SPORT OVERSEAS.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 152, 28 June 1924, Page 7

SPORT OVERSEAS.

COUNTY CRICKET. ' THREE CENTURIES SCORED. : _ i LONDON, .lune 27. I ' In the county cricket matches, during ' the first day's play against Sussex. ! ' Lancashire made 287* runs ( K. Tyldeslcy j i lO.i not out I. i In the match Worcester against Notts, ! Whysall scored 1.11, completing his 1000.1 runs for the season. ' i Playing against Derby. for Kent, i ■ Wooll'cy made 124 I Beu'ter.) ! j'l THE OLYMPIC GAMES. ji 11 KEW ZEAIANDERS IN FRANCE. \ , PARIS, June 2fi. |j E. C. Herd, the New Zealand breast-' f stroke swimmer, has arrived, completing • I the Dominion's Olympic team. } i As Purely is unable to oualifv as alt fenther-xveight boxer, he will tight as a h light-wcisht i Miss Gwitha Shand has greatly im-U proved, and did a splendid 220v-ds in I s practice to-day.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) I, FIRST-CLASS TENNIS. ', LONDON, June 27. ' In the men's doubles, Brookes (Vie- I t toria) and F. M. B. Fisher (New Zea- j land) 'beat Fyze (India) and yon Bnum t (Holland), 4—fi, (i—2, o—l.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) t „ ' |t BOXING IN AMERICA. | I x It NEGRO CHAMPIONSHIP. f r 1 NEW YORK, June 20. ;, The negro middle-weight boxing ehani- 1 pionship of the. world changed hand!- <■ to-day. when Larry Estridgc, of New - York, beat Joe Gans in ten rounds. | t Harry Greb, the world's middle-weight r champion, defended the title successfully t against the English challenger, Ted C Moore, in a fast bout of 15 rounds. It s wap Greb's fight from the start.— h (Reuter.) \ji