SPORTING SCRAPS.
The Wanganui Derby waa won by the Hon J. D. Ormond’s Daunt, who cat oat tbs distance in 2min 47aeo and paid a dividend of £1 10s The American pacing record has been rednced to lmin 59£i00 for a mile by Star Pointer. In reply to a deputation, tbo South Australian Premier deolined to advocate the abolition of the totaliiator last week. Hertensine (Neckersgat— Horteme) has been sold to go to India. Included in Hortensius' wins is tbe A.R.O. Birthday Cup of 1895. It has been decided to send a team of amateur athletes from Australasia next year to oompete in the English Championship Meeting. A Sooth Afrioan team will alio b* competing. Tbe English cricket programme will be opened on tba Adelaide Oval on the 28 h inst agaiost Sooth Australia. The veteran Viotorian bowler, H F Boyle, after residing in Biisbane for a time, and later in Tmmania, has no* settled down in hie old oolony Ha i* acting ae Government superintendent of track catting in Gippetsnd.
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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 3667, 23 October 1897, Page 3
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