SPORTING MEMORANDA,

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1394, 9 June 1881, Page 3

SPORTING MEMORANDA,

The Go-is-you-Plcase pedestrian contest in Adelaide was Avon by Edwards, who did 451 miles ; Swan, well-known in Chnstchurch and Dunedin, being second with 423 miles. The Englisli s>tallion Cadogan has arrived from England, and been taken on to Eus&ley. At a meeting recently held of the D.J.C., the reporters >yen: excluded, and informed that for the future they would not be admitted except their presence was required. Fighting with the Fourth Estate is not very profitable at any time, and the Southern Club is bound to get the worst ot it. At the settling up on the Grand National Steeplechase, on May 25th, the following amounts were paid : — Mr H. J. Lunn, £190 ; Mr P. Butler, £190 ; Mr J. F. Cull an, £95 ; Mr T. Foster, £23 15s : Mr P. H. Duncan, £53 4s. I see by "Augur" that Roodee, brother to Chester and St. George, has been sold for 1000 guineas. "Augur" also informs his readers that Angler has been purchased from Mr C. B. Fisher by Mr S. Gardener, of Bundoora. Of Camballo's win in the Flying Handicap, in Adelaide, the same writer says :—"Camballo's performance was a real good one. He carried 9st. 21b., gave lumps of weight to a large field, and won easily." Camballo was scratched for all his Birthday Meeting engagements. flumor is current (says the London Licensed Victualler^ Gazette) that Count Lagrange and M. LeFevre "will form a confederacy throughout the ensuing season, and that their interests will be in common as regards the division of prize money secured and bets landed. The following will be read with interest by the many friends in New Zealand of the gentleman referred to, more especially after his recent prosecution of the proprietors of the totalisator "in the interests of morality. " The Mdboui >ie Age says :—: — "An arrest was made yesterday by the detective police which, from the unusal circumstances surrounding it, is worthy of more than ordinary notice, showing once more, as it does, how, after very many clays, the author of a sin may be caught when least expected. One night a dozen years ago a Verdant Green named Collie was ' picked up' at the then Casino and Music Hall, but now the Waxworks, in Bourke-street, by several knowing ones, and eased of some money and a cheque, which was afterwards found to have been cashed by a man named Sanquilley, an American, and a survivor from the ship General Grant, which was wrecked at the Auckland Islands. He was arrested, and stated that he got the cheque from a man named Drake, known as a cabman, and then a 'ped.' in this colony. A warrant Avas issued for the pedestrian, but he had got off to New Zealand. Sanquilley was tried and acquited, hia American friends standing by him firmly during his trouble. Yesterday the ex-ped and cabman was arrested, in the guiso of a very elaborately attired and fashionable gentlemen, as he was promenading with a friend, and had to submit to the indignity of having a heavy gold chain, valuable gold watch and a number of sovereigns being taken from his pocketa at the Gity watchhouse, and of then being taken before the Bench and remanded until Monday. He was bailed out. It is said that an order was given to cancel the warrant out for this alleged offender, who is Baid iioav to be an. opulent bookmaker. It mav> be mentioned that Drake has been in Melbpurne many times during the last two or three years, and only as recently as last November." Mr. J. Conway, the well-kaown cricketer, and who took the first team of

Australian oricketers to tl.e old country has been appointed to the editorship of a Melbourne sporting journal. The fixtures for the colonies for the propoged intercolonial football.team about 1 txv visit' England will (says theJte/wh»»ffM)» probably be as follows :— 7th May, against Geelong ; 14th May, against Hotham ; 21st May, against Melbourne; 20th May, against B alia rat ; and on 4th June, against 1 Hothara. The 'team rp^ill then proceed to New Zealand for a five weeks' tour, and thence come on to Sydney. Melbourne will be revisited subsequently, and the team, after playing in Adelaide, will proceed to India and England. It may be mentioned that the enterprise is a co-oper-ative affair, and is not arranged under the auspices eittier , of the, .Southern. Bughy, Union, or the New South Wales Football Association. ; Bhte Gown.