LATE SPORTING

Evening Star, Issue 19661, 14 September 1927, Page 9

LATE SPORTING

OTAGO HUNT CLUB RACES. This meeting is at Wingatui cut Saturday. Arrowy is scratched for the \auxhall Handicap. Armchair, engaged in the Hunters’ Flat, has since the books were printed become the property of Mr J. B. Starky and will run in bis name. The track is improving every hour. The First Battalion Band will supply tho music for the first time at Wingatni. • Tho arrangements for the stewards’ stand are of a temporary nature, the structure being unfinished. The handsome cups presented by Mr B. S. Irwin and Mr R. Acton-Adams arc on view in Jacobs’s window. AMATEUR BILLIARDS. [Pen United Press Association.] AUCKLAND. September 14. In tho amateur billiard tournament second semi-final M. D. White defeated R. Fredatovich by 500 to 321. The final is between White and E. S. Morrison. BOXING. BILLY GRIME AND FINNEGAN. Pres* Association—Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, September 13. (Received September 14, at 11 a.m.) It is understood that a bout between Grime (Australia) and “ Honeyboy ” Finnegan (the well-known Boston lightweight) will be staged here shortly. HOCKEY. INTERISLAND MATCH. [Pee United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, September 14. The following are the teams selected io play in the North v. South Island hockey match at Lancaster Park on Saturday next: — North Island.—Goal, C. Moore (Wellington) ; backs—Allan (Wellington) and Cave (Wanganui); halves—Parker (Feilding), M‘Leod and Chantrell (Wellington); forwards—Roberts (Wellington), Tizard (Wanganui), Freethy, Brown, and Fraser (Wellington). Emergencies: C. llannin and Gaudm (Wairarapa). South Island.—Goal, H. Snook (Canterbury) ; backs—J. Soper (Canterbury) , L. Ireland (Otago); halves—• H, G. Horc (captain), B. Morris, and R. Butler (Canterbury) ; forwards— R. Sheriffs, S. M. Bell (Canterbury), 11. Whitwell (Nelson, vice-captain), W. Bell (Canterbury), J. Caldwell (Buffer). Emergency; W. Richmond 'Canterbury).