OUT DOOR SPORTS

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 100, 12 August 1882, Page 348

OUT DOOR SPORTS

Huckstep : s backers made a very largo haul. It is said that Sandall is training on the sly as a pedThe match, against Waikato has been postponed until Saturday week It is proposed to send an Auckland cricketing team south daring the approaching season. The English tour of the Australian cricketers concludes at Harrowgate on September 20th. A correspondent says that Charlie Connop is prepared to rim A. Harper a half-mile or mile for £25 or upwards. Sam G-oodman says he will back W. Houston to run A. Harper any 'distance for any sum he likes to name. A mile race between Huckstep and Daley is said to be on the tapis, the latter receiving 300 yards start. Auckland, defeated North Shore in their last football match of the season, last Saturday, by four points to nothing. Pickering has issued a challenge to M. Monnock for a 100 yards race, offering nine yards start. Now for it Mick ! The cricket season shows signs of an early opening this year. Ponsonby Club has led the van with its annual meeting. One of the earliest cricket items expected from Alexandria is Ambi Pasha, bowled Seymour, 0. The fielding of the Egyptians poor. The bowling of the Englishmen dead on. The handsome new ten-ton yacht which Logan has just completed for Mr William's will probnWy be entered at the. next regatta. Jack Bell has fitted the rigging. Huckstep defeated Welsh in the match for the seven mile walk championship and £50 a side, with 150 yards to spare. His time was lhr. 2raius. 6 4-osecs., and, considering the heavy state of the ground, .this was very good. Pickering is said to be in good form again notwithstanding his recent illness. In addition to the challenge to Monnock, he has offer 3d to give any man in Auckland three yards Out of a hundred, or run any man up to a quarter of a mile. A pedestrian, writing last week, says :— " W. Houston will give E. Sandall 100 yards start and walk him one mile for £50 or £100 a side. If Sandall is what he used to be, we think Billy would put his foot into it properly." Walsh took the lead for the first quarter of a mile on Saturday, but Huckstep subsequently came away and won at his pleasure. A paragraph tipping Huckstep for the match was inadvertently omitted from this column on Saturday. The series . of club football matches for the season have now practically concluded. My prediction that Ponsonby would occupy the premier position has been verified. Graf ton takes second place, while the heaty-weight Auckland and North Shore Clubs are third and fourth respectively. Wilson Skeen, who is one of the best of the Ponsonby forwards, and one whom no man works harder, . had his temple badly 3ut on Saturday through collision with Hanna's not over-soft head. He was taken to the Hospital to have the. wound Jstitched up, and is now doing very well.