SPORTING NEWS. Auckland, Dec. 1.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 322, 5 December 1888, Page 5

SPORTING NEWS. Auckland, Dec. 1.

The first acceptance for the Auckland Cup and Steeplecha&o fell due last nigbl, and when Mr Percival made uy fvho lists it waa found the following lot remained in :—: —

A fi'iend of mine on the other side, and who is acknowledged to be a "champion tout),'' tcllo me in a letter that during his 20 year* 1 daily experience at Rand wick and Flemington, he never witnessed such a two mile gallop as that performed by Whakawai previous to the Melbourne Cup. With 101b ovei- his handicap weight up, and a set of four bar -shoes on lie #ol over the distance in 3mm 41^e. Thelastfive furlongs woio done in luiui JSsec, and the la^t <wo furlongs in 27e.ee. The gallop was perfoi mod in the middle of the tiack. And my informant adds," it looked good enough lo win a fortune on.'' All f he good judges lo&t their money o\er the son of Leolinus, including the astute W. Forrester and Jack Mayo. In a conversation with ' Sir Launcelot,' Mr D. OBrien expressed himself quite satisfied with Derrett's ridins" of Carbine in the Y.R.C. Derby, and puts down his colt's defeat to the peculiar way the race was run. The firfat quarter of a mile, he says, was travelled in 32sec, the next five furlongs took lmin 10=ee, and the last five only lmin 3isec. He stated also that when Denett gave Carbine two ov three final reminders he touched him on the sheath, and this was the means ot Carbine declining to try just at the crucial moment, which enabled Kales to just get home. There \va s a great race between two Sydney '" peds," Morrissy and Bushick, over a half-mile, at the Carrington Giounds the week before last Morrissy winning by a yard, in 2 minutes 4 1-5 seconds Bushick led to the turn home, w here Morrissy headed him and held possession to the tape. Says tho last "Sydney Mail ': — The Cu'rington Birthday Handicap finished on Saturday night, the stakes being annexed by E. Rudd, who was on the 28 yards' mark, and got home in 12£ seconds, equal to three yards over even. For the final the winner went out a favourite at 7 to 4 on and after a tremendous race he just &ot horne 1 from C. Samuels, McX night bcinij cliii d, and Hoelschii' touith. In America, when a ped claim- even time for a sprint, c\ery man in the State? interested in the game gripe* hold of something heavy and staits out to kill the speedy artist. What would be their feelings, however, if they hoard of n, man running bettei than five ymds under even .' Yet that i-. what Charley Samuels accomplished on Saturday night under the electiic light on the Carrington ground in the tinal of the Birthday Kan cheap. He was on the 19A yards maik, consequently in a nominal 150 he ran 130^ vard--. Up finished second to Rudd, who beat him by about 6in., the winner's time off the 28 yards' mark being 12A seconds, equal to three yards over even. Now if we break up the winnei's performance we find he covered l3oi yards (less 6in) in 12V seconds, which is all but s{> yards under even. When Hutchens went back to England from Australia he described Samuels as being only a moderately good man, but perhapp that was before Stevens took the darkey in hand. After many attempts, Tom Ray, of Ulverston, England, on September 22nd succeeded in beating: hib own previous record for high pole vaulting. The feat was pi;i formed at the Barrow charity sports, Barrow-in-Furness : the distance cleat ed being lift B^,in. E. Ifwer&on and D. Jeffries iiave been matched to run a mile about February 15th on the Cricket Ground. It is to be for a gold medal of a value of not less than £3. Ifwerson gave .leflries 40yds stattin the mile last Saturday, but failed to catch up anything:. Theiirstday'ri racing of the Austral Wheel Carnival eventuated on theM.CC Ground, on Saturday, the 17th November. Beautiful weather attracted a large attendance and it was estimated in some quarters that fully 11,000 persona wore present. Large fields and splendid racing were in general request, but the management was not got up to par. The Austral Wheel Race brought out a field of 40 liders. The magnificent prize had the effectof makingthemalltiiers, foi the race all through was a splendidly contested one. Davis, the South Australian champion on the scratch mark, caught the j limit men at theone mileand three quartets mark and won easily by four wheels. Schvrciebsch second, Fenlon the English amateur, also on scratch, third, Pickering fourth, and Edgar fifth. Time, smin 38 3-s th sec, the world's record for the grass. What could have been more exciting than the finish for the Two Miles Inter-Club Bace, for the Adelaide Club, represented by Mills and Black, had a triple win, all three finishing a splendid struggle in a dead heat. The Mile Invitation Scratch Race fell to Black of Adelaide who beat Mutton, with Davis third, in 2min. 59 3-sth sec. There vyero 12,000 persons present. Our old friend Flewellynhad 130 yards, but evidently could get nowhere. The publje will be glad to learn that before the Australian JSlevsn disband there will be a match between them and an eleven of players who did not go to England. The following team will make things sultry for McDonnell and Co.: —G. Giffen, Moses, Horan, Bruce, Mclllwraith, Burton, Garrett, Trunible,*W. Giffep, W. Richardßon, and a bowler from the Juniors.

The railroads of the world are to-day vorth from £5,000,000,000 to £6,000, 000,000. Consumption ot ardenc spirits in England increased from 14,700,000 gallons in 1886-7 to 15,140,000 in 1887-8. The more the Indians are civilised the faster they die ; the more the whites are civilised the slower they're born. Jubilee Juggins, the English plungor, having squandered his fortune of £400,006, is now living on an allowance of £4 a W>elL The richest parish in London, St. Christopher Le $iopks, contains but tvyo Parliamentary electors. One of them ls'a'woroan, and so there js, Jo faejb, but ojip.' ' * ' A. yereaill- s cotnp'ositor hag Ipeconie owner of a, n4l}ion f-terling by' the will 'of a pvintei* whose life Ije gnce saved, and who,

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