WORLD OF SPORT

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15040, 13 September 1922, Page 9

WORLD OF SPORT

SPORTING.

COMING EVENTS,

September 14, 16—-Wanganui J.C. September ,20 —Manawatu Hunt IKlub. September 22, 23—Ashburton R.C, September 23, 25 —Avondale J.C. September 23, 25 —Otaki-Maori R.C. September 28, ,20 —Geraldine R-G. September 30—Napier Park R.C.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS,

“Constant Reader,” Hamilton.- —(1) The Pahiatua Handicap last season was of a total value of 300so\s. (2) Nocturne is by Kilboy. “Light Harness,’ • Hamilton. —The statistics show Man o War s total at £2035 for the season, and Nita Bell’s at £2250.

GLOAMING AND BEAUFORD

The eagerly awaited meeting between Beauford and Gloaming in the Chelmsford Stakes is now a tiling of tiie past, with the verdict in favour of the son of Beau Soult after a contest, which by all accounts to: hand provided ail the interest and excitement expected. R. J. Mason makes no excuse for the defeat of Mr Greenwood’s champion, and none is needed, for though defeated The /Welkin’s son was by no means disgraced. A private cablegram received by “Glencoe” of the Dominion states that there ■yvas great interest in the race and nothing like it has been seen since the duel between Cruciform and Wakeful in the Spring Stakes in 1903. _ There was a big crowd present, and the going was good after the rain. Gloaming drew No. 3 at the barrier, and Beauford was on the outside. Gloaming led nearly all the way with Beaup ford two lengths away. The New Zealand repres&fttative looked like winning at the distance, but Beauford then came on and won well. Molyncaux was only beaten by a head m the Spring Handicap, and in the Tramway Handicap .Loyftl Irish showed a lot of pace, but tired in the straight, and both the Conoliy-owned horses iinislied in front of him. Rostrum, the winner, is a firm favourite for the A.J.C. Epsom. Handicap. He won the Newmarket Handicap in the, autumn, but many think the imported mare Fleuriste will beat him in the big mile on September 30.

JOTTINGS.

The Wellington-owned Mr J. HTaylor had the misfortune to lose his three-year-dld Hula Boy at Martou. /The colt got on to the heels of another horse in the Maiden race, and after sliding along the ground for some distance, he struck a post and broke his leg. His rider, C. Reed, was badly shaken. Class is well represented' in the

fields which are carded for the opening day of the Wanganui meeting, which takes place to-morrow. The presence of Triermain, Rapine, .Highland, and Lucus in the Wanganui Guineas should make for a good race. Other #vents have filled well, and the racing should be good. A lot of interest is evinced concerning the probable meeting between Thespian and Winning Hit in the Eclipse Stakes at Wanganui on the second day on Saturday next. Both horses are very well, and a good race Is expected. Evidently the lot of the sporting journalist in Merrie England is not f always a happy one, for, according to 1 the English Sporting Chronicle, Mr J. M. Dick, the well-known sporting journalist, was waylaid by racecourse roughs at Newmarket (England), as he left his hotel to proceed to the races. About twenty men waited for him, and as he got into his taxi he was surrounded. They threw flour, red ochre, and rotten eggs at him. The hotel manager says that beyond a damaged ./ult, Mr Dick was not hurl He returned to the hotel and had a bath, but did not got go to the racecourse. According to reports from Dunedin Roseday is regarded as a doubtful starter in the New Zealand Cup, and his mission at Riccarton may be the Stewards’ Handicap. Two of Mr W. G. Stead’s imported mares are being sent to New South Wales this season, to Mr Percy Miller’s stud, where one will be mated with Sarchedon, and the other with Magpie. One is Shrill, half-sister to Vauchise, winner of the One Thousand Guineas, and to Sanquhar, sire of some smart gallopers in New Zealand, by Llangwn (grandson of Oi’me and winner of £10,824 in stakes) from Cicero’s half-sister, Valve, by Velasquez from Gas, a three-quarter sister to Ladas, and’half-sister to Chelandry, the dam of Neil Gow and Traquair. Chelandry Is also the second dam of Magpie and the third dam of. this year’s English Oaks winner, Pogrom. The other mare is Lavone, by Bayardo from Alicia, by Ben D’or from Alix by Hagioscope from Crand Duchess (the grand-dam of Our Lassie, winner of The' Oaks and Your Majesty, winner of the St. Leger and Eclipse Stakes). Grand Duchess is a half-sisVr to the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire winner. Rosebery, and is the third dam of Gadabout, who recently commenced "-stud life in New South Wales. ' In view of the fact that Gloaming is one of the most celebrated equine figures appearing in New Zealand turf history of the past few seasons it would he interesting to know how mnnv sportsmen recollect that (he son nf. The. Welkin —Light has not always borne the name lie has since rendered so famous. Yet a search sufficiently far back of the files of the New Zealand Racing Conference’s Official Calendar would reveal under the heading of “Names Changed” that the name “Celestial” bestowed on a bay gelding by The Welkin—Light had been changed for. “Gloaming.” Mr W. R. Kembail recently purchased the Birkenhead marc Dryad in foal to Mountain Knight. The mare foaled twin foals last week, but subsequently both marc and foals died, a turn of derided ill-luck for the Wairarapa sportsman. Sir H. Cunliffc-Owen is anxious for H. Gray to ride some of his team in hurdle'races during the coming jumping season in England. Under the English rules of racing Gray can claim 71b allowance in jumping races until he rides 14 winners over jumps. Mr C. F. Vajlance has sent, Landrail the darn of Chimera and Blue Lake and Mr A. McDonald’s Straga, dam'of Hymestra, to Auckland, lo he mated with the imported sire Catmint.

WRESTLING

BROWN AND POWELL MATCHEU,

A wrestling mrftch for the heavyweight championship 'of New Zealand has been arranged between A. Powell (champion heavy-weight of N.Z.) and G M Brown, of Hamilton, with a purse" of £IOO. The contest will eventuate in the Town Hall, Hamil-ton,-probably next Friday, September V 5. Fuller details will appear on Jjtondav.

RUGBY PASTIME

CHOOL FOOTBALL.

(By “Drop Kick.”);

Twenty-four boys, from the Marist Brothers’ School, Hamilton, journeyed to Auckland last Monday to return the vis ft ’of the Vermont Street boys and Id plav football. The foolbalL match against Vermont A was played on Victoria Park on Tuesday morning before a crowd of 300 or 400. It was a fine game, botli sides being in, good form. The Hamilton forwards, led by osborne, were too good for Vermont, thus enabling the Hamilton backs to score three tries from the scrum. Clarkin, Grogan, and Waters scored. The dribbling Bushes of the winners pack was the fenture of the game. Mr Wellierili, president of the Auckland Referees Association, controlled the game in ills best style. Tuesday afternoon was taken up with a trip to Takapuna, the Sisters of Mercv at the orphanage treating the visitors right ’royally. They were the guests of the brothers and boys at Vermont Street at a banquet m the evening. All attended the Requiem Mass for the late Messrs Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Wednesday morning. Superintendent Wilson interested the bovs at the fire brigade station for over an hour, explaining the alarm systems and the fire-fighting appliances. A real alarm came before they left, so they saw the whole brigade turn out. On Wednesday afternoon . there was a motor drive through the city to the Mater Hospital, where the party was entertained by the Sisters, to Onehunga, and back through the EUerslie racecourse lo Sacred Heart College, the director (Bro. Borgia) having afternoon tea dispensed to them on the college lawn. The science room, gymnasium and museum greatly interested the boys. IlCre, too, they renewed acquaintance with several Hamilton boys boarding at the college. A motor launch trip was organised for Thursday. They'were shown through the living school at Kohimaramara by Messrs Walsti Bros., and then landed at Rangitoto, afterwards going out to the fight at the harbour entrance. Through the courtesy of the U.S.S.Co. the lads were shown over the Makura, in port from Sydney. They returned on Friday at 4 o’clock. The trip was most enjoyable and of great value educationally. Everyone with whom they came in contact was good to them, and to all concerned in Auckland the boys wish to .express their deepest gratitude. Mr Hugh Wright, whose son is captain of the Vermont team, has donated a valuable cup for a Rugby competition between the two schools.

JOTTINGS

Three of the players in the Sydney University Rugby football team, which played in Christchurch on Saturday, are prominent Sydney swimmers. They arc J. Crackenthorpc, A. Foote, and A. E. Kendall. Rdrackenthorpe is a surf champion, and both lie and Foote are Sydney University swimming •blues.” It i s worthy of mention that the Sydney University is Hie only University in the world which grants a “blue” for swimming.

A Rugby writer has been delving into old history:—"One of the most extraordinary incidents that ever occurred on a New Zealand football field was in a cup match on a Wanganui ground in the 1909 season, when Kaierau defeated the Wanganui club by 5 points to 4. A. Takarangi, of the former team, scoring for both sides. It came about thus. Takarangi scored for Kaierau, and converted. Later in the game, when putting in a clearing kick in front of his own goal, he was tackled by 11. Absolum, the wellkhown interprovincial player, and ytho result was that the ball went spinning over the cross-bar. The referee thought that Absolum had dropped the goal, and awarded the four points, despite the explanations that followed.

“I was awfully disappointed. The team played 30 points below its usual form.” Thus spake an Auckland Rugby football enthusiast, of the Auckland Grammar School team’s play against Southland Boys’ High School, in the Moascar Cup final on Wednesday (says a Southern writer). “The team has played brilliant football in the Auckland third-grade competition, and in its other Moascar Cup engagements,” he added. “In those matches it handled the ball excellently, and its play was bright and well-directed.” Another Aucklander commented that,, while he thought that the team had been over-rated by some of the gushing North Island people,-’it certainly had played well, although its combination had not impressed him as deeprooted. He had considered it a fine team in the making, rather than a properly-developed and polished side. What, then, was the cause of its poor showing on Wednesday? Probably the cause was "nerves” —due to the game being a cup final—allied with immature development of combination. After all, it is only reasonable to suppose that Auckland Grammar School would not have beaten Tc Aute College, Wanganui 'Technical College, and other North Island secondary schools if it had played against them as it did against Southland Boys’ High School.

THE LEAGUE GAME,

(By “Verax.”)

The Ilamilton-King Country match is being looked forward Lo with pleasurable anticipation by League enthusiasts in these pearls, and with thft prospects of a high-class game there is sure to he a good attendance at Steele Parle on Saturday afternoon. Both teams are in good training, and the game should he fast and willing throughout. Following are the players lo represent Hamilton: —Jacques, Park, Hemmingwav, Whelan; Coomhes CheiTie; Fitzgerald; A. Payne, Neill, A. Mawhinncy, liyslop. Prickett, and Deni. Emergencies:—Backs: Irvine, N. Yernall, J. Dufly; forwards, Hegglin, Rodwell, and Bond. Any player unable to play must notify the secretary before Thursday evening.

Two curtain-raisers to the big game will be played on Steele Park, Athletic juniors meeting Franklon juniors on No. 1 ground at 1.45 p.m., and United juniors meeting City juniors at the same time.

GOLF

AMATEUR v. PROFESSIONAL MATCH

In some comments upon the Amateur v. .Professional match played at Palmerston North on Saturday, the correspondent of a Southern contemporary says:—The finest galaxy of,New Zealand' golfers seen on the one links in the same day, 1T)0 in all, and Palmerston and its best assembled for Hie fight for the amateur-professional blue riband of golf.

Although victory finally rested with ttie amateurs, the professionals were a fine body of sportsmen. Most of them are youthful, but. like battlescarred veterans of the great war, they

grimly fought away and smiled at defeat. Thev have only one grievance, and that is'that in Wanganui, owing to their diminulivencss, they were mistaken for Jockeys. As for the amateurs, they were all there from the wilds of Wailii and j the West Coast to the Empire City, from Auckland to Dunedin, veterans ol , 20 vears’ standing side by side w.lh! boys" of 20, brimful of confidence and; the enthusiasm of youth. Bogey (80) is not formidable for the links, so what wonder that with such an array against him, he was blown lo the four winds of heaven and proved to be but a mediocre player amidst such a brilliant assemblage S. MorpUh (Waihi) played a brilliant round of 74. Moss (Auckland) played well, but his opponent went mad and was unbeatable. When dormy 2, he registered a splendid'2, at the 17th, winning by 3 and 1, after Moss taking 76, 4 better than bogey. 11. b. Lusk (Auckland) beat A. Ham (Wellington) by 4 up and 3 to play. Lusk duffed and toppel a few, but invariably made a brilliant recovery. Ham had a better lie or two, and at the fifth struck the telegraph wires. His putting was occasionally weak. N. Bell (Hamilton) beat McCormick (Gisborne) with a good 76. The Gisborne man was at sea on the greens, losing 4 and 3, with Bell putting beautifully. ' .

The English are again very much disturbed about the' decline of putting among their golf players. The London Times says: “It becomes tolerably obvious that, unless our younger professionals do some hard thinking and learn to hit the ball truly on the green, America will win- again and again. It used to he good enough to ‘play wonderful shots up to the green and then waste a gentlemanly number of putts. That is not good enough. The ball must be hit on the green, and we do not hit it. There is the mattei 1 In a nutshell, and we should he grateful to Hagen for teaching us this lesson. It cannot be rubbed in too hard.”

LAWN TENNIS.

It was the rain—not Suzanne Lenglen—that spoiled. Mrs Molla Mallory’s trip to England for the world championship tennis matches (says an American paper). The defeated American star said so herself, just before she sailed for New York on the Homeric. Mrs Mallory, appearing to be in somewhat of a temper, fired another volley in the verbal war in which the two women rivals have indulged since their match. The outspoken American now holds the last word honours. “I told Suzanne a few things,’ she said, when asked just what she said to the French star after the championship match. “I invited her to meet me again in America, but she declined. I told her a few more things, too, but I’m not going to tell you what. There wasn’t any row, though.” When asked why she lost, she again showed temper. “The courts were had,” she said. “They w'erc much too slow for me. I wasn’t feeling up to form, and my game was spoiled by the rain.” Great sport! Wonderful American sportswoman! Why, a hockey Learn —hut it doesn’t matter. Perhaps Mrs Mallory was preparing an “alibi,” in readiness for her meeting with her hubby, a New York stockbroker, who is reported to have dropped 10,000 dollars by her defeat by Suzanne.

A SUBSTITUTE,

At last a substitute for lawn tennis has been found, and the dismal outlook of the suburban dweller may change, and he may become a cheery (optimist. The new game is called circlos, and it is played on courts less than half the size of ordinary lawn tennis courts. The dimensions are 30ft x 17ft for doubles, and 28ft x 15ft for singles, so that anyone who has a fair-sized yard can play the game at home. Instead of racquet and ball, the players use a circlet, which may he described as a rubber quoit. This is tossed back and forth over a net five feet high. It must be caught by the player and returned immediately. Either hand may be used, but not both, and the circlet must not touch the ground or the player’s body or arm. The score is counted exactly as in lawn tennis.

BOY SCOUTS’ SPORTS,

On Labour Day, October 23, the Scoutmasters’ Association of Hamilton have arranged a monster sports day for the Boy Scouts of the South Auckland districts.

1 They are expecting four patrols to \come from Auckland, a troop from Cambridge, Huntly, To Awamutu, and the Sea Scouts from Raglan. They art also in communication with the Thames District, which has troops at Thames, Waihi, T’e Arolia and Morrinsville. If all-these troops can arrange to send down representatives, there will be very keen competition for the Waikato Challenge Standard between the visiting troops and the six troops representing Hamilton. This standard will be presented lo the champion troop of the day and wili be held for twelve months, when it will come up for competition again.

'ln the athletic events the Ladd Challenge Shield will be competed for by the Hamilton scouts and some verykeen racing is expected. Owing to Hic length' of the programme, the number of entries from each troop has been limited to four,but even then the total of entries will be approximately 500. In all, 34 events will he placed before the public on that day, comprising javelin throwing, archery contest, quarter-staff contest, tug-o-wars, bridge-h-uilding, bandaging, stretcher work, signalling (morse and semaphore), rescue'from burning building, patrol competition and hakas.

There arc a vast number of items, a host of entries and the only thing wanted to make the day an unqualified success is fhe liberal patronage of the public at the Lake Reserve on Labour Day, lo show the hoys that their efforts in trying to make themselves into better, more efficient and selfreliant citizens, is appreciated by the majority of the thinking public, who know what a benefit ihc Boy Seoul. Movement is to the rising generation.