OUT SPORTS

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 85, 29 April 1882, Page 100

OUT SPOR TS

The OtahuhuCricketersbeatTuakauby4oruns. Stuart, Smart, Goodman, McDennot, and Da^ks played a splendid gnine for the Albert. A. McCormick made 13 for United Second Eleven on Saturday. i The West End first eleven got all their runs by cutting and slipping. A cricket match between the counties of Waipa and Waikato will be played to-morrow Laycoek, the Australian oarsman, has arrived in England, and gone to Putney. The Observer and Madge have both been hauled tip for the winter. The Albert beat the Parnell 2nd in a football match on Saturday by four point 3to nil. The Alpha and Ponsonby Cricket Clubs play a final match in the Domain on Saturday. , The owners of the Lizzie intend to challenge the City of Naples to another sailing contest. On dit that Walter Jones intends to purchase Messrs Hewson and Melville's Transit. T. H. Shove caught Testro out splendily on I Saturday in the match United Second v. Excelsior. The Ponsonby Rowing Club contemplates the erection of a new and larger shed at Shelly Beach. A sailing race between the Huby and Olive last Saturday was won by the former. The stakes wore-£loa-side. The Sybil has not yet accepted the challenge issued by the Plying Pish. . Barkis is willin', and so is • Knox. The open-sailing boats Madge and Transit haveeach challenged the Imp for a race in the Auckland' harbour for any stun from £10 upwards. The Alphas had the best of the match with Gordon on Saturday, the score being 90 against 20 for the loss of five wickets. Another race between the Ruby and Olivetakes place to-morrow afternoon, the stakes being £10 a-side. Moore sails the Ruby. The first eleven of the West End Cricket Clvb t armed with axe handles, defeated the Second Eleven, who played with bats, by four runs last Saturday. The new Ponsonby inrigger has arrived from Sydney, where she was built for Donnelly and Sullivan. The workmanship is unfavourably spoken of. It is likely there will be a twenty feet open sailing boats' sweepstakes race in the harbour tomorrow afternoon. ' The Observer has picked up wonderfully, and it is now becoming evident that Mr "Waymouth's confidence in her was not misplaced. A grand wrestling match comes off at Otabulvu on Saturday between a rising young lawyer and a sporting gentleman from Howick. . The Parnell 2nd and the Albert Football Clubs, played the first football match this season on Saturday afternoon in the Domain hollow. The yacht race between the City of Naples 1 Thames and Lizzie finished in the order given. The Lizzie was leading in the earlier part of the race, but her topmast carried away, and she was thrown out. . The sculling race between Hanlan and Trickett, for the championship of the world, takes place on Monday next. The stakes are £500 a side. Both men are in hard training. The race between the twenty feet open sailingboats for tho second and third prizes offered by the Ponsonby Regatta Committee took place last Saturday. The Transit took first place, but was closely pressed by the Observer, tho Madge being third. J. S. O'Brien, the champion long distance pedestrian, of Australia, will attempt the feat of covering 75 miles in twelvo hours — between 11 a.m. and. 11 p.m. in the Lome-street Hall to-morrow (Saturday)'. Eowell, who has the best record in the world, did 74> miles and odd laps in the time. The recent decision given by Mr Dixon thai the actions of a fair play man do not affect the crewis likelyto lead to very disagreeable results. Boat owners freely assert that they will carry fair play men in future for no better reason to haul them round a buoy which they might all but weather, or to assist them along with a, pair of sculls when becalmed. The owners of the. Transit have challenged the [ Imp to sail for the prize won at the regatta against £12. " * Mr Stephenson has declined, unless the race is sailed at " Russell, Bay of Islands. Of course, Messrs Hewson and Melville are not likely to sail in a distant harbour, wtiere local knowledge would be all in favour of the Imp. A better place for the race could not be chosen than Auck- ' * land harbour, which is equally fair to all. . < Walter Jones denies that the Observer was prejudiced in the recent race by his action. He says the Observer's jibboom came between the Imp's mast and the sail, and that he took it in his hand and kept it clear N until the danger of a foul was past. Ho denies that any ' • push was given, or that the Observer had to go about, i ■ ' and also states that Ike Hunt had hbld of the other boat . before he touched the jibboom, . Mr Jones believes that ' he was not justified in touching the Observer ,at all, but' ' *\, in the excitement of the moment, forgot, she position 1 " S which he held on the boat. The question whether a fair *, play man is justified in interfering or taking part'itf thei-V^ management of a boat has been referred to the Au&tra- !• &. lasiaw for an opinion.. , r ' i „s \*"Vv s-5,1