SPORTS TOPICS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 16, 31 October 1935, Page 7

SPORTS TOPICS

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CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS. (By “Sportsman.”) Next Saturday. Ashburton, Baptist and Tc Maine Tennis Clubs open. Ashburton Defence Rifle Club’s season opens. All Blacks v. London Counties, at Twickenham. November 7. All Blacks v.. Oxford University, at Oxford.'

Open Tennis Tournaments. French newspapers are clamouring for open lawn tennis tournaments, in which amateurs and professionals could take part- in order to discover who is the world’s best player. Many experts award this honour to the American, H. Ellsworth Vines, who beat W. T. Tilden in the final of the professional tournament, played in England last month while a week earlier he beat the G!cr-. man, H. Nusslein, for the French championship. Vines and Tilden beat the French, pair, Plan and Hamilton in the final of the doubles.

Cricket Against Mermen. The Australian cricket team for South Africa will soon be on its way (remarks a Sydney writer). Melbourne will be the rallying point, and the team should arrive at Durban on November 14. One Sydney journal asserts tligt the Board of Control will decide whether any matches t be played en route. The only team likely to be encountered between and Durban would be one selected by Davy Jones, and the board, would certainly not allow that without a financial guarantee and an undertaking not to call it a Test match.

A Dangerous Occupation. Dorothy Hound has taken a job as a designer of dresses for sporting women. She has had to drop out of the South African tour, but will show up at Wimbledon next- year. The situation is interesting, because even tbe nebulous tennis outlook on the amateur status is against the selling or pushing of sports goods or materials by amateur players, and to most women the right clothes -are more important than the right racquets or golf clubs. Joyce Wethered was pushed out of amateur golf ranks for taking on a very similar job. History of Chatham Cup. The history of the Chatham Cup, the cup presented to the premier soeeel’ club in New Zealand, dates back to December 14, 1922, on which date members of the New Zealand Football Association received the trophy from the crew of the IT.M.S'. Chatham, a warship once well known in New Zealand waters, The reason for the presentation of the cup was that the ship’s company had desired to give a football cup to New Zealand in return for tlio kindness extended to all during the time the warship was in New Zealand waters. The cup is worth £l5O and is as nearly as possible a replica of the English Cup. ■ The following is a list of the holders since the competition commenced. 1923 —Beacliff (Otago): 1924—-Harbour Board (Auckland) ; 1925 —Y.M.C.A. (Wellington) ; 1926— Suunyside (Canterbury) • 1927— Ponsonby (Auckland); 1928—Petone (Wellington); 1929 —. Tramways (Auckland); 1930 -Petone (Wellington); 1931—Tramurewa (Auckland) ; 1932—Marist (Wellington) j 1933 —Ponsonby (Auckland) ; 1934Thistle (Auckland).