SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1289, 7 January 1915, Page 33

SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

The great Caruso receives £5OO a night.

The playing area at Kelburn Park, Wellington, is to be extended.

Prominent oarsmen think Kemp will outclass Towns for the Australian rowing championship.

Georges Carpentier has not been in the trenches. At the end of September he was still in Paris.

Twenty-five years ago this month died Henry Searle, ex-champion of the aquatic world.

Mr. A. F. Wilding, lawn tennis champion, is serving in Belgium w-th his motor.

Emmy Destinn, the great American soprano, was the star of the latter London season.

Mr. A. D. Dineen, Auckland Grammar School, has joined the British Flying Corps.

Herr and Madame Wielaert, of local musical fame, left London for New Zealand on November 26th.

The Wellington Golf Club annually gives £25 for a professional match at its Christmas Tournament.

Mr. Arthur Myers, M.P., has presented a silver challenge cup to the Professional Golfers’ Association.

Under normal conditions London has six concerts a day. The war reduced them to four or five a week.

When Canon Burton left England recently, a million men were ready to take the field, and two millions would be under arms by March.

A troupe of Maoris will appear at the Panama Exposit.on in hakas, poi dances and songs. They leave early in January.

“Bob” Murie, formerly well-known in Southland, as cyclist, motorist, and balloonist, is fighting Germans in East Africa. Previously he was after bigger and wilder game.

Shugree, who beat Freddie Welsh, is Yiddish, and the best Australian lightweight. The boxer is of the Roman faith and very devout.

It would be fcclish to supi-G e that all horses are honest. There are nearly as many equine rogues as there are dishonest men.

On one Friday a notice appeared in the city that a thousand men were wanted for the London Scottish. By Monday the battalion was raised.

London has a new musical wonder, a boy named Solomon. A child of ten, he plays with the power of a wide musical experience. Beethoven’s piano concerto in E and Tschaikowsky’s concerto in B minor are amongst his accomplishments.

Captain Wright, of the Taranaki Rifles, was with the 200 Anglo-New Zealanders in camp in England.

The work of the well-known baritone Scotti in “Don Giovanni” during last season in London rings with praise from critics. It was a veritable work of art, both singing and acting.

A lady jockey, arrayed in silk and riding astride, appeared recently in two trotting events at Ballaret, Victoria. Miss Atkinson rode her own horses.

Adeline Patti has come from seclusion. In spite of great age her voice rang with its wonted charm. Her reception had lost nothing of its ancient warmth.

The municipal golf links’ site at Wellington has been selected on the slopes of the Berhampore hills. It is hoped the links will be laid down ready for play by 1916.

W. Wennand, the well-known boxer, formerly of Masterton, has joined the Expeditionary Force in England, and expected to be in the firing line before the end of last month.

Mr. Moore-Jones, artist and good fellow, of Auckland city, is in camp on Salisbury Plain. He has painted suitable scenes for an improvised soldiers’ theatre.

Forty birds took part in a race from Wellington to Invercargill lest week. In a previous race from Invercargill to the Empire City the Homers flew the distance in 12% hours.

G. W. Hutson, one and four miles running champion of England, fell at the front on September 14 and is amongst the missing. He first sprang into prominence in 1912 when he finished third in the 5000 metre world’s championship at Stockholm.

Cherry Kearton, of Roosevelt hunting fame, was shut up in Antwerp during the seige. Kearton is the most famous film man in the world. His nature studies brand him as of the bravest.

Lieut.-Colonel W. S. Morton, old Scottish international forward and expresident of the Scottish Rugby Union, has been appointed to the command of the 3rd (Glasgow) Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry.

J. P. Hannan has definitely challenged W. Webb for the sculling championship of New Zealand and £2OO aside. A couple of weeks ago he withdrew his deposit of £lO, which he had put up for a match for £lOO aside, and intimated that he could not get £2OO backing (writes our Wanganui correspondent). In the meantime he proposed to row George Jack, of New South Wales, for £lOO a-side, but he has now managed to find the extra money for a race with Webb for the larger sum, and has issued a challenge to row before April 30.

T'he position now is that the Wanganui man must accept the defi or forfeit any claim he may have to the championship. There would be no difficulty in finding the money for Webb, who is willing enough to row, but has placed himself entirely in the hands of Mr. W. R. Tuck, who backed him in all his previous races.