GREATER HOARD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 57, 8 March 1932, Page 7

GREATER HOARD.

France Holds More Gold Than

United States.

NEARLY 3,000,000,000 DOLLARS,

NEW YORK, March 7.

It is announced that the holdings of gold by the Bank of France now exceed those of the Federal Reserve Bank. The totals are respectively 75,059,000,000 francs, or 2,942,312,800 dollars and 2,938,974,000 dollarsr COOK TO BOX CARNERA. BOUT ON ST. PATRICK'S DAY. (Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 7. Primo Camera (Italy) and George Cook (Australia) have been matched to fight at the Albert Hall on March 17. The physical disparity of Camera and Cook is underlined in Press comments. The "Daily Telegraph" says that Cook recently proved still fast and fit, and earned the right to meet Camera. Cook can only hope to win by cleverness and ringcraft, for he never had a real punch, and certainly is unable to hurt Camera. If he steers clear of the Italian's punches he has an outside chance to win on points, but as Camera is fast, even this is unlikely. DEMPSEY ON TOUR. STRIKES A SNAG. CHICAGO, March 3. The former boxing champion, Jack Dempsey, who has been touring the country giving four-round exhibition boxing bouts, ran into a "tartar" at Chicago, when King Levinsky had him in trouble several times. Twenty thousand persons watched the event. Levinsky had a decided advantage in the first and last rounds. Dempsey is in marvellous form, but is slower than formerly. . INJURED AT POLO. BRITISH INTERNATIONAL. (Received 11 a.m.) DEL MONTE (California), March 7. Captain O. T. I. Pat Roark, a noted British international polo player, suffered severe bra in concussion on Sunday while playing in the finals of the Pacific Coast open polo championship. His horse fell and rolled over him. His condition is reported far from satisfactory, but the physician in attendance does not think his life is in danger. ENGLISH FOOTBALL. SOCCER AND NORTHERN UNION. (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, March 7. Soccer (Second Division). —Charlton v. Barnsley, 3 —l. Northern Union.—Huddersfield v. Wakefield, 12—3. BILLIARDS IN CANADA. LINDRUM DEFEATS NEWMAN. OTTAWA, March 7. Overcoming a 1750 handicap, Lindrum defeated Newman in a three-day exhibition billiards match by 453. Lindrum scored 0351 and Newman 5898. McCONACHY'S PLEA. LIMIT NURSERY CANNONS. LONDON, March 3. Tho greatest sporting gesture in the game of billiards this century, is how the newspapers describe the declaration by the New Zealander, Clark McConacliy, that his record run of 297 nursery cannons has proved the necessity of limiting them in the interests of the game.

MeConachy emphasises that he made the record by turning the balls at the corner pockets instead of driving round the table.

He has, he states, developed several methods of turning them, which he was the first to exploit.

He took the balls nine times across the table during his record run, in order to demonstrate that a limit is imperative.

The "News of the World" considers that McConachy's manoeuvres have so impressed the scoring possibilities of nursery cannons, that other great players are likely to make the game 80 per cent nurseries, and the only method of preventing it is legislation requiring an inoff after a specified number of them, probably 70.

McConacliy says that he has no desire to stop "these exquiute nursery cannons," but he thinks a surfeit of them ought to be avoided.