SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1291, 21 January 1915, Page 33

SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

George Gray has made a break of 3 051 with ivory balls.

British Jews to the number of four thousand are already with the colours.

A Remount Commission in Poland last year purchased 1517 horses for a sum of £46,414.

Belasco takes exhaustive thought for the elusive atmosphere and detail of the stage—hence his success.

The South Canterbury Caledonian Society took £458 at the gates on New Year’s Day.

There are fifty-four racecourses in England alone, without counting the Irish courses.

Pictures of the New Zealand troops, Auckland Division, appeared in a late issue of the English “Field.” ❖ V

it costs from £lO to £2O a week to run a suburban Sydney picture show.

Woodville Jockey Club made a profit, (roughly) of £5OO on their last meeting.

Bostock and Wombwells menagerie left England recently by the Runic en route to South Africa.

The Cossack pony, ready for the march, carries about seventeen stone. Not bad for 14 to 15 hands.

Three hundred was collected for the Belgians at the Tauherenikau races.

Mr W. McEwan, of Masterton has been appointed coach to the Auckland Golf Club.

The English lawn tenn’s authorities have decided not to make arrangements for the championship of 1915.

Sir Henry Woods's great orchestra is stiH giving recitals in London, but all the members are receiving very much reduced salaries.

“Silent French” is beloved of the soldier. “Old French don’t bark a bit.” said the soldier to a friend, “but don’t ’e bloomin’ well bite!”

The South Canterbury Bowling Tournament cleared twenty pounds. The proceeds will be given to the Rel.ef Aunds.

A special car had to be attached to the Main Trunk express at Marton to accommodate the number of oowlers bound for Auckland.

That amazing tenor of the last Russian opera season in London, Chaliapine, is now fighting in the Russian Army. His was a personality before which every other star paled comp e ely. His voice was not so remarkable ,but his acting was nothing short of the marvelous.

Major Studd, D. 5.0., who has been wounded at the front, belongs to the famous cricketing family. He won distinction during the Boer war.

The Cyclists Touring Club of England is engaged in recruiting two special companies of its members for the Sixth Battalion Royal Sussex.

Germany’s finest athlete, Richard Ran, who competed at various '.lines in English athlet’c events has been killed in action.

The famous Black Belgian studs, will be no more when the war is ended. The thieving Germans have seen to that.

Americans state that a Highland prisoner is on pubic view in Budapest. Hungar'ans have m?ver seen a Highland costume before.

Mr. W. Barrington Miller, manager for United Theatres. Ltd., Sydney, and an old Gisborne bov has been on a trip to his native haunts.

The late Mr. A. O. Jones is being acknowledged as the most brilliant slip fielder that has been seen of recent years in Australia.

An Indian “Waler” carries about nineteen stone when fully equipped for the front. His rider, the Sihk lancer, is of fine physique.

Dr. Richter has flung his British honours in England’s face. A caustic critic asks will lie also return the £50,000 Covent Garden has given him while he has been in England.

Mr. G. Campbell, South Canterbury, has won the high jump championship of New Zealand for the fourth time. He handed half the money to the Belgian Relief Fund.

It is stated in an exchange that large numbers of horses —300,000 are the figures given—are being purchased in Canada by the Home Government for war purposes.

Ysaye fled before the Germans from his villa on the Dutch frontier. He chartered a fishing smack but lost all his money, his wonderful violin and a unique collection of music.

Mr. Walter Kirby, the well-known New Zealand tenor, was entertained by Sir Arthur and Lady Stanley at Government Cottage Macedon, Victoria, fcr a recent week end visit.

Flying Orb, who won the Stewards' Handicap of five furlongs, at Liverpool with 8.13 on his back is a son of Orby who won the 1907 Derby for “Bess” Croker, of New York.

Sir Frederick Cowan states that during late years German musicians have ousted English musicians from lucrative engagements. “Blue” Bands and “Red” Bands were a society fad, and Britishers suffered in consequence.

Stop football in England, declares Mr. F. J. Wall, secretary of the Football Association, and the workers of the country will lose more than £2,000,000 a year.

The Wairarapa Athletic Union will make an application for the next annual championships to be held at Masterton. New Zealand championships were voted too expensive.

The well-known Black Belgian stallion Indigene, valued at £BOOO, was taken away from his owner, Mr Smal, and sent to Germany, in order to improve the Prussian breeds.

Mr Colin Robertson, a well-known distance runner and who has also taken an interest in boxing, returned to Auckland last Friday after a two years sojourn abroad.

The name of Bombardier Wells’ brother (Alfred Valentine Wells), who was well-known in the London ring as’ a second, appeared in the list of those killed at the front early last month.

Between sixty and seventy applications' were received by the New South Wales Cricket Association for secretary. Vacant, after 1 9 vears. by the resignation of Mr P. K. Bowden.

An English actor, name witheld, famous and in receipt of £lOO a week now draws two mounds. His self effacement keeps the theatre onen and lesser lights in work and food.

James Paddon, the b’g Australian, expressed the on’nion, after the rowing; match last September w’th Barrv, that the latter was well nigh inv:neiible on the Thames'.

A good moving p’eture was obta’ned from Albany, W.A.. when the forty five transports sailed for Egvp't. So far the censor has' not allowed its appearance.

Another blood horse nursery is to be established in V’ctoria. Mr C. A. Widdis' has purchased the property known as Oakwood Park, at Danflenong, for the purposes of a stud farm.

Three brothers, McKendry, occupied first, second and third places at a MeHiven trot. D. McKendry and J. H. McKendry drove their own horses, General Grant, and Imperial Ann, while J. P. McKendry steered Mr J. Dowling's Frontier

“Went to hear Gaby Delys at the Palace. Her frocks —at least six changes —are gorgeous, and she is most daring; but I would not take the trouble to see her again.”—New Zealander writing from London.

Golfers will be interested to learn that the Aga Khan, the great leader of the Moslems, who did so much to check the Sultan’s call for a Holy War, is a devotee of the Royal and Ancient Game.

The Masterton Homing Pigeon Club flew the Old Bird Championship from T'maru during the holidays. It was won by Mr. J. Dixon’s Coromandel. The distance, 326 miles airline, was flown in 9 hours 3 minutes.

The combined picture shows of Australia have two operators actually in the firing line in France and Belgium. The Russians fail to see any necessity for 'films of their battle line.

The Maori troupe for America comprised twenty-eight dancers, fourteen men and the same number of women. They give six performances a day. The men are paid £2 a week, the women thirty shillings, in addition to which they receive their second-class lares.

Tfliere are four big firms and several smaller ones in the film trust. Before they combined a picture programme cose £l2 10s. a week, afterwards it soared to £2O a week. Such are the joys of trusts.

The Australian moving picture combine will have the public on toast when they shift the 50 per cent, tax on to the man who hires the film. The combine gets the film back, and then passes it on to the next man, who must also pay a 50 per cent, increase.

La.est word from Australia mentions Uie fact, that Bill Squires, the ex-heavy weight boxer, is still adding fresh laureis to h.s reputation as a farmer, for at the Sydney goods yards the other morning he obtained top puce for a consignment of lucerne hay from his farm near Tamworth.

The matter of breeding remounts, on thg lines of the Canadian Bureau of Breeding, is now before the Commonwealth Government. The Canadian bureau is conducted by private enterprise, and Field-Marshal Sir John french is one of its directors.

Last year the New York Metropolitan Opera season was more brilliant than ever. The New York Metropolitan Opera House provides the best orclies, ra, the best singers, and the most magnificent sett.ngs to be seen anywhere in the world. In comparison with New York opera, says a returned New Zealander, the best productions of Bayreuth, Berlin and Vienna seem small affairs, and Covent Garden seems aimosi. an amateur production. “HOGUE’ SURVIVOR’S THRILLING EXPERIENCE. STRUCK BY TWO TORPEDOES. In an interesting interview, reported in the “Portsmouth EveningNews,” Gunner F. J. Shoebridge, one of the “Hogue” survivors, stated that just as the order came to lower boats the vessel was struck by two torpedoes, one immediately after the other. After he had clambered over the rolling chock into the water, a man caught hold of him and pulled him down. The man let him go, and some time afterwards Shoebridge was pulled into a launch. They went alongside H.M.S. “Lowestoft,” but, seeing a submarine coming up, they shouted out to the Commodore, “Let us drift; there’s a submarine ahead.” With that the “Lowestoft” shaped a course and got clear. When later the “Lowestoft” came round again and took them aboard, they were given hot Bovril, and the marines aboard gave them any old clothes they could find.