SPORTING ITEMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2115, 9 June 1883, Page 2

SPORTING ITEMS.

The rowing match between Edward Hanlan and J. Kennedy took place at the Point of Pines, near Boston. Hanlon won by 15 lengths. Wallace Ross has issued a challenge to Hanlan offering to row the Canadian a four or five mile race for a stake of 1000 dollars. In future the first horse in the Y.R.C. Champion Stakes will receive £IOOO, the second £SOO, and the third £IOO. The Australian Jockey Club have determined to raise the amount of the stakes at their next Autumn Meeting to £4500. The-well known New Zealand crosscountry rider, Roddy M'lvor, rode the winner All Serene in the Warrnambool Steeplechase. The' punishment meted out by the Dunstan and Dunedin Jockey Clubs to Daniel Mullins, the owner of Pathfinder (late The Joker) should be a warning to all those who are inclined to scheming by means of alterating a horse's name. Both Mullins and the horse were disqualified for life. Probably in the meantime the bold Daniel will find a straight path wherein to tread. The hand-ball match played between M'Auliffe, of Tiraaru, and ‘ Hogan, of Auckland, took place on Wednesday, the 30th ult., and resulted in favour of M‘Auliffe; £25 a-side. This is the second match M'Auliffe has won during the week, the other taking place on Saturday • £4O a-side. Mr M'Auliffe is considered to be the best all-round athlete in New Zealand. The amount of money proposed to be given away in stakes by the Y.R.G. during the ensuing season is £14,125,

as against <£12,000 last year. The sum devoted to prizes on Cup day is £5775, and £5350 will be divided amongst the winners over the Autumn Meeting. The South Australian Jockey Club paid away in stakes over their recent meeting the large sum of £3383, Zulu, who caused such a great surprise by winning the Melbourne Cup, and who afterwards showed symptoms of lameness, is again in work, and said to be doing well. Colstoun’s performance in the Goodwood Handicap, run at Adelaide recently, was a most meritorious performance, for with Bst. on the saddle he ran the mile in the splendid time of Imin. 43|secs. Royal Irishman, who was second, was only a neck behind the son of King Cole, while Tyropeaa, who went out first favourite, could only get fourth. J. Williams, who rode Sting in the Adelaide Cup, is the same jockey who won the Adelaide Birthday Cup on Mata a couple of years ago. Mr Yuille, of Melbourne, announces that he intends publishing another volume of the Australian Stud Book. Under the revised programme the winner of the A.J.C. Derby or the V.R.C. Derby will have his weight raised to 7st 51b instead of 6st 121 b, for the Melbourne Cup, in the event of being handicapped below that weight. Mr C. B. Fisher is the new chairman of the Victoria Racing Club. “ Nemo ” says that Lord Burghley was beaten by nearly half a distance in the Dubbo Jockey Club Handicap, so that it may be presumed that we have seen the last of him. It is said that Sir Modred, who, it it will be remembered, Mr Proudfoo t recently took to Sydney, will go into Jimmy Monaghan’s stable to receive bis preparation. Mr Stead, of New Zealand, has won the Payne stakes at Newmarket, Engand. Better for 'New Zealand (says the Sydney Mail) if he had won a prize for a big* turnip in Auckland. pt is said that Edwards, the walkist, who recently defeated O’Leary at Sydney, will shortly issue a challenge to the world for a similar match, the stakes to be from £2OO to £SOO a-side, and will either allow expenses for it to take place in Sydney, or will receive expenses to go to England or America. The English correspondent of the Leader states that the betting on the University boat race this year was heavier than it has ever been before. Such bets as £2OOO to £SOO and £9OO to £3OO on the defeated Cambridge crew clearly prove this. At the Naples races a new feature will be the Derby prize of 12,000 francs for horses of three years old, of every race and origin born in Italy; a prize given for the first time to Italian-born horses. Mr Grau, of Chicago, challenges both Dr. Carver and Captain Bogardus to a rifle match for anything up to £IOOO aside. Fearing that neither of the celebrities will take notice of his “ defiance,” he throws out the gentle hint that they are mere.“ fancy ” shots, and there is no “ bottom ” in them.