Sporting Sprints.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 17, 30 June 1911, Page 6

Sporting Sprints.

Messrs N. G. and G. L. Stead intend sending a strong team to Sydney in the spring. The stock of Carbine (has won about £154 500 in Europe and Australasia. In Australia, New Zealand and India the descendants of his son Wallace have won over £110,000. The representative Rugby P Wellington versus Marlborough,though resulting in a win for the former by 21 to 17, again served to show the strength of Marlborough forwards. They simply smothered their opponents in the second spell. O'Brien at full back is unequalled in New Zealand, yet he never gets a chance in a Dominion teamAccording to "The Australasian," Malster heads the list of winning sires for the first nine months of the current racing season. He had 54 wins out of T25 races. Wallace is second, and Grafton third. The M.CC. defeated an Indian team by an innings and 168 runs. Considerable discussion is taking plaoe in England as to the next cricket team to visit Australia. P. * • Warner, Jessop, J- R- Mason, and

F. S. Jackson are all looked upon as certainties. Jack Lester, the American "white hope," intends to remain in Australia to again try conclusions with Lang"l'm going to sit here hard till I get him," he said. "I'm sure I can lick him, and when I get him I'll do *t m inside Jten rounds. That last fight wasn't satisfactory, and I'm just hungry to show you Australians that I'm a better man than your champion." An exchange sums up "white hope" Carl Morris thuswise: Carl Morris. — Idol of Sapulpa, Okla. Six feet 4in. in height, weight 3401b., 26 years old. Has had six fights, four of them with Oklahoma trial horses, one with Marvin Plart. Won each fight with knock-

out. Announces that he is not yet ready for Johnson, wishing to gain more experience before regaining the title for the white race. Very hopeful. Still another "world's championship" engagement. This time ie is the shearers. Livingstone «and Zimmerle (Australians)' intend competing for the title at an early date. The much talked of Johnson-Lang-ford disturbance will be finally settled on Labor Day at Bladensburg, Maryland, U.S. It will be a bout of 15 rounds. Geo. Clifford has entered an unknown Somersault 'for this year's New Zealand Cup. Somersault is by SoultSprite. He's regarded by some as a very likely animal.

Boxing promotor Tex Richards, of San Francisco, has offered a purse of £10,000 for Jack Johnson to fight any two men in the world on the same afternoon, with a spell of fifteen minutes between each contest. George Gray, the young Australian billiardist, is admittedly the world's champion to-day, with young Australian Lindrum as second best. New Zealand's football team in Sydney has not started too well. Our Australian cousins are beginning to show us points at a game we thought we knew. Bill Squires is still of the opinion that he will again locate that lost punch. He has undertaken a jui-jitsu contest with Professor Stevenson, an exponent of that art. When he has finished with the Professor 'it is report-

Ed that he will meet Lang for the fourth time, possibly in Brisbane. Tho finding of tho Racing Commission has given universal satisfaction judging from the utterances of prominent men in the racing world. The mammoth score of 103 points to nil was piled up by St. Stanilaus College against Perthville in a Rugby game at Bathurst on the King's Birthday. William Brake, Denniston, West Coast, writes this paper that he is prepared to meet the Wellington athlete, Edgar Lanauze. Tho conditions arc that ho be allowed £25 for training expenses, etc. There is another West Coaster, who is equally desirous of tryung conclusions with Lanauze.