FIXTURES. POOTBALL.-SENIOR CUP MATCHES.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 348, 8 August 1885, Page 14

FIXTURES. POOTB ALL.-SENIOR CUP MATCHES.

August 8. — Gordon v Auckland, Albert v North Shore, Grafton v Ponsonby August 15. — Auckland v Graf ton ,'Albert v Ponsonby, Newton v North Shore August 22.— Club Ties. JUNIOR CUP MATCHES. August 1. — Auckland v Victoria, Athletic v Newton, Home Bay v Ponsonby, Arawa v Waitemata, Albert v G-ordon, Grafton v Manukau. INTERPROVINCIAL EOOTBAIiL MATCHES. August 29. — Otago y. Canterbmy, at Christchurch. The Grafton left a considerable amount of ' tin ' at North Shore on Saturday. The Newton Football Club play the Whangarei footballers this (Saturday) afternoon, at Whangare'. The Ponsonby Rowing Club has invited the Waitemata, North Shore, and St. George's Bay Rowing Clubs to a friendly game of football. In the match at Hamilton, on Saturday last, between the Cambridge and Hamilton clubs, the former won by five points (a goal) to nil. The Miners' Club of the Thames intends issuing a challenge to the winners of the Associatian Senior Cup to play a match at the Thames at the finish of the season. Grafton plays the return match with Ponsonby this afternoon. Should the maroons have a team anything like that which did battle for them against Ponsonby in the first round, we may expect a lively and interesting game. C. Bailey, is building an 18ft battencarvel open sailing boat. The moulds were drafted from a good model, and it is expected that the new craft will prove a. worthy rival of the irreproachable Bay of Islands crack — Apt. Mr Moon, special correspondent of the Australian fyyortxman in the United States, has been authorised by Mr Deeble, backer of Beach, to match the Sydney sculler against any American oarsman for from 5000 to 10,000 dollars. Mr W. Warbrick returned from Tauranga last week. He played in the North ShoreGraf ton match on Saturday, and it is needless to remark took a very prominent part in the game. Mr Warbrick returns to Tauranga after the close of the season. The Newton won the return match with the Albert by five points to love, White securing a try, and T. Mills kicking a goal. Both teams played well, but the heavy weight of the Newton forward division told considerably against the younger club. The wrestling match between Donald Dinnie, the Scotch athlete, and Professor Miller, champion of Australia, to which reference was made in last week's issue, came off at Melbourne, on Saturday last, and resulted in a- victory for the Australian champion. A corrected table showing the relative positions of the Senior and Junior Clubs competing for the Association Cups appears in another column. Should any discrepancies have crept into the list, they will be immediately rectified on the editor being acquainted of the fact. The committee of the North Shore Regatta Club were to have waited on the directors of the Ferry Company during the week to ascertain the amount of support that would be accorded them if they were to arrange a Regatta for the 9th of November, or thereabouts. The Grafton Second inflicted an ignominious defeat on the Ponsonby Juniors in the Metropolitan enclosure on Saturday, beating the blue and blacks by 16 points to nil. Mackie got across twice, and Hill, Cosson, and Hanson, secured a try each, from two of which Speight landed goals. Another match has been arranged to come off on the loth. inst. between W. 8. Fagan and J.Reany. The stakes are £50, a-side, £10 of which have already been deposited, and the men will wrestle in the Cumberland style. Judging by the manner in which Fagan contested the last battle, we expect him to be returned the winner. The match between the Auckland Second and Albert Clubs fell through owing to the latter not putting in an appearance. The Home Bay- Waitemata match fell through from the same cause, and the Gordon admitted the superiority of the Arawa Club and handed the match over in a few pathetic words, believing that a struggle would be productive of no good. The glove contest between W. Murphy and W. Burns will eventuate in about a week. Murphy undertakes to knock a 9st .man out in two rounds, and after ten minutes' rest dispose of Burns in four three-

minute rounds. The task is, indeed, a difficult one, and Aye don't think the lightweight champion will succeed in his undertaking. Though the weather was' extremelyboisterous, and the ground rather sloppy, fully two thousand persons journeyed to the cricket ground on Saturday afternoon to witness the return match between the Gordon and Ponsonby clubs. The game which was close and exciting throughout resulted in a victory for the champions by 2 points (a try secured by T. "Whiteside) to love. We have good authority for stating that the North Shore Football Club is willing to play the winners of the Association Senior Cup or any other of the clubs of the Union for a dinner or trophy at the conclusion of the season. No doubt the Ponsonby Club will accept the challenge, and once more test their strength with the kickists of the marine suburb. From what we learn the match, should it eventuate, will be one of the best of the season, and a very appropriate scene upon which to ring down the curtain. A meeting of the Ponsonby Eowing Club was held at Stanford's Ponsonby Club Hotel on Saturday evening last, when the medals won in the trial fives during the past season were presented to the winners, the list of which is as follows : Senior trial fives — J. Edmonds (stroke), M. Kirby (No. 4), T. Moore (No. 3), J. Mackay (No. 2), W. Scott (No. 1). Junior trial fives — W. George (stroke), J. Hamill (No. 4), 0. Campbell (lS T o. 3), J. W. Duff (No. 2), J. Sloan (No 1). Members trial fives — M. McLean (stroke), W. Warbrick (No. 4), Barton (No. 3), J. Stitchbury (No. 2), T. Leedhani (No. 1). The irresistible Mathews has been knocking the pugilists of Greymouth about. The Greymouth correspondent of a local daily thus describes his latest shot : ' A glove fight took place on Saturday night between Mathews, the American, and Glouglin, of the Brunnerton coal mines, for £10 a-side, Mathews undertaking to knock out his opponent in three rounds. It was a very one-sided affair. Mathews had it very well in the first round, his attack being too quick for the other's defence, and before the second round was half over Gloughlin was sent prostrate and kuocked out of time with a blow under the left ear. Both men were about the same weight, but Mathews is about two inches taller and longer in the reach. The Graf ton- journeyed to Devonport on Saturday and were unexpectedly beaten by the local men by 5 points to nothing. The North Shore team was a very strong one, and included W. "Warbrick, who came up I from Mercury Bay expressly for the occasion, j The game was a very fast one, and indeed the best North Shore has played this season. The Grafton was the fleeter team of the two, but the collaring of North Shore was all that could be desired, and at call of time the score stood, North Shore 4 points, Grafton nil. Jones scored all the points for the winners, crossing the line twice, and playing a magnificent game throughout. Eeid and Sullivan (as wing men), and Webster, Warbrick, and Sims particularly distinguished themselves ; while Marshall and Murphy were always there on behalf of the forward division. On the visitors side, Madigau, Biggs, Brown and Leckie were very prominent. The match between the Victoria and Athletic at Devonport on Saturday afternoon resulted in the defeat of the ' Tartans ' by 10 points to two. Both Clubs put their strongest teams on the field, and each at the commencement was sanguine of success. The Athletic, winning the toss, elected to defend the southern goal, and the local team set the ball rolling at 3.25. The blues were compelled to force down fz'oin the return kick, but returning to the fray brought the leather into the visitors' twenty-five, where Somerfield secured it, and neatly passing to Wynyard, the latter was across like a shot. Swinnerton took the kick, but no goal resulted. E. Bailey shortly afterwards potted an unquestionable goal, and the score at call of half-time stood — Victoria, six points; Athletic, nil. During the second term, Gorman secured a mark in front of the visitors' posts, and Swinnerton taking the kick landed a neat goal. The game was resumed, and a bit of fast play by the Athletic brought the scene of operations into the blue's twenty-five, where Binney secured the ball and got in rather easily ; no goal resulted, and time was called, with the score as above, For the visitors, Kissling, Binney. Poulson and Gould were very prominent, while for tlie local team Wynyard, Bailey, Swinnerton, Somerfield and Holly specially distinguished themselves. The fifty-mile walking' match between Arthur Hancock, of England, and Joseph Scott, of Dunedin, for £100 aside, eventuated at the Garrison Hall, Dunedin, on Seiturday, July 27. We gave the result in our last week's issue, but now append the details. The judges, who occupied seats on the platform, were Messrs G. Dowse, T. Cornish, J. Vezey, H. Gourley, and J. M'Gregor. The hall, as laid out, gave 22 laps to the mile. Betting opened at 50 to 40 on Hancock, the Christchurch division offering these odds very freely without takers. A few minutes before three o'clock, which was the hour for starting, the men appeared on the track, and were received with a good deal of applause. After the usual handshaking, the men started off punctually, Hancock darting off with the lead at a rattling pace, closely followed by Scott. Hancock's style of walking is

slightly altered since his last appearance here, but he had not the steady swinging gait which is so much admired in Scott. Before two miles had beeu covered Hancock was a lap ahead of Scott, and he contented himself with this lead, as the result shows, right iip to the last. This position was maintained lap after lap, and mile af terjjj mile, until just after 10 o'clock, when over 42 miles had been covered, when Scott put on a spurt and lessened the distance between them by nearly half a lap ; but Hancock was not to be denied, and he soon followed style and regained his old position, and kept it doggedly till the distance was covered. The hall was densely packed towards the finish, and feeling in favour of the local man ran very high, so much so as to be partially unfair to Hancock, who walked gamely, if not so elegantly as Scott. The match all through was the closest that has ever taken place heie between two j)edestrians, and taking into account the size of the hall, the time must be considered excellent. Neither of the men were very much over done at the finish, but Hancock was undoubtedly the fresher of the two. On his essaying to speak to the axidience from the platform at the close of the match he was met with a perfect howl of disapprobation, and a feeble attempt to raise a cheer in his favour was promptly quelled. On the other hand, Scott was received with vociferous and prolonged applause, to which he bowed his acknowledgments. Neither of the men left the track during the match. Up to the last the ventilation of the hall was good, despite the large, number who were inside and in the galleries. The following are the records for the match, the official time for the 50 miles being 8 hours 8 minutes : — In the first hour Hancock covered 6 miles 20 laps, and Scott one lap behind, which he kept right through the match. At 5 -p.m.. — two hours after starting — Hancock had 13 miles 8 laps to his credit ; at 6 p.m., 19 miles B laps ; at 7 p.m., 25 miles 7 laps; S p.m., 31 miles 4 laps ; 9 p.m., 36 miles 20 laps; 10 p.m., 42 miles 12 laps; 11 p.m., 48 miles 17 laps; 11.8 p.m., 50 miles. The betting throughout the match was in favour of Hancock, but no heavy odds were laid. The following table shows the relative positions of the Senior and Junior clubs competing for the Association Cups. SENIOR CLUBS. Name of Club. Matches. Won. Lost. Drawn. Points.

Ponsonby ... 10 9 1 0 65 Gordon ... 10 6 2 2 34 Graf ton ... 9 5 2 2 34 Newton ... 11 4 4 3 15 Auckland ... 10 3 5 2 14 North Shore 10 S 0 14 Albert ... 10 18 1 4 JUNIOR CLUBS. Nauie of Club Matches. Won- Lost. Drawn. Points. Victoria ... 14 11 3 0 101 Auckland ... 13 9 3 1 47 Arawa ... 11 8 2 1 46 Athletic ... 14 S 2 4 69 Graf ton ... 14 8 4 2 72 Newton ... 12 6 3 3 48 Waitemata 12 6 2 4 54 Manukau ... 14 4 10 0 19 Ponsonby ...12 3 6 3 2S Homo Bay... 14 4 10 0 — Alhert ... 14 3 9 2 23 Gordon ... 14 0 14 0 5