Sporting Sprints.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 13, 2 June 1911, Page 10

Sporting Sprints.

Culpril. who has headed the lift t> f winning two-year-olds for the season won .-L'2685 in stakes and ju>t fa i l<? d by .£9<> to equal Mult ifonn's record. No two-year-old filly has ever won so much money before. AVhite Cockade has bfcu fencing in his best forjn at Tf iccarton. β-lunvmg plenty of pace and clearing- the obstacles very cleanly. ,T. Hegaiiy. who piloted Corona in hks engagements at Wanyanui. is the wellkiiow.L champion amateur i:gi3twc-ig , lit boxer. l'eirene was second on the list cf winning two-year-olds for the .season with .£1570 to her credit. She is a fine advertisement for her sire, Acliilies, and the Wa.ikan.ae stud.

I\tr S. H. Collan won (lie Apprentices' Kandicai> Tiate at NewmarKet (Eng.) on April 4th with Bessie Burke, a daughter of the Sydney-bred Australian Stax.

Ma.lt Kiny." the itiile champion of Australia, cost. 310gs as a yearling. He has won some .t.WIK) in stakes. At the same .-ale of yearlings Calverite realised 2100gs and failed to win. bucli is the luck of the game. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Tracing Conference will be held in the Town Hall, Wellington. o;i Tuesday, July 18th, at 10.80 a.in., not on .Tune 24th and 26th, as previously anlioimcwl. The time for receiving notices of motion has been extended to Saturday, June 10th. The C.J.C. (intiid National meeting wiil take nlaee on Augu-st <Sth. Htth a.i.-tl 12th. Entries for the big events cioi~e on J une 2isrd.

The St. Ambrose —Flame filly Mumura paid the largest dividend on tlie opening day of the 'iNorth Otago Jockey dub's meeting-. Followers of JJ. Kubei-ts' stable are reported to have thrown in, for a EC cod "win. Stayboy re-turned his supporters a very acceptable dividend -when he won the Km pi re Hurdles at Oamaru. The geldi.ig was turned out in capital condition )?y* 3. McCoLube. The Conqueror mare Enuua continues to get through some satisfactory work at. the Lower' Hutt. She will l>e a, competitor on the second day of the Otaki meeting. The Levin trainer Fred C-armont s team for the Utaki meeting will consist of Teotane. Thetis, Sir Frisco, Parewamii, St. Bees, Aurora. I?apids, Ihireka, Brown. Trout and Boyne Water. With such a team .surely striae of the stake money will be secured by the. Levin stable.

There is such' a thing as individuality in golf, and. 'contrary to general belief, hard and fast lailes cannot be laid down as to swinging. A new player adopting what is called the correct style has much more chance of success than the man using a style of his own. A rigid adherence to conventional precepts is likely to be of very little service (says the ''Field""). One notices that very few of the best-known players of the -day are. very strict in observance of them. Mr John Ball, for instance, holds hi* right palm round and under the shaft; as does Mr N. F. Hunter. Vardon swings his body perceptibly back from the ball; Mr Maxwell make's a most pronounced and unorthodox use of the right shoulder; Mr Horace Hutch ins on bends his right knee to an extent highly unconventional. Very few leading professionals have the "'follow through/ beloved of novices, or seem to think a dogmatic .adherence to the "slow back" theory an article of faith-