SPORTING

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 22, 5 August 1884, Page 2

SPORTING

NcftfU tit "J'HOCYOH." Exchange, a w«?H Viuomn performer ovur the " former «t»<;k«" on this coast, ha* Iwri tnkoji ty Auckland, where, if well plum], ho ftdoulr] more Hi an pay hi* Oak account, Jio having a good turn of foot, bcdi<l«K being a clever fencer. Patriarch is, an 1 supposed, still amongst the linns; and likely long to continue no, as be is in splendid condition to commence a season, - according to " Flaneur." Hippodami* has been sold to,a nprJßern sportsman for 160 soys., a price which ought to leave a good margin for profit, if she never races again, for, suitably mated, the daughter of Hippocampus, should throw something above the 7 average, as she herself was, had she notion ran to a standstill before she was four years old. Early Bird, the Wellington stable. chase winner, has gone to Christchurch to Drepare for the spring campaign there. Fairly hnn iicapped, he should pay his way, as down sooth as well as in this island they are lamentably short of reallj good cross-country horses. . r ..-r:'i I Parnell, I learn, has been re-sold to a Manawatu sportsman, who intends racing ; him probably on the East Coast. : '^ The two dogs that divided the late New Zealand' Waterloo Cup must have been a well matched pair, as it was not until two undecided courses for thY final had heen run that their owners agreed to diride-the stakes. ' '' >' Bed-of-Stone, the last -Cup winner, was put out in the first round of the Cup by Richmond 11, but ran vpr for the I Waterloo Purse. j Donald Dinnie recently defeated Thomas, the Victorian, in a wrestling match, and is now engaged in trying to defeat bis creditors. His "company" are suing for their salaries. . .-: .g> Signor Leonate has been /performing an unprecedented feat upon a ,bicjele, u &fe rides a spider machine, 40in wheel and 15intiail wheel, np and downHtJpiral 250 feet upon a track 12 inches wide, the grade being 10 in 26. and the height 60 feet. He uses no safeguards in the «hape of railings or ropes, and dismounts and remounts his bicycle on a flat piece of board at the top, which is onljr the length of the machine, so that he haVto mount for his descent at a stand still, a feat which most wheelists would consider impossible on the ground. A deviation of three inches on either side would mean certain death. Tho feaVKaV never $een accomplished by anyone else, and only attempted in public once by a Boston man, who succeeded in getting' part-of the way up and breaking his neck. George, the English champion amateur pedestrian, intends, it is said, giving up the business after the present year, but during it will endeavor to beat as many more records as he can. His present " bests on record" are. from two miles to ten miles, every quarter from two-anda-quarter miles being done in ; one match, which makes his performances all the more astonishing. Australian Cricketers averages.-i-Xfter the match against the ' Gentlemen, Scott was top in the batting averager ot the Australians, with 33*1 for 11 innings ; Midwinter, 23 ; Bannerman.22; B£|Ponnell 21-9; Blackham, 199; Murdoch, 143; Giffen, 14; Spofforth 11*4; iP*lper' 10-5; Bonnor, 94; Boye, 52; Cooper, Alexander, 5. Spofforth led the bowler* with an average of 11-13 1 Palmer, 46*17; Boyle,' 168; Giffen, 1912. Up to this time Midwiuter had only secure^ one> wicket for 62 runs, and Scott ene.fej|3B runs. . ... '