FOOTBALL.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume I, Issue 7, 13 September 1890, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

The season will close to-day if Ponsonby beat Selwyn, which is very probable although Selwyn are getting together a very strong team. If Ponsonby win they secure the Senior Cup for this season." Ponsonby 11. play Grafton 11. and should Ponsonby win the match the Junior Cup rests with them, but should it end in a draw or a win for Grafton, Native Rose wins the Cup. Madigan got hurt again playing for Garrett’s Boot Factory against Zealandia Boot Factory. Lyons playing for the Australians against the Marylebone C.C. made 20 boundary hits out of a score of 99.

A committee meeting of thh Auckland Amateur Athletic and ’Cycle Club was held at the Imperial Hotel last evening for the purpose of arranging date and drawing up a programme for the Club’s spring meeting. The Melbourne Athletic Club are anxious to make a match between Slavin and Jackson, and offer to lay the Sydney Club £lOOO to /'BOO outside the Purse if the pair meet in Sydney. Should the men fight in Melbourne they name the odds the other way about.— Sydney Bulleten. A remarkable record has been made by Dr. E. B. Turner, who, on the Paddington track, rode three miles on a tricycle in Bmin 6 2-6th sec. This beats the speed of all other kinds of cycles including the ordinary and safety bicycles. Dr. Turner is 36 years of age.'' He trains most carefully, and does not change the gearing of his machine like some other riders are so fond

of 'doing. * We may surely expect to hear of something more marvellous from the ordinary bicycle after this. Fancy the tricycle beating fedsthe bicvcle \—N.Z. Referee. n Frank Shorland accomplished the feat of beating the late James Selby’s famous coach record from Hatchett’s Hotel, Piccadilly, to Brighton and back on the 25th June, distance about 108 miles. The coach record, was made on the <Bth July, 1888, the time being 7 hrs comin. and required 16 changes, or a total of 68 horses. Shorland left Piccadilly at 7 a.m. Oii a “ geared Facile ” and covered the distance in 'the remarkable time of yhrs. 19mm., thus beating the coach record by 3 1 minutes. Many unsuccessful attempts to lower the coach record had ’been‘ made by other celebrated English cracks.—2V..Z. Referee. '■ Bob Lusk was in rare form when playing for the . .Strathfield Club against Parramatta at Sydney oii August 23. He scored two tries ajid kicked three goals, or 12 points of the 18 scored, by his side. — Referee. The Sydney Bulletin states that the new English amateur walker, H. Curtis, is the finest and fairest walker since the days of Raby and is likely some day to do his eight miles within the hour, and has already beaten the English amateur records at 5, 6 and 7 miles at Aston, Birmingham. Surry is the cricketing county this year in England, having rejoined its old place, Lancashire second, Yorkshire and Kent tie for third place, Nottingham being only fourth. Sydney Bulletin. Pettengell, the New Zealand boxer, made a poor show with Jack Molloy at Mathews Hall in Sydney. When Pettengell met the champion amateur boxer, Searle, he was merely a chopping block for the clever amateur. — Sydney Bulletin. Says London Entf 1 Acte The Surrey .professionals are as a class entirely superior to the paid men who some years ago worked for the County and the public houses at the same time. Men like Lohman and Maurice Read are better gentlemen than very many of our present amateurs. The English Lawn Tennis Championship has been played and v’on. Never before has there been so much talent included. There were no % less than -twenty champions and ex champions from all parts of England, Ireland, Wales, America, and even the West Indies, but Scotland was not represented. The tournament was played through almost incessant rain which made E. Renshaw and Lawfurd retire, not wishing to play on a wet court. The Irish Champion, W. J. Hamilton, defeated Barton in the final of the all-comers, and also the holder, W. Renshaw, in the championship round. W. Renshaw has been Champion for seven years and six of which were in succession. In the Ladies Championship the entries were most disappointing, only four ladies taking part. Miss Jack’s defeated Miss Rice in the final for the all-comers. Mrs. Hillyard not defending her title to the Championship. The Champion Trick Cyclist, Mr. W. S. Maltby, who was recently in Auckland, intends stopping at Honolulu a month and for a similar period at ’Frisco on his way home.