SPORTING

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 51, 1 May 1884, Page 2

SPORTING

Notes by " Pbocton." The New Zealand Footballers will leave for Sydney next month, where they will play six matches. The team hag been very carefully selected and will, I think, giye a good account of themselves. ! ho Australian Cricketers have arrived m England, and meet a very strong team for the opening match. Five ultra-first-class matches will be played to decide whether the Old Country or the Young is to be considered the best at the game. It will not be an unmixed pleasure for i any but a bred and born "Colonial" should the plucky Australians win, bat there will be great joy over the Tictory if they do, with just a tinge of regret that the dear Old Country is whopped. The Hon. Ivo Bligh pays a high comphment to Australian cricketers. At the conclusion of an account of the last tour written !>y himselF he says : — " Throughout the whole tonr not only was there not a single thrower met with, but not even a bowler to „ whom the slightest suspicion of an unfair action* could, be imputed. And whence this result? Simply because in Australia not only would anyone who threw be no-balled, but anyone about whose action there could he the slightest doubt. Does not the solution of the problem that has been so voluminously discussed lie in this excellent example set us by the younger cricketing community of Australia ?" The Bulls Coursing Club are lucky to-iay with respect to t lie weather. With, moderate luck the eleven courses on the card should be run off before-, night. Should any be left to run to-morrow, it will clash with the first meeting of the Rangitikei hounds which takes place on Mr Dick's farm. Another best on record in billiards has been accomplished by Peall, who beat the best time for a 1,000 up by some six minutes. Cook's time was the previous best. London telegrams state that Lord Harris' motion ro throwing instead of bowling has been carried by the Marylebone Club and therefore becomes law to cricketers. This is the outcome of the good example Australian bowlers hare set some of the Old Country professionals. Thoroughbred stock are going down very low. otherwise Mr M. H. Smith must bate received a nasty jar over the autumn meeting in Christchurch. Since then Kingask has been sold at auction for 80 guineas, and several two and threeyear old colts ani fillies, the property of that gentleman, have been actually thrown away, one of them realising only seven guinea*.