AUCKLAND AMATEUR ATHLETIC AND ’CYCLE CLUB.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume I, Issue 7, 13 September 1890, Page 5

AUCKLAND AMATEUR ATHLETIC AND ’CYCLE CLUB.

The Spring Meeting of the above Club will be held on the domain cricket ground, on Saturday the 22nd November. The following is the programme passed at a committe meeting held last evening:— 150 yards Maiden. 1 mile Novice Bicycle Roadster Hdcap. 120 yards Handicap. 1 mile Handicap Walk. 1 mile Handicap Bicycle. 1 mile Handicap. 2 mile Handicap Bicycle. 250. yards Handicap Ladies’ Bracelet. 1 mile Handicap. 3 mile Handicap Bicycle. | mile Handicap. 5 mile Handicap Bicycle. | mile Handicap Hurdles. Long Jump Handicap. Club Steeplechase. Entry Night—November Sth. Acceptance —November 15th.

Mr. Mathew Dawson, in a chat with a representative of a London exchange recently, he said: “Amongst good horses, in my experience, were Touchstone, Alice Hawthorn, Beeswing, ' West Australian, and Normanby ; but to come to later times, I don’t think I ever knew such a horse as* St. Simon. Staying was not his forte, perhaps; but nothing could make him go fast enough to tire himself, so no one could judge him for certain on that point.” St. Simon is the sire of Mr. W. R. Wilson’s mare Beanfeast, who ran third to Spiffen on Saturday. Sportsman. Mr. McElwain, the Wanganui horse-owner, has decided upon erecting a marble slab to the memory of his old chaser, Oddfellow, who died on the 22nd of last month. The work has been completed, the performances of the son of Painter and Silver Cloud being written on the face. The names of Messrs. McElwain and O’Neil, who owned the horse at the time of his death, of Dick Wheeler, who trained, and of T. Cameron, who rode him in many of his races, are also carved thereon. Oddfellow won fifteen out of forty races, was second fourteen times, third three times, and unplaced eight times, on several occasions having fallen, thus being deprived of victory. A gamer horse than Oddfellow never looked through a bridle,' and Mr. McElwain was very fond of him. — Weekly Press. ** That boy can’t travel with a half ticket. He’s much too old,” said the ticket collector at North Melbourne. “He was quite an infant when we left Geelong, replied the woman meekly. “We didn’t know it was such a long journey.” , , So would he.—Aunt Mary—“ Poor Budge! Does your tooth ache yet ? If ’twere mine, dear, I’d have it out at once.” Budge—“ If ’twere your ! Well, auntie, so would I.” He stood with his ear to the telephone at a rimr when he hadn’t oughter, and he caught the voice in a distant room of his only child a daughter. The sounds he heard to his heart straight went, like the stroke of a reaper’s sickle. “Oo! Oo! good gracious., Neddy dear, how your moustache does tickle!” Poor Fishing. —First Boy—“ Did you catch anything?” Second Boy—“ Not until I got home.” “ His is a singular absence. “ Plural you mean. He ran off with another fellow’s wife. First Fisherman: What luck? Second Fisherman ; None at all. Can’t get the cork out. “ Now, Johnny, you know what a noun is, do you ? ” “ Yeth. ’um.” “ What is Jerusalem ? ” “An ejaculation, mum.” Kind Lady: “ I suppose your lot is full of hardships-” Tramp: “Indeed it is, mum. In th’ winter, when the farmers is doin’ nothin’ but eatin’ apples an’ drinkin’ cider it is too cold for us to tramp, and in the summer we’re allers offered work.” Diamond-cut-Diamond. —Farmer Eli (going home from the grocer’s) : “ Here, Dave, have some more o’ this cheese.” Farmer David : “ Shoved quite a hunk of it into yer pocket, didn’t ye.” Farmer Eli: “Yes, but old Prunella got the best of me, though. See him charge me two cents for that half-dozen clothes pins ? They are only three cents a dozen.”