Sporting News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 284, 28 October 1884, Page 2

Sporting News.

1 In an obituary 'aVtieie; on the late Mr ,£*<*** Lea^^he^d^^r •Launcelbt, says :—^To the present gene? j ration pi spprtfeineT^afnpnj^ the ninnrr, ! bpi'roj: wjh ich J< t^e''wri.tbi^6f r tnes'e !j Hn6's';ift ; iiol aiWattie'd 'to- own ■ttiaC'liethd^trraijK himself— the *news -of Mr F. G. P. Reach's death on.. Monday laßt)'iyb6ld i not come wild » Buchja;sJiool<Kßß.;itjdid to thosewho had borne..wjth him "■'* the burd.Qiiaiidj^at^otth.e; day "iu^hejtjine: of early i*acing m Canterbury.' NWerthe , less, some of , .the,, yoiifiger sportsmeiV ,amon^st.ußJTia # f' In6t'fiav1 n6t'fiavB > been aware that it! waT-his lionu--that' panned the l --t<s£ gossip "-with which they havdwbeeii *wbht to. solace. . themselves \yhqahfi?" ■^e^rch of. a 'straight t\p> ; :The[.>j\yeil- : ffcopwn iioin de jDiuiue; t< qf. ''.Tlie |)ra,id- ',' i .hasjap_w been mfssing from tn^'columns ; ojf ,-the Canterbury Times for about six years, for ,Mr JLi^ach's, liyejy siable business absorDen'hts 'attentfohi' ttat he was 'e'veriready to lend, a helping?h ; aad;whsn any knp.tty question came upjfpj di^c\is>:sioh, not only as regards racii^g m early days of Canterbury ( yii^ on ajiy [Other subject on which "he could etilighr .teji an' "inquiring mitrd. In' -the' early Qaiys of Ihe Canterbury •sottleme i nt i there were few mote familiar figures m sport-ing-circles here than his. . From 1852 to to 1861 he entered keenly into the en- i joymeqj qfje^.spfirt m thip^cit^npt a i city, thei),- r tjiipu^h— and ,a^er [his i return j tp. the colony frbiij'a ymit ne paid to : England 1 m tlVeMtSv. y6ar fie; still coff-i tinue'd Ut 1 J i'he" :i raßihg game,: Viscoaht 'being '^rhapSithebsst horse he.ever ; had 1 . 1 - M;r Lfe'ach f died rathet -suddenly, } 'thoogh.'he hadj beau ; under kn. ppe.ratiAß ■■ A.few!days- : b.efpr i e i ,.b ( ut; recovered fiytii-l cijgnjtlyjf^m its ,tq: Vji'o up and> jab^ut town ouly th'r?e' days Ve.fpfe King Peath J placed'a"han^ ; upotf JhijlinVuidVir. i I saw'hf tn'- laid' tbj test.in ithe £te_athco ; te Cemetery yost^fiiayi ' in 4 ' tHe^^reseoce'of , several who had often been associated! with him 'in!;fraidih&i. tfrflj Jpjjt. sorae who; had;. been^ proud xto, jQall ihim, a f hrother! pf ; iJiop e n." ' ;Xr -'.' .-,■