BOWING CLUB ATHLETIC SPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 413, 8 May 1871, Page 2

BOWING CLUB ATHLETIC SPORTS.

These sports, which are to come off in the Albert Burracks ou Wednesday next, promise, to be in ever/ way a great success. There is no doubt tt_at sports of this nature have received :.\ immense impetus among our young p.ople since the omral in t'>e.colony of the pedes:/ n , Massri. B .d, BJrrrls, and Hewitt. Tiie sports of Ea tc? Monday were so great a succers that the member, of the Auckland Rowing Club determine.' to get up races of a simih-r character at an early date ; ; a committee was forme J, and stens taken to ensure a good programme. ScverZ prices were offered by the Rowirg Club, also by p.'vate individuals, and the management of the Theatre Eojal b^-.ve given a very handsome silver cup towards the same objeb!. 'there are also silver cups given by the club, and i% p. ir of sliver sculls and clasp-, given by Mr. E.lsaacs. Wednesday has bee? fixed for the sports to come off, unci a petition has bean driwn np and sent round to the numerous merchants in town, asking them to close their places of 'easiness in the 3 afternoon, ' r order to give their e-.nplo-jli a halfholiday ro attend the sports. To this they have illiberally responded, and Wednesday afternoon will be kept a3 a hr.lf-holiday. For ulitt last fortnight or threo weeks the intending _ competitors have been in training, and hc-clly a morning or afternoon passes but large numbers of . ticra rr.ay be seen tying their powers round ?;:ie barrack green. A programme of the sporti, together with the nr.mc of the competitors, wi'l be found in our , o'Twiisii;' columns, -;«.d 7: numbers and : vcriety bo any .critrioj of success, then the spor!s should be v r^rert succsa3. Ihereae no lc:s th,n twelve events to come off, includir>T fl t :*"cc3, hurrle race, three-legged r/eos, and bycrcie races. There arc a large number cf entires for each event, many of which will doubtless be closely contested The (hvce-lcggei raes will be an amusing feature of the s-ortr, while the bycycle -.- -trill be cqual.y interc-iting. Tne spo. w„i commence: at one o'clock, and the entr ice to the Barracks will be, as upon die former occasion, one shilling. Major Heaphy is to be the judge, Mr. v ohn Copland the Btavl er, and Messrs. J. M. Daigavil'eaadD.B. Cra:ck- ■ shank referees. The rules and regalaiions have j bean clrr.wn up up with gvo.-.s impartiulity by the committee, and the handicapping for the various oveiu3 has 3iven universal satisfaction. The rcrds containing :he ucmes and addresses of the competitors w:il bo on sale on the ground. We hope to see a very lnrge uttend n r. In the evening the p.-;ze-< will bo presented ;o the winners at the Theatre JRoyal, when there r,iil be an amateur performance by the members of the Rowing Club. -In conclusion, we may say that a tenth of the proceeds of the day's sports, and likewise of the evening's performance, will be presented (o a leer. I charity.