SPORTING NOTES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 65, 6 July 1876, Page 3

SPORTING NOTES.

A Jfurr-and-Sjietl match, for £SO & side took place on March It, at the Qneen's Groumb, Barnsley, between T. Watson, of Castleford. and B. Mewitt, of Garforth; thirty rises each, with ■wood heads and nttrrs. Diids were taid on Watson, who- won by ten wore.

On March 25, a pair-oar race for £IOO took )loca on the Clyde. Neil Collins and John I'ampbell (both Otasgow men) on the: one )art, and Cohmhonn Campbell (of Glasgow) inci Daniel i'nllen (of l>umbarton) on the )th«r. After a capital race, the former won by ;v length and a half. i tfmler the heading '* A Professional in trouble." a Canterbury contemporary has Ite following :— ** Delaney. the pedestrian, as got into disgrace at WaimaUv A match »as made up between him ami a Mr. Mills. 'lnch came off on Saturday week at the imthom township'. -~&e*frag|p '.ygaa^ttttyj* At theru were complaints cnafc-wfr who's fair was a sell. Some of *boß*r wbo'feetted 1 the match declared that the 'tip'fead itm given to them tea, the profeisiocal ouJjd/win, while others deels'-ed that they idbetm Vivafcely m-'orrne<£ his oppon- * was tiVWivn out the best mart, i'hetr. mplaints did noo matter miteh after the [itch had been rim ; they might have known at ther» is a good deal of rsk attached tn> «s« races, tint the most enrions part of u maottcr is that E>eiarey was broaght npat e Police Court that morning changed with saling tL'.i from Kills room in the Royal Dtol. 'Che ww remanded t'dl Wednesy, so that we tb> not yet know the result. irhapo, after alt, it was o.vty one of the adrtising dodges in which profession-'a are s*> Itilo." By the (I 'Waita>-gi Tiibnne"of a tar date t Hud that the change was held not nvon, and Pel.mey was discharged. file Hut-racing season in Krgland c«mmuud with the lancoln meeUivg. on March , 'it. and '£!.. The race wv which there is most speculation was the Lincolnshire iiulk-ap of 1,0(H) sovs,, added to a swtep of sovs each; one mile. Thirty horses iTtml, and die race was won by a rank outin'—Lord Rnsebcy's Controversy. ,"> yrs. i Tib'—who was scarcely mentioned in the icing, being nominally at Xi to- t. The »u was Imin. MAseo. "Brigg i*>y and Vitia, wl»o ran second and th*rd. were backed IS tn I and «."> to t respectively. Contro|.iy was sold as a two-year-otd for Si baa. At Liverpool, the Spring Cnp of Isiivjj, and a sweep u$ 'IS- sovs each, was » by Captain Machett's Lady Patricia, 5 ■ "st 811). At Northampton, the North■rtonsluro Stakes of ,tttf> sovs and a sweep Kit) sovs hy Mr. Forester's Prodigal: and ■ Northamptonshire I'np of ,*M)»>"sovs by ■. Howett's Muuden. 5 years. {tot. Brigg ■'s running in the Lincolnshire Handicap ■ made him Krst favourite for the City and ■hirhnn Handicap, and Ingomar. which won ■ of the rich Spring steeplechases, is at the ■ aftlwlist for the Chester Cup.