Sports Log

NZ Truth, Issue 1213, 28 February 1929, Page 16

Sports Log

1 I THE Wanganui regatta is to be held A on March 9. The donations to the senior fours will be £20 and £5. An alteration has been made m the course, as the starting-point has been put further up the. river, and the races will finish at Mitchell's wharf, which is situated on the top side of the railwaybridge. It is a splendid stretch of water. ■.■ w * * W7HEN Jim Murphy beat Rus. Cordery w by inches. in. tne Canterbury provincial 100 yards there was that little m it that either man might have won were the race run again the same night. But' Jim made a double-bar-relled victory of it when he increased his winning margin at the Canterbury Club's jubilee meeting. His ability to begin well again gave him the.advantage and though Cordery came over the last flutter like a bolt from the blue, Jim was sailing- along like a cutter before the wind, and scored a briliiant win which leaves no doubt regarding his superiority over the Canterbury furlong flier. * * * FOR an amateur-built craft, the "Murihiku III.," which represented Southland m the Akaroa Harbor events for the Sanders Cup, did not disgrace the maker, Mr. A. J. Ball, of Invercargill. "Murihiku III." glided off the slips m 1927, and m October, 1928, was sold to Gordon Johnston, who sailed her

m the Riverston estuary for some time before entering her at the Bluff Rewhere she finished second. In January she was taken to Stewart Island, and m thirteen trials against "Murihiku I." and "Murihiku II.," won six.