SPORTING.

Southland Times, Issue 18819, 12 May 1920, Page 3

SPORTING.

NOTES BY SIR MODRED,

The South Canterbury Jockey Club’s Autumn meeting, which opens at Timaru to-day.will prove of unusual interest to local sportsmen, owing to the number of South-land-owned horses engaged, there being southern representatives in seven out of the eight events on the card. In a field of thirteen for the Timaru Cup seven of the entrants are trained in Southland.

The list of winning owners in connection with the Forbury Park Trotting Club s Winter meeting last week is headed by Miss N. Gunn, of Christchurch, with £llOO to her credit. The Southlandcrs concerned are !is follows:—,1. Dynes, £175; Mrs J. Timpany, £155 ; G. Gorton, £l-15; 1\ . IX Cowrie, £100; J. M. Peart, £55; Cross Bros., £25; W. J. Churstain, £25.

The Hawke's Bay trainer, L. Wilson, is on his way to Riccarton for the C.J.C. Royal meeting in charge of Hetauu and the hurdler Kohu.

The coming two-year-old half-sister to Silver Link, the Martian youngster purchased in January last at the sale of the Waikanao yearling by Mr W. Higgins for 15tH! guineas, has been registered as the joint property of Messrs T. M. Mills, I. W. Mant-on. W. Higgins and 11. Spratt. The last-mentioned is the owner of Inah and other horses.

It is pleasing to learn from Wellington Dominion that amongst the North Isl.uid horses booked for the Dunedin Jockey Club's Winter meeting are Coalition, Mannish, and Seadown, from J. W. Lowe's Trent ham stable. It is stated that severed other horses from the northern bide of Cook Strait will also journey oil to Wingatui after the Royal gathering at Riccarton, a fact which will not help for Uie success of the Wanganui J.C.’s Winter ii.\t-ure on May 20 and 22.

It was practically decided by Mr T. 11. Lowry to mate both Desert Gold and her dam Aurarins with the imported horse Buckwheat, at present located in New South Wales, but, owing to a misunderstanding, the services of that horse were not booked. It has now been settled that Desert Gold will have Finland as her first consort, while the prob.ibiiities are that Aurarins will bo sent, to Victoria on a visit to All Black, the sire of Desert Gold, in which case Mr Lowry will also send the imported mare Symbolism across the Tasman Sea to bo mated with Comedy King.

Silent King. 3 young horse who showed promise during lii? early career in Invercargill prior To Mr Stone disposing of him to .Mr Kain, ran well at the Ashburum County J.C. fixture last week and attracted the attention of the critics. The brother to Silent Way has been given time to mature, and, from all accounts, this policy has nroved a very ’.vise one.

Commenting on Silver Peak's running; in the Wakanui Handicap at Ashburton cm Friday hist "Argus’’ in Christchurch Star says of the Invercargill mare: —"Silver Peak, coining from well back, put in a fine run in the straight and just failed to get up. She did not get much assistance from her riiier. who rode a feeble finish. The Southland maro should race better at some of the other meetings on the southern circuit.”

The writer quoted in the foregoing paragraph has something interesting to say of the running of three Invercargill-trained horses in the Autumn Handicap, on tire second day at Ashburton:—Klcus, benefited by his gallon on the previous day, and with a better horseman in the saddle, ran a solid race, and he can be marked off for an early win.—Almoner s performance was very patchy. He was well pbeed at the end of ■k furlong, but co-iiU. n>.n head his position (found irie turn. Li the straight, however, he came on again ur. ; piinisiiimens, and just faded to re cn r.teus. The Ponifonn Sa-iiling is on r;,» improve.—Burrangong >v,vs ncglec cc . r*. the machine and he was ic'.'cc ■ i ti. , nice, the only one he beat t.-cing ;.. v-’ r.r. RICCARTON TRAINING NOTES. BIL\CKEX FIELD GALLOPS SATISFACTORILY. (Special to the Times). CTIRISTCnLTRCH, May 11. At Eiecartou this morning Sunart and Onslaught entered a mile in 1 min. 45 3 sth s-vr, the first half being run in 52 sues and the seeond in 5o 3-srh secs, with Sun art in fr-l tit ah the v.'aV. Adopted broke away from the mile post a coupie of lengths in advance of Karo, who moved up when half the journey had t; on covered, finishing an easy winner in 1 min. 45 4-sth secs. Aniythas. with the assistance of Mustarri J'-it ever the last, five, ran six furlongs in 1 min. Pi 2-.sth secs, but hud not much in reserve. Kilru-'h end I'rnckenfietd covered a mi!" end a quarter in 2 min. 13 3-sth secs, Kil-ru-h hi’diiiug his companion at tlie end. but ir was a goo,'! gallop for Brackenfield. whe was currying a lot of weight, .Nightr-iidtr ami Checkmate ran six furlongs iu 1 min. IS I-sf.h secs; Man; Anthony covering tiie .Mini' ground from a stand in 1 min. 22 4-s’h secs. THE JOCKEYS' DISPUTE. SUPPORT FOR SUSPENDED lIORSEMEN. (Per United Press Association.) AUGKL.-VND, May 11. A meeting of trades unions and other Labour organisations apiminted a committee to ch-cide iipm a iii'.r.inniJ campnign for the reirista:eim-nr of the three jockeys suspended by da- Auckhm.l District Committee as the outcome of the Avondale trouble. Cl HI ISTCi 1 URCII, May 11. The executive of the New Zealand Related Printing Trades' Association considered the jockeys' complaints and passed the following resolution:— "This executive, ro-pre.-vnrat.ive of over 1000 printers, desires to e.xpref., its sincere sympathy with the members of the N.Z. Jockeys’ Association in their tight for better conditions of employment. It deplores the delay which occurred in bringing th<- parties to the dispute together which has been caused by the refusal of the employers ro negotiate with the representatives of the New Zealand Jockeys' A.-svviarion. The executive respectfully request.- the Minister of Labour to use his best endeavours to compel owners to meet the representatives of the jockeys at the earliest possible moment, and is further of the opinion that the conditions of the employment, of jockeys require imjnediatc improvement.”

RACECOURSES TO BE DECLARED BRACK. AUCKLAND, May 11. At a nifering i>f a committee representing the various labour unions this morning the following resolutions were curried with reference to the recent jockeys strike and subsequent disqualifications: —(I) That all racecourses in the North Island under tha jurisdiction of the New Zealand Racing Conference he declared black from May -2, 192o; 12) that till racehorses, racing maten if. :md means of transjiort to and from racecourses are hereby declared black in the North island and between the North am: South Islands; (3) that all trades unionist* be notified of the foregoing resolutions and be c.-ked to loyally and honourably give effect to them, and further i“ give financial support towards the expanse of the campaign. SUGGESTED TROUBLE AT ROYAL MEETING. CIIRIPTCIIURGH, May 11. A public meeting of members of labour .nions, convened by the Canterbury Trades and Labour Council is to be held in Christchurch on Friday night to consider the northern jockeys' dispute and it is sugges-

ted in certain quarters that unles-s an early conference of the Jockeys’ Association and the employers is arranged there may possibly be trouble at the Royal race meeting at Riccarton on Saturday. FOOTBALL. GOOD GAMES TO-DAY. The second matches of the Galbraith Shield competition will be played on Rugby Park this afternoon, when Star meet Athletic and Waikiwi meet Invercargill. With the first games of the season over, the teams have shaken down, and players are more conversant with their positions and should produce much more attractive games than last Wednesday. The Park is in exceilem. order, with a fast dry surface, and everything points to a good exhibition of the game under the best conditions.

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 11. At a meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Football Association challenges for the Brown Shield for the 1920 season were received frbm Auckland, Canterbury', and Poverty Bay, and it was decided to play the challenges in this order. It was decided to ask the New Zealand Referees’ Association to submit names from which appointments to the matches are to be made, such referees to be a-s far ns possible chosen from the Associations which arc not competing in the match. In view of the unsatisfactory delay occurring iu connection with the accounts of the Brown Shield matches during past seasons, it was decided to revert to the old practice of appointing a representative to cheek ihe same. The Otago Football Association was granted permission to change its colours from the present black and white to Cambridge blue jerseys and white knickers. Correspondence which had passed with the New South Wales Football Association regarding the proposed tour of a New South Wales team in New Zealand was read. The matter was referred to the annual meeting, Mid meanwhile the secretary was directed to obtain an estimate of the cost of the proposed tour. Regarding the possible visit of an English team, the chairman pointed out that it was evident that the Football Association was not in a position to help with the financing of a tour, so that the whole cost must be lx>rne by the Australian and New Zealand Associations, who must further be in a position to make the most complete arrangements for such a visit. The Football Association had now deferred further consideration of the tour until the South African tour had been disposed of, so that it would be probably 1922 before the team might be ready to visit New Zealand. HOCKEY FIXTURES. High School A v. Collegiate B, Queen’s Park N '. 1. (Allege v. Union, Queen’s Park No. 2. Underwood v. High School B, Doou street. Win ton v. Collegiate A, Winton. PIGEON FLYING. LAST WEEK’S WAIKOUAITI RACES. The Invercargill Homing Society flew their Waikouniti races on Wednesday and Saturday of last week. On each occasion the birds were liberated by Mr Camie, the atationmaster, in his usual satisfactory manner. Wednesday was not a good day for the racers, heavy showers being met with, the result being that the journey occupied 4 hours 13 mins, over an airline of 120 miles. However, it proved one of the closest contests the club has flown this season, only 161 secs, separating the first four competitors. The Saturday event also furnished an interesting race, the fliers losing no time in getting home, as the weather was favourable for a quick passage. Mr J. Knucky won with a newly imported English strain, his representative leading in by 44 minutes, followed closely by the entries of Messrs Cox Bros, and L. McKenzie respectively. The journey was covered in 2 hours 44 minutes, which ranks us a good performance under the climatic conditions prevailing. Results: — —Waikouaiti No. 1. — R. B. Nicholson’s Mascot. 4 hours 13 mins 1 A. F. Clark’s First Shot, 4 hours, 13 mins. 10 sees - D. G. Strang’s Chance, 4 hours 13 mins. 15 secs 3 In order: Cox Bros., Purdue, Knucky and Hartigan. —Waikouaiti No. 2. J. Knucky’s Royal Star, 2 hours 44 mins 1 Cox Bros’ Red Leaf, 2 hours 4S mins. 30 secs • 2 L. McKenzie’s First View, 2 hours 50 mins 3 In order: Hartigan, Nicholson, Strang, McFarlane, Purdue, Brandford and Clark. Be emphatic. Insist on genuine “NAZOL.” Nothing like it for preventing or relieving coughs and colds. No cold is Nazol-proof. 60 doses 1/6. — (Advt.)