SUNDRY SPORTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 45, 17 February 1912, Page 6

SUNDRY SPORTS.

CRICKET MANAGER SELECTED

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. (Received 17, 9.-10 a.m.) Sydney, February 17. Crouch has accepted the Board’s invitation to act as its representative to accompany the crickters to England.

BIG BILLIARDS

London, February 16

Grey'made breaks of 330 (whereof 321 were off the red) and a fine .69 f (690 off the red). Stevenson made breaks of 158, 214, 149, and 185.

THE NEW ZEALAND SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS.

Christchurch, February 16

Two heats in the half-mile amateur swimming championship were swum today, resulting:—Eirst heat: M. E. Champion 1 '(time 12min 22 2-ssoc), R. Healy (Thorndon) 2 .(time 13min 28 2-sscc), F. J. Kernott (Ponsonby) 3 (time 14min 18 3-ssec). The only competitors. Second heat: C. Wilson (Waitemata) 1 .(time 12min 31 l-osoc), F. Seymour (Hawke’s Bay) 2 (time 12min 48 4-ssec), C. H. H. Rich (Opinya) 3 (time 13min 38 l-ssec). E. J. Dawson (Dunedin), and E. J. McQuillan (Waitemata) also competed, hut dropped out in the early .stages of the race. Protests were entered by two swiinmers, who wanted to compete but who alleged that no official announcement was made of the alteration in the time at which the race was to be swum. [There is a likelihood of the race having to he re-swum" 1 .

BILLIARDISTS IN COURT

(Received 17, 8.5 a.m.) London, February 16

Roberts, in evidence, said ,an agreement was arranged whereby the receipts were pooled and divided, Roberts paying the first-class travelling expenses of Gray, senior and junior, which would afterwards lie deducted from, the Grays’ share of receipts. When Gray reached London, however, ho' arranged with Rileys that he was to receive thirty pounds weekly. Rileys’ gross receipts had been £-1655, Gray receiving £7BO. In consequence of the repudiation of the agreement, Roberts had lost £SOO at Dublin, £350 at Manchester, and £I2OO on two other matches. The receipts at the Higgle match, which Gray repudiated on ten minutes’ notice, were £113) and would have been at least £500: if Gray had played. Rileys’ net profit was only £3OO. Roberts . misfit a ted the date of the expiry of his contract with ( the Benzoline hall, .manufacturers, which made it impossible for Roberts to play with Crystallite balls.

Gray, in evidence, said he was sure it was arranged in Melbourne that he and Roberts were to play together always but the question of profits was not mentioned. His reputation snffcVr ed through changing balls. He added that he hoped to get the English championship but it would take a year or two. After. Gray, .senior,' Stevenson and'Riley, 1 with whom GrajjGwas until lately under contract,: had given evidence Roberts was awarded fifteen hundred pounds. The Lord Chief Justice postponed argument on lega ? points as to whether the contract wan beneficial to Gray and if so whether the benefit was injured by Roberts’ inability to play other than with Bonzalene balls for the first two months.