OUT DOOR SPORTS

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 68, 31 December 1881, Page 244

OUT DOOR SPORTS

A bicycle club has been formed in Auckland. One of the features of the Ponsonby match was a magnificent drive by J. Hall off Cutler's bowling. OtaUuliu South End was easily beaten by Onehunga second eleven on Monday. Leaky made 87 in two innings for Onehunga second eleven on Monday. Cranch lias the best batting average in the Alpha Club so far. It is about 16. Ted O'Hare won the handicap hurdle race I at the Dargaville sports, with Cummins second, Nightingale launched his new sixteen-foot sailing- boat last week. She sails very well. Eight of the Ponsonby team were caught out by the Alphas. Bob Woods made a splendid score of 120 for West End second eleven against Onehunga. The open-sailing boat Madge took a pleasure party to Wairoa South last Saturday. Whau Union beat the United second eleven byseven runs on Saturday. West End and Ponsonby second eleven play a match next Saturday. The Onehunga second eleven were very easily beaten by "West End on Saturday. H. Dickenson won the Dargaville Cup, with McVey second, and O'Hare third. Dixon and Buckland each got two wickets for Auckland on Saturday. The Alphas beat Ponsonby by 25 runs on the result of the first innings. Onehunga got 98 runs for the loss of four wickets against Auckland second eleven last Saturday. Brennan, the pitcher, only got three wickets in the Auckland nuct Onehunga match. Mr Culpau is having an eighteen-feet centerboard sailing- boat built at Carr's. There were seven duck-eggs in the second innings of Otahuhu South end eleven against Onehunga. The Auckland Grammar School Boating Club will be inaugurated shortly. Cricket was played on the Domain ground on Tuesday uoth withstanding the steady downpour of rain. Barr takes the open-sailing boat Coy in part payment for the bout which lie is building for Mr Culpan. Ouehunga first eleven put Auckland second eleven through properly last Saturday, winning by five wickets and forty runs. Cutler won the bat for the highest score in a private match amongst the members of the Alpha Cricket Club last Monday. Donovan went in for plenty of free hitting in the Auckland and Onehunga match, and put together 29 before he was bowled. Ponsonby Cricket Club has formed asecond eleven with Ted Owen as captain. They play against Oueliunga second eleven next Saturday. Ted Owen bowled splendidly for Ponsonby last Saturday. He took two wickets in his first three" balls, while six wickets were credited to him in the innings. The yacht which Bailey is building for Messrs T. Henderson and R. Isaacs is progressing steadily towards completion. She is now being planked. —Sterling Silver Cups (200), Electro-plated Cups (1G0), for racing, athletic sports, shooting, and prizes of all kinds. — |_ AI)VT -] Donovan got six Auckland wickets on Saturday. He bowled instead of Patten, who was absent, and did remarkably well. The Ponsonby Rowing Club intends to enter a crew for the all-comers' four-oared race .at the forthcoming Auckland Regatta. Barr, 23 ; Donovan, 29 ; and G-arrctt not out IS were the best scores in the Auckland and Onenunga msitch. Logan is repairing the Ponsonby four-oared boat iumea, which was injured at the recent North Shore Regatta. Joseph Bennett has resigned the billiard championship of England. He may never again play a match. Tlie Taniwha has been lucky at last. She beat all the first-class Victorian ynchts, including the Janet and our old acquaintance, the Secret, in the race for the fifty guinea cup. A race between the members of the Rob Roy Canoe Club took place last Monday on the Tainaki River, when Mr Jainos Shaw won the first prize, with Mr W. Baker second. Two boats capsized. The following entry appears in the first page of the scoring book of a recently formed suburban cricket club: "We all got drunk as lords. M. broke a glass." Rather lively. The United and Auckland match was resumed again last Saturday, and resulted in a draw in favor of Auckland. They only addsd 37 to their score, the innings closing for 137. United had seven wickets down for 58, Mumford, eleven, being the only one who got into double figures. In a match with Franks at the Lillie Bridge Grounds, London, W. Griffin, Marylebone, made the fastest time on record for four, five, six and seven miles, viz.: 28min. s£secs ; 36nrin. 18sec.; 43inin. 47Jsee.; and olmiu. 26sec. In one hour he walked 8 miles J27 yards. The winner is 19 years old, weighs 1201b5., and is oft. 4in. in height. The sculling race between Edward Hanlan and Wallace Ross, which was to have taken place this month, fell through owing to the principals being unable to agree luwn a place of rowing— a fact due solely to the nowaday important matter of cash considerations which are depended upon to add materially to the wealth of the winner, and act as a healing salve upon the lacerated feelings of the losing sculler. The cricket season of 1881 in England was eventful by reason of the long scores made, 100 runs and more in an innings having been scored by individual batsmen upwards of five hundred times. For thirteen years, the 404 (not out) of E. J. S. Tyleeote has been unsurpassed ; but it has been left for W. N. Roe to beat the record, and his score of 415 (not out) now stands alone. Then we find two scores of 216 and 190 respectively, made for the Derbyshire Friars, the entire inning amounting to 742, the largest total ever made in England, and tieing with that put together by the Melbourne Club in 1879. At Now York on November 8, 250 representatives of bicycle clubs formed in order, and performed a run of 40 miles to Kingsbridge. On October 26, at the Surbitou recreation grounds, London, England, C. D. Vesey, Surrey B. C, amateur, attempted to ride one hundred miles inside 6h. 37m. 515., that being the best professional outdoor record for the distance, accomplished by Arthur Bills at the Moliueaux grounds, Wolverhainpton, April 26, 1880. The arrangements were excellent, and the path in splendid condition. Vcsey rode well for sixty miles, and. upon the completion of this distance his chance of success appeared very rosy, but afterwards ho fell to pieces, and though he rallied somewhat at the finish, he failed to complete his selfimposed task, though, of course, his time-table gives us an amateur record from 51 to 100 miles. The former distance was covered in 3h. 7m. 455. and the full journey in 6h. 45m. 54 3-sths. G. W. Atkinson and G. Lana officiated as timekeepers.