Palmerston Sports

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 77, 3 January 1889, Page 3

Palmerston Sports

•■" • ■ The Palmerston Caledonian Society's Sports were held on the Show Ground on New Year's Bay. There was a very large attendance, both of townsfolk and visitors, the latter including a good sprinkling from Feilding. • The really delightful weather, -:. and "the popularity of these sports, were ■ : doubtless the*principal factors in bringing soj many .holiday" seekers together to spend •' — what every one must have done — a thoroughly .enjoyable day. The Feilding :. Bnass Band, whose playing was- generally _ onrnired, contributed no small share in ►.. -the pleasurableness of the day's proceed:ings. Mr F. Piranu, the energetic secre- - : tary, had. a task which was at tipaes not altogether enviable, but he got through it well, and- showed great coilrtesy to the •competitors, the press, and all concerned. The events, were for the most part purely ...Caledonian hi character, and well con- •-. '.'tested. 'One Uttle fellow, who told us his age was eleven, was loudly applauded for „ tlie style in which he jrent; through a A Highland fling in costume. There was "" one casualty, a rider in the hunters com- . petition, being thro\yji -and' his head .' -wounded by his horse's hoot, though not ':. seriously* A novelty in the shape of a ..menagerie race, and in. jwhich. jet-horse, a rooster, and a rat started; caused considerable 'ainusement, the rodent being the first at .the.tape and the ' bird second. Follow- . .ing are ithe various events : — Boys^Race, 100 yds, xmder 12.— Weight, .1; McDowell,-. ;_;.• Ten started. . GißW''RA^/rlooyds, under 12.--Eva ; Bougie,. l; Annie Bowie, 2. Three started. Caledonian Handicap, 100 yds. — This wasirun in heats, with results as follows: — First. heat — Shultze, 1* Newth, 2; • Bickard, 3. Second heat — Rush, "^i';" Clark, 2 ; . 3. -'' V YFiii_l heat— Rush, 1 ; Thomas, .s ; xfichultze, 3." A. F. Brown, Oliphaut, Lough, Champiom, Coy, Keegan, Bennett, and Hasing aho jtariEji^.'- iThe finish iw^s a very phicky one, the riweh'-comhig in well' together. W_ES#Lh&' (Cumberland), under list. — A. Baynei'-i'; K- Bayne, 2Y G. Moyes, T. Becker, and H. Murray also competed. There was some very good wrestling,' and there was a" grand tussle forthe final victory. ... --.- : ' . HuabiiEs, 220yds.— Udy, 1- Cameron, =2 ; ■: Clarke '3. Bush, H. Bennett* and also started.; ■'-*" ■' ... -Highland Fling.—- Thomas C is iolni, •1 ; Alfred';! Moon (a little boy), 'Sl f here were only- two entries. •.'■•' .'. - Theow^ng- leib Hammer (Handicap) . — P. -'-.Bress-uhjiu, 1 (93' feet -1 iin-lrt ; G. 2;-" (87 feet)., 1 Twohey, O ShitnWrien, and -2acHaria.il also coin,p£ted. . •':••; Bagpipe Musi&— A. Chisholm, 1 ; J. Hasting*,:^.- ■ ■'•'''"•' •Calepqnjan Handicap. — Kelly, 1; H. Johnston, 2 : O'Shannassey, 3. K. Bayne, TJdy, Peck, Rush, Moffatt, Thomas, and Judd also started. This was a really well contested match, Johnston ran well, and might have taken first- place but for''delaying the spurt a little too long. ' • , Hunters* Competition. — Mangama-: kau, 1; Neck-or-Nothingi 2. Saffron, Surplice, Mistake, Stockman, Ned Kelly, Jack, and Maori, also entered. Mistake, Ned Kelly, and Maori were, scratched. There was some dissatisfaction expressed owing to tlie alleged fact that the horse declared the winner baulked at the first fence, which the judges said they did not observe and their decision was therefore allowed to stand. Boys' Race, 100 yds, under 15.— J. Mowlem, 1 ; E. Manning, 2. Some 9or 10 started. Walking Handicap, 1 mile.-— Rush, 1 ; Cavanagh, 2 ; Braggins, 3. TJdy, Marsh, and Mikkelson also started. - Udy had scarcely gone three laps before being disqualified, two or three others ultimately succumbed to the pace and distance, leaving the-: rest to do a good finish. _ MenAgeeie Race (dogs excluded). — Rat, 1 ; Rooster, 2. The horse Saffron also .started. ":. President 's Handicap. — Oliphant, 1 ; Rikard, 2 ; Sehultze, 3, Bennett, Newth, Stephenson, J. Gardiner, -Gliampion, and Lough also started. '.-'■■ Caledonian Handicap, 440 yds. — Ay Champion, 1; G. C. Cameron, 2; Oliphant, .3. The pacewasa very warm one but Champion won comparatively easily. Running Long Jump. — N. Thomas, 1 ; S. Clark, 2. D. Sanson also competed. Wrestling (Cumberland) heavy weight. D, Twohey, 1 ; H. Phillips, 2 ; Brosna- ' han, 3. A. Bayne, G. Moyes, and R. . Orbell also competed. Putting the Stone. — Twohey (31 feet -Sin), 1 ; Galvin (29 feet Bin), 2. Brosna- : han, Mahdney, and Cameron also completed. -