OUT DOOR SPORTS

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 67, 24 December 1881, Page 237

OUT DOOR SPORTS

Gould gob five Onehunga wickets last Saturday. Machafctic bowled three wides in an over on Saturday. Taylor won the Church of England Grammar School Cup with 25 points against White's 20. Floyd borrowed. Dacre's sculling boat for the Mercury Bay Regatta. Robinson ran up 27 on Saturday by steady play. Ponsonby and Alpha Clubs play their first match in the Domain on Saturday. A MeCorniick did the mile handicap at the Auckland Grammar School sports in omin. 41secs. E.. Woods threw the cricket ball 87»- yards at the Auckland Grammar School Sports. Arueil bowled eleven maidens in the Tauranga and West End match. Farrer was neatly caught by George Brown in Thursday's match. The Alphas beat Whau Union on Saturday with 25 runs to spare. lvilpatrick bowled eight Whau Union wickets for twelve runs last Saturday. Hovsbrugh was badly run out on Saturday after making two runs. McKinney made 25 not out in the match against West* End. Taylor ran the 100 yards in the Parnell Grammar School Cup Knee in 12secs. One ball from Arueil was more than sufficient for Duinbleton in the Tauranga and West End match. Farrer made 51 ?iot out for Tauranga against West End. Some of his hits were very good. Ted Owen bowled very prettily against Jvorlh Shore lust Saturday. . The race between C. Watson and G. Mills for £1 n-side has fallen through. If the pace the Oneliunga bowlers are using at present is continued, a physician will need to be in attendance. White, who won the long jump at the Parnell Grammar School sports, covered KG i'eet 9 inches. Taylor was second. In the cricket match between the English Eleven and twenty-two of San Francisco, Ullyett luude 16" not out. C. Owen bowled well against North Shore on Saturday, and succeeded in getting three wickets. He alsocaught Lander off one of Gilehrist's balls. The open-sailing boat Madge was overhauled this week, and is now considerably improved in appearance. —Sterling Silver Cups (200), Electro-plated Cups (160), for racing, athletic sports, shooting, and prizes of all kinds. — |_Ai>vt.] Dan Lynch batted well against 13 a. v of Plenty and succeeded in putting together 49 before he mis bowled by Farrar, the underhand man. Farrer won the bat for the highest batting average in tbe four mutches played l.v the Bay of Plenty team. His bowling average is also the best. Yates baited prettily and si radii v fur Auckland on Saturday, but after yetting fourteen, lie was given out leg before wicket. The Hamilton (Waikato) cricket its want, to send eight men to play with Auckland against the AllEngland eleven. iTanlan lias refused to row the match with Trickett, and the latter, during an interview with the champion, stigmatised him as a coward. The liivt ball delivered by Arthur Edwards in the Ponsonby and North .Shore match took .Reid's middle stump. Dixon batted very well indeed la>t .Sat urdav against the United/ He «as:) 0 not out when the stump's were drawn. MeCormick's bowling \v;;s cmiMderab]'/ knocked about in the Auckland and United match. 'Lankham, junior, took one wicket, and his father another. The. match between Onehunga ami (iordon was drawn in favour of the former, ulfhoiigh thi>v were i very anxious ;to play it out. Ouelr.ui'.v;i •_-» » t SJ, and Gordon had S wickets down for 4'j. Mettam, O'Jlare, WhiUside, McGinl.-v, Cummins, and other Auckland pe;ls. have entered jci> events at the Durgaville Athletic iSports, which take place ncct Monday. Quick, who won the half-mile handicap at the Paruoll Grammar School Sports, gives promise of being a good runner. He ran well, and was an easy winner, the time being 2mins. oOsecs. Carter and Flo>d, of Australia, and Albert White, of Mercury Bay, we expected to compete for Mr Carina's sculling prize at the Mercury Bay .Regatta on Monday next. .Jordan won the school cup at the Auckland Grammar School sports with a score ot thirty points. Ho was first in the 100 yds., 200 yds., 400 yds., 120 yds. handicap hurdle, and sack race. Arueil bowl-d splendidly in the "J3ay of Plenty and West End match, getting nine wickets to his credit. Dan appeared to appreciate it even better than anyone else. Hanlan says he will row anyone next Spring, but not before. He claims the right which custom and precedent give him of having the race rowed upon suitable water of his own selection. It is now definitely certain that the English Eleven will play in Auckland at the end of January or beginning of February. Shaw and Peate are two of their best bowlers. At the Gisborne Hospital Sports, Herbert j Cooke, who is well known here, ran first in the 220 yds. | handicap, third in the first heat of St. Andrew's handicap, second in the second heat, and third in the third heat. Monnock stripped better than Barchard on Saturday in the 150 yards race for .fes a-side, but, although he ran gamely, he was unable to make up the three yards which he allowed his opponent. Barcliurd won by a chest. The match between West End mid Tauranga was drawn, the former having got 112 in their first innings, while the Bay of Plenty men had 78 in their first innings, and four wickets down for 102 in their second innings. Shaw's English cricketing team played a San Francisco twenty-two on their way through from England. The Californians got 44 in their first inning, and their opponents had DB. In the second innings, the Englishmen scored 313 for the loss of two wickets ! The two Wynynrds, who made the top scores for the North Shore first eleven against the Bay of Plenty team last week, had the assurance to play with North Shore second eleven against Ponsonby. They made 140 between them, or 81 and 56 respectively. G. Wynyard and 11. Wynyard batted splendidly in the North Shore and Ponsonby match, the former making 84 and the latter 56. They were also top scorers in the match between North Shore and Tauranga. I would recommend the Selection Committee for the match with the All-England Eleven to keep their eyes upon them. The North Shore second eleven were so pleased at having made 202 against Ponsonby that they talked of playing twenty-two from that district. They had, however, nothing to boast about. The howling was wide and without pitch, owing to the greasiness of the ball ; and yet, leaving: out the extras and the scores of the two Wynynrds, who are really first eleven mon, the whole team only made 35. Certainly, there is nothing wonderful about that. The rain last Saturday made the ball greasy and difficult to hold, and consequently the best bowling was easy and soft. High scores were the natural result, and Auckland got 102 for the loss of five wickets against United, while North Shove succeeded, with the aid of the Wynyards, in getting 202 in their first innings against Ponsonby. The former match will be played out next Saturday, and, notwithstanding Auckland's streak of luck, odds are given that they will be "put through " by the United. The North Shore and Ponsonby match " was drawiia