SPORTING.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3601, 13 October 1920, Page 4

SPORTING.

AMERICAN CHAMPIONS MATCHED, Received 9.50 a.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 12. American and Canad : an racing cir•cles await with the keenest interest. the race between Man-o'-War and Sir Barton at Windsor, Ontario, to-mor-row, which is believed to be the greatest match in the history of the American turf. The distance is a mile and a quarter. Man-o'-War is '-' chestnut three-year-old, and will carry 120 pounds. He is owned by an A.merican Sam Riddle. Sir Barton is a four-year-old chestnut owned by aCanadian, Commander J. K. Ross, and will carry 126 pounds. Besides the-seventy-five thousand dollars purse a gold cup valued at five thousand dollars wild be presented to the winner.. COMRADE'S FIRST DEFEAT. Received 10.45 a.m. LONDON, October 12. A feature of the opening of theCeasarewitch meeting was the first defeat out of eight s arts of Comrade in the Champion Stakes, which resulted: Orpheus (Leach) 1, Comrade (Bullock) 2, Diadem 3. Orpheus which was third" in the 1920 derby and unplaced in the Ledger won the Duke of York'sStakes on Saturday. ,