SPORTS NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 56, 9 March 1929, Page 22

SPORTS NOTES

Archie Jackson, ' the Australian cricket colt, has been elected ■ captain of the Balinain Cricket; Club; He is the youngest first-grade captain Sydney has known for many years'.: It has been found necessary to make an alteration in the R.P.N.Y.C. racing programme. Owing to 30th March falling on Easter Saturday, the races for the Turnbull and Bothavnley Cups set down for that' day have been transferred- to 6th April, and the Maxwell Bating Cup, which was .to :have been decided on the .latter date, has "been postponed until 13th April. ; .

In a recent club" match at Adelaide, J. T. Murra3 r, an opening batsman for South Australia, made- 179. runs in 75 minutes. He realised 34 runs from one over. Goulburn claims a great slogger in a player named: Horan, who ie one match made; 100 in twenty-six minutes and in another 1 he made 215 in ninety minutes, hitting 56 from two overs. ' ■ ■ . ■'. ■ : '

W..A. Oldfield, the Australian wicketkeeper, is to be married on the 23rd March to Miss Ruth Hunter, of Randwiek. Alan Kippax will be best man. C. E. Pellew, of South Australia, made a century in" a recent: game in Adelaide. ....

Both W. M. Whyte and Miss Robinson, members of the' last Auatralian Olympic team, were defeated on the second day of the New South Wales athletic championships at Sydney. J. Carlton, tho '•'W Olympian to compete, won the 100 yards championship in 10 1-lOsec. Whyte was second to J. A. Martin in the one mile fiat.: . :--.-- ■,■•:••. -. .■•'-.•:

With the object of bringing together youths from all classes, the Governor of Victoria, .Lord Somers, •. instituted a "Get Together" camp at Anglesea. Victoria. Eighty attended.the camp, the youths being drawn from colleges, offices, factories,, etc. ■ Included in the number was an old boy of the Thorridon Normal School,: Wellington, '& A. J. Blandford, who is now attending the Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. When in Welliugtpn he represented his school for, three years in the inter-school 'athletic competitions, and that he has continued to do well on the field of sport since' going to Australia is shown by the fact that he left the Wadhurst Preparatory School as champion",, and has been champion for the last two years (under 15 and under 16) at the Grammar School. His section at Lord Somers's camp was successful m winning the athletic competition, and in'the. cricket match, which his side won by 159 runs to 157, he made 72 and took six wickets. j Incident in Adelaide Test. Many people have wondered why it is that the English bowlers, Tate, Larwood, and Geary retire from the field as often as they do. So often has this occurred that, on© hears it suggested that Australia is playing against twelve men (states the Sydney "Mail"). No one knows what "takes place in the-sanctum sanctorum of the dressing-rooms.. On tho Saturday of the Adelaide Test Geary, after delivering a few overs, retired to thejpavi-i lion, and was on the table being massaged when tho chairman of the Board of Control, Mr. B. V. Scrymgour, entered tho dressing-room. Qouting from tho rules governing Test matches, the chairman pointed out that Geary could not go on the field again after having left it for the purpose of being massaged. Geary, not knowing Mr. Scrymjour, resented what appeared to him So bo,an intrusion and an interference, and somo warm words ensued. The incident was reported to Mr. Toone, tbo manager of tho visiting team. It is understood that an. official discussion took place cm the following evening. Tho rulo upon the subject, in the "Board of Control of Test Matches at Home" states: "Jfo player on the fielding side shall leave the field for the. purpose of having amb down or shower whilst .a Test match is actually in progress."