SPORTING.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 183, 6 September 1872, Page 6

SPORTING.

; The longest running jump on record is 29ft. 7in., by Howard, of Bradford The Ballarat racing club may well "be proud of the brilliant entries for the three great events of tlieir spring meeting, The Ballarat Cup hasthe splendid entry of ,55 of the best race horses !n Australia, and the Handicap has one entry in excess of the Cup. The' handicap for two and three years old has also fil-ed remarkably well, there being .no less than 37 highly bred youngsters entered for the event.: Witli such a brilliant prospect before it, the club may look forward to the spririg meeting on the Dovvling Forest course being ; by far. the most successful ever held under their auspices. ' ' Btlltaeds.—Ayoungbilliard player, S. W. Stanley, now playing in London, equals, if he do.es riot . exeel; the champion Cook in the performance of .the spot hazard.. In a match which he played, at Smith's rooms, Strand* with F. Bennett, for £SO a-side, Stanley scored in seven breaks no less ihaii 950 points, during which he fcianipulated the spot hazard on 293 occasions, the time occupied in playing the 1000 up being one hour and twenty minutes, the fastest play ever known m a bona, fide match. The balls were set rolling at 8.30, the room being greatly crowded with visitors ; but there was very little speculation on the event;. Stanley was! the £rst to lead off with a break of 37 (10 spots) to which Bennett responded with 36 (4 spots), and their scores stood—Bennett 52,. Stanley 39. Fronr this point the latter took a his nextinstalment being 136 (40spots), arid his subsequent break was 146 (49 spots), bringing his total to 333 against 82. Bennet here got in with all round 27, but the next-time Stanley ran .together 306 (96 spots), some of the hazards being made in a most wonderful manner. = After .this Bennett failed to score .twice, and Stanley in quick succession ran up 30 . (9 spots) arid 219 (97 spots), and his score, was announced amidst deafening applause as 902, Bennett being only, 131.. For a short time there was a lull in the game, but when Stanley's total was 924, : lie landed ..on thespot after scoring; a dozen, and making 22 winning hazards in succession., ran • out an. unfinished break of 76 at ten minutes to ten o'clock, winning the game by 83.6 points. ; . -.