SPORTING

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5245, 11 April 1908, Page 3

SPORTING

It is stated that the All Black professional footballers divided £IO,OOO between them. Each player shared alike. The Now Zealand bowlers yesterday defeated the South Melbourne club by 102 to 130, the game ending under eleetrio light.

The New Zealand bowlers lost the third match, on the Carlton green, by 95 to 121. The green was good and the weather line.

At a meeting of the match oommittee of the Waipawa Rifles, last night, it was decided to cancel the match set down for Wednesday next, 15th April, and that it take place on Good Friday, 17th, shooting to commence at 10 a m. sharp. It was also decided that these competitors who did uot complete the second match aud the first range of the last match, last Wednesday, will have tho opportunity of doing so after the third match is completed. There will be range prizes for each range.

It is unusual to see more than two horses in the same ownership running iu one race, but in the Grand Prix de la Ville, a steeplechase of £4OOO, run at Nice (Franco) last month, no loss than tive of-the eleven competitors carried the colours of M. Ch. Lienart. Backers did uot attompt to pick the best of tbe

five, but backed tbe Lienart stable. They were not at fault, either, as Hamod, one of the quintet, took charge at the start, and led all the way over the three miles aud a furlong, his stable companion, Jacasse 11., ruuning third. A stable starting so many representatives in a steeplechase would certainly have been unlucky if its elect had failed to win. Id connection with owners being strongly represented, it may be mentioned that on one occasion the first four horses in a Grand Prize of Paris carried M. Blanc’s colours.