shore Regatta. — The Fraud will probably be entered by Rutledge for the twenty feet sailing race. — Charlie Smith has made a large new suit of sails for Perrott's Imp. — Fernandez has called his new twenty foot the Ped. — Cuthbertson will have his new yacht Ripple out on Saturday. — Fowler's Nellie is one of the favourites for the 16 feet sailing- race. — Smith has made a new suit of sails for the Olive, in which she will sail at the North Shore Regatta. — The yacht Daphne is being fitted up to proceed to the Islands. — Hanna, Creeks, and Brown did some good bowling for the West End second eleven on Saturday. — W. Cranch sails the Nellie in the sixteen foot race at the North Shore Regatta. — The Olive is to compete in the small sailing boat race at the North Shore Regatta. — One of Bailey's sons has built a smart-looking sixteen feet sailing boat named the Elsie. She will compete at tbe North Shore Regatta. — Ponsonby had not got together a scratch senior crew for the North Shore Rsgatta up till Wednesday. A scratch crew will be sent. — The North Shore senior crew consists of Messrs. C. Burgess (stroke), McGecbie (No. 3), E. Burgess (No. 2), and Mearns (No. 1). — The Auckland junior crew at the North Shore Regatta will consist of Messrs. Aicken (stroke), O'Brien (3), Gould (2), and Phillipson (1). — Garnaut launched the Agnes last week. It is intended to enter her for the twenty foot race at the North Shore Regatta. — The open sailing boat Hattie May was placed in trim for the twenty-foot race by Waymouth last week. — The North Shore crew is the favourite for the junior amateur rowing race. The Ponsonby crew is tbe lightest. — George Edwards, Whangapoua, and Beeson, Coromandel, have gone into active training for tbe Mercury Bay Regatta. — A footrace for £5 took place between McKenzie and Morcrof t, of Pangarehu. The former won easily. — A Ponsonby Cricket Club has been formed, with Mr C. Owen as captain. There are about twenty members at present. — The Penguin, which sailed at the last Ponsonby^ Regatta, will be entered for tbe smaller yacht race at tbe approaching North Shore Regatta. — The Northern Wairoa crew, who competed at the last Auckland Regatta, have been invited to compete for the £50 prize at the Mercury Bay Regatta. — Harrison has received orders for several canoes from members of the recently formed Rob Roy Canoe Club. — The Observer went up from Hewson and Melville's to Freeman's Bay last Saturday under doublereefed mainsail. — Edmonds has got the Sybil ready, and intends to enter her for tbe smaller yacht race aS the North Shore Regatta. She is first favourite. — The Brothers, which was built by Hewson and Melville some months ago, is being got ready for the smaller yacht race at the North Shore Regatta. — Messrs. Sims (stroke), O'Connor (3), Greenwood (2), and G. Niccol (I), will form the North Shore crew in the inrigger race. —The Shrimp, Magic, and Mabel are expected to be among the entries in the first-class Bailing race at the North Shore Regatta. _ — The junior crew in training to represent North Shore at the regatta consists of Webster (stroke), G. Beid (3), G. Wynyard (2), and Quick (1). — The Queenie did better last Sunday than on previous occasions. The wind was lighter, and suited her large sails much better. She is, however, only fancied by a select few for the second-class sailing boat race.

— The barque Stracathro will be the flagship at the Regatta on Wednesday, and she will be anchored off North Shore. —Perrott's Imp will be entered for the sixteen feet sailing boat at the approaching North Shore Regatta. — Several of the new members of the Amateur Athletic Club have started their preparation for the approaching sports. . —Jack Arneil has begun well. Thirty two (not out) on a treacherous wicket speaks volumes for I his batting abilities. — Buckland Avonld "let out" again on Satxyrday, and, as a naturally consequence, he was easily j caught by Butler before he had broken his duck-ege. — The Auckland senior crew at the North Shore Regatta consists of Messrs. T. Henderson (stroke), C. Dacre (3), Cousins (2), and Croston (1). —Onehunga put the Civil Service through with 75 runs to spare last Saturday. And the civil servants were willing to play sixteen men, too, eh ? — Lankham, junr., bowled remarkably well at Otahuhu last Saturday. He took thirteen wickets in the two innings. — A young man named Belcher has built a sixteen feet centreboard sailing boat, but she has not yet been launched. — The open sailing boat Hettic, sister to the Hattie May, has beeu purchased by Armstrong from young Cramond. — Auckland's hopes rose rapidly on Saturday when they had three wickets down for less than ten runs, but Arneil's obstinacy soon disgusted them. — Jervis and McCormick were bowling at Otahuhu, but did not take any wickets. All the execution was done by the Lankhams. — Robinson was given " leg before," when he had just settled down to work on Saturday. His score was 22. — The sixteen feet sailing boat On Dit, built last year by Carr. and which won the race for that class at the Ponsonby Regatta, was recently sold to a resident of Hokianga for JEI7. — In the match between Auckland and West End on Saturday, the former made 90 in the^first innings, and the latter had four wickets down for 52. The match will be resumed next Saturday. — It is not improbable that Walter Jones will enter his little Maud in the race for yachts under five tons. There is a strong likelihood that if he does, she will make it warm for some of them. ■ — The Jessie Logan, Volante, Lala, Flying Fish, Toy, and several fishing yachts are spoken of ns likely competitors in the larger yacht race at the North Shore Regatta. — Messrs. Cooper (stroke), Moore (No. 3), B. Lloyd (No. 2), and T. Farquhar (No. 3) will represent Ponsonby in the Junior Amateur Race at the North Shore Regatta. — Between twenty and thirty sailing boats were to be seen on the western side of Queen-street wharf at one time last Sunday morning. They were engaged in friendly trials in view of the North Shore Regatta. — Constable Silver has bought that Islander's outrigger canoe from Cochrane's and intends going in for rowing exercise. Water policeman Samson superintends arrangements. — Dan Lynch got stuck up for once in his life by an Auckland bowler. The ground was more to blame than the batsman, and no one was more surprised than Beale when he saw Dan's bails flying. — Danny Watson, who, by-thc-bye, left his heart behind, him in the Waikato, is in training, and means to have another bid for tbe quarter mile at the A.A. Club's sports. —The Olive (White), Amateur (Riley), Overtime (Bennett), Pig (Spraggou), and Bottany's new bosit are expected to contest the fourth class sailing race at the North Shore Regatta. — It is expected that the Tona will bring the twenty foot sailing bont Imp down from Russell tomorrow to compete at the North Shore regatta. She is one of the favourites. — Amongst the old performers, Jimmy Sims is a favourite for the A. A. (J. 1-mile race. He won it in March, 1880, nnd is considered "good goods" for it again, especially by the North SLiorites. — Carr launched a sixteen feet centreboard sailing boat, built to the order of Mr E. B. Parsons, of Ponsonby, this week. There is some talk of entering her for the North Shore Regatta, and using the On Dit's sails. — Walter Jones had the Maud out last Sunday, and gave several boats particular beans. On a trial close-hauled with the Observer, he kept very close, while he gained considerably on the Queenie in a run down the harbour before the wind. — The Madge was out last Sunday morning, but only a shadow of her former self. She had on a suit of old and very small sails, which had much the same appearance as knickerbockers on a youth of eighteen. — The entries for the third class sailing race at the North Shore Regatta will probably include the Devonport (Holmes), Zip (W. Sibbin), Coy (Tripp), Elsie (Bailey), Nellie (Fowler), Imp (Perrott), Meteor (Edmonds), Spray (Mills), Olga (Swailes). — There is some talk of a crew being got together to represent Auckland in the inrigger race by Smith, who rowed stroke in tbe championship race. F. Leatham and Mackinnon are said to have promised to row, but a fourth man had not been. got up till Wednesday. — Dewes' score of 45 was put together very rapidly by a fine display of hard and free bitting. It was a pity that be was so unfortunate ns to be stumped, and the general opinion is that he would bave got over the century before being bowled. He is certainly an acquisition to the Auckland Club. — A new twenty foot open sailing boat named the Gem, built by Bob Murphy, of Hepburn-street, made her appearance on Sunday. She carried large sails, and, thanks to plenty of live ballast to windward, she made a pretty good show. W. Cook sails her at the North Shore Regatta. — The Ponsonby crew which is training to contest the all-comers inrigger race at tbe North Shore Regatta consists of Finlay (stroke), Scott, No. 3, Davis, No. 2, and Edmonds, No. 1. They bave been training for aboat a fortnight, and as muscle is not wanting they will probably make things warm for the other competitors. —Beck intends to give the Eunice a show at tbe approaching North Shore Regatta. She has been in Bailey's shed, undergoing various alterations during the last week. Her mast has been shifted forward, and she has been supplied with a new centre-board. One of the Marshalls has been engaged to sail her in the twentyfoot open boat race. — The twenty foot race at the North Shove Regatta will probably attract tbe following starters : — Eunice (Beck), Observer (Waymouth), Queenie (Cramond), Fraud (Rutledge), Gem (Murphy), Agnes' (Gamut), Imp (Stephenson), Madge (McKay and Rhodes), Comet (Edmonds), Witch, Ped (Fernandez), Hattie May (Graham aud Halstead), Foam (Percy). — Nightingale has sold his new twenty foot' sailing boat Foam to tbe Messrs. Percy, of St. George's Bay. The price was £12 for the bull without any gear. The boat, which was built on n, model somewhat similar to tbe Hattie May's, was pbtced in the water for tbe first time on Monday evening. She sails pretty well, especially on the wind, and will contest tbe twenty foot race at the North Shore Regatta.