Sporting Sprints.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 31, 6 October 1911, Page 14

Sporting Sprints.

Lindrum, the Australian billiardist, has sailed for England to engage in contests there.

T. S. Battersby loAveredthe swimming record for 400 metres to 5.25 4-5. The previous best on the books of tlie Amateur SAvimming Federation Avas 5 mm. 36 4-ssees, by H. Taylor, England.

_ # • • The offer of £500 refuses to • tempt Arast to proceed to London to row Barry. More cash is needed to tempt the champion.

Mr. McDonald, the has been doing things in N.S.W. He crossed the Blue Mountains last week with a passenger.

Tony Ross, the Italian, was awarded a victory on points over Joe Jeannotte in New York recently. The fight Avas a stubborn one, Ross shoAving up well. /

Stating that there are altogether too many "Avhite hopes," Kid McCoy has gone into active training for the purpose'of Aviping several of them off the face of the earth.

Lester-McVea contest should be full of interest. In the event of Lester proving conqueror, he Avill be easily the best "Avhite hope" in sight. From his contest Avith Lang, Lester should keep the nigger with the Scotch moniker on the move.

-Tim Tracy, game lighter that he is, is compelled to admit that youth is

The first man., to accomplish the feat ef swimming the English Channel in 1875. The performance was watched by special reporters, and Avas unquestioned. After several attempts W. T. Burgess last month performed the same feat.

as important almost as skill in the game of biff and bang.

it is reported that W. Young, who has achieved a great deal of success in the saddle iv Ncav Zealand, contemplates retirement from that part of the game,, with a vieAV-of setting up as a trainer.

* * # Uhlan, the American- trotting gelding, 0AA r ned< and driven by Mr. C. K. Billings, New York, trotted .half• a milo at Ncav York (says the"Times/) in 56: , fSecs.

An American motor cyclist named V. E. Davis, has succeeded in riding across the United States from San Francisco to New York—a distance of 3746 miles, in 20 days 9 hours 1 mm., or oA-er 11 days faster than the previous motor cycle record across America. Davis, avlio rode a 75 h.p. Tavi'ii machine, met Avith more than a fair share of Avet weather during the trip,, and one day/ .despite plugging' along through mud and slush : for many hours, only : succeeded iii covering 49 miles. The,longest day's tally wivs 289 mi los. A-remark-able feature of tho ride was that Davis had only one tyre puncture during the ride, Avhich embraces some of the roughest tracks in the United States. The-average daily mileage for the full trip works out at OA'-er 180 remarkable performance considering the nature of the country passed through,. The motorcar record for the same run—only by a route nearly 200 miles shorter —is held by L. 15. Whitman. avlio, in August last year, negotiated the trip in ].p days i 15hrs. 13mins.

It looks, on the face of it, as tho' Aye are in for a lively time, from tho Maoriland bosses at present in Australia, and the Solution—Maniopoto— Noctuform trick is likely to be re-

peated. The Pig Islanders gave us our first dose of medicine on Saturday last, Avhen -Los Angeles, going out at the sAvnet old prico of 12 to 1, beat Malt King, Flavinius, Jacaiwr'r, Prince Foote and the rest of. the guns in the AA'cight-for-age Chelmsford Stakes. The winner is , in the Metropolitan.— "Alert.". ' /

H. Russell's time (27min. 58 2-ssecs.) in the Victeria Motor-cycle Club's last 25 miles road race on the Sydney roads Avas a'world's record. Russell rode a 3J h.p. Triumph.

Writing to South 'Africa",';. a 'wellknown London sCribe says that England is Avaking up tremendously in. the cricket avo rid. The public want to see England obtain the. position on the cricket field that it once upon a time occupied, and the public are talking cricket, not reading cricket, and that means a great deal.

What is claimed to be the largest standard-bred horse in the world is owned by E. J. Barry, Glendive, Mont. (U.S.A.). His name is Bishop Cox. Ihe Bishop stands 17 hands 1_ inches high, and weighs 17201b. He is now seven years old, and for a horse of his size shoAvs quite a lot of speed, having trotted a mile in Bmin. 51secs., Avith a quarter in 38sees. Bishop Cox is standard and registered, and is by Potosi 23,731 (sou of Pistachio, p. 2.21-2, own brother of NutAvood, 2.18J); dam, Peperomia (great brood mars), by Alcantara 2.23 • third dam, Jessie Pepper. Bishop Cox's dam is Vina Wills, by ' W." A. Sauborn 16,654;* grand-dam, Rinda, by Harry Faulkner, 1544. * .'

At a meeting of the Auckland Rugby Union, Mr. G. Dixon, President of the N.Z. Rugby Union, and manager of the famous "All Black" team, referring to the proposal from Wanganui for a radical alteration of the rules, said that to bring in more rules for opening up play Avould tend to make the players lost their individuality.

Mr. J. Musker recently refused an offer of £20,000 for the stallion William Rufus, to go to Buenos Ayres.