Sporting Sprints.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 70, 12 July 1912, Page 13

Sporting Sprints.

The Sydney Stadium will be reopened on tho night of August 1, and the first fight will bo provided by either Langford and Mc Yea or Langford and Jeanette. It is hoped that the latter battlo will bo staged, but in connection with that everything will depend on Jeanette. That ho will come to Australia is assured, but the date en which he will sail has not been fixed. At the present time an effort is being made to induce him to leave America and reach Sydney in time to train for tho Langford fight. Jeanette is noted as a lotig-distaneo boxer. Once, ir Paris, he knocked Mo.Voa out in the 49th round. He once got a decision over Jack Johnson —on a foul in i he eoeond round. Jeanette has met Langford five times, losing two, drawing two, and "no decision" (six rounds) oneo. He has met McVea four times. winning one, losing one, "no decision" (10 rounds) one, and drawing the last.

Saturday, Juno 20, was the occasion of two big Rugby football matches in Brisbane. The League match between New Zealand and Queensland resulted in a win for the former by 15 point:to 8, but in the Union match between New South Wales and Queensland the Borne side came out on top by 23 to 8. On tho previous Saturday New South Wales also went under to Queens!, nd, losing by lo to 18.

The first aviation contest in Australia, between Hart, an Australian, and Stone, an American, took place from Botany to Parramatta, a distance of 14} miles, on Saturday, June 29, and was won by Hart in 23 minutes 52 seconds, wind and rain compelling him to make a wide circuit. Stone did not finish. He lost his way in a rain cloud and then followed the wrong course.

According to Sydney "Sun," Lick Arnst is undoubtedly the luckiest champion that ever lived, as up te date he has not met one man of the calibre of Beach, Stanbury or Searle, so that his true worth as a speedy sculler and a stayer has not been got out of him. Webb, Whelch, Pcarce and Barry not regarded as in the same class as th« great champions of yore. What Arnst could do if put to the full test in tho shape of speed and endurance. •nd when at the height of his form, i« sis yet unknown.

Tho Misses Cecil and May Leitch, ti 'i of Britain's best known lady golfers, both declare that for girls and women there i£ no recreation like coif. Miss Cecil says that lawn tennis develops ono arm and does nothing for the other, while she thinks the crouching attitude which is necessary in hockey makes that pastime bad for her sex. On the latter point, Miss May Leitch is even more emphatic. Sho is instructress in physical culture at Corran College, Watford, and is a splendid lefthand fast bowler at cricket, a fine rifle shot, and lias distinguished herself at hockey. Sho thinks that cricket, golf, and lacrosse aro tho best games for girls. "Hockey," she says, "is rery bad. Golf is magnificent. It exercises every muscle, and I wish that more girls' colleges would take it up." * " *

The great success of the six days' cycle races in Sydney and Melbourne last season will probably lead to another event of the kind being lield in Sydney next January. Special efforts aro now being made by the promoter f o bring tho forthcoming event and its rich prizes under the notice of the world's crack long-distance riders with a view of. their visiting Sydney for the

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Despite all efforts to smooth over tho trouble between the Victorian League of Wheelmen and the Victorian Interclub Cycling Association, no amicablo

arrangement has been come to. The cycle traders aud thc Intvrclub Assoeiatlott are both willing and anxious that a mad board should be. formed to control road racing in Victoria and the L.V.W. have also signified their intention of favorably considering any recommendation resulting from a confer-on-o lictwcoß representatives of the throe bodies; but in thc meantime the I.CCA. and traders have decided to stand aloof from the League until the pouers and personnel of such a board are announced. This complication is likely to affect the Warrnambool to IM-'lbourno road race, for the Dunlop Co.'s big event is being held under L.V.W. rules. Thc Warrnambool will probably be held on Saturday, September 28- The contest will more than likely finish on one of the splendid private roadway drives leading into the Flemington racecourse, the alteration in -ilie finishing point being necessitated by too much popularity, for thc crowds that have in recent years assembled at i'lie Melbourne Haymarket to witness the finish of this great road event have grown now too big to control. With ty Flemington racecourse as thc finishing point, the crowd can be limited by the issuing of invitation tickets, etc.

•Jim Barry's complaint re poor money for his matches iv Australia, observes a Sydney exchange, contained some inaccuracies and didn't contain some facts. The match for which he says he got only £30 (against Lang) is said by Mr. Hush Mcintosh to have yielded the lo.ser £70. In his last match with Langford in Melbourne, the Mcintosh management waived it? share and allowed Barry to take £200. Barry's trouble was that he was nearly always a losing boxer, and tbo public got tired of seeing him lose. » « • » It needs a cool head for a hot race.

Sam McVea intends to captain the Ethiopian team in the tug-oi-war competitions being organised by Mcintosh and, to get himself fit, is hauling huge beams of timber about the Sydney Stadium. This form of manual labor is not quite so profitable as tho other McVea shines at.

There was a record house at Brisbane to see the long-talked-of. featherweight contest between Joe Russell and Frank Thorn. Tho fight was fought at lightning speed. Thorn led in the earlier rounds, but Russell afterwards scored repeatedly, his left finding the face. Russell fought at his top form, his baulking aud sidestepping surprising even his best supporters, while his hitting was clean and well-timed. Thorn seemed disappointed when Referee Seanlan gave his verdict to Russell, but addressing the .audience, said that Russell was the strongest, and best 9st. boxer in Australia.

Dick Arnst, who is to row Ernest Barry for the championship of the world and £500 a-sido on July 20, is rowing well. His style and paco have convinced the Thames judges that lie is certain to beat Barry.

All tlie world knows the result of the Jack Johnson - Jim Flynn flight for tho world's heavyweight boxing supremacy. The- cable has told us alt about it —how the big negro toyed with his man throughout, bow he shook Flynn up with a rain of rip-roaring rights and lefts, bow ho laughed at the Fireman's futile efforts and dazzled the spectators with his speed, how Flynn was frightfully punished, while the champion wa.s hardly marked, and how, seeing that Flynn had an "earthly," and was trying to lose on a foul by hutting, the police slopped the fight in thc ninth round. Thus were shattered the hopes of another "White Hope."

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