ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Observer, Volume 5, Issue 112, 4 November 1882, Page 118

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

,--'-:.--"WiitßMAfA.^Many.thanks;:but I would be glad if v"! -you 'would^.subscribe .more regularly.. ;"Xour items are r.^alway'saeceptableif'j ■;■;. ; : \ ' :~y iSiEER'OABi-^Weli, of. course/slie. is' not a "service" :'v'. whaleboat.;. ; But .the object is^iot so. much to train .whaling crews my boy^ aa .to provide a class of boat able ;;. i i'to.live,ln"a rough, sea and yet easy to send along.

H>. ; Wl'Be. Olive put fhe Ruby through on Safcur- ,■■•■' dday."■-:'-:. ."■- :'- : ■-....,; '■■'," ' . • ■ .'/% —The (Truant "was . out on Saturday with her '/-• ;lcites flying. She seeiiied to travel exceedingly well. ,■;•■! ■■■; /—South.. End iaeets Ponsonby. on Saturday ;-l-' - nes;tiin the Domain-. ; ;■--.•• — : Six;-ferry v 'sfceamers "will ply on the day of the ?■ .Jsortih Shore Regatta. ''•■.■ ?7 - X.';'— Great 1 activity prevails at; the North Shore „.';- among tie yacht folks preparing for the regatta. '•.;-'• /-—Several persons were .',' had" by the reported .!?•- .arrival of the «anoes per Argyle, which turned out to be '.'two' large punts. ■„ „ .; .. ;■ . r-rThe catering on the .flagship is m good hands, • '■ the TJ.S.S. Col, so that the public may be sure of being v. well served. ; .. . • ';■ -^The band on the flagship will be the Hobson, ;• > and will consist of. 20 performers. Airs from the ':.. /'Pirates," ''Patience," and " Pinafore" will be played. - —The little Syb,il Cramond and Fairs' yacht, A'.Vas travelling splendidly under mainsail, jib, staysail. <\ and gaff topsail on. Sunday morning. ■;■ ■ , — A.Kawakawa correspondent informs me that v- /there is every prospect of the sports, to be held at that . .'V;placeonthe-9th, beingajpronounced success. : ■': V ■' .—^The Ueon got several holes knocked in her ■-: durtng'theblowon Wednesday week, and it will be some I ;, time before she can be got fit again. ;■- ?; 4-Mills has given the Spray a general overhaul ;:■. and: has removed the lead keel and replaced it with a 4? tiniber'one. ...She will.probably be out next week. J; V- .— rjN"eil hass launched his new 20-foot boat. She ; Ib, carvel built and looks very pretty, but her per',,'■formance does not come up to appearances. The ■-,•;% .- : Observer ran clean away from her when they met. /:) :■;■ ■'■— rThe;new yacht lately launched from Logan's ■■■'- yard to the order of Mr Bloomfield, was out on Satur- • i •;'. day, and acquitted herself quite to the satisfaction of j^all parties. ' She has been named the Arawa. -j] -'^— The. ''North. Shore Eegatta programme is a V : ,;:good one, and it is to be hoped that the entries will be ■„' numerous, , as should the day be flue, a number of '■■.-spectators' will witness each race. " ■ '_';?■:.'?— Pickering has replied to Hudson, of Inver- •.'-:'■ eargill, asking him what expenses he will require to run ; .' ; ' :;the match/in Auckland. If a satisfactory answer is received, he will arrange to meet Hudson before •/. ,', Christmas and then pass on to Hulston at Christchurch. ''•': .», ".—South 3|nd and West End Second Eleven -, < iriet in the D<§ftain qn Saturday, when the former won a ■■_'.■' 'tfood match by 18 runs. E. Woods, 26, A; Hanna, 19, for ■;.,-. West Ehd[; arid G. Brown, 28, and Beaver, 19, for South . -. ;/ End, were the principal scorers. ; ', ; ; .—The Rip (late Strawberry) and the Tuna had -/* ./' a ?aee for £1 a-side on Saturday last, when the former ; '''-, won,easily. ' A correspondent is strongly of opinion that '■'''. the.young man who sailed the Rip has a lot to learn yet \] in the' art of boat sailing. ■ ,'WSome people, lam informed by a corres- ,.-"■' pondent, are open to back the Ada, Jack Ward's new • .. 16-footer against the Elsie, lately built for War man by ■ Hewson and. Melville. From my own opinion of the .. latter I- think "some peeple" will be very apt to drop /'_ ; :their gilt on, that lay: , ... • .. '"'.^Noli Waymouth intends, after all, to enter Observer for the 20-foot open boat race at the N. S. -."Eegatta'. .' She was hauled up this week and thoroughly ":< '.prepared; • Sheis now in perfect trim for racing and j .. shotildhurfy. lip the best of her rivals. — iThe Minx ■ (which, by-the-way the Herald . -' -;man classes as a three-tonner), had her topmast up on r.- : and tried the topsail on it. I don't go so far '"/..-as' to say she wili beat the Jessie Logan on the ninth, : - ,;but she-will go very near it I am confident. '"' —Hunt, Moore, and Co.'s whaleboat has been ont .every evening si .ice- Friday last, and seems to go ", through "it very well, though the stroke oar sets a very ■'. quick short stroke, which does not at all impress one : favourably.'- . : : ' .:,,"-4Each of our leading soft goods warehouses ; . : possesses a cricket club, and on Saturday week those of V Messrs L. -D. Nathan and Co. and W. McArthur and Co. :.'.". wDI meet, in a friendly match in the Domain. If there ? ,;,-iSr not much genuine cricket,' there will' be heaps of r, ,\ genuine f tin and good fellowship. ' '%'/ ',— A/- grand programme of sports has been -■i ■ -issued at Wellington • for the 9fch -November. The •'■-; ""jxrincipal event is, the Monster Birthday Handicap, of 4 ". .distances, , viz:, 120, 220, 350 yards, Ist prize, £20, 2nd, sv: £7,.3rd, 3. A j-mile hurdle and 1-1-mile obstacle race are , ; - 'also included, besides a. mile race, a two-mile walking, \ '"- [ wrestling, jumping, maiden,- and two boys' race. ■i :■'• ; -^-A ' •D.argayille resident wi-ites anent the re•;,.:.presentative_ cricket teani, and 'strongly urges that ''-■■■" fii. McCormick should be. put in the team in plaoe of - -Blair; if he cannot' go asit is stated. " Dargaville " also - 'finds fault with the careless, style of play indulged in by - \ '■■- thaieps on the first 'day. 1,- and neariy every one of my ■'■■'- -readers will fully agree with my correspondent on these ,'/. points.' ,'■-■.'; ,-V - . -, ■'. < } '"' k\, —-Mr.' Cecil .Gardner i 3 in his, element amongst : '.'-\ the' fo'utaide" clubs lately, and playing for his new club, . ' the -PdnsonViy,', has knocked up some very respectable '■'■ /scores 'this season.. His latest was a well got 68, not ''-> dj.it, against fair bowling, of the Excelsior Club on Satur-. -i.day. last, and, the way Gardiier knocked the leather ' ; around was something worth seeing. The match ended ■-: ■", in a draw; though had, time allowed it to be played out ■ ,-,/ it woiild have- been a certain victory for'Ponsonby. '. 'j r ; .--—^est End and.Otahuliu met on Saturday, • :'* wheu- West End won easily. The score of C. Bowden, for ' ' ,\ Otahuhu, (28), was worthy of notice, being got by •" sterling", cricket against good bowling'; whilo for the | West- End, Bead, quite bore out > the good opinion I j ■'■^ formefi of; his abilities-last Saturday week,. by knocking '■ '"Tip 28 in .really, good style. ,He was well backed up by '' . ■-Eingv?rith'l4iJlsaa3-12,-..and Mitchellj 10. ,-Arneil (5 ■ ■'" -wickets),' and 1 Tom.Macky '. (3. wickets), bowled well for v the yictor^and-F, Porch did likewise for- Otahnhu,placing six wickets to his credit. ■ . . . ' '-^-The. handicaps 1 for, the 9th- November Sports - ■ „ have been mtuie by Mr 3J^ E. Ellis,- and seem pretty fairly , : adjusted. -One'.thiiigy however, strikes me as being a bit ■-, peculiar. ,1 allude ,to' the handicapper asking Pickering to concede %ds start to Fagan in the 440 yds. ,' when the flatter is statedto have cualieiiged any man in AuekJand ,-fo ran tueUi^taiiccijlevel, and us they "have never inNjt at „'t liis distance, or indeed any other in > A'neklancT, one would think such an otter would have been sufficient to , .- make Sir -Ellii? pufc'.them on scratch! together. Anyhow, ; • bar ;thi§ one man- proving.. dangerous 1 ("which" I .hardly ' '. ahticipiite, as he'will hdtsqueeze\out enough-nace), I ■ consider that Jack Pickering can win both the handicaps , . 'for which he is enfej.'ed..w,ithont much trouble. : Thatis ' : 'if lib iii Xd thxnigK : .- -Fagaii can, if fit, go very near the, '• ; milli'the ones iaost likely to trbuble him being Huc&steps ' l or §elby, the, deaf and dumb' youth. ; '; ','.". ."'•■■■•

t. ; ; re^s6iiably f otmod on Sat jirdayTweek, the representative -. .^e.aiii;bfcricUeters 'won^thewMatch.against an r ll of all-, cdiaers by.nd less than' nine wickets. .VThe.'-ttesult, wa'sj ,'entiraly 'Owing, to. the f great im'provemeat.iri- bowling on , thefpart of Gifl: and- .Lankham, who^both trundled.grandly, on ' Saturday, last." v The former's, .analysis is .well of note,, slid wing- 55 balls, with 7: maiden : overs, 6 wickets, and only 4 runs j while liankhain' bowled 152 balls for' 26 runs, -3 maidens and 4 wickets.' -Both of these may be- looted upon as\first-class performances. Next in, merit to these comes little Testro, who. batted t in a stubborn style, reminding one of an old professional, not ' brilliant 'perhaps, but. steady and sure, with a defenoe ■ one rarely see 3in Auckland. I trust he will ■ keep it up all along, that's all ! '• Barton's 20 (bowled) and 18, not out, were got by splendid clean hitting. TTates was not out in the second innings with 17 runs., Wynyard got 21 by xeaily pretty dricket, and bis he seem 3 to be getting over his only fault of yoro, that of laziness, hewill be no' discredit to our team I am sure.-for'he is a rattling good field and a really good change bowler. Robinson got twelve runs by that beautiful " placing" for which he used.to be so noted, and by which he made most of his scores in the 1873 trip. , He was had rather soft by knocking up a ball he.intended should go for 3. Buckland, who was run out for a " dv\ck" first innings, was bowled very neatly for a -ditto in the second attempt. Young Holdship, who went on late in the first innings of the reps., bowled remarkably well, and got one very good wicket, in Muinf ord's, who only scored one run. Holdship also got Dufanr for the same number, and it was off him that Eobinson was caught. Holdship. does not appear to have auy, " devil" in his trundling, but his pitch is amazingly accurate and sustained. His chief fault seems to ba that when he tries for pace he gets a bit short. Leader, though vej.'y fast, wa s not well on last Saturday,, and put a great many to leg. If A. McCormick and Jack Arnoil were in the room of Buckland and P. Dufaur, we would have an eleven we need not be at all ashamed of. It won't do to have any weak spots in our team, even to hold its own against the wonderfully improved cricket of Christchurch and Dunedin, and that thdse two are weak spots there can be no two opinions. Arneil is such a thorough good allround man, a nearly certain scorer, and grand field, especially in the slips, and a splendid change bowler, that it seems madness to leave him out if he can be got in at all ; while the steady defence and hard hitting of Arthur McCormiek would make him a valuable member of any N. Z. eleven, and he too can trundle a bit when wanted. — The glorious uncertainties of cricket were illustrated on Saturday in the match between the Auckland and Gordon, when the_ former club put in the field a strong batting team, which was disposed of for the small total of 29 runs. No sooner had Osmond's wicket fallen than the rest went like chatf. No member of the team made the slightest attempt to keep his wicket up. Gould's analysis was a curiosity — 6 wickets for 8 runs. Although Gordon disposed of their opponents for so small a total, they found it a difficult task to win, as. Auckland played hard to keep down the runs ; and had there been a third bowler in the team the- tables would .have turned. The fielding on both sides was. almost without fault. The only player who reached double figures was Ansenne, who made 16 for Gordon. Auckland made a better attempt in the 3econd inning 3, getting 43 runs for 3 wickers. Tripp (14), Cosan (11) not out, and Osmond (9) not out, batted freely. As this match is a bit of a curiosity, I append the scores : —