SPORT SUMMARY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 517, 26 May 1909, Page 4

SPORT SUMMARY.

'"'. v -—-—->'■■■' ■' .-•■••/.;' .• ITEMS . OFINTEREST .FROM,.! ALL \ '0;.';-: K .:-. '/ QUARTERS.-, v.'. . |: .-;v,v .-- - ■ The following items are taken .from- the Daily"Mail" Overseas Edition of April 17 :-v tpti^''.-U-':"v >'.':i-- >".^/"f-"-;"^ v -' :; .'-?\' ;^ There seems to be no end 1 to the making of olf courses on tho strip of seaboard-between tainsgate and Dover. The, latest addition, to he several links is-this particular corner of [eht—that of the Waliner aiid Kingsdown Club -was: formally : opened on April 10 jv\-ith two .. ntereslirig professional matches.' Braid, he open' ohanvpion, and Harry Vardon conested an 18-holes singlo in the morning, and n tho afternoon there was a stroke competition n which Braid, Vardon, and Ben Nicholls, tho ocal: professional, took part. ;. Braid showed lapitar form, and;won both events. He beat Pardon;by 3 and 2 in the morning, and won ;he' stroke, competition with a,, score of 78. Sficholls .was .second in: tho latter event, .with . il,and Vardon third with .8-1. .■<■., ■-.;■'■ v On the links of the Lythain and St. Anno's • Dlub, the English barristers avenged tho defeat ivhicli-they sustained at Dollyniount, lost year, it the.hands of tho Irish barristers. The English team ;'won. the singles by 1 matches to 2, with two matches, halved, and .proved successful on the day by 6 and 4, each side securing two games in the foursomes. In the leading ■ single Mr. B. Darwin,;af tor standing 1 up at the turn, beat Mr. W, H. Boyd, tho Irish champion by;2wholes. Mr. E. G. Rand halved with Mr. W. Campbell, the old Cam. bfidga'and' Irish: international .-goalkeeper.- ..'■ Athletics.;!; --V •■■ : -;'" ; The Middlesex Walking-Club's annual walking raco- from '.Marble' arch to Martyrs' Memorial, '■ Oxford (distance 54J ; miles), resulted thus: B. B.'Warden, lOhr. 25min.. Is W Brown, lOhr. 35min., 2; CD. King, llhr. 23 rain., 3; E. C. Haynes, llhr.' 25min., 1; J. J. Lynch, 12hr, lOmin.,. 5,': The French '. runner St.' Yves, at Proridenoo (Rhode Island), ; beat the: ex-amateur Matt Maloney by three-fifths of a mile in a twenty, nijle. raco. ,-Hi.s .time was 2hr. ,2min.' 2sec. ■ ■'-. [Football, '-.-;:':'.:. ; . ;':-;' In the presence of thousands of spectators tho greatest, football match of, tho season at Malta,.'states Reuter, was played'on April 10, under Association rules, between the Army and the Navy' for tho "Chronicle" Challenge Cup. .The Duke and -Duchess of Connaught wcro present The Navy won by 2 goals to 1. Tho Duko presented tho cup. ' , , 'In tho final tie of tho Scottish Football Association Cup competition Celtic and Glasgow Rangers played a drawn game, each side scoring two goals. In tho final of the Irish Cup Cliftonvillo beat Bohemians'by 2 goals to 1. ' Clapton beat'Nunhead in the final of the Lon--don Amateur Cup competition by a goal to nil. Rackets. •_.■.;•■■'.'.. ■• The annual public school racket competitions were begun at Queen's Club onrApril 13. In the. semi-finals Eton beat Malvern by i games to 1, and Charterhouse beat Harrow by i games to - 2.;.; : k-< , ' ~.., • ;Lawn Tennis, i The singles lawn tennis championship ot Franco was won at Paris by Max.Decugis, who beat A. H.'Lowo in tho final.by 3 sets to 1. In tho final of the ladies' championship Mile. .Masson defeated Mile. J. Mntthoy by 2 sets to :h)vo. Tho final of the gentlemen's doubles, in which Mux Dccugis and A. Canet defeated E,;Micard and R. Williams, the American, by 3 sets to 2, was keenly contested and caused great excitement, the losing sair being four times within a-point of winning tho final lot.