SPORTING.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3104, 26 July 1894, Page 3

SPORTING.

Tho Hawke’s B iy Hunt Club will hold a point to point steeplechase at an early date. Tho locality has not been decided on, but probably the event wP! take place at Gwavas. The club will hold their aunual sports at Hastings this year. Judging by the capital day’s sport provided at Kuikora last year there will be a large attendance. “Shaver,” a well known native foot bailer, who used to play a prominent part in the cup fixtures three or four seasons ago, donned a jersey fur Waipukurau yesterday. At tho Racing Cooforenco last night a resolution by Dr Newman, convoying a. recommendation that tho reduction of totalisator permits should be proportionately the same in racing and trotting clubs, was passed unanimously. Bloomer is the crack greyhound of ro cent years, winner of two Waterloo Cups. Light Artillery and Carnage are likely to see short piicea for the Melbourne Cup South Africans beat Leicestershire at

Derby by sovou wickets. On Juno 11 the opouiug day, thirty batsmen were dismissed for au aggregate of 154 runs. Of the six matches played, the Cape cricketers have won two, lost two, and drawn two. At Manchester, England, on June 11, Steel Grey’s trotting record of 14min 14sec for 5 miles, made in 1876, at Lilli: Bridge, was beaten in a match against time for £IOO by Mr J. Browning’s American bred rnaro Lady Combormere, tho distance being covered in 13oiin 53seo. Harry Dunn, tho well known Dunedin wrestler, was seriously injured at the Union mine, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, on May 15, by a fall of rock. Dunn had four ribs broken besides other injuries. It is not expected that he will be able to wrestle again. Monte Carlo is reported to bo going well at Hawera, and his chance of winning the N.Z. Cup is highly thought of by his connections. There are many outsiders, however, who think such horsos as Au Rovoir and Raugipuhi hold him very safe. Bookmaking would not appear to be

such a money-making calling in Victoria just now, as tho July i.ssu ; of the Victorian Racing Calender shows a big fall iug o£E in the number of bookmakers registered at Flemington, 71 receiving licenses for tho paddock, and a similar number for “ tho hill.” The numbers previously were 108 and 135. An English writer says :—lt is worth noting in connection with Amiablo, who won the Ono Thousand Guineas this year for the Da';e of Portland, th it this is said to be the first time that a horse affacted with string-halt has gained any of tho classic events.

J. J. Ferris, tho ox-S.ydney cricketer, bowlod Gunn, Barnes, anil another, playing for Gloucester against Notts, and the Sjiortsman said of the performance that “ Ferris, for once in a way, cauie off, dismissing three batsmen for 17 iudh.” Rather a severe downfall for the ono-time crack left-hander.