OUT DOOR SPORTS

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 97, 22 July 1882, Page 292

OUT DOOR SPORTS

— . —^>. -yy — The walking match for the championship is ''beginning to c.uso a little excitement in athletic circles. — Ponsonby aiid Grafton play their second match of season in the Domain on Saturday next. — The Onehunga boys are anxious to win a pot of money on Huckstep'in his match against Walsh. — Reynolds defeated Power in a light skiff race for _El 5 a side at Melbourne recently. —Auckland and North Shore play their second match of the season in the Domain on Saturday next. — Should the Australian football team come over they will arrive in this colony next month, and play their first match at Auckland. — Purchas, who has just been defeated in. a two-hours "go-as-you-please" contest in Christchurch, belongs to this city. — The weather last Saturday was too boisterous and rough for football, and the matches were unavoidably postponed. — The promoters of the North Shore Regatta 'Committee are already bestirring themselves. It is intended: that the next shall be even better than tho last. — Walsh has fallen into good hands, and there will be no stint of the " ready " when required to back b.im. »■ — The Auckland footballers have telegraphed, offering to guarantee the Sydney team £100 ancl onehalf the nett profits of the match. — It is said that Holdship is joining a new crack cricket club, which will possess Arty McComish, the two' Porches, and the mover amongst the shining lights. How about the garden P - — The. second deposit in jthe, seven mile walking match was put up on Saturday last. Thisimakes .630 a side already in the hands of tli3 stakeholder. The race takes place on August sth. — The match between the Australians and Marylebone Club was drawn, the former scoring 138, and tbe latter 302. Rain prevented the match beingconcluded. — It will be interesting to footballers to know tbat at a series of matches between Sydney and Geelong at the former city, tho Geelong men were victorious in every instance. The match between the Yorkshire and Australian cricketers could uot be concluded inconsequence of the rain. In their first innings, the Home team made 129, while the Colonials put together 1-11. — The annual football match between Auckland, and Waikato is to be ployed afc Hamilton on August Oth. It has been decided that the team to play on tho occasion shall be picked by a committee consisting of captains and secretaries of clubs. — It is expected that tho twenty-feet sailing boat race will be one of the principal features of the approaching North Shore Regatta. Sever.il of -the promoters talk of offering good prizes for this event, it being known that in addition to the oid " cracks" there are now a number of small craft iv course of construction. — Some of the Ponsonby footballers are anxious that .if possible a match should be arranged between that club and the team which is expected from Sydney shortly. It is well-known that Ponsonby |has the best fifteen of the season, and it is said their best men would play better with a mixed team. If the Sydney men remain here more than two days, it is not improbable that the match with our crack light weights will be arranged . — Now that a football team is to be selected to play against the Australians, it is to be hoped that the committee will be guided in their selection entirely by the merits of the men. It has been too much the custom in the past to call upon the same old players year after year, without regard to the new talent, and the promising colts who had distinguished themselves in club matches. In football, even more than in many other kinds of sport, it is quite possible for a man to outlive his reputation. We have plenty of good material, and there* would not be tbe slightest difficulty in selecting a good team consisting of reputed . 'speelers, ' ' aud judiciously chosen light aud. heavy weight men. The credit' oi the place is at stake, and should not be allowed to suffer .