The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-06 00:00:00

VICTORIA CLUB Y
ESTERDAY.

The amount of business transacted to-day at the clubs
was of an insignificant nature, and although wo append a
list of quotations, they were in many instances mere
offers. The attendance was scarcely as numerous
as usual, yet a feature was early introduced by repeated
offers to bet against Plaudit for the Derby, which had the
effect of soon weakening the position of the conqtieror of
Achievement, against whom 13 to 1 was freely offered at
the close. Very little was doing on the Derby, and neither
layers nor backers appeared anxious to meddle with The
Rake. We append a list of quotations :

LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP.
100 to 12 agst Christmas Carol (offered)
14 to 1 agst Mount Palatine (taken)
20 to 1 agst Beadle (offered)
25 to 1 agst Troublesome (offered)
LIVERPOOL STEEPLEC A.IE.
100 to 7 agst Surney (taken and offered)
100 to 6 agst Columbia (offered)
25 to 1 agst Alcibiade (offered)
33 to 1 agst Fan (offered)
33 to 1 agst King Arthur (take 40 to 1)
40 to 1 agst Accident (offered)
CHESTER CUP.
100 to 7 agst Lecturer (offered)
1000 to 30 agst Newland (wanted)
T IVO THOUSAND.
4to 1 agst Plaudit (off., take 9 to 2)
10 to 1 agst Hermit (offered)
100 to 6 agst Knight of the Garter (taken)
1000 to 17 agst Huntsman (taken)
400 to 10 agst Distin (taken)

40 to 1 agst Beanstalk and Stockman coupled (t)

DERBY.
9 to 1 agst The Rake (offered)
9to 1 agst D'Estournel (offered)
13 to 1 agst Plaudit (offered)

BILLIARDS.

HANDICAP AT THE CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL—A consi-
derable number of turfites were present each evening dur-
ing the past week to witness the play for Mr. S. Green's
billiard handicap, 100 up, at his new saloon, which is
situated above the picture-gallery. There were 26 accept-
ances, which necessitated an " odd-'un" at the second and
third draws. The following is a brief return of the play
at the conclusion of each game :—First Draw : Archer
(40) beat R. Robinson (65) by 3 points, W. J. Innes (40)
beat H. Jacobs (43) by 20 points, Arthur (15) beat J.
Baylis (45) by 15 points, W. Morton (40) beat Risle (owed
30) by 78 points, Rowe (owed 15) beat Horne (owed 20)
by 1 point, after a splendilly-contested game, Lewis (40)
and W. Pickworth (20) each played a bye, Lambe
(scratch) and Harry Kelley (15) being absentees. On
Wednesday evening play was resumed by C. Adams
(20) beating T. Morton (40) by 1 point, R. Patrick (40)
beat Charley (20) by 20 points, Enscoo (20) beat King
(owed 5) by 9 points, Reuben Mould (30) beat F. Oubatt by
23 points, and .tucks atut rrani-xitsby each played a bye.
Second Draw: Stocks beat Bosco° by 24 points, W. J.
Innes beat Reuben Mould by 5 points, Archer beat Arthur
by 47 points, Adams beat Pickworth by 14 points, Frank
Kilsby beat Partrick by 16 pOints, and when play was re-
sumed on Friday evening, W. Morton boat Rowe by 37
beat points,
toacnkds bLewis, played Frank
Ka i bye.isby beat Third
InnesDraw:
by Archer
.
Morton beat Lewis by 11, and Adams was drawn odd man.
Fourth Draw: W. Morton beat Kileby by 28, and Archer
beat Adams by 15. Final Heat: W. Archer, of Kenning-
ton, and W. Morton.—The first-named, by a succession of
flukes, soon ran his game up to 98, when Morton got in,
but missing an easy loser off the red at 95, his opponent
scored in the next stroke, and won by
five points.
ST. JAMES'S HALL, GO, LEGENT-STREET.—A. match will
be played at tho above hall, on Tuesday evening, February
12, between Charles Hughes, of London, and John Hurst
of Liverpool, 1,000 up, even, for £lOO a-side, on a new
table by those celebrated makers Messrs. Cox and Yeman
209, Brompton-Toad, S.W,