Athletics.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 238, 21 January 1888, Page 5

Athletics.

An . English > sporting contemporary has ■given' the following' description! of Smith ,«ipd Kilrairi, the r two pugilists who a few .days ago fought such a desperate battle for ,the - Championship :-^- u Kilrain 'is 28 years pf age/ Btarids stt Bsin high, and weighs 2lolbs. His ;chestiis 41in, biceps 16in, fdrearm; 14in, waist 34in, thigh 25in, calf . 16£ in. It takes a 17-inch collar to encircle his 'heck. "He has an tunbeateri' record, i 3 gentlemanly 4n appearance, nobragger, and loves ' fighting, dem Smith ! is" • twenty-four years of age,' and haa^thejetit'ahd physog of a' pugilistic gladiator. He stands sft Bin and weighs 182 pounds. ' T*he following are" hisineasurements:- Chest'4osity waist36£in, ,hip.4o£in, thigh 245, calf : 16&< biceps- 15£. He 3 made his advent in pugilism in 1882, and jhasalso an unbeaten record."' ; ! ' On New X.eaW Day, 1887,' J. Vf. Bryhes, thewonWrful all rotind athlete ,of Sydney, and who is reckoned by' gpod ' 'judges to be the best' hurdle ' racer in "the world, t established a high jumping record' of 5 feet' : ili inches for : Australia; ' This has not been i touched 'since. ' , -'„'* A wrestling match took place in Duuedin> on JFan. 2,, between Eyton, of Melbourne,- * arid.' fames' Dunn, of this colony, for the Light-weight Gjrcecp-Roman Championship.* Each man secured one fall, when ,Eyton re-^ ceived an injury?, which prevented' hinv wrestling again, andthe match was awarded to Dunn. . Bojth men were much knocked about. * , . „ , At .the Otago ! Caledonian Sports, which were held on Monday and Tuesday in NewYear's week,' the wrestling championship, Border. style, f was won by Harry Dunn, J Robinson, being; 'second, and Tiften third. The Caledonian Handicap of fotir distances was' won by* Williams ; the Mile Race by Otitery, 7<tyds, of Timaru jf'the Three Mile \Valk by T. C. Wilson, of Christchurch", with F. ' Bowen'j' also of Christchurch, second. ; - , 'l , ' ' The proprietor of a travelling troupe at the Kimberley.goldfields" ih tends proceed ing to' England next cricket season with a teaih of eighteen or twetityr^ulu cricketers. A 'niatcbV ' Between th^ t Sydney and Melbourne Church, of England .Grammar Schools, which was played in Melbourne on December 21, ended in a tie. The scores ; W ere— Melbourne, 'l2o ,'and 1 '91.J Sydney, 64 Hanlan, who has been engaged in a 'newspaper, quarrel with Bubear; !has- replied to the latter'& s challenge by challenge, offering, to row Bubear u two matches for' £600 «ach, the, first to-be, over the Thames 1 course and the second on, M the Tyne. The I ex-champjlon is also, prepared Jio meet any, man in the worldjover the,.Thames course l [ for|£soo or £1,000, a. sjde., jA cablegram to I 'this effect has- been f onyarde4 i.to London through Mr jGledKill, representative of the " London Sportsman." a , i „i , „ The London : c » Sporting' Ilifo " says that ,^red Wood has lost over £500 in prize ■ money by 'being absent* from \ England during the past* r^acin^'seasori,' which has ,beeri one, of the moat successfubonrecprd. ,. f The'"New Zealand Referee" says':— Handysides;^ the. Waitetiaata 'cyclist who .came down for the International meeting, is, a kind of ."^variety abtis't ? '-ih the athletic .world. At the sports at RaWgidrfr'on Ne^ Year's Day, sbesides riding iii- 'wheel event 3, h,e wonstherhop) step, "and jiimpj ,^ft 2in,* and was awarded- % 's©c'dhd prize for . step dancing. ••« it -fl'f 1 ' > '- -•"-' '' ! ■ ' The South Australian Cyclists , Union held' a meeting at Adelaide on QdhxMry 2nd, 1 ,aj which*the'one' and' 'five- mills', champion^ .ships were decided, J ,<the l foVffiereVent> i being -fonthe f chanipionsliip r of^ Australia a'nd'tHV Urvje Miles for the dKaftipidnship'bf ffou'tK' .Australia. - . Th 6 'Mile t Ra l cb EJ wa^^ won' by f ,Davies of Adelaide, and the Five Mileß by , J., W, S. s ßusst, of Victoria 1 ;;" --\ - \ !( .iThe bicvcle'^race- of one : niile, arrangfe'd "between \V» J:.O^llliot;*2s'inile' champion', i^nd^ T. 'W. f place on the Warehousemek ? S' c Cricket? Ground, -Melbourne; ot» Tuesday 'evening,' 20th, in^the J pres"eric"e''6f about" -.2QO] spectator!. 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