News and Views on Many Sports from Many Places

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 264, 4 August 1936, Page 14

News and Views on Many Sports from Many Places

The revenue account of the English Rugby Union reveals a profit ou last season of £7815. Receipts on the match account yielded a balance of £27,914, due almost solely to the two big matches at Twickenham. The net profit on the match between England and New Zealand was £14,766, and that between England and Scotland £14,068.

Negotiations are being carried on by the Marlborough Association for a match for Rayner against, cither Joe Hall or “Young” Delaney, two of the Australian contingent at present making their presence felt in the Dominion. No matter which of the two is finally signed up as Rayner’s opponent the fight should be a spirited one.

Joe Puata, who plays for the Purangi Rovers fifteen in the Taranaki district, is now 61 years of age, and. though his hair is now almost snow white, he continues to be one of the stars of the team. In four consecutive matches recently he played at half-back, five-eighth, wing three-quarter, and full-back. Joe is not only a footballer, but an all-round athlete. At putting the shot, the long jump, hop. step and jump, and sprint events he can put all the youngsters in the district in the shade.

Otago has suffered a severe loss by the departure to take up a position in Auckland of 8. W. Jarvis, the New Zealand intermediate boys’ 100yds., 220yds., and 440yds. swimming champion (states the Dunedin “Star.”) Jarvis is one of the greatest , swimmers for his age New Zealand has yet produced, and in his first season in the senior division he should be a big asset to Auckland. Apart from his brilliance as a swimmer, he is a very fine diver —he was runner-up in the New Zealand intermediate boys’ diving championship in 1935 —and also a first-rate water nolo player. He was a member of the Dunedin club’s A team at water polo when it won the premiership on more than one occasion.

Don Sterling is suffering from eye trouble following ou his match against Archie Hughes recently, and ns a result the bout between he and Pluto, to have taken place at Dunedin, been cancelled. The Otago association is now looking round for another opponent for Pluto.

The Japanese track aud field team arrived at Berlin for the Olympic Games with military precision. They formed up in a column aud stood at attention outside the gates, and after a brief reception marched to their cottage. They are obviously'subject to the same discipline as the swimmers, who are allowed only half a day’s relaxation a week, and only then as a team. Otherwise, as one Japanese remarked, “We eat, sleep and swim all day.” An Australian commentator says that the girl swimmers cannot compare with the men. except their breaststroke representative. Miss H. Maehata, whom Australian Claire Dennis narrowly defeated at Los Angeles.

The name of Morris is well-known in Otago sport. Mr. J. F. Morris was one of the hardest-hitting amateur boxers ever to represent this province, and won

the New Zealand amateur featherweight title. He uow conducts boxiug classes at' Milton and Kaitaugata, aud has also been prominently associated with the control of women’s hockey in South Otago. Severs' of his daughters have played for Otago since the formation of the South Otago Association. Miss H. Morris, who represented South Otago last year, now plays for College Old Girls, and was . a member of the Wellington team which : beat Fiji by 4 goals to nil at the Basin Reserve last week. 1

Charlie Robins, the former Wellington and North Auckland Rugby representative, is creating a fine impression by his play in Napier. lie is playing for Marist 0.8., the leading team, the great strength of which u.p to now has been a battling forward pack including M. A. O’Brien, the Wellington Plunket Shield cricketer, and J. O’Brien, who played for Hawke’s | Bay against Wellington. The advent of ‘ Robins, however, has transformed the '■ back line. A Hawke's Bay writer says: “If Marists did at any time feel uncoin- ' fortable about winning the championship, they may consider themselves as ‘sitting pretty’ from now on.” Robins will probably play for Hawke’s Bay as soon as he has fulfilled the interprovincial residential qualification of three weeks.