THE TURF.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 906, 27 August 1910, Page 13

THE TURF.

NOTES AND COMMENTS. CBl (JLKNCOH.J The Hoiwhenua Cup will bo run on Friday next. ; Nominations for the AVanganui Jockey Club's spring mooting close at 9.30 p.m. on Monday next, with the secretary, Mr. W. Hall. The , programme lor the meoting will be found in the advertising columns of this issue. , Lord Kelvin, who has several valuable classical engagements ahead of him, will probably sport silk at the Levin meeting. Ho is to be ridden by the crack Auckland jockey, B. Deeley. Two offers of 400 guineas wore made during the week for the Merriwec mare, Tru'gnnini, but both were declined, and the owner gave it out that his price was 600 guineas. Most likely the mare will be shipped to Australia at an early date, along with the other unsold members of Mr. M. Mclrose's team. x Bourrasque is amongst tho. acceptors for the Horowhenua meeting, 'and judging by his work of late he may he expected to run prominently at Levin next week. Waikaraka is not.to be taken to the Levin meeting, but will be reserved for Marton and Bulls later in the month. The hurdle horse Forest is now trained in Dunedin by J. M'Combo. The chestnut horse was not a success in the north, but he should more than pay tiis way among the horses which he will meet "down below." "Mr. M. Melrose," the Wellington sportsman, is leaving tho Dominion about the middle of next month, and most lik'ely will take all his horses with him. His colours may next be seen at Caulfield at Cup time, and later at Flemington. Bellis. who won the two big Victorian steeplechases in 1005, was by Lochiel, and it is interesting to- note that Grafuax, who won the same events this year, is out of a mare by Lochiel, while Paisano, the present hurdle champion of New Zealand, is by aiLochiel horse, so that it would appear as if a strain of Lochiel is desirable in a jumper's pedigree. White Cockade, who is a promising jumper, traces to a Lochiel mare, and Ghoorka, who is by Lochiel, showed an ajrtitudo for the hurdle business, biit after lie- had competed unsuccessfully in Stormont's Grand National, his owner decided to retire him to tho stud. '• . FIXTURES, September 2 and 3.—Uorowhemia Hack R.C. Annual. September 7 mid B.—Marten J.C. Annual. Sept. 14 and 15.—Rangitikei R.C. Spring. Sept. 15 >aml 16—Asbburton County K.C. ■ Spring. Sept. 29 and Oct. 1.-Wanganui J.C. Spring. / . BOXING. ♦ ; '■ . AUSTRALASIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Auckland, lugust 26. Competitors taking part in tho Australasian, amateur boxing championships, which take-., place hero next Friday and Saturday, are the pick of the boxers from New-South Wales, Queensland, Victoria ; and New Zealand. New South Wales is sending live representatives under tho management of Mr. V. Horniman; Queensland three under Mr. Hinchy; Victoria one; while Now Zealand will have thirteen representatives. Tho- full list of competitors is as follows: — Bantam-weights: M. Hoga-n (Q.), J. King(N.S.AV.), B. Ellis (Wellington)), and T. O'Brien (Auckland). Feather-weights: f. M'Laughlan (Q.), J. Head (N.S.W.), AV. D. Shields (Manawatu), and Hegcrty (Timaru). Light-weights: F. A. Lacoy (N.S.W.), R. Simpson (Christclnirch), L. O'Halloran and. J. G. Thomson (Auckland). Welter-weights: AV. Shaw (N.S.W.), G. AVatchoni (Manawatu), F. Holt and G. Olson (Auckland). Middle-weights: E. AVatson (N.S.W.), G. Matthowson (Otago). Heavy-weights: W. Nott (Q.), P. Doran (A r ic), A. Pooley and C. Savoury (Auckland). , Mr. Doran, the A T ictorian representative, arrived by tho Main Trunk express to-day, having come via AVcllington. The balance of the Australian representatives will arrive by the steamer Jlaheno from Sydney on Sunday.

THE CHEQUERED LIFE OF GANS. "Joe" Gans, once light-weight champion of the world, and commonly known as "Tlw> Ola llastei," is cieuU in Baltimore (U.S.A.) at the early age of thirtysix years. Between 1891 and 1008 he piled up over .£60,000 in various prizerings, but he (lied worth only ,£2OOO, hav-. ing frittered most of his assets away oyor th() diet. Me was a most; inveterate gambler, and is said to have always had a dice-box in his clothes. These instruments of war he would produce at the slightest provocation, and with them he generally managed to lose his money as fast as he could make it. .He owned what was once a prosperous' cafe and saloon in Baltimore; but owing to his generous nature, and' his readiness to gamble with the overdue customers on a double or quits basis, and tho tendency of the dice to turn up quits, and the tendency of tho overdue customers to go insolvent when they turned up double, the saloon' wasn't the goldmine it should have been when the personality 'of its proprietor was taken account. But. he was a wonderful boxer, and fought closo upon 200 battles in- his career. Ho started at Baltimore away back in 1891, and it was not till October, 1896, that ho knew what defeat was like. On that occasion 'Dal' Hawkins, at New fork, got tho decision in fifteen rounds. • In -December of the same year Gans was again beaten, this tim 6 by "Bobby' , Dobbs at Brooklyn, in twenty rounds. Among Gans's victims was Griffo, whom he razed to the ground at Coney Island in eight rounds. On October 19 "Joe" Grim met him in a six-round bout at Philadelphia. No decisions are permissible in Philadelphia. The press decides who is the winner, and on that occasion the press was a voice divided against itself. But on January, 22, the following year, the pair again met at Baltimore, and Grim was decisively beaten in ten rounds. It was Battling Nelson who ended Gans's career, beating him twice—at Colma and San Francisco, in 17 and 21 rounds, oii July 4 and September i, 1901. But "The Old Master" was a mere shadow of his former self, and was even then in tho grip of the tubercular trouble which killed him. Tho fact that ho died worth <C2OOO camo as a welcome surprise, as it was generally understood that ho was about insolvent.—"Bulletin