SPORTS OF ALL KINDS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3119, 16 January 1911, Page 7

SPORTS OF ALL KINDS.

BOXING. A cablegram from London late last week read: Mr. H. D. Mclntosh states that Lang will fight Sam Langford for £3500 at the Olympia, probably on February 15. WRESTLING. Cabled news is to the effect that George Hackenschmidt, the Russian Lion, and Frank Gotcli, the present world's champion are matched. MOTORING. A cable from Vancouver on Thursday states that a 20 h.p. Flanders automobile had broken the world’s non-stop record, covering 1075 miles. The run was continued in an attempt to cover 1500 miles. TENNIS. The regret at an early death of Mr. R. F. Doherty, one of the greatest players that lias ever lived will be as widespread as is the game itself. What enthusiast is there in Scandinavia or South America, in Fiji or New York, in Russia or Australasia, but lias had for many years as his standard the “Great’ and tiie “Little Doe,” and now the former is gone, and there remains only his fine record and the improvement the game lias received by adopting bis methods. ANGLING. Many authorities on the art of angling piace the carp first in the matter of cunning, as one has said: Of all the fish that swim the watery mead, Not one in cunning can the car]) exceed. And Lathy lias it: Fish have their various characters assign’d, Not more by form and color than- by mind; The wary trout but few temptations hit, The perch an idiot, the carp a wit.

According to Professor Owen, the average proportion of the brain to that of the body of fishes is one in three thousand; but in the carp, according to Bluemenbach, it amounts to one in five hundred, which is the same, says Couch, as is found in the half-reasoning elephant. SCULL! NC.

After professional scullers have finished with the professional races at Anniversary Regatta, they will settle down te earnest work for the Parramatta Handicap. It is extremely unlikely now that Webb will compete, and George Whelch is doubtful, too. Harry Pearce says lie desires a six months’ rest, so that he may also be a nonstarter. If this is so, the main attraction will be Dick Arnst. FOOTBALL.

Frank Mitchinson, the well-known New Zealand and Wellington representative footballer, lias gone on the land. His future residence is Raetihi, one of the King Country townships, liis nearest railway station being Oliakune, on the Main Trunk line. Frank is a painter and paper-hanger, but lias always had a hankering after the open-air life, and has gone right away into the backblocks for Ins first experience. Whether he will play football again is problematic.. but possibly city life may be the magnet that will draw him back again to the busy haunts, and it' it dees Mitchinson is bound to show has paces once again on the football field.