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Snorts and Sportsmen.
FORTUNATUS is suffering from the effects of the
heat in India.
MR. Colin Templeton took 275 ohancea in St.
AlbanB and drew nothing.
THE Melbourne Cup should be won by Quiver,
Lord Richmond, Taranaki or Trenchant.
CANADA has defeated America in the international
cricket match this season, for the first time in.^1
years. v
A well known Melbourne bookmaker ha3 under
taken to eat Osculator if he can win the Darby
to-morrow.
MR. W. T. Jones' manager in Melbourne haa
written.'to his principal advising him to sell all hia
horses in training.
/lTn& estimated by George Adams that more than
.£l,0o6;o66x8terling has passed through his hands
Mnce he started promoting sweeps.
.
TiiE^lJaitriio indicate purchased 100 shares in the
Sfc^Alban's; Icft^ery, and drew a prize which will
e members their outlay.
BEFORE Mr. Wilson commenced the negotiations
for Wallace, he told the winners that Wallace had
shown trials which made him out to be a better
horse than Strath more was.
IT is reported that during the week Hova and
Lord Richmond did a two mile gallop with their cup
weights up, on the Maribyrnong course. Hova won
by four lengths in splendid time.
THE Cup horse Taranaki is owned by Mr. S. L.
West, of Bogan Gate Estate, New South Wales.
Mr. West goes down to Flemington every day to
see his horse gallop.
THERE is a very strong probability that Mr.
Wilson will make an endeavour to repurchase the
St. Alban's estate, but there are some difficulties in
the way which he may not be able to overcome.
ADAMS' £25,000 sweep on the Melbourne Cup was
drawn by Mr. W. E. G. Salter, a member of the Argus
reporting staff, who journeyed to Brisbane to report
the drawing of St. Alban's lottery, for that journal.
ALTHOUGH Parsons and Zimmerman attribute the
latter's defeat in the five mile race in Adelaide to
the latter's illness, the fact remains that Parsons
will be very difficult to put down even if the cham
pion is well.
To all appearances the terms upon which Mr.
Wilton regained Wallace are very fair. He pays
£2500 in cash, with an additional .£500 if he wins
the Derby, an additional £1500 if he wins the Cup,
and a percentage of the .bets.
AT the end of every ci-icket season in England a
match is played by teams chosen by Dr. W. G. Grace
and W. W. Read. In these games the order of going
in to bat is decided by lot. For Grace's team "Billy"
Murdoch and Richardson led the way.
IN response to the invitations issued by Mr. Byron
Moore to inspect the new improvements on the
Flemington course, about 150 ladies and gentlemen
travelled down by special train last Tuesday after
noon, and spent a thoroughly enjoyable time.
BLACKHAM'S exclusion from the intercolonial team
to play against South Australia is a piece of
folly which is inexcusable. He was in the front
rank of the batting averages last year, is still our
best wicketkeeper, and is unsurpassed as a captain.
Mr. William Moxon Cook, sporting editor of the
Australasian, won Eureka in the St. Alban's lottery
with a ticket which Mr. W. R. Wilson presented to
him. All the intercolonial papers announced that
W. Moxon, a cook on the steamer Australasian had
won Eureka.

THK Sydney oycling authorities find they have
made a mistake in paying Zimmerman to ride at
their races, because applications have been made by
Parsons and Megson to be similarly treated. In his
present form Parsons is nearly as good a draw as

fliramie.

DURING the drawing of Adams' last .£25,000 sweep,
some one tried to secure a .£100 cash prise with a
false marble, but Adams, who personally super
intends the drawing, detected the fraud at a glance,
for he recognised that the marble which had been
handed up was not one of his.

. /BRISBANE flowed with champagne during the
drawing of the St. Alban's lottery. After it was
over Mr. Eraser, the Mayor of Brisbane, entertained
a party of Victorians to a picnic at One-tree Hill.
The guests had over 500 chances in the lottery and

drew blanks.

GEORGE Adams, the great Bweep promoter, started
life as a farmhand at the age of 9 years, for Is. Gd.
per week. He never had a days schooling in his life,
but is now one of the richest men in the colonies.
He owns the Marble Bar in Sydney and a coal mine
at Bulli. He employs 70 clerks in his sweep office at

Brisbane.

JOHNSON, the cycling record maker of America, is
on his way to Australia. Johnson, who is known in
the States as " the white flyer," rides in a white
costume, with white boots, and uses a nickled
machine, with chalked tyres. It is understood that
if Johnson sports those colours in Victoria, Mr. E.
G. FitzGKbbon will prosecute him for a breach oi
copyright.

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