OUT DOORR SPORTS

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 141, 26 May 1883, Page 150

OUT DOORR SPORTS

NOTICES. Secretaries of all hinds of Clubs fcr the promotion of out-door sports will confer a favour by communicating any items of interest connected with their sport, game, or pastime ; more especially with respect to coming \ events. Short sketches of sporting or pleasure excursions will be welcome, and questions on all matters connected, with sports will be gladly answered. All' communications must he addressed to The Editor . ■ — J. Cosson and J. Smart secured a touch, each for the Albert on Saturday, but neither was converted into a goal. — The A:rawa is to hare lead moulded inside her, fair down on the keel. This is an advantage she has hitherto felt the want of. — There will be too matches in the Domain on Saturday, one between the Newton and Union, and the other True Blues and Young Colonials. — The Young Colonials and Union Clubs played a football match in the Domain on Saturday. Neither side scoring, the match was drawn. — The Newton and Albert Clubs met in the Domain on Saturday, and a well-contested game resulted in a victory for the Albert by 6 points to nil. — A. Fan-ell, who is now the acknowledged •crack of Australian sprint runners, used to get big starts and as big lickings from Pickering a few years ago. He was, however, an improving man, and has evidently come on very fast. Who was the bully who struck Smart (the Captain of the Alberts) on the face during the match, Alberts v. Newton, last Saturday afternoon, because Smart asked him to get oil the field of play ? If he tries it on again, he might get more than he bargains for. — In the setting-up of my remarks last week about yacht measurement, the meaning intended to be conveyed in the few concluding sentences, got considerably mixed. It was the Auckland Club that left out depth measurement, while I upheld the Ponsonby in taking it into account. — Can any of my readers tell what particular event the "Sheffield Cup" is? For myself, I never heard of such a race. It would be as well for my wouldbe imitators, when they "crib," to do so "lumpus," instead of mutilating pars, and altering facts in their clumsy efforts to appear original and hide the theft. ■ — The Albert will play the Korth Shore fifteen on Saturday, at the North Shore, when the following will represent the Albert, who will go over by the 2.30 boat :— Bruce, Done, Fiulasou, Goodacre, Goodman, Gellespiey Wilson, Hardwick, Miller, Mackie, McDermott, Smart i(2), Stewart, Snodgrass, Cosson, and Andrews. — The Avondale sports came off yesterday (Thursday)— too late for notice in this issue. It is a noticeable fact that all the entries for the big money ■were Auckland runners. Some of these are Very lit, and if the handicapping is anything like good, the Cup should be an excitiug contest. I expect to hear that it has been won by Pickering or Wkiteside. — An interesting |ootball match will be played probably on the outer Domain ground on Saturday afternoon, between thij Softgoods and Hardware warehouse- employes. Soft|;oods will play the following : — "Webster, Anderson, ]>IcGechie (A. Clark and Sons), Davy, Gould, Forder (Shera Bros.), Veale (Sargood's,), Brown, Burgess (Oweii and Graham's), Eeid (Macky, Logan, Steen and Cd.'s), Skeeu, Charter, Armitage (L. D. Nathan and Co.'s), Fisher, Talbot, Simson and Binney (W.. McArthur and Co.'s). — The first match of the football season among the Associated clubs will take place on Saturday in the Domain, when the game between light and heavyweights, postponed on account of the Bicycle Sports, last week, will eventuate. As this is a sort of training match previous to the more exciting club contests, it is to be hoped that all players interested will turn up and get their wind in order as soon as possible. All players from lOst lOibs downwards, count as light weights. — Messrs. J. O'Leary, Walter Scott and Stodart were up the river in the Minx one day last week, fishing. They anchored about midway between the AVatchman and Shelly Beach reef, and in a few hours caught over eighty assorted fish. Not a bad haul for three lines on one afternoon. But, to show how '■ patchy" the luck is, they were out again on Saturday and only took 17 schnappers, though they tried the same spot and a dozen others. — The Arawa raid Rita are to have another match round Tiri Tiri. The stakes are £50 aside, and the event is to come off on the 21st of June proximo. I am informed on good authority that, after hauling round Tiri in the last match, the Arawa came up so close as within speaking distance of the Eita. and was pickinsr up very fast when the wind fell light; and when the breeze came again it was from S.E., and took the Eita clear away, while the Arawa lay almost becalmed. As to ite having been " Arawa weather," I look upon that as so much rot. Anyone with a particle of knowledge on such subjects must be aware that a run down and a lead up, with smooth water, must suit the longer and proportionately shallower craft, and it was therefore "liita weather," if you ask me. Given a dead beat one way, and a clinking " three-sail " breeze, and I would be inclined to back the Arawa every time. Not but what the Eita is a beauty, but I reckon the little 'un is her *• daddy." — A meeting of the committee of the Auckland Football Association was held on Saturday night last, ■when a good deal of business connected with the Association was gone through, A letter was read from the secretary of the Tauranga Football Club, asking when it was proposed to send an Auckland team down there, and suggesting that the end of June would be most convenient for them, and they in turn would send •one up here about the end of the season, taking Thames en route, and also playing Waikato in Auckland. It was resolved that the 7th July be fixed as the date of Auckland's visit. There is one feature of the question of country football clubs joining or not joining the Association, and that is, that by the rules, unless their club belong to the Association, no players arc eligible to be picked in any representative team of Auckland players. This fact should prove a great inducement to ■outside clubs to send in their allegiance. — The handicaps for the Avondale Sports appeared on Monday, and really I would be doing wrong were I to attempt to compliment Messrs Ellis and Sinclair on their production. Pickering, of course, was Sti, and as the man next to him in each distance itting seven yards at the Demonstration Sports, >t second in the 100 yds, won the 200 yds and 440 yds 3yds and 17yds (and in neither oi: these events Pickering get even a place), I don't see how they Hfcline to work on. Still, he is a wonderfully fast . tmSOaay get through in a thinner field. Donovan is fairly crushed out oi it, and I consider him badly treated in everjvfcvent. TLo idea of asking him to give Pickering a start in r .':/>-.;. Hurdle fiace! I suppose the handicappers .• -.>i i,w (hot Pickering could not .jump hurdles, bu. 1!> m •• tc ,;,.-> w that he can both .jump and win to-. 1 ri .- ..•,.-.•: r : a , r that Mettam has won the Haudv.-ni, v.-vi- ~\lu.-;i< ..-■: >."> Whiteside filling the places. The. ~H\ . - «iior - wou easily by Joughin, with s\ r im..-:-i "\ ' . -..senp. Goodman has a lot, io »j-owl'.. . u-'pping for the mile run ,ov?. ..-iilt- wii • ■: . hexnust ■•be a little wonder nry-i «■< mi. - The first i::ui- un'-j'i;.. ■- -. ' Bicycle Club came oft ou th? ZJ ~ <•; ao.iu' on Saturday afternoon lust. L'-.;- . • •ii.utifulj-.-fine, and about athousan/! . ;.! t I. -\i.i . V- sp..n-t"j ■Out of the six events conte^eij. o-ilv ■- ■•■ ;v. '■■'! -.nyspice of excitement to the 0.-loopt-i-s. Xhi-->f- * Vr\ .Mile and Consolation. TheSlov. ii •.-.•.■ w R - -.oji-o-i ■■ ml was won (very fittingly) by FitU-n, ..->-,.. al,~--i "■"■."<> \ 1 that he was a fit 'un by the way i.<.- -• uck at if-'ii, t'j .five-mile Championship Race, after lv-.v-imr "a ~ ~iT< »r,\ r '■ *• purl" soon after starting.' The Slow i\.>uo is an exhibition of balancing power chiefly. The n^; who' i--^ . keep his machine upright, and yet come in u«st 7s the winner. Of course iv the desperate efforts to k'":). tho .wheels revolving, and yet not. go fast, falls are i-iug-,^'rous, and m not one of the three heats did more t'l-.j ;; .one finish. When thexest fell, the last one up could of ;?eourse push ahead- as hard as he chose, . The tumbles " W^ r u amusing lii i the five-mile race for the) Club Championship, K. Flewellyn, a very pretty rider dashed oft with al.'good leadaiwithj W. Sj^e next

The pace was pretty merry, and one after another the cdnipetito'rs dropped out, till only Allen, W: Service, 'Flewellyn and Fitton were left at it. The laps were exactly a quarter of a mile, and in the eighth W. Service spurted up to and passed Flewellyn, and soon had a commanding lead, which he increased to nearly a lap towards the end, winning- easily; Flewellyn. who showed groat pace, seeming to tire after the third mile was gone. Fitton, who is the ugliest rider I ever saw, stuck gamely at it, and came in third, more than a lap behind second. . The time of this event was taken as 20inin. 45sec. The fancy riding was very tiresome to the spectators, and, as it is a useless branch to cultivate, might very well bo left out of the next programme. A. E. Neave was the winner, and he fairly beat all competitors. The mounting and dismounting race was won by R. Flewellon (winner of the Mile Handicap), and the 1 Mile Consolation by Allen, who made a good finish for the sake of excitement, but could evidently have won by more than he did ; Thwaites was second, and Bottrell third. The pavilion was a place of comfort and retreat from tbe crowd for a number of ladies, and the committee took good care that no dirty larrikins should congregate thereon. — The Mile Handicap caused a good bit of excitement. A good start was effected by Mr H. H. Hayr ; and one of the scratch men, K. Flewellyn — who had showed so well in the championship, and who now rode the same machine as Service (the winner) did in that race (a handsome 54>-iuch racer, from the establishment of Messrs W. H. Shakespear and Co., local agents for the Eoyal Sowing Machine Company, Limited) — at once began to show nis superior speed. At the second bend one of the lenders hit a flag-post, and came down an awful cropper, and in an instant two others were over him, men and machines looking an inextricable entanglement. The rest, however, steered clear, and Flewollyu kept cutting one after another down in splendid style, till in the last lap he was second to the limit man, or rather boy, and soon disposed of him, winning "legs up" by twenty yards.