SPORTING NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 324, 12 December 1888, Page 6

SPORTING NEWS.

The 1 latest files^briug particulars of some important events connected with tho English tui-f. . Among them, is .the Hampton i'avk Champion Handicap, for two-year-olds,.of lOOOsovs., and which the Duke of Westminister won •with- Fleur-dc-Xiys, a daughter of 15ond 'Or and Lily Acmes, by Macaroni; and the youngster is thus own sister to Ormonde and Ossory, and was bred bv her owner. Another important event of which we have particulars is that longdistance race tho Cesarewitch Stakes, a handicap of 25sov?. each with 500 added, two and a, quarter miles. Twenty- throe started, and Trayles, 7ht 21b was made favourite at 9 to 2: but while he ran thud, the French-bred filly Tencbreuse, by Mourlo or Saxifrage from New Star, by Charlatan ~ from Hervine, by Mr Wraggs, won very easily with Bsb 121b, ridden by T. Cannon, Millstieam, 6st 71b, being second. The winner staited at 10 to 1. She had previously won the Grand Prix and French One Thousand. The time returned for the Ceaarewitch was 4 mm. s<sec., and the winner's share of the (stakes \va<* C 1045. The great two-year-old event— Middle I'ark Plate — brought 14 to the post, and the champion coll Donovan, by (Jalopin from Morvernia, by Scottish Chief from Stockings, by jStockwell, who .started at 6 to 4, was returned the easiest of winners, running the six furlongs in 3 mm. 1.5 l-ssec. Hn is owned by the Duke of Portland. Tho stake, tho lowest on tecord, was worth £2,100, which brought Donovan's winnings up to £15,290 15s. 'At the same meeting Friar's Balsam, Bst 51b, unbeaten at two yea^s old, by Hermit from Flower of Dorset, won the Champion Stakes, oncmileanda quarter, Minting running: second with 9st. Odds were laid on the latter. It is proposed to make this one oE.fhe Irish National -Hunt rules: — "That : in „ every steeplechase horses should be requited to jump one bank, which must be a permanent fence, 4ft high, with a ditch on the take-off side sft wide and 4ft deep ; also a water-jump 12ft w ideand 2tt deep."' Melbourne " Table Talk " publishes the following good story anent the settling over the V.Tfc.C. .Spring Meeting: — "Two pretty well-known bookmakers practised a neat device t6 gather what was owing to them without paying what they owed. One went to Bowes, the other to the Victorian Club, each provided with a list of their debtors. As t li ese turned up their money was collected by proxy. When creditors appeared they were informed that ' Jack ' was paying for ' Ike ' at Bowe-s', or that 'Ike' was pjying for '.Jack "at the Victoria in the evening. Alas, for the creditors neither 'Ike' nor 'Jack' appeared, they having, it ia said, only money enough to take a trip to Europe third, class." Oieo. JVI. Dibbs, the Montreal (Canada) mile innner, was beaten at the lecent Canadian Amateur Championship Races by the loss of a button. At the staiba button butst oil his trunks and ho had to iuii nearly the whole distance with one hand .supporting the very neces&ary article of an athlete's abbreviated wearing appaiel. The Middlesex team which put the native through to the tuno of 0 points fo nil, was a team selected by Lord', Sheffield, and' was played at his Lark. One can imagine how strong such a team would be — it would be a fairly representative international team. One of the crack players of England, the captain of the Halifax Club, has expressed the opinion that the new rules " will make the pace much too worm and fast Jar old 'uns like myself. It takes us all ou? time to keep up as the grtme is at pre c ont and these | new rules will knock tho veteran out of time entirely. ' Wakolicld Trinity, the team that defeated the Natives, also ran over Swinton, the ct ad: club of Lsmcishire. The Trinitarians befoio tho Ist of November were known as the most inconigible wing players in England. A somewhat novel departuie has been adopted at the Bradfcd (England) lootball [ ground, in the shape of the election of a scoring boaid something after the Jashion of a cricket telegraph. The moment any point is scored it is signalled on the scoring board so that spectators are able at a glance to see how the game is progressing. Obviously this is a great advantage and a new departure in football matches that will probably come into geneial adoption in time. A writer in the " Alhletic News' 1 fays : — Those who witnessed the two matches played by the Maoris in England were unanimous on one point - - that the visitors made a wonderful impiovemenfc during the week which elapsed between their first and third matches. At Richmond their play was, not of a particuhry high class, but against the much stronger fifteen placed in the field by Kent last Wednesday, at Blackhcath. they iosc to the occasion, and fairly su prised everyone by their sound and vigorous) play, too vigorous — in fact, at times approaching to roughness. One or two ca<=es of bad temper were shown. Tf they adopt these tactics against some teams I wot of, they may find there aie others who can play rough as well as themselves. The best of their play is certainly forward ; indeed their rushes and combined dribbles put me very much in mind of what we used to see on tho part of the Scottish International fifteens. The backs, however, are rough in more ways than one, and seem to depend more on speed and strength than science.

They have thus played 26 matches, of • which they have wpu 17, 105t. ,7 and drawn 2. They have scored 153 points, and had • 60 scored against them... ' Since ihOj, J^bove '.tabjo was comj)iled the Maoris have, won their match against Noi;lh , Ireland by two 1 tries to nil

-^"^PnAt^r-wKb'al^-HH/to Jcnov," said a lbhpolb|y^^|i-h hd^wtUe mouths of rivete iJaf'66 : io rt&Mi^pi-"t)mn their beads " -/ Kitfd)6*nk¥, fenMvords, kind acN, an<l vran»» - liand-sliAVd«— lho«"* s6condaiy moans of grace when men a?e in tfottble and fighting their Unseen buttles. ' How many casualties and difficulties are there that we dread as insupportable mis-; chief, which, upon :fuither thoughts, we find to be mercies and benefits I There is nothing t( o lilt'e for »o little a •creature as man. It is by studying, little things that weattain the greater art of having as fittle misery and as much happiness "as possible.

Matches won. Matches lost. Drawn. 2^3 1 111 Surroy Northampton - shire . Kent ! I I 4 1 1 •' ITosely Burton-on Trent i 10 1 4 '1 6 Midland Counties . . 1 4 ] Middlesex..! Hull.. 10 •• 1 '9 1 Dcwslrary VWikcfickl Trinity .. I *6 Northumberland .. l New castle Coa humors Stockton Tynemouth .. 3 8 6 7 I 3 !5 1 1 " ! Halifax Wanderers ! I Newcastle .. Hartl c pool Rovers - Cmnb'rl'dClub Cumberland County Hawiclc ' East Cumberland .. Westmoreland - i 4 14 13 - * " - 4 1 11 •*2 - ! 14 3 1 12 3' " 2 Swinton .. Liverpool Ireland (international) •• '9 «<« Trintty Col.(Dxibl 13 4 - 1 I ,4 < l 4

NATIVE FOOTBALLERS IN TCNC4LAND. 'i UKHI RECOKD VV TO DATE.