A SPORTING REPORT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1960, 9 April 1885, Page 2

A SPORTING REPORT.

A horsey reporter lately undertook to report a concert in Hobart for a brother and this ishow the criticismappeared the next' day;— Time was called about, eight o'clock, and about fifty bugles, fifes and drums entered for the contest, The.iddles woii the toss, andtook. the : inside] with the chandelier's'right in their. eyeß, The umpire, with a small club, acted as starter, Jus't before the start he stood upon a small cheese box, with a smalUuuch counter before him, and shook his stick at the entries to keep them down, The contestants firsts-started to 'Landliche Hochzeit,' by Goldsmark, Op. 26, They got off nearly even, one of the fiddles gently leading. The man with the French horn tried to call them back, but they, settled down to work at a slogging gait, with the big roaii' fiddle bringing up the rear, At the first quarter of tlie ;course, '. the little black .whistle broke badly,; an d went into'the air, but the. fiddles on the left kept well together, and struck up a rattling gait.. At the half way the man with the, .straight horn showed signs of fatigue. There was a little bob-tailed flute winch wrestled badly with the bugle at the mile, but he was wind-broken, and wheesed, The big fat bugle kept calling 'whoa' all the time, but he seemed to keep up with the rest till the end of the race. They all came under the string in good order, but the judge on the cheese-box seemed to reserve his opinion. He seemed tired, and the contestants went out to find their bottle-holder, arid get ■ ready for the Beethoven Handicap. It was a nice exhibition, but tiresome to the contestants, All bets are off."