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POWDERANDSHOT.

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Cardiff Railings Dispute.

ARREST OF A LLANELLY TRADESMAN.

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Scotland v. Wales.

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Scotland v. Wales. THE POSTPOXEMEXT TO FEBRUARY 4th. The Scotch officials on Thursday made during the early morning an examination of the Inver- leith ground. and at that period practically made up their minds that it was impossible for the match—Scotland v. Wales—to take place to-morrow (Saturday). At 11.20 on Thursday morning Mr. E. W. Rees, secretary to the Welsh Rugby Union, received a wire from Scotland saying:—"Afraid it is impossible to play match. Do you agree to postpone until February 4?" Mr. Walter Rees was necessarily in a. quandary, for. looking up the fixture lists of the local clubs, he found that such an arrange- ment would interfere with several return fixtures of the Welsh clubs in England. In one or two cases Mr. Rees was able to consult members of his committee by wire. One of the Cardiff members wag asked if the match with Moseley on February 4 could be arranged, and in this case Mr. Rees received a. favourable reply. The Swansea match with Gloucester, however, still stands in the way, whilst several other club fixtures will have to be arranged. Mr. Rees, with all these difficulties besettiug him, was placed in a rather peculiar position, especially as Scotland required a definite reply of "Ye;,¡" or "No" as to whether the Welsh Union would agree for the match to be postponed until the 4th prox. Looking up the international rules. Mr. Rees found one to the <effect that if an international game be postponed it must hte played sometime during the season, and so Rees wired back to tbe Scotch secretary to the effect that Wales agreed to the match being postponed until February 4.; latter on in tie afternoon Mr. Rees received the following telegram from the Scotch secretary: — "Impossible to play Saturday. Have post- poned match for one week, until February 4, as agreed." This announccmc-nt was sent out during the day to the Scotch players and to the press. On. Thursday evening Mr. Rees telegraphed the whole of the Welsh players and reserves to the same effect, and also called a special meeting of the Welsh committee, at the Royal Hotel, Cardiff this (Friday) evening, at 5.30. Of course, the definite acceptance of theso term3 still lie with the Welsh Rugby Union Committee, who will make a pronouncement upon the question on Saturday evening. It is pretty certain, however, that the reply by Mr. Rees will be endorsed by the committee, and that those Welsh clubs with whose fixtures the new arrangement interfere will no doubt be asked to maka some arrangements with their prospective opponents. The question that now remains i". will It ba possible to play this match on February 4. The weather in Scotland is said to be particularly severe, and with the ground at Inverleith entirely unprotected, a break-up of the frost must take place before the game can be brought off even in February. The change of date, unfortunately, makes the fixture clash with the English-Irish match at Dublin, on February 4. It is a hard fact, for the Scotsmen (says our Edinburgh corres- pondent) to study that this is the first day of the season upon which the grounds havt been too hard to play on. and that the one day should hold the international. All the arrangements will hold good for a week hence. Although no objection is held locally to Mr Dodds (Ireland), who will, it is understood, act as referee in the Scotland v. Wales match, it is still considered that Scotland have been by no means as courteous in the matter of the referee's selection as they might have bee;L Wales submitted several names to the Scotch Union, including that of Mr. Holmes (Midland Counties). Scotland did not consider it worth their while to even consider the names tlio Welsh secretary put to them. but wired back in a peremptory fashion demanding to know if Wale" objected to Mr. Dodds. The unfair- ness that prompted such an unsportsmanlike question from Scotland can hardly be under- stood locally. It is the usual attempt of Scotch officialdom to ride the high horse. Un- fortunately. it. appears as if the Welsh com- mittee have once again allowed the Scot to have. his way. Anyhow, at a meeting held at Swansea the other day a few of the members of the Welsh committee only being present, it was decided to accept Mr. Dodds. provided he was recommended by the Irish Rugby Union. Really, it would not. all said and done, be a hardship to omit intercourse, for it wouid rid us of the intolerable bumptious- ness of Scotch officialdom. On Saturday Bridgend will be invaded by the We-t Cardiff hockey team, who arc due at the asylum town to play the locals. On form West Cardiff ought to win a bit easily, but. still there i-, many a slip, &c. The West team will be: — Goal. G. R. W. Roberts: backs. W. A. Baylis icaptaini. and 1. J. Flux: halves, H. A. Stibiis, W. Roscorla. and T. H. Phillips: for- wards, T. J. Woodthorpe, E. F. Gilman, T. 1If. Arkell. F. N. Jone«, and 1'. N. Baylis. Train leaver at l.*20 iGreat Western Railway). Cardiff will be playing at Merthyr, and should win vory easily, the Merthyr team being novices at hockcy. The Cardiff Club met with rathel rough treatment at the hands of West Pristol They <Bristol) sent down to Mr. E. W. Benitef (the secretary of the Cardiff tcami to say, "Come up without fail; play if it rains water spouts." When Cardiff arrived at Bristol the3 were met by the .-ecrctary of West Bristol, ant taken to the ground a couple of miles away, and then very kindly informed they could not play as the ground wa-> unfit. Hockey teams are asked to take duo notice cf above for their use in making fixtures with above team. A meeting of the Rummer One Hundred Miles Cup Committee was held on Thursday at the Rummer Hotel. Mr. Charles E. Hyde presiding. The chairman expressed regret, on behalf of M.r. George Matthews, the donor of the cup, and of the committee generally, at the fact .that the cup bad not been won before the end of 1898. It, wa-j generally agreed that nothing but the continuance of bad weather w;n responsible for thi-. It was decided to put tho cup up for competition until the end of March. to become the absolute property of the holder of the 100 miles A\ cl-h road record, unpaced, providing only that the present record of sit hour?, fifteen minute- is broken. It is confi- dently anticipated that several local rider1- will make an attempt if the pre-cnt fine weather continues. Nov • omcs the announcement from a ro=3 th5 "hcring pond" that Jimmy MichaeJ—tbe mysteriJUS, the vacillating. \,1:0 is married, but b is no wife. who, though a bachelor, sought a divorce in Crown Point., U.S.A.. whose bitterest rival is hi" tiea: kinsman. Tom Linton who has repeatedly .enounced racing 011 a bicycle t ) become the claimant against his newest chum. Tod Sloan, for jockey cham- pionship honours—this small, but uncertain, quantity li is thrown over his new trainer, vhom he brought over to this country with him on his last trip. and, nnder the manage- ment of Al Weinig. will again enter competi- tion raies on the wheel. To what this sudden change of purpose i" attributable >« not made clear, but to anyone who has ever attempted to learn anything definite regarding the midget this is not surprising. According to an American exchange, the little Welshman will make his first appearance this :oe.1;:0n at the gigantic indoor cyde tournament to be held :n San Francisco ne:;t month, and. judging by the report-, it will be the biggest thing of its kind ever held in the States. The greatest ridtrs of every class will be there-the (Tack sprinters, the best of midd:e- distance men, and the pick of the long-distance talent. Not even in New York has such an array been brought together upon a single occasion as will mark the San Francisco tourna- ment. Xew York has had all the biOZ six-day riders upon one occasion, the middle-distance flyers upon another, and aiso the crack sprinters, but never have the three classes been combined into one great tournament, as wi!! be the case with the "0mill¡: affair in lIt' Mechanics' Pavilion. The event wi" be hc!o under th? management of Aif Ellinghous-. assisted by the three members of th" American Cycle Racing Association, .William A. Brady, James Kennedy, and 1'. Powers, who conducted the recent six-day race in New York. Manager Ellinghou-e has received word from Brady that the following riders had been posi- tively signed to appear in the San Francisco tournament in the sprint races: --Eddie Bald, three times champion of America; Jay Eaton, the indoor king; Tom Cooper. Bald's great rival; Arthur Gardiner, considered the fastest sprinter on the track; Nat Butler. Teddy Goodman. Owen Kimble, W. B. Caldwell, Harry Elkes, holder of the world's hour record; Fournier. the noted Frenchman; and Jimmy Michael, the peer of all middle-dLtance riders. There is a legion of lights in for the otheT events on the programme, forming the greaLeM aggregation of bicycle cracks that ever turnec their faces westward, and San Francisco car look forward to all kinds of bicycle racing from a quarter-mile dash to a six-day grind. WELSH ATHLETE.

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