Sporting Sprints.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 83, 11 October 1912, Page 6

Sporting Sprints.

Barry and Durnan will row for the sculling championship ol tho world on October U.

The Timaru lo Christchnreh cycling ! road raco attracted a field of 101 riders and tho winner turned up in .1. Sutherland lOp.iwa). with 3omin. start. 11. (4

Conk (Marshland.-). ."Ifimin.. was sc<nnil. and .). h'. Prehhle fChrislehnrehl. •Illiniii., Iliinl. Fastest time ivai rogisiororl liy H. C,, Henderson i Wanuanui*). 7niin. start., who got over the journoy in ohr. L'Otnin. .'Usee, thus establishing a now record for the race.

j Providing sufli'-ient iiidueoiiieiit s : [forthcoming, a professional sculling: (handicap, confined to New Zealand soil- i 'lers, will he licid on tho Wanganni.i ! river during Christmas week, with a : view lo unearthing a likely man mi; 1 bring ihe World's <-])ampionshi]> Hark to | : the Dominion. i

The derisions in the Australasian i amateur boxing championships in Syd- \ Hoy seem fo have heen nn\-tliincc hut 'satisfactory. Tiie manager of the ; Queensland team declared that, in hi". | opinion, some men who really won did i not .met the decisions, lie took strong to the management appointi nig professionals ns officials at ama- : tour tournaments. Mr. W. 0. Atack, ; manager of the New Zealand team, hi I the main supported those opinions. It j tlit* championships had been fought in i New Zealand three-quarters of the boxiers would havo b0..->n disqualified. Hits \in the break-away were foul. The win- ', nors of tho finals were:—Bantamiweight. McMillan (Tasmania): feather- | weight, Copcwell (N.S. Wales) ; lighti weight, Graham (Victoria'! ; welterj weight, Shaw (N.S. Wales); middlo*■Aveight. Kanf i Virtoria); hoavy- | weight, Coghill (N.S. Wales). Neither | Queensland nor New South Wales scored a win.

J A London woman doctor declares that women are stronger than men, and 'that men "must be on the look out" |if they are to hold their own, in the i face of woman's advance. "AVhen one icoisiders the amount of clothing a woimaii wears and compares it with that lof a man." she says, "it is impossible | not to conclude, that she is the stronger of the two. We find th. sportswoman I playing tennis, golf, hockey, and even j cricket without putting her corsets j aside. What sportsman could play any of those games with anything on hut light flannels?" j She corrected the. hoy. "You should I not say golf. There is no sound of '1' in it." "Isn't there:"' You ought to hear some of them." * \ * * j Mr. Willard Stuart, manager for ! Grover Hayes, an American lightI weight boxer who has recently hit Syd- | ney, denies that Jack Johnson . has gone back to the extent that the mal.iority of the American critics have led j everybody to believe since the ohamipion's fight with Jim Fhnn. Just boI fore sailing for Australia, Mr. Stuart j saw a good deal of Johnson, and his apI pea ranee convinced him that the colored | man could not have been making the j pace worth talking of. He. appeared to |be in perfect health, and as sprightly as 'ever, and Mr. Stuart was satisfied that ihe is not in any danger of being bcatien for some time to come. Hayes's maniiiger also ridicules t-lie suggestion that Johnson wa.s so badly hurt in his fight .with Jim Jeffries that he became practically a nervous wreck. « « - THE AEROPLANE. 0, the fierce purr of it. Clang of it, whirr of it! 0, the brave might of it. Fight of it, flight of it! 0. the swift curve, of it, Swoop.of. it, swerve of it! 0, tho proud speed of it, 0, the vast greed of it, Gripping the air! Nay, but the soul of it, i Keeping control of it! ! Nay. but the soul of it, i Ren ting as part of it, Ready to dare! ' Hazardous breath in it, Danger and death in it. Nay. but the skill of it, Courace and will of if, That is the thrill of it, That is the wonder that flutters ip iihore!—Bona Id Campbell MaoFic. ■ " * Horse racing is on the wane in the ! United States, according to Mr. IT. Z. -De Armnn, a noted American racing ■mini, who passed through' Auckland recently. "There is not enough clean j sport in it for a man who loves horses." | lie said to a newspaper representative. IHe was going to visit the big race meetj nigs in Australasia, and if they came 'up to his expectations, he intended to I bring bis entire stud to one of the cities laud race tbe horses in Australasia. • » * Tv a review in tbe "Daily Times" of the Otago representative Rugby team's northern tour. "Full Pack" said that Wellington showed the best football seen on the tour, and struck him as bei ing the best team in New Zealand at the present time. Taking a line through the Otago match, t'he standard of play is higher in Wellington than elsewhere. Wellington forwards are good without being superlative, while, their backs are in a class by themselves. E. Roberts is a. splendid half-back, and Ramsden and MoKemie are the best working pair of five-eighths "Full Back" saw during the season. Ho was particularly impressed with Ramsden.