BRITISH SPORT SUMMARY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 610, 13 September 1909, Page 9

BRITISH SPORT SUMMARY.

-' Tho' following'it-ems 'aro taken 'from' t.ho' "Daily Mail" overseas edition of July 31 In tho final, of the cliampion polo oup to-ur-nambnt' at Hiirlingliam,'. Rocfihampton featcd tlie Hth .Hussars by 11 goals to: 2.',

V',Several -interestingfeatures'.'were/-' sports of tlio Birchfield Harriers;.' arid Rovers Cycling : Club' st Birmingham.---- One. was - the- / victory; which N; J. Cartroell, tho 220 .yards champion, gained .oyer the 100'yktb. phampion, -'E.' 15. AValkfer,! in : -the 120 yards .-level - race, Cartmell wraning'by a - yard. Tho' timo—-12- 3-5. sec-—howover, -was' somewhat slow for such, good-class men. 15. W. tho Hernd rfill Harrier, was third; V-.. Leon. Meredith',. at ; -.- Birmingham,' beat: several cycling records, from flying,start'(V eluding ;t«n'.miles in-16min.' 245e0.), - ; wit>h motor , pacing; \V. J. Bailey '(Polytechnic). won tlio five miles scratch cyole racc.and the Birchfield Harriers won the two/miles inter-; club .'relay race," in ;whioh the Broughton Harriers 'and tho Sparkhill Harriers'thirdi', v!-At Herito Mill the- London Contro championships of the National Cyclists' Union as follow:—One -railo, E. C.. Pieroy ' (Polytechnic C.C.). Time,■-2min; 45sec. W. Mbrisctti' (bolder) - being in Italy did not defend; bis .'.titlo/,- H. T. Johnston (Putney A.C.) finished first, but was disqualified for ;boring.t, Two - • miles.' rtandem championship, I''; ■T. Hamlin; and! H. T. Johnson XPutney A.C.), holders. Time, 2min. 44' 2-oseq. ' Teil: miles championship, ,H. H Lea (Putney A.'C!.). .Time, 24min. 50~4-ssco. •W. H. T. Isaacs (holder), Putney A.C., w?4 among: tho starters.'. ■ ■■ A golf -match' between teams composed ,of officials of the House of Lords and House of Commons was won at Woking' by tho officials of tho Upper House by 9} points to 3.- . At tho .formal: opening, of tho oxteuded course ''and. club-house of-tho Ilkley Golf Club,-Walter Toogood; the local:professional, with a score. of 74, which established a .record for tho links, beat Harry,/Vardon by four strokes. In a four-ball match Vardon and Tongobd defeated Mr. E. A. Lassen and jMr. H. B. M'Carthy by -onovhole.---.--*-- -- ; : v Tho Football Association have forwarded to the Chancellor of tho Exchequer a state-, moiit in support of their request that all grounds on which - football is regularly played should bo exempted from t'hc operations of the . Finance Bill.: _ . . .Mr.; A. Guy Thackeray, who has-died'at 'Cnrdilif-Waa ono of tho most popular sportsmen in; tho Principality, and had played for' both the Monmouthshire and tho Glamorgan County Cricket Clubs: : ' Of tho latter club lie was olected captain ' for.' a' season, but owing to; iU-liealth ho had to resign. 'Suggestions and riles for the-international matches between England, South Africa, and Australia have been issued by; tho Imperial Cricket Conference,'- consisting o,f' representatives'of all three countries.'. The main principles are that no, team from\_any country shall bay visits' uv two sticcessivo seasons, and that each',team shall pay-'a'visit and receive a visit- from each: other country in every cyclo' of four years. 1 In other cases tho scliemo i's much the same as that.previously put forward by the M.C.C, \lf it is passed fixtures will be by the Boird of Control before July 31, 1011, and ' the first of tho triangular contests may tak« place in England during tho following year,