Out Door Sports

Observer, Volume 9, Issue 522, 22 December 1888, Page 13

Out Door Sports

[By Milo.]

NOTICE. Short sketches of sporting or pleasure excursions ■will be welcome, and questions on all matters connected -with sport will be gladly answered. Secretaries of all kinds of Clubs for the promotion of out-door sports will confer a favour "by cornTnunicatmer any items of interest connected with their sport, game, or pastime ; more especially with respect to coining events

— -Pritchard was bit about a trifle on Saturday. — Potter missed a beautifully easy chance of running 1 a man out on Saturday. —It has been decided that the Gig Bace for maidens under lOst should not be rowed over Again. — It is very probable that a junior gig race will shortly oomo off between crews from the City and St. George's Clubs. — Numerous complaints were made on Saturday last of the bad starting at the Association Regatta. A change is desirable. — Ttab Mackenzie is not corning up froni Lincoln College for the Christmas holidays, but he expeots to give the boys a look up daring next football seaaon. —The New Zealand boys at Cambridge University are going 1 to give the native footballers, and particularly McCausland, a ' real good time of it ' when they visit the 'Varsity. —For hard hitting, commend me to Dick Crowe's score against Gordon laßt Saturday, when he compiled 43 in the second innings. There were eight singles in it, seven 3'b and seven 2's. — Bob Lusk was ' on the job' last Satur" day, as the Parnell boys know to their cost. He played a lucky innings for 90. His score included two s's, cwo 4's, nine 3's, seven 2's and the balance singles. — John 8. Barnes, a well-known professional sprinter, has fallen heir to a fortune of «820,000 in the three per cents, with a mansion *nd estate in the parish of Aughloo, Country Tyrone. — A cricket club has been formed at Wairoa South. They played their first match last Saturday against the Runciman team which •nded in a win by one innings and 9 runs. The *cor 6 was SO runt* for Wairoa. — Jake Kilrain has been matched to fight *n . ' unknown ' for 5,000d01s a-side, and the contest ia to come off at a place within 200 tnilea of New Orleans, La., on Feb. 7, 1889. It is stated that Peter Ja-ckaon is the unknown. — Saotch athletes have this year been doing gome fast work. John Allan reduced tho 600 yds record to Imm 17 4- sth sec ; then down to 1 mim 16 2-sthseo ; throe miles were run by I). S. Dunean in 15inin 32 4-sthseo, and one mile by J' Blunde in 4min 30 l-sthsec and D. S. Duncan in 4min 28860, — A. B. George (brother of the great W. Q.) and W. T. Toung, two of the crack amatenr runners of England, have taken up their residence in the States. Prom English files I gather that they are to join the Manhattan A.A.C., and will no doubt visit England next season as fullblown ' American amateurs.' — A correspondent at Russell Writes :—' A orioket match being played, one aide had two innings and the other one, no time to finish ; which would be the wininng team, would it not be decided in the first innings ? The matoh is decided on the result of the first innings. — Wallie Winks is back from Christchurch, looking 1 in flue fettle. He tells me that he has ariven running best, as he almost smashed one of his ankles a short time back by dropping an iron roller on it. This is a pity, as he would have ■ome fine shows of distinguishing himself over in Victoria, whero he proceeds after the New Year. — -Professional runners have had another warning in England. A 'pro.' named Burns •ntered for and won an amateur race, but suspicion being aroused, both him and his backer were arrested. They were tried for ' conspiracy to defraud,' and a jury found them guilty, when the winner was sentenced to six months' and his backer to four months' hard labour. . —Gordon Second have secured a bowler named French. He comes from Dunedin, and bowls in a peculiar style, left-handed, and gets on *ome work for leg. He obtained three wickets last week, but sending down some loose muck was well pasted and had to be taken off. ■ — Tracy Moresby would make a splendid baseball player. Some of the boys were practising last week, and the way he caught, fielded, and returned the ball was a caution to see. I believethere is a great probability of a couplo of clubs oeing formed here. The game being easy, inexF 6l " I™'1 ™' and brick, it offers peculiar attractions to the Auckland youth. ~~J a *^ c Gordon Second match hist feftturday, the hat trick was done twice. Abel i.Z 0 ' t ? was in fine form with the ball (or rather, I should say, the Gordonites were in poor form with the bat), lowered three wickets in con•ecuti ye balls. Poulsen, who wa s put on near the close of the Alpha's innings, repeated this performance for the Gordons, the analysis reading 7 balls, 1 run, 3 wickets. —Football has not been lost sight of by the moving spirits of the various clnbs, and from all accounts, next season is going to be a stirring one. A brother of Nome "Von Stunner, and an old Waikato 'rep.,' intends joining Grafton: TJpfill plays for Gordon, and so does Wilson, a ' fine forward who played for .Christchurch First last year.' -I hear that" the Gordons will lose one of their three-quarters next/year,, but as ■ young Bncklaiid and Jerrisave coming on they will not lack''bacVs. ■, .. . • ■ "

— ilore record lowering. At the Fall games of the London Athletic Club at Stamford Bridge on September tbe 22, E. H. Polling did the 250 yards in 24inins 4-sth sees, the previous record being Harry Hutchens' ab Botany N.S.W., 25iseca, on January 25 1887, and C. J. Wood (amateur) 25$seos. — Scbefferstein, an American amateur athlete, recently ran 100 yds in 9 4-sth sec. at St. Louis. The track was subseqnently surveyed. The surveyors found the first thirty yards uphill, the next seventy dead level and a slight fall . in the last part of the race. This shows that the perfovmacne was a boiidfide one, and tho record must be accepted. Four watches were held on the race, and each of them registered 9 4-sth sec. exactly. — The first aquatic carnival of the Auckland Amateur Swimming Club, which comes off on the 19th January in the Calliope Dock, promises to be a great success. A fine programme has been prepared, and includes the Quarter-mile Amateur Championship of Auckland, for which there will be about a dozen entries and a splendid struggle. The Amphibious Derby — a big 1 name, but comic fixture— will afford nine' 1 fiinusemant. . j — Nuttal, who has won nineteen swimming championships, this year appropriated tho 100 yds amateur swimming championship of England in 1 mm 6iVsec, beating the previous record by 2£seps. Nuttall was born at Manchester August 31, 1870, stands sft s|iri and weighs 10.«t lib. He then made his debut as a professional and in his first venture, the 1000 yds professional championship of England, departed Finney and Collier, the two fastest ' peds.' in the United Kingdom. — In last week's issue 1 gave publicity to a letter from a rower complaining of the action of a certain captain in connection with his club's trial fives. Since the appearance of this par I have been spok< nto by several on the question, and the statement made last week is said to be enrirely false, and that the captain referred to enjoys the confidonce of every member of the club. — Beach having again defeated Hanlan has declared his interview of never racing again. In answer to an inquiry he further said he had no inclination to try conclusions with Searle. who he thought was too good Immediately after his race with his old opponent both rangpd up alongside one another and shook hands and Bill askedhiß tormentor ' Well, Hanlan, are you satisfied ?' 'Ye 3, I'm satisfied now you're too good for me.' ' Well if you're not we'll make another match before we go back now.' 'Oh, no,' said Ned, 'I'm done with you,' and they separated. Neilson slung Bill his shirt aud the victor hauled it on before he struck for home. — The team of Irish amateur cricketers who made a tour of the States returned home on Oct. 11. after having a very successful time of it. They were in America six weeks, dming which they rlayed 13 games, wininng 11 and losing 2. One of tae games lost was by 7 runs, and tho other wne by 39 runs. Some of the principal individual scores made were by J. Dunn, who got 126, 77, 71, and 61 : J. W. Hynes, 74, 72, 70, 65, 62, and 61 ; J. M. Meldon, 69 ; and J. P. Maxwell, 64, net out. J. Dunn has the best average, 35 ; J. W. Hynos comes next with 28 ; J. P. Maxwell, 20 ; J. M. Meldon, 18 ; and E. Fitzgerald, 15. Hynes has the best average for bowling, and J. P. Fitzgerald comes after him. — In justice to the captain of the North Shore Rowing Club I give the following explanation re the cups presented by him. He presented a set of medals to be rowed for previous to the crews being chosen for the A.R-A. Regatta, but as he was about to start on a holiday tx'ip some of the Committee suggested that the medals should not be rowed for until after his return, and also suggested that in order to keep things moving in the Club, matches should be got np for a set of club caps. The captain consented to th'B and in addition to the medals offered to pay for the caps. Only one person has expressed dissatisfaction, and he thought he should have been selectod as a stroke for a light weight maiden crew, but the Committee thought otherwise, hence the bad feeling. — The regatta on Saturday last proved the most successful yet held, the attendance being especially good and the finishes very keen. The committee of the Association are so pleased at the result, that another regatta is to be held about February next. I was fairly successful in my ' tips ' last week, while in one or two cases the unexpected took place. While on this subject I must draw attention to the manner in which members of several clubs tried to intimidate me in the future. Several of these took objection to what I wrote, while one individual even went so far as to challenge me to a rowing match. However, if; is all over now, and I hope any illteeling that may have arisen has died away. — Perkins, the celebrated sculler, (at one time champion of England),has returned to Sydney, and once more taken to his old pastime. He had not been in Sydney long before he was tackled by M'Lean, the Richmond Eiver sculler, for a match, which Perkins readily responded to; and thu date has been fixed for January 7th next. Perkins has also been challenged by a new aspirant for sculling honours in the person of Libean, who has proved himself a champion walker, cyclist, skater, etc. Should this new sculler be as successful with the scull as he has been in other athletic sports, he should soon make a name for himself. lam afraid, however, for a beginner I he has made to high a jump in tackling Perkine. Anyhow, a match has been arranged to take place on December 22, and .£SO of the .£IOO a side hara already been deposited. The race ia to take place over the championship course, P&rramatta River. — It will be of interest, says the London Sporting Life, to state what the doing of the three srreat English bowlers, Peel, Briggs, and Lohmann, have been in the three English v. Australian matches at Lord's, the Oval, and Old Trafford respectively. Peel at Lord's took 36 in the first innings, and four for 14 in the second. At the Oval he took one for 14 in the first and four for 49 in the second ! while in the last match be took seven for 31 in the first innings, ardfour for 37 in the second. This gives him the magnificent record of twenty-four wickets in three matches for 181 rnns, an average of 7.13 runs per wicket. Briggs took five wickets for 25 runs in the first innings of the Oval match, and altogether in three matches he took twelve wickets, for 94, an average O.f 7.10. / Lohmann bowled in, every one of tho six innings, ta^ ing altogether ,elbven ; wickefts.f or 144,

an average of : l3.t^ Barnes bowled' hr three innings, the first at Lord's and both at the Oval Ti t T?iT < 3, ?n< * 0ta l° V 67 runs « an averagl of 9.4 These achievements will add another and a strong proof to the accumulation of evidenced profe S r sionS 3 e . hl}?h SklU and abiU * * the 2^5