SPORTS AND PASTIMES

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14669, 4 June 1921, Page 15 (Supplement)

SPORTS AND PASTIMES

Boxing-—Continued. out. Tha latest to bo announced is Jack Cole, who la to light the middle-weight champion, Heeaoy, al Gisborne. Bob Williams and Pal Gleeson are another pah' of rooeni arrivals from across tho Tasman They all carry credentials from Mi W v F. Corbett. . Billy Shade and Albert Lloyd have been matched to meet at Sydney on June 4. Lloyd expects to enter the ring at 12.8, while Shado has stated that he will lU#it "at any weight." His normal poundage Is Well below Lloyd’s, The Filipino hurrloano, Denglp Gabalena was defeated by Syd Godfrey la 17 rounds at Sydney recently. Denclo collapsed again, as he had dons before Grlqui a fc\V mouths ago, though not In the same sensational way. About two years ago ho knocked Godfrey out in a round, and from the ease of his training this time must have thought that the mark Was easy. That was at Manila, but on his native heath Godfrey was • different man. K. O. Brown, of New Orleans, who was in Australia last year, hag gained the American fly-weight championship by defeating Frankie Mason at Springfield, Illinois. When in the Antipodes, Brown met Tinghe, w’hom he outpointed distinctly, though the verdict went the other way. Fifteen days later he was knocked out in 14 rounds by George Mendies. Later on, on his native heath, the champion defeated one Earl Puryear in a convincing manner. SPORTING. RACING FIXTURES. June 3,4, B—Auckland8 —Auckland Racing Club. June 25, 29—Auckland Trotting Club. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. "Information,” Matongi.—Lady Energy won the Northern Walroa Cup on January 18 last. Gatherer and Blue Cross failed the places. Gatherer .was first fancy. "8.W.,” Hamilton.—(l) The Walrarapa Cup-at the January meeting was worth 400 so vs to the winner. (2) Scornful, the winner, carried 7.9, and not 6.12 as the card shows. "Southern,” Hamilton. —(1) Sunny Corner won the Publican’s Handicap at the Dunedin Summer Meeting on February 9. (2) You are wrong. It was H. Young and not G. Young who had the mount. The latter rode the favourite, Silver Peak, which finished second. t REVENUE ON SWEEPSTAKES.. Government action is frequently Illogical, but never more so than when a Taxation Department insists on collecting revenue from the winnings in sweepstakes, while a Postal Department at the same lime refuses to carry letters to the promoters of such sweepstakes enclosing applications for tickets. This is at present the position of the Commonwealth Government in regard to a certain well-known • "sweep" Isays the Melbourne Age). It takes the attitude that the sweep is a thing to be strictly discouraged: and at the same time it does not hesitate to take what revenue it can from the undertaking. It is surely high time that tho Government, instead of sitting on the fence in this matter, decided to declare its convictions in one direction or the other. But the ActingPrime Minister, when the question was raised in the House of Representatives, refused to attempt explaining the Government’s attitude. A member wanted to know if the Taxation Department collected a ten per cent tax from the promoters of the sweep—which tax was duly transmitted to Melbourne by the Postmaster-General's Department; and if the Government would therefore remove the anomaly caused by the refusal of the Postal Department to carry letters to the promoters. The Acting-Prime Minuter replied cautiously that he li no doubt that the Fostmaster-Geneial might find many tymmalies of a similar kind. The Government coull not attempt to rectify them all. “In the meantime,” he added, “we want all the avenue, we can get." I JOTTINGS. A large number of Hamilton and Waikato racegoers are assisting at the big jumping meeting at Ellerslic. Mr ,7. B. Joel’s English Derby winner, Humorist (Polymclus—Jest) started favourite and finished third in the Two Thousand Guineas. The English-bred Tractor, who has heen leased from his importer, Mr J. B. Reid, by Mr H. W. Brown, is shortly to be put in work at Trentham. I Tractor is reported to have cost Mr Jleid over 3000 guineas in England, and is a magnificent type of thoroughbred. The G. L. Stead stable at Te Awamutu will shortly be dispossessed of Us occupants, which will be sold at auction al Auckland on Tuesday. The Auckland Cup winner, Starland, will be on the list. • The Southland horse, Rorkc’s Drift, who won the principal event at Dunedin, on Wednesday, has been one of the most successful candidates racing !r the southern districts of the South Island. The Calibre —O’.Rorke’s Fancy gelding has been a very successful horse on the Wingatui course. Foeman, the winner of the Wanganui Steeplechase. last week, is something more than a half-brother to First Line, the winner last year. They both are by Advance, and while Foeman is from Brown Spec, First Line Is from Ballarat, a daughter of Brown Spec. Foeman was foaled in 1911. ami First Line in 1913, ancVboth arc in Hie same ownership.. The now locally owned Spanner, from whom so much was expected on his arrival from Australia, appears to be going from had to worse. Temper now appears to he his besetting sin. Neither at Egmont nor Wanganui could he be persuaded to leave the mark, although big dividends were awaiting him #t the other end. The numerous falls in the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase have been productive of a lot of suggestions of how to improve matters. In order to prevent, horses chancing their fences, some of the critics voiced the opinion that the fences should be made higher. This brought from G. T. Clancy, a trainer of jumpers, the reply that if the fences wore tint sufflriently stiff now, how was it that most jockeys asked for a fee of from £SO to £2OO before accepting a mount, in the race? Clancy favoured the jumps being made easier, and pointed out that the public did not pay to go racing in order to see horses fall and jockeys injured. Old mare Anthony came to light at Dunedin this week, Marc Anthony Is now trained at Invercargill. Marc Anthony was a good horse ,a few seasons ago, and it looks as if the black Yaren gelding has struck form again. October 24, Waikato Hunt: December 14, Taumaruniil; December 17. Waipa; January 11, Rotorua; February 11, Te Kuili; February 10 #id 18, Hamilton; February 25 and 27, Thames; March 4 and fi, Te Arolia; March 17 and 18, Ohinemnri. are country circuit dales_for the 1921-22 season, which the Auckland committee If recommending to the conference for approval.

Admiral Codrington, who won three races, and was second and third once at the Egmont and Wanganui meetings, is trained at Hastings by Harry Hickey for Mr' F. J. Lysnar. He is by Gazeley—Ransyl, the latter marc being by Birkenhead—Lady Reay. Ransyl is the name of the owner of Admiral Codrington reversed. The Paris correspondent of the London Sportsman states that the question of photographing horses as they pass the*winning post is at present occupying racing societies all over the Continent. In Italy the experiment has been made with success. The Rome "Sport” recently published some excellent reproductions that demonstrate without any possibility of error how close finishes may be accurately judged. The writer adds that, like all inventions, it will probably take some little time, but it is certain that sooner or later the photographic judging of horse racing will be adopted on the Continent. A peculiar accident occurred at the recent Onmaru meeting writes “Comet." A well-known light-weight jockey was sitting on tne railing of a balcony of one of the boarding houses there, and, overbalancing, he fell on the heads of two boarders sitting on a seat below. The jockey was not hurt beyond, the fright ho received, but both persons lie fell on required attention. That jockey’s luck was in, and a number of superstitious punters who believe in luck bucked his hortV in the first race he rode in on the second day, and collected quite a good dividend. Tho enterprise of the Auckland sportmau, Mr J. Williamson, in sending Loyal Irish to Sydney, has met with an early reward. According to a cable message the son of Absurd and Moira-ma-Chree won the second division of the Juvenile Stakes at the Warwick Farm meeting on Saturday, by a head, from Maddy, Just So third. During the early part of the present seasun, Loyal Irish showed very fair form in the North Island, his outstanding performance being to dead bent with Toa Taun in the A.R.G. Welcome Stakes The Aucklander has several engagements ahead of him in Sydney and, it is quite on the cards that Mr Williamson will keep him over there for some of the spring three-year-old handicaps. Files from England slate that Nat Robinson, once a famous lightweight jockey, is now in Hie tubercular ward of the Lambeth Infirmary. Robinson gained much notoriety when lie won the Great Jubilee on Mr W. Calvert’s Ciwyd, in 1897. Mr Calvert had two horses engaged. Bridegroom and Ciwyd. After his splendid performances in the Lincolnshire Handicap and Jucen’s Prize, Bridegroom was considered a certainty for Hie Jubilee, and tile public plunged on him. A tew days before the race Mr Calvert look a big bet about Ciwyd, and scratched Bridegroom. There was a squeal of wrath from the public. The great horse Victor Wild had won two Jubilees, and tried to win the third the same year as Bridegroom was scratched, and a great cheer went up when the old fellow challenged at the distance, and looked a winner. But weight told, and he could only finish third to Ciwyd" and Kilco'ck. After Victor Wild had won the Jubilee previously several bookmakers “took the knock.” One former prominent bookmaker, instead of taking cyanide potassium or levanting to foreign climes, Just stayed where lie was, and when driving along Kingstaiul Hoad in Ids trap used actually to wave his whip to the punters h:, had defrauded.