THE WORKER October 5, 1895 Sports results.

*THE WORKER*

BRISBANE, OCTOBER 5, 1895.

Sporting.

MEGSON, Australia’s bow cyclist, has just turned 22 years.
CHICAGO female cyclists are prohibited from donning “knickers.”
A FAMILY cycling machine to seat seven is now being made in London.
THE thoroughbred N.S.W. mare Cambric has thrown a foal to Carbine.
A NUMBER of racehorses were shipped at Melbourne last week for India.
ZIMMERMAN is now on Australian soil, having arrived at Albany, W.A., last Friday.
CITYS and Boomerangs play off the final match for Queensland rugby premiership honours next Saturday.
A 13’2” pony, named Beauty, carried 9st. 4lb. and travelled 24 1/2 miles in 1hr. 18min. 20secs. at Coolgardie recently.
THE semi-final premiership match of the Queensland Rugby Union-City v. Grammar School-was contested in Brisbane on Saturday, City’s proving victors by 16 points to 10.
LAVENO, 1; None the Wiser, 2; Venia, 3; was the order of the placed horses in the Jockey Club Stakes of £10,000, raced at Newmarket (Eng.) last Thursday.
THE Brisbane-built eighteen foot sailing boat Victoria, now owned by a Sydneyite and re-
christened Irex, won the opening event of the Johnson's Bay Sailing Club, Sydney, on Saturday.
HARRY Placke, the Dutchman, who met, and was defeated by, the Queensland “infant,” Dick Barker, in a boxing contest last Tuesday week, has recovered consciousness and is slowly improving.
City of Brisbane Sailing Club-a newly organised body of sailing men-held its first race, a handicap, in in the Milton Reach on Saturday, the 22-footer, Waihora, being first past the post.
LONDON Truth censures the handicapper for underweighting the Australian racer, Paris, in the Cambridge Stakes. Paris, by the way, has been handicapped at 8st. 9lb. for the Gatwick Handicap.
BOXING is said to be booming at Mount Morgan, J.J. Maloney, champion of Gympie, and Arthur Davis, of the Mount, are to box the best of 20 rounds for £25 aside and 75 per cent of the gate money, to-day (Saturday).
V.R.C. Spring Meeting at Flemington resulted as follows;- Handicap Hurdle Race – Ripple 1, Laplanda 2, Barossa 3, Selling Race- Halulu 1, Lord Hope 2, Taupo 3, September Stakes- Hova 1, Wallace 2, Eridsforde 3, Handicap Steeplechase- Floater 1, Pyramid 2, Schoolboy 3, Two-year-old Handicap-The Hummer 1, Aroola 2, Kangalandai 3,