TRICKETT AND SADLER'S RACE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 87, 1 August 1876, Page 2

TRICKETT AND SADLER'S RACE.

A sporting contributor to the " Australasian" writes as follows

" The great sensation at the sporting rendezvous this week has been the result of the match between Trickett antl Sadler for the championship of the world. At Goyder's, on Tuesday a report was circulated in the morning that Sadler had won easily, and those clever people who Lad prophesied Triclcett's defeat were very profuse in their congratulations, taking credit to themselves for their perspicacity. " Didn't I tell you so," and "I knew he wasn't a sculler," were then prevalent expressions. But a change came o'er the scene when the "Argus" issued a small slip announcing that the Australian had won by four lengths. Those faces who had been more than usually broad a few minutes previously lengthened in a most extraordinary manner. Although passionately fond of rowing, and once a prizetaker (a very small one) in an amateur contest, it is not in my way just now ; yet I cannot help diverging from my turfy track to express my sincere gratification at the success of the Australian. I admire pluck in any man, and when I see one, without any flourish of trumpets, quietly travel 16,000 miles to meet the best man in the northern hemisphere, I feel satisfied that he must be possessed of more than an ordinary share of that necessary ingredient. Trickett's victory will do more to make Australia and Australians known and respected than all the political conventions that Sir James M'Culloch Mr. Robertson could think of, and fc> T this reason, as well as a patriotic feeling of pride at the success of the young Australian, I'm delighted that the race has resulted favourably to Trickett. I had almost forgotten to mention that the report of Sadler's success was so implicitly believed in that an hour before the correct intelligence was received a leading bookmaker laid £IOO to £1 on the Englishman."