ATHLETIC SPORTS GAMES AND PLAYERS

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27470, 2 October 1954, Page 10

ATHLETIC SPORTS GAMES AND PLAYERS

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Thf Colin Bailey Benefit R»ftS n ‘Su? l ? ween the Canterbury bv thi ’a i? ni e d , team and one selected Shu 1 k A , U B! ? ck captain. R. C. Stuart, Will be played at Lancaster Park today Ponafl» e l r tU l d£^ r the Col,n Salley Tlus mateh must command the support of very follower of Rugby football. Colin Bailey, a popular front-ranker in the Linwood senior reserve team suffered injuries from which he died, during the se“ rTvEv r a °°o, C1Ul ?. *° rker v ' ho RpUoJ f ° r tbe sake of tbe Same, Colin the l fnr.HT S a - y s ung married man and the funds raised m today s game will SSblie ‘£ e HPP’-eciatfoTofThe bailer bm w i „ ef ?’ rts of a keen footi « , wlll do something to ease “Bob’ ?l Sh£?t e \ Of a y ° ung wid °“ . usrt has gone to a lot of whiS win 11“*“! togethe '- a team al, s" n Y U pky brl Sht football and WalV4 U he Interested to know whether straight A*®* 115 ’- one strongest SC °E lng wing- three-quarters his cve r know n, retains dash - though some of co Stuart s team are approaching thr> v±” C ? SS tbera ttl y ° a ? gar brigade who will be given a good try-out against New Zealand’s best provincial team. The fine weather the a J™ Ctlon shield games in weeks may affect the I but al * who have enioved I to ei ?tt^H baU this year and are unable to attend can still play a Dart Hv sending contributions to the secretarv! Umo r m SUr6r ° f the CanterblA Strong Field

•vILX be ex Pected that nearly goUer in Christchurch KrthcStoi™' 1 tmofficial , Canterbury stroke championthe Waitikiri course today and r J°w. This event, which is played over four rounds, will provide local W .~ e ? celleat pSe Ven« Ddri™ th ant month to them. ™ Day week-end, the canterbupt championships are to be p ayed at Russley, and at the be! ° f November the New Zealand meCtmg iS tO beld at Freyberg Bowl Golf

„, Cbri ? te b«r ch golfers win see most ?n Sm . leadln g players in the Dominion in action next year, when the Freytoumaman? S ® bc ’ W i 1 inter-provincial l° P £ Pa T ent “ Piayed. Christchurch JtarroAly won the right to have the 1 ? e c ° uncil °f the New zraland Golf Association at a recent ba d bef ore it recommenda’lons that the tournament be held Hastings or Napier, at New Pljroouth, and at Christchurch A motion that the tournament be played ?-ktm!' V «, was PfC “ d the voting was six for and six against. ™ er -tirther discussion. Christchurch e ! edtea “ the venue, and it was m « rge ~, e incoming council X, 1 ? ew Plymouth for 1956. Christchurch is also to have the South Island championship in 1955.

Grandstand Finishes ter , bUry ’ s J ??" furl y Shield team nearly always did better in its second spell than in its first, but the difference in results, mathematically, wap T a £? ed - . Taking only half-time totalled 36 points to opponents’ 37 scores. Canterbury in nine games but in the second spell scored 95 points to 21. The year’s major matches were against Waikato, Otago, and Southland; in these three games the only points scored against Canterbury m the second spell came from a single penalty goal. Three other challenging teams failed to score in the second spell. Clancy Beats Australian

The Canterbury light heavy-weight, Eddie Clancy, beat Tony McCudden at the Auckland Town Hall on Monday night by a technical knock-out in the final round of an eight-round professional contest. McCudden. who was outclassed from the start, was sent to the canvas three times during the bount, Clancy using a left hook and right cross to good effect. Clancy will have another fight m Auckland against an opponent yet

of Riches The St Albans team in the Christchurch senior cricket competition may have two Canterbury right-hand leg break bowlers in it this season. Last summer Don Stark bowled well enough to win a place in the Canterbury Plunket Shield team with his leg breaks. Now Bill Bell, a former St Albans player, has returned to Christchurch from Auckland. He played once for Canterbury some years ago. has represented Auckland on several occasions, and toured South Africa and Australia with the New Zealand team last summer. The inclusion of both may keep a batsman out of the team, but it would not be fair to either bowler to ask him to drop out. A very successful bowling combination of a few years ago was that of Bill Merritt and Roger Blunt —both leg spinners. Golf Galleries

The gallery that watched the final of the English amateur golf championship at Muirfleld, about 3000 strong, was very well behaved, observed the manager of the New Zealand team in England this year (Mr X>. B. Richmond) in his report to the New Zealand Golf Association. He

said there were always about 15 course stewards on the hole being played, but there were no ropes or poles to keep back the crowd. Round each green a white line had been run with a tennis court marker. Stewards kept spectators behind the line and everyone had a chance to see the putting. Mr Redmond thought that system should be adopted for the New Zealand championship. Answers To Correspondents

Black, Hornby: <1) Wellington won the Ranfurly Shield when it beat Waikato by 9 points (two penalty goals and a try) to 6. (2) beat Southland 22 points (two goals from tries, a try and three penalty goals) to 6, beat East Coast 42 (six goals from tries and four tries) to 0; beat Otago by 9 points (two tries and a penalty goal) to 3; beat Auckland by 23 points (four goals from tries and a penalty goal) to 6; lost to Canterbury by 3 points (a penalty goal) to 24.

There is every prospect of England’s cricket captain, Len Hutton, passing Sir Donald Bradman’s test aggregate during the coming Australian season. Bradman's total was 6993 runs, and Hutton at present is 312 runs behind him. If Hutton should reach the 7000 mark, he will have ahead of him only W. R. Hammond, who made 7249 runs in test matches. Already Hutton has been in 72 tests, with only Hammond (85) having appeared more often. He has shared in 41 century partnerships in tests—a record—and he has averaged more than 60 runs an innings in these games. His 19 test centuries leave him 10 behind Bradman and three behind Hammond. In his firstclass career, Hutton’s aggregate is 38 330 and he has made 126 centuries, equal to the total achieved by that even more noted performer. Dr. W. G. Grace. But Hutton still has a long way to go to beat J. B. Hobbs’s 197 —between them are Hendren (170), Hammond (167), Mead (153) Sutcliffe (149) and Woolley (145). Combined League Team

A combined Australian and New Zealand Rugby League team is likely to play Great Britain under floodlights at Bradford after the World Cup Competition in France. The match is proposed for November 17, at Odsal Stadium. Two nights later Australia will probably play New Zealand at Leigh, also under lights. Both the Australian and New Zealand teams will fly home by way of the United States, where they will oppose each other in two exhibition games in Cai - forw.

Ern Toshack Comes Back

ee"- A di^h^ m t l ndine yell of ‘How-iz-Bav e qulet ° f Rushcutter - ? nd announced the return to ! J 4B Test howler, Ern S~5 a sj’ _ wr l tes Tom Goodman in the i Sydney Sunday Herald.” “Tall, blackI dnwn d , Tosb ack who intends to travel d °J™ f £ o ™ hla home in the Gosford E K d Pa 2 f , or Glebe-South Sydney Club bowled keenly, despite dismal conditions. Against Paddington whose two hours of interrupted tatttag nroHuced 103 runs for two wickets b^ded r il'z OrriS 48 lOt1 Ot out) ’ Toshack bowled 11.3 overs and took one wicket rU 2 S ’ Tosback and other bowlers the h»n f ‘ approach t 0 the w icket and Uic ball became greasy and heavy Toshack, with his easy action, bowled SabJl?' a ith Restricted run-up w™ ma A n ¥ lned good control. Arthur Tn d a a s?‘ ls . fac tory start to the tS ban n careMly,“ mngS ’ he Watched

1954 Soccer Season J 95 4. season in Canterbury inf th^ a r,‘°Jl footba >l is rated as one • of the best on record, according to a ia?d r of PO el dent - he improved landard of play in first division matches Fn e iSh C °c ra i ged bigger attendances at I h ,,,k ark - especially in the second number of teams was f^ d “? 1 ed „ from 12 to s « and the scoring th. I '’. Y as elose ’ Celebrating IgEEk! °£ Association footabll in | Canterbury the representative team hE! 5 ga mes against Otago and Wel«?Six n ’r “nd Canterbury players in the South Island team helped in the defeat of the North Island XI. Much of Ea;'. m J? r . Oved , standard of football is credited to players from overseas but it is felt that the future of the game lies with the New Zealander. Unfortunately for the game few outstanding young players are showing up which suggests a lack of coaching in the lower grades. It is hoped later to get enough entries for a competition between secondary schools. Showing improved form late in the season, Western became the champion club for year and all its members appear likely to be available for several years. Technica! finished second on the list and Shamrock, the most improved team in the competition, has excellent prospects. The Coaching School

Sponsored by the Toe H Club, a coaching school for athletes will be held in Christchurch during the Labour weekend. All athletic chibs in the South Island and Wellington have heen told of the school, and the course organiser, Mrs D. Jameson, reports that many applications have already been received from those wishing to take part. The Course is designed to help develop club coaches as well as catering for active athletes. The programme has been broken into three major groups:—(l) sprints, distance running shot, javelin. (2) High jump, | discus, hurdles, hop, step and jump. : (3) Long jump, middle distance, hamI mer, pole vault Those taking part must undergo instruction in one event from each group. The ten coaches from Christchurch, Greymouth, Oamaru, and Dunedin are all holders of the N.Z.A.A.A. coaches’ badge, and Mr H. Salter (Dunedin), is a graduate of Loughborough College, England. Mr S. Dawson, holds a diploma of Physical Education from Otago University. The former New Zealand quarter mile champion, “Jumbo” Tyrie is coach of the Empire Games champion Don J owett. Other instructors are.—the Rev. B. Ryan S.M., (Christchurch), Mr M. Richards (Dunedin), an Empire Games representative; Messrs T. Sweeney and L. Ward (Greymouth); Lieutenant R. Young (Burnham); Mr O. Rogers (Oamaru) and Mrs D. Jameson (Christchurch). Accommodation for visiting athletes will be provided by members of the Toe H Club. Russia in Sport “American observers, like ourselves i must be asking what standards are : likely to be reached by the Russians ’in the 1956 Olympic Games in Meh : bourne," writes a not id sportswriter, j Jack Crump, in the London “Daily ! Telegraph,” discussing Russia’s claim I to have displaced the United States as i the leading nation in athletics. He ! finds that there’s little doubt about ; the issue. “At Berne in the European athletic championships, Soviet competitors performed with such remarkable success that the statement has been made that Russia, and no longer America, now wears the world athletic crown,” says Jack Crump. “The overwhelming supremacy of Russia’s women athletes is clear from the mere statement that eight of the 11 titles went to her and that two events Soviet women took all three medals. I do not believe that any but a totalitarian State could organise control and finance sport on the basis now in operation in Russia. Money is freely operating in Russia. Money is freely available for every aspect of athletic development, in sharp contrast to countries such as America and Britain where the sport is controlled by voluntary organisations without any Government help or finance. There are people who maintain that Stateoperated sport is not in conformity with the ideals and rules of amateurism. That Russia is determined to lead the world in physical achievement is not to be gainsaid. It is no less clear, I think, that her ambition has been or is about to be realised.”

Marching Season About 4000 girls throughout New Zealand wiD step out this month to begin another season of marching displays and competitions. To the New Zealand Marching Association are attached some 80 local associations and nearly 400 teams, each containing at least 10 girls. Heading the administrative side as national president is Brigadier J. G. C. Wales, of Auckland. A march plan, setting the details of a standard march on which all competitions throughout New Zealand are based, was promulgated last April, and for the last four or five months most of the top-line teams have been busy practising it. The national championships will be decided at Wanganui in March. Good Sportsmen

“Happily it is not only in actual achievement that the Russians have made such great improvement. It needs to be emphasised that in Berne the Soviet representatives were wonderfully fine athletes/ deserving winners, excellent losers, good sportsmen and sportwomen, and more approachable and friendly than on previous occasions when they have competed against other nations,” says an English writer. “Sport is mellowing and maturing the Communist sportsmen and aso their leaders, as was discovered in the council room and in private discussion at Berne. This may be received with cynicism in some quarters, but it is a matter of fact and not of opinion. As Lord Burghley has often pointed out. sport is providing the only bridge between the Communist countries and the Western Powers. Increase in sporting associations with Russia in particular can do nothing but good. The forthcoming match in London between teams representing London and Moscow is particularly to be welcomed.” A Decisive Win

The Queensland welter-weight Eddie Francis, was saved from further punishment from a merciless barrage of short punches to the head by Ulf Christensen when the referee, Mr E. C. Armishaw, halted the bout in the final round of their eight-round professional boxing match in the Auckland Town Hall on Monday. This technical knockout victory of Chistensen’s was easily his best effort in Auckland. From the start he attacked and never let up until the referee raised his £,love. Francis, who has i beaten Bert Hornby, a victor over | Christensen, fought with courage in not taking a count until a few minutes before the end of the bout. Both i Blb.