OVERSEAS SPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 198, 22 August 1928, Page 7

OVERSEAS SPORT.

Numerous Entries For Wrigley Marathon Swim. FORTY NATIONALITIES. (Australian and X.Z. Press Association.) (Received 9 a.m.) TORONTO, August 21. The Antipodes will be represented among the 400 candidates of the third Wrigley Marathon swim on Lake Ontario on September 5. Forty nationalities and 100 trades and professions will be represented. Sixty-six women have entered for the ten miles swim on August 29, and the first five will earn the right to compete with tho 15-mile Marathon.

TAILTEANN GAMES. MISS MILLER'S SUCCESS. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 10.30 a.m.) DUBLIN, August 21. . Further results at the Tailteann Games are:— First Heat Men's 400 Metres Free Style Swim.—Spence (Canada), 1; Ault (Canada), 2; Lindsay (New Zealand), 3. Time, 5m 21s. Final Women's 400 Metres Swim. — Miss K. Miller (New Zealand), 1; Miss Davey (Australia), 2; Miss Laverty (England), 3. Time, 6m 10 4-ss. Miss Miller clipped 14s off the Tailteann record in her heat, and then did the final in 14 l-5s better time. > By 14 1 -5s faster than yesterday, Miss Miller brilliantly won the 400 metres final heat. The times indicated the closest race between Miss Miller and Miss Davey, but the New Zealandcr was never challenged. The Australian girl was beaten by 20 yards and had to swim hard to stave off Miss Laverty, who finished , two yards behind in third place. Miss Miller reduced the Tailteann record of Miss Shand (Christchurch) by 28 l-ss.

TILDEN'S STATUS. ACTION BY CONFERENCE. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 21. F. Hunter, the well-known Davis Cup player, has circularised all the important tennis players and clubs of the country, asking them to file a protest with the United States Lawn Tennis Association against taking any action relative to W. T. Tilden being declared a professional player until after the current tennis season has ended.

TENNIS IN AMERICA. CRAWFORD FLAYING WELL. (Australian and X.Z. Press Association.) XEW YORK, August 21. In the 12th annual invitation tennis tournament at Newport, Rhode Island, Crawford (Australia) advanced to the third round and defeated Hobbs, 6—o, 6—l, and Burwell, 6 4, 6—4. Moon defaulted to Dericou and Cummings defaulted to Weld. Although previously it had been announced that Hopman would not play yesterday the tournament managers considered it advisable to advance him to the third round, in which he defeated Dana, 7—o, (s—l. In the next rounu Holbrook Hyde (Springfield) defeated Hopman, 6 —4, 9—7. At the I orest Hills tournev Miss Helen Wills defeated Hawkes in a practice set, 6—3. Hunter defeated J. B. Fenno (Newport), 6—4, 7—5. Lott defeated E Thalmeier (Dallas), 6—3, 6—3. In t'..e fourth round Doeg defeated Robert' Seller (San Francisco), (5—2, 4 (i 6— /T p ra y, ford defeated Arthur Ingraham (Providence), 6—3. 6 2.

GOLF IN BRITAIN. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.t (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 21. In the boys' golf championship at Formby, first round, a thirteen-year-old lad, Risdon, the smallest competitor, defeated at the nineteenth hole a lad named Peter Pharazyn. seventeen yeai-v of age, and brother of the ex-captain <i the Cambridge University team. Pharazyn had led o up at the thirteen n hole.