SPORTS TOPICS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 22, 7 November 1935, Page 8

SPORTS TOPICS

NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE.

CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS.

(By “Sportsman.”)

Next Saturday. Mid-Canterbury Lawn Tennis SubAssociation’s intermediate competition commences. ' All Blacks t. Hampshire and Sussex, in Hampshire. November 14. Alt Blacks v. Cambridge University, at Cambridge. After Ten Years. For ten years J. R. Lamason has been one of the stalwarts of the first fifteen of the Wellington College Old Boys Rugby Club. In those years he has put up a very line scoring record, and with something like 500 points, mostly'off the boot, he has every reason to feel satisfied with his share of the activities of College Old Boys. Lamason is now to retire from the field of play, but it is expected that he will continue his interest in football as a coach. In his last season he scored 90 points in club games, of which 18 points came from tries. The total was built up to 125 with representative games. The performance was quite an outstanding one, though not quite the equal of the mercurial F. Fuller, who established a record performance during 1933, Wellington’s representative vintage year, of over 200 points. Lamason has been one of Wellington’s best all-round sportsmen. Not only has he played first-class Rugby, hut he has been the mainstay of the Wellington representative cricket team for a long period, and his form last season was so good (he topped both the batting and bowling averages) that he has been freely mentioned’ as having an excellent chance of playing for New Zealand against Holmes’s M.C.C. team this season. Lamason is also a firstclass billiardist. He was a member of the Brooklyn team which won the interclub billiards tournament in Wellington three years ago.

Maori warriors. An insight into the rugged, spectacular football played by the Maoris in Australia may be gained from the following extract from a comment on the New South Wales match by S. C. Malcolm, the Wallaby scrum half: “From a melee, Rogers leaped and took a high kick. Swinging across the field he fended off Cerutti and McMaster and gave on to Phillips, who continued to bowl over the opposition forwards. Phillips, however, was in danger of being forced into touch, so he threw a gigantic pass to G. Harrison, who doubled back and sent to Reedy, Rogers and then to Smith. Smith, after pausing on the twenty-five to gain his bearings, flashed off the mark in a determined manner, and with several itinerant New South Welshmen on his back and some more around his legs, surged over the line for the try of'the match.” Aids to Horse- Racing. Science puts up a continuous succession of problems for horse-racing authorities remarks the Sydney “Bulletin” Ij’irst came dope: then the battery; now the use of rattles is liable to he declared bogus. With the rattle bailed the scientific trainer will probably turn to the loud-speaker; and when the stewards contrive to- control this,- some method of suppressing the aeroplane which will hover over the competitors and barrack the favoured one towards the winning-post will have to he devised And when means have been found to compass all these adventitious aids there will still remain unseathed the shrill whistle from human lips, such as George Wallace utilised in “A Ticket in Tatt.’s.” young Champion. Ever since Sid Atkinson came to the front and achieved his remarkable triumph in 1924, Smith Africa has produced a line of first-class hurdlers (remarks “The Johannesburg Star ). the latest to come to hand S. Knel, the vouno- Cape Town athlete, who defeated “Snaar” Viljoen in the South African championships, may possibly be as good “ S Th“J IS-ytToid schoolboy set up the record of 14 3-ssec, over the low hurdles at S.A.C.S., but lie had never done bet ter than 15 2-sseo over the regulation high hurdles. Tire fact that he showed such remarkable improvement to do 15 sec under the incentive of com petition at Pretoria shows that he is a most exceptional athlete ] scenes a distJnct prj»j£ ?£££. Olympic Games and ■ P against the Oxford and Gambling team will Tie very interesting.

The Olympic Arenas. The Olympic Stadium will Jkto its 400 metres track the, tootMl ..iso pits for high and oroaa £ P gvounds h ?or Z will nse up ui Qnirteen enSies a and U eS w'm previde for the ?hd ioot few minutes. These w ,tahd *° £ southern si ’/ A V filled with a cevermg and there the Jilt stands tor the guests "'of. tie Olympic StadhmyviU he the sw.mm.ng State )>y south side swimming 20 metres, leading int The mS TZ g Zt in motion at an water will be k P cll s ide of equal On e the swimming pool as fm . northern end there will be wjU 12,000 people. Beneath tl • be the dressing and other rooms. This stadium will be linked with the Olympic Stadium by a special tunnel.