SPORTING NOTES.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3106, 31 July 1894, Page 2

SPORTING NOTES.

Tho Hawke’s Bay Hunt Club will li a Point to Point Steeplechase at Gw® on Saturday, llth August. T. Connop, with thirty-one wim, hi loading jockey this season. J. Galld and H. M‘llroy follow close at bis bee After tho addition of the Derby 8® Ladas had won seven races of the H value of £17,933. Says the Referee :—Norton i* superbly, and if Mr Gjilan be aa gooi race rider as I understand be now Norton will win the Grand National. J. Taggart is getting a few b® tinder bis charge at Kaikora. Ao®l the number ia Othello tbe trotter I jumper. A good many Hawke’s Bay rseid* followed tho Racjgitikei hounds 00 1 14th ult. They were Mr and I Montgomery, the former on Huia a»dl latter on Piuko, Mr Gaisford on H® way, Mr Evans on Gamecock, sol ■ A’Deane on Wi Parata. Mr Mason has a three-year-old by tho Arab horse Crusader, at hiafrj Te Aute, which will probably be hei® in tho future. Ho has a good te® speed and can fence in rare style. At toe meeting of tho Wnnganui Jo* Club the other evening, the chairmW, behalf of tho club, presented to Mr C.I Chavaunes a handsome pair of ■ glasses in recognition of his servio® honorary starter since tho death ofj late Mr Sam Powell. The case bor«* inscription on a nicely-worked *® tablet “ Souvenir from tbe Wanf* Jockey Club,” and the glasses them®* boro tho lettering in gold “CJ* 1 from the W.J C , 127/7/94.”—Dr ** in handing tho present to d* cipiont, referred in high ter®* services rendered by Mr C. H. Ch* r f* in the different positions held by Mr Chavaones appropriately repli«d<* eluding amid the applause of tho* P sent.

Tho English Rugby Union has de® the following questions relating to P* of law :—Question : A “ three passes the ball back to hie “ f®* l '}* who miss3B the pass, but tha ball. touched him on the shoulder and rolls dead. What should be Answer : The ball mast be brongM l and scrummaged where it “ full-back.” According to a PJJ ruling of the committee, if the b«l*! been played by an opponent and to®* the shoulder of tbe “ full-bank,” W *

cot have to be brought back. The committee are of opinion that such should not be the ruling in a case where a “ fullback” receives the ball from one of his side. A player being off-side and within fire yards of an opponent who -has the ball, the onus is on him to get out of the way of his opponent, and if he does not and is charged against by him a “ free kick” or a scrummage in accordance with Law 8, e and f, should be awarded. It is to be hoped that Rugby players (says an English writer) will treasure up these rulings. They are of vital importance to the proper prosecution of the game, and the information applied will tend to make pleasant many matches, while ignorance might cauße friction.

Percy Martin, Mr Gollan’s popular trainer, is on a short visit to Hastings. Private information from Australia states that both Couranto and Waterbary are at present under a cloud, but that Mutiny is a greatly improved horse to what he has been in New Zealand.