NOTEBOOK OF SPORT

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21706, 13 February 1936, Page 16

NOTEBOOK OF SPORT

Glimpses of Play and

Winging Forwards ■ ■ '‘Before the All Blacks arrived there were rumours that they were not going to use wing forwards as known in this country, and yet by the end of the tour they were winging as intensively as any side against whom they played,” states the Rugby writer ■of the “Manchester Guardian” in an article dealing with the wing-forward. He says that winging was never so intensive as at the present day, and he declares that present-day inside backs have a much harder task than the stars of former years. “The All Blacks’ defeat at the hands of Swansea was in no small measure due to the destructive tactics of E. Long, the home captain, who was helped enormously by the fact that Tindill, the inside fiveeighth, stood too near to the scrum and 1 thus presented an' easy target. Seldom if ever did he part with the ball on the move, seldom if ever did Caughey receive the ball on the move, and as a result the crash tackling of C. Davey was made all the simpler and all the more effective. The same thing, to a lesser extent, , happened at Twickenham, where Tindill once Main stood too near his forwards. Griffiths, for all his limitations as an attacking player, at least stood, a fair distance from his partner, usually Sadler, who sent out a long and accurate pass. Had there been qo wing-forwards these two matches might have ended differently.” Longer Golf Courses

National Surf (MpUjHP Prospects of a really entry for tho New Ztilari|r|ra pionships at and 23' are very bright,,anu; siti that Canterbury clubs larly well represented! ■. Thg&l Club has decided to send attfa Taylor’s Mistake. Club represented in the single and fo events. The team will inoiad known swimmers in L. - (former. New Zealand champion), J. Young (winner Annette. Kellerman Cup harbffi in 1934), and D. H. Symes/tU Zealand national 440 yards, pion). • ’ - :>-il

Important and interesting changes are being made at two of Britain’s most famous championship golf links —Hoylake and Prestwick. For this year’s open championship the course of the Royal Liverpool Club is to be extended to more than 7100 yards. Hoylake thus will become the longest of all the championship courses, Prince’s, Sandwich, coming next with 6890 yards. . ~ , , From tee to green Hoylake will be 4J miles long, and if to this be added the walks to the new teeing grounds and the deviations made by a player during his round, he will cover well over five miles before getting, back to the club-house. , . , In a championship six rounds are played, so that a competitor will cover more than 30 miles!

Ironmonger Retires H. Ironmonger, Australian veteran left-hand spin bowler, who is now touring with Tarrant’s team in India, intends to retire from the game. With Don Blackie, who retired at the end of last season at the age of 53, Ironmonger formed the greatest bowling combinations in Australian cricket. They played for the St. Kilda Club m Melbourne, and of course for the Victorian state side, but their appearances in test cricket were curiously infrequent. The bowling figures _for this famous pair for St. Kilda,, Victoria, and tests against England are:—.

St, Kilda Balls. M. E. W. Av. Blackie .. ( 20,143 479 6949 495 14.03 Ironmonger 20,423 531 6754 502 13.45

Victoria Blackie .. 10,050 223 3798 159 23.88 Ironmonger 19,262 586 6997 313 22.35

Australia Blackie .. 1,260 51 444 14 31.71 Ironmonger Training for Davis Cup Team “For the first time in Australia’s Davis Cup history the players chosen in the team for America will be required to undergo a month’s physical training under an appointed supervisor before leaving Australia. Nothing will be left to chance in Australia's quest for the Davis Cup this year,”, writes Harry Hopman, in the Melbourne “Herald.” “The importance of physical fitness was seen in Adrian Quist's defeat of Jack Crawford, in the final of the Australian ' championship. .It would not surprise me to see Crawford, after the month’s training, turn the tables on Quist. Quist is always fit and well. The decision concerned Crawford mainly, and McGrath. The selectors considered that Crawford could be much fitter, and 'that McGrath is not yet in the best of health. The idea appealed to the players, provided that they could make the necessary business arrangements. Quist, who. has been selected, and Crawford, whose announcement that he is available is expected at any moment, will place themselves in the hands of the Lawn Tennis Association after a week’s touring in Tasmania, McGrath has made no announcement, but few doubt that he is available. The physical test will relieve the minds of many tennis enthusiasts, who believe some of our leading men are not as fit as they should be to produce their best.”

“You’re Out” A peculiar incident occurred in a cricket match at Auckland recently. This was in a special competition for teams from mercantile firms, each supplying their own umpire. The official who acted for the leading team on this occasion amazed his opponents by the following action:—A ball was played in the direction of square-leg, where there was no fieldsman. The umpire was standing near the spot, and he ran after the ball, picked it up, and threw it in to the wicket. The running batsman was well out of his crease, and the umpire—the man who had also fielded the ball—held up his hand and called “You’re out!” The astonished victim and his teammates subsequently • enquired from the umpire the reason for his action. The official’s reply was to the effect that he was fielding as a substitute for a player who had temporarily left the field.

t| End of Britannia ' ' \ It is being said that the BritaonU will never race again, saysTa wriia in “Blue Peter.” Old age at to have overtaken King. JGesr||£ grand old racing yacht. Blow high § blow low, this season fhey.couSt || nothing with her, and. she,jendes?M( shortened season without flag—a record unprecedented in aßsaj 40-odd years of sport' Recent alterations seem not ip id blame, and where the fauhliibs|| difficult to say. Mr Nicbolsantfßn that the only original material mjm Britannia is her stein and stem-pm every other thing in the ship .renewed once or more siocelsfaergat launched in 1893, It that finally the vessel’s inherent- jqba&H has been evaporated, so to ing a composite vessel without-ahra we, say—her own soul. X Faiwasser In France ! V A. Faiwasser, who used Rugby for Hawke’s Bay and Jjor sej| Zealand Maori teams, and French blood in his veins, >is star player of the new. Sgnpi| Rugby League Club. football for two or three yearasj|M Worth of England, and 1 France and was - with ,'a nhafljgjfil French clubs before Bordeaux. Faiwasser, who French fluently, is very popuuDT<|| France. Recently he came toEngtei! in search qf talent to club, and'returned to Bdr3eaoX‘3rii L. Leeton, who used to play Rggpg for Auckland. Faiwasser -hasiambtl bition to bring a Maori League‘jek| to France.' ; _ ; y r ,| t J

M.C.C. AVERAGES f-J * . r ‘M'M The following are the' bowling averages of the Cricket Club team up jtbe against Poverty Bay:— j 1 - • -a BATTING , ; | J J. H. Parks 15.3 >2Ol 711. SJ| J. Langridge .. 12 2 118 494 v 49d W. Barber .. 12 1 173 482 v i4al D. Smith .. 10 1 165 860.; 4JU J. Hardstaff .. 13 1 109 457 '-38| N. S. MitchellInnes .. 35 3 104* 423 8M E. R. T. Holmes 10 1 100* 274 JKH J. M, Sims 13 1 54 325^gi J. H. Human .. 18 2 ' 97. 311 M S. C. Griffiths .. 14 4 32 .194 iW C. J. Lyttelton 12 0 80 203>JS3 A. G. Powell .-9 1 45 121 H. D. Read 12 3 25 81. A. D. Baxter .. 8 4 10* 26 8* BOWLING r v>S W. R. Av N- S. Mitchell-Innes -2 IS & C. J. Lyttelton .. 3 21 :7i James Langridge •• 15 ?|S J. Hardstaff - .. 1 Jg-® .A. D. Baxter -28 J. M. Sims •• 53 25,» J. H. Parks 24 «0 H. D. Read & 34 694, -JJ J. H. Human •*' 5 -1® » E. R. T. Holmes 2 ® S. C. Griffith m 0