SPORTING NOTES.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3105, 28 July 1894, Page 3

SPORTING NOTES.

Kulnine is said to be going great guns. It is reported that £4OO was recently offered and refused for St Kilda. Ladas’ sire, Hampton, was bought out °* a selling race at Hampton for 200gns. . Alfred Shaw, the veteran bowler, play,ng for Sussex against Notts in Juno, captured seven wickets for 34 runs. Three Star has been backed pretty heavily to win the New Zoaland Cup. *be colt’s connections are very sanguine tegarding his chance. Percy Johnson will probably ride Belle fJJ New Zealand Grand National steeplechase. The Kaikora (Dunedin) Football Club a?e played H matches this season and o& them all. They have scored 251 Points and have only a potted goal reagainst them.

i Now that there is a practical proposal afoot to decrease racing, a number of , clubs who are likely to suffer will probably consider the advisability of amalgamating. Scot Free is the oldest horse in the New Zealand Cup. When the rejuvenated British Lion won he was tho aged warrior of the field, and got home with a light weight. A new departure was taken in the Nel-son-Marlborough football match last Saturday, Mr Crawshaw having sole control of the game, and having power to blow the whistle at every breach of the i rales without an appeal. The system, says a local paper, was a decided success, and made the game faster and quieter. Mr Henry, the handioappor, assarts that there are not enough long-distance races in New Zealand. He thinks the establishment of a New Zealand Jockey Club would do good in this way, that it could frame rules to compel every club to have at least one race on the flat of two miles in each day’s racing, and not more than one event of less than one mile (two-year-old races excepted). Strikes break out nowadays in the most unexpected quarters. The latest class to be effected are—cricket umpires. Happily the threatened difficulty has now been avoided, says the Field. The difference between the existing payment of 5s and expenses for Saturday matches, and 7s 6 j for mid-week games, and 10s and expenses for every match, has been split, and war was avoided. The Lancashire Cricket League offered 7s 6d and expenses for all matches, and, after hesitation, the offer was accepted. Says ihe Sydney Referee : —The Grand National Steeple, hase run at Flemingion resulted in a win for Daicnio, wilh Cer berus and Reckless in the places. This result was unexpected by the general public, although I hear the winner was much faucied by his owners, the Gibson Bros., more especially if the going was at all heavy. Daimio is the cut of a hunter and steeplechaser, being a powerful horse and up to a heavy weight. Ha had only 9st 3lb to carry, and was ridden by that accomplished horseman Martin Burke, than whom we have no better crosscountry rider in the saddle. It iB pleasant in these grasping days, when men race for gain and not for pleasure, to find i sportsmen like the Messrs Manifold and ' Messrs Gibson Bros winning races like the G.N. Hurdle uud Steeplechase. Ap sley, winner of tbe Hurdles, and Daimio are owned by thorough sportsmen, and i the wins of both horses will bo appreciated i at their full worth. Daimio is by Swivel- < ler—Butterfly, and is a six-year ol i.