SPORTING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1244, 11 January 1883, Page 2

SPORTING.

Mr. Montague Smith has added to his racing stock, and telegraphed to Mr. A. Pritchard last evening, to keep for him eight loose boxes for thoroughbreds, to arrive to-morrow. Having entered into the racing line, Mr. Smith is determined to have good blood, and so has secured some of the best procurable. As he is a thorough sportsman, and loves sport for sport alone, we hope some of his new purchases will be successful in the contests they will be engaged in. (I’ER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION). Oamarn Jocitoy Club Meeting. OAM ARC, This day. The following weights for the events at the Autumn Meeting of the above Jockey Club have been declared i —

“Atlas," in the “World," thus makes mention of the pet jockey of the day Everybody is happy to know that “ Fred ’’ Archer is completely above the world, and has, from his own investments, <>:• rather which Lord Falmouth has counselled him to make, an independent income which would enable him to retire to-morrow, and live handsomely ever after. The famous jockey’s marriage with pretty Miss Nellie Dawson is tojtake place about Christmas. The new house for the happy couple is nearly finished. It is beyond “ the Duchess’s ’’ on the same side of the road as Hammond's, and is of red brick with stone dressing, a handsome dwelling, with conservatory, kitchen garden, hothouses, walls for fruit, shrubbery, lawn and stables, all complete, even to the mastiff. There is, however. a skeleton in the closet, or rather thcie will be ; for there is now fitting up a perfect Turkish bath for Archer to reduce himself to as nearly a perfect skeleton as may be. Says a London paper While W. G. George is on his way to America, his prospective opponent, L. E. Myers, is doing his best to establish a moral scare. He has just run a half-mile in the extraordinary time of I minute 55 3-sths seconds, beating on the way the old records at 700 and 800 yards. Myers has once before made this magnificent time, so we must take it to be his utmost limit. It is far too good for George ; but we should much like to see the Oxonian, T. E. Wells—in my opinion the best half-miler England has yet produced—matched with the Yankee. Wells is only two-and- twenty, and intends training hard this year, we understand ; so anything over 1-5 G will dissatisfy his friends.

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