SPORT IN BRIEF

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30530, 27 August 1964, Page 15

SPORT IN BRIEF

Available The All Black full-back, D. B. Clarke, said in Taupo last night he would be available for international football as long as he was selected. “I would be delighted to play for New Zealand against the touring South African team next year,” he added.—(P.A.) Cup To Nelson The Peter Dawson Cup for competition between South Island minor associations of the New Zealand Football Association is to be awarded to Nelson, the New Zealand council decided. This season the cup was competed for by West Coast and Nelson.—(P.A.) Well Found Juan Boscu, aged 45, walked across a field at Gerona, now ploughed up, on which he used to referee football matches. His foot hit a metal object . . . I and he picked up a silver engraved whistle he lost during a match in 1939. It still worked. Defeated Miss S. Field, of New Zealand, was defeated, 6-11. 3-11, by Mrs D. King, of Tasmania, in the women’s singles matches at the Australian Badminton championships at Adelaide yesterday. In the women’s doubles, Miss B. James and Miss Field lost, 10-15, 17-14, 8-15, to R. Hydon and H. Dorron, of Victoria. —(P.A.) Olympic Tennis The president of the New South Wales Lawn Tennis Association (Mr G. Sample) said yesterday that a request had been made for tennis to be included in the 1968 Olympic Games. Mr Sample, who has just returned from an overseas tour, told a meeting of the New South Wales Lawn Tennis Association: “There is every chance that tennis will be one of the sports contested at the 1960 games in Mexico City.”— (P.A.) Denial Although he is running three nights a week, Herb Elliott today denied that he was planning a comeback to international athletics. Elliott, who won a gold medal and set new world and Olympic records for the 1500 metres at the Rome games in 1960, retired from athletics soon after the games and took a degree at Cambridge University.—(P.A.)