OUT DOOR SPORTS

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 73, 4 February 1882, Page 324

OUT DOOR SPORTS

Arneil got 23 against Auckland on Saturday. Iwo or three sweepstakes sailing racees are said to lie on the tapis. b The Sybil, which was last in the champion schooner race, was heavily backed to win. The old Eangatira proved on Monday that she is not to be wiped out yet awhile. Ike Hunt handled the City of Naples well on Monday, but the Daisy was too good for her. Alec Farquhar had the gig race all his own way, the others being nowhere. The cricket match Auckland v England commenced too late for our present issue. Onolmnga was beaten by North Shore on Monday. Gray might have taken the Hawk for a spin round with the schooners on Monday, but he did not The Ponsonby Club defeated the Alphas on Saturday by 24 runs. A. Beale made a good score 39, not out, in the scratch match on Monday. Coromandel was easily beaten by the United Second Eleven last Monday. Yates carried out his bat for 55 in the Auckland and West End Match. Sam Dore brought the Spray in second in the sailing open boat race. Eobinson's score of 63 was the best in the Auckland and West End match. Alt'. Warbrick did remarkably well with the old Sis on Monday. Auckland defeated West End easily in the two days' match. Sibbin made 31 (not out) for North Shore against Onehunga. The Shortland Wesleyan O.C. gave the Baptist C.C. a drubbing on Monday last byl innings and 3 runs. Jim Greorge made the catch of the day in the Coromandel match. Young Bailey's Elsie, sailed by himself, defeated the other boats easily in the small sailing boat race. W. Earqhar, who sailed the Madge instead of Dove on Monday, handled her remarkably well. Tom Hunt has scored another win with the Magic. The Waikato cricketers have had their ambition for a match with the Englishmen gratified. They were beaten two to one on the result o£ the first innings. The second crew in the whaleboat race was a scratch one, and not Ponsonby, who preferred to keep themselves fresh for the all-comers race. Buckland's bowling was too warm' for the Gordonites, and hence their, astonishing score of 8. However, Auckland only made 45. Tripp made a clean leg hit for 7 and nearly fatally injured himself in the attempt to hit another ball in the same direction. Canavan took 6 wickets for. the Auckland United Team on Monday last in the match Auckland United v. Coromandel. All of the Baptists were heavy men (with hair on their faces), and, considering their size, oxght to be ashamed of being licked by little fellows. Lane and Brown's new schooner Cygnet astonished the natives on Monday. She looks very much like a yacht, and carries a beautiful spread of canvas. The Imp contested the twenty-feet race on Monday and notwithstanding her accident, the Moores brought her in third. Nothing could touch the Antares boat in the ships' gig race. She completely ran away from the others. The Mary Hogan was one of the prettiest of the competing vessels on Monday. She was second in the small schooner race. The Mahurangi's victory on Monday caused some surprise. She was reckoned out of the race, and the Henry and Eupheinia were thought to be the likely ones. Danny Holland won the fishing boat race with the Daisy, notwithstanding- the fact that her topmast was carried away in the earlier part of the race. Both the Owens bowled splendidly for the Ponsouby on Saturday, while Jack Hall's batting was generally admired. Mat Hooper says he was not so much afraid of the Sybil as he was of the Torea on Monday. The latter vessel carried more keel than the Transit, and obtained an advantage there. The average Aucklander cannot understand why Carter should beat Albert White twice as he liked, and then be defeated himself a week after his second victory by Albert. The accident to the Toroa on Monday spoiled a good race and allowed the Rita to win as she liked. Jack Bell showed the way round the buoy, and Saudford took the lead coming back. H. D. Morpeth won the amateur sculling championship of Auckland for the second time on Monday. Yates of Tauranga was the other competitor, but he did not row half as nicely as Morpeth, who won easily. Jack Bell can't understand why the Jessie Logan was beaten on Monday. And the Lalla had her topmast carried away, too. He vows that he will reverse the state of affairs when Ponsonby regatta comes round. It was expected that Ponsonby seniors would have won the race on Monday, if the accident to the stretcher and seat had not happened. Spears made an attempt to disappear through the bottom of the boat and partially succeeded. Holdship got 4 wickets in Ist innings, and 3 wickets in 2nd innings at Coromandel. -Thomas batted well for the Auckland United at CoromandeJ, making 5 (not out) Ist iunings, and 16 runs in 2nd innings. Osmond inado 27 runs by free hitting at Coromandel. It was a great mistake to start the Auckland juniors on Monday, when the North Shore and Ponsonby crews were waiting for their boats which were being- used in the all-comers race. These things should be avoided if regattas are to be a success in Auckland. The new twenty-feeb sailing-boat Lance, built by Matthews, is a pretty little craft, and she promises to wake up some of the " cracks." She ran second at the regatta out of a field of nine, and the general opinion was that Matthews deserved his success. He has showed considerable pluck throughout these races. The Alphas are having the " search " taken out of them week by week. They " crowed " extensively when they won three or four matches at the beginning of the season, and now they look rather sheepish when compelled to admit defeats from clubs over which they were recently victorious. Machattie saved the Alpha cricketers from another defeat on Saturday week. They have now decided to relinquish their intention of challenging the English cricketers, as the latter, being pressed for time, could not conveniently arrange for an extra three or four days' match. Some envious people think a halfhour's match would suffice. Ponsonby was the favourite crew for the allcomers' race, but the seniors damaged the boat to such an extent that she was comparatively useless, and Carter's crew had a walk over. The Ponsonby crew has since issued a challenge to row for any sum from £25 ui) wards, but * ne Carfcerites thought discretion the better part of value, and took no notice of it.