ATHLETICS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 350, 13 March 1889, Page 4

ATHLETICS.

Six hundred and thirty-five is the total the University Club made against the Alberts in Sydney, the match of which I gave the start last week. T. Garrett completed his innings for 274. Ho has the honour of having made the highest score in a senior club match in Sydney, and the large total made by his team is also reported to be the highest made iv such a contest. fif. Lee 123, and G. Earbour 102, alto did a lot of run getting. The Alberts must really have enjoyed themselves, as the match was only a two days' one and they were in the field the whole time. Says the "Melbourne Sportsman": " Some of the English sporting papers have been discussing the long throw made recently on the Melbourne Cricket Ground by Crane, one of the American baseball pitcher 3 . They point out that Crane's throw only beats the record by one yard and four inches, since Mr E. B. Fawcett, on one occasion, at Brighton College, threw the ball 124 yards 4 inches ; but it is naively admitted that it was down hill and the thrower had the wind bohind Mm. Under the same circumstances, but without any help from the wind, I, ' A Bohemian ' writes in the ' Herald,' have myself thrown a stone 250 yards, but it was considerably down hill, in fact, down a precipice. However, the record for al ong throw is held by neither an American nor an Englishman, but by a Queensland black, who threw the cricket ball 140 yards on even ground, and Mr Donald Wallaco, the winner of the last Melbourne Cup, was the man who measured it. There is no denying ib, the black brother is a factor in Australian athletics, and with Jackson in the ring and Samuels on the cinders, only a coloured oarsman is required to effectually put the modern white man in hia little bed." The " Sydney Referee " prints an account of the feat taken from the files of a paper of December, 1872, when it was performed. It is undoubtedly genuine, so much so that with the tape the distance thrown was 142J yards, and 2£ yards was allowed for deviation. The exact distance thrown by the American baseballer (Crane) was 128 yards 10^ inches