OVERSEA SPORT

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1854, 13 September 1913, Page 10

OVERSEA SPORT

TOURING CRICKETERS STRANDED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, September 11. The "Daily Citizen's" New York correspondent states that Mayne's Australian cricket team is stranded owing to poor gates last month. Thero was a perpetual struggle to pay the railway fares of the t\iam, and tho hotelkeepers were tired of waiting for a good gate,.-. Some members of tho team are moodily wondering whether they will have to walk across the continent or work their passages from San Francisco to Vancouver. OLYMPIA FUND. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. London, September 11. Seven thousand pounds has already been subsoribed for tho Olympia Fund. MOTOR' BOATS AT COWES. London, September 11. The Maple Loaf heat tho Despujols (France) in tho second race for the International Motor Boat Cup at Cov.es, the distanco being 32 miles. [In the first raco, the Despujols was first, and Maplo Leaf second. Tho winner's averago speed was 46 knots.] BILLIARDS. London, September 11. Tho Billiards Association has presented a silver medal to George' Shailer for making the world's amateur record break of 268. EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR. (Rec. September 12, 9.15 p.m.) Sydney, September 12. The English boxer, Sullivan, who. mysteriously disappeared in tho direction of Melbourne, a few hours beforo his contest with Ca-rnio, has turned up at Katoomba. He declines to explain his departure for Melbourne till ho had seen Mr. "Snowy" Baker, but dcclaros his willingness to meet anybody in Melbourne.