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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 211, 6 September 1941, Page 6 (Supplement)

Answers To Inquiries

| Throwing the Cricket record is held by R. I threw 140 yds 2ft on the ! Sands racecourse in 1884, fiSt ing the previous best . Mackenzie at Toronto iniirT 140 yds 9in. The best amhufj' i feat appears to be that recSSp Wisden's: "William a boy at Rugby, threw 100 IS with his right hand, and 78wfftv left." Ross Mackenzie, by was lefthanded. France in Rngby. ft, t. French international team England in 1905-6 in ParfciflEl!! match against Scotland was ]n m 10: against Ireland in iqmo. JrWales in 1907-8. -'jSp Twenty-one matches against England, of which «3* won two and one was drawn. Sixteen- matches were against Scotland, of whi& ! won four and one was drawn.^ Eighteen matches against Ireland, of which FrirJZZ five. Nineteen matches were &i* against Wales, of which Fratei; one. -Hfs? No matches have 1931. Sol way or Gal way?— The : mi between Hawke's Bay and iter i rapa at Masterton in July, iar« | dubbed the "Battle of Sol Way I is the location of the Mastertal i k P V Showground. Bay ww a. 1 had to return theßafet I Shield on a protest from Watans for playing W Barclay whoinife | domiciled in the Auckland provice : The ribbon you saw on his mtiferr ! at Eden Park last month wag w*. ably that or the Military Medal Dark Blue—H. M. ("Bill") For man, after leaving TakapunaG® mar School, went to Otan diversity, and in 1936 pteyedfcrni in six Ranfurly - Shield g, represented Auckland against land in 1937, in which year he vs in the Auckland University fib' pack. \ Stanley Street.—Mrs. Mefazics «e formerly Kay Stammers, trtio ifctouring America with the Bqfc Wightman Cup team when ir broke out. She immediately cnaei the Atlantic by aeroplane, tot e the advice of the Tennis *««<*<■ the other members remained;: U.S.A. Mary Hardwick has doa become a professional player. - Disinterested. — Auckland &C mar School was unbeaten hLtßeffs! round, while Takapuna wentthnp the second round undefeated. Bf drew on both occasions they K Takapuna lost to Mount Albert as King's, while Sacred tfeu&ai King's vanquished AucMaadSft last season in which bracketed for the chamiMooditovE in 1932, when Auckland and Sov Albert finished all square. . K. R Macßae, hero of this wißlapPfc kato match at Eden Park mMf* 2, was in the Mount Albert'XT. H* year. .? ; s|g§§|§