TOPICAL TATTLE

Evening Star, Issue 21846, 9 October 1934, Page 4

TOPICAL TATTLE

KEWSY NOTES (Hi SPORT IBv H.P.S.I Miss 0. Kay has a remarkable record in championship golf, having twice won the New Zealand title, the Australian title once, and at least thirteen provincial titles (says a Christchurch writer). Miss Kay became prominent nine years ago, when, as a. girl of lu, she reached the semi-finals of the -New Zealand championship. Miss Kav has twice been in the winning pair of the championship foursomes, and i-cceri-ly in Sydney won both the Australian mixed foursomes, partnered with Ferrier, and the women’s foursomes with Miss Gaisford. In last year s Tasman Cup match Miss Kay was the only plaver to win her singles, and with Miss Gaisford won the only foursome played. 1 * * * * Dr W. A. Priest, the University and ex-Otago cricketer, will be available for the University Club only until Christmas. He then leaves for New Plymouth, and should be a big acquisition to Taranaki cricket. w * * • Buddy Baer, a brother of -Max Baer, world heavy-weight boxing champion, was to have his first professional match this month, his opponent to be Jack Van Noy, whom Max Baer fought earlier in his career and knocked out in seven rounds. * * * * Mr Emmett MacDermott, a dental student at Sydney University, has invented a nose guard of an entirely new type (says an exchange). It is designed to protect the nasal cavities, middle ear, and sinuses from infection by sea water when swimming. lt_has received the approval of leading Sydney rhinologists. Mr MacDermott, who is ‘ a Sydney University swimming “ blue,” "injured his middle ear while diving. He ivas advised by his doctor to give up swimming. He began experimenting, and after two years has evolved his guard. The device is made of a soft rubber called flexlite. It is shaped to fit the nostnls and completely cover the nose. The rubber is lined externally with a veneer of vulcanite. The vulcanite is a flesh colour, and the guard is kept in place by an elastic band. * * * * Eleven bouts featured Gus Son nonberg during the seventeen days that lie was in the dominion, and he won all but two, one of which was declared “no contest,” and the other “.no decision” on account of the colla'pse of the ring. He met Walter Browning and Ali Bey three tunes each, Mamos and Dettori twice each, and Meyer once. * * * * Says the ‘Southland Times’: “Unnecessary delays, a poor programme of preliminaries, slack ropes, and a tame ‘ big ’ fight made Dunedin’s comeback night last week nob even a good imitation of a novice show. There was much to be desired in the running of the tournament.” * * * * F.C. Austria, welFkuown Continental football side which visited Anfield (England) last year, and were beaten by 5 goals to 2 by Liverpool, will pay a return visit on Wednesday, November 28. * * * • In the absence of F. J. Grose, who is now in Victoria, Australia, the fastest lime issue in the annual Round the Gorges road race decided last Saturday week was fairly open. The race this year carried dominion amateur road championship honours, and the title was won by R. B. Blakeway, scr, in 4h 48min 44sec. Last year Grose was fastest rider in 4h 33min 26sec. Blakeway has displayed marked improvement throughout the season. Last year, in the annual Palmerston North to Wellington race of 102 miles, he rode off TOmin, and was fifth fastest rider in 5h 16min 28sec. He finished in twentieth place, just behind J. Leather, TOmin, the first Auckland rider placed. * * * * Don Stirling, of Dunedin, will meet Ted Morgan at Oamaru to-night for the welter-weight championship of New Zealand, at present held by Morgan. * * ♦ * Tho United States team at the international amateur athletic meeting in the Colombes Stadium, Paris, at which W. R. Bonthron beat J. E. Lovelock in a 1,500-metres race, won every event on the programme. B. Eastman won the 800 metres in 1.53 2-5. G. Hardin, who has several times recently beaten the world’s record for the 400 metres hurdles, won this event comfortably. His time of 0.51 2-5 beats the official world's record of 0.52, held jointly by himself and another American, F. Morgan Taylor. A new French record of 0.34 was established by Kane, of Cornell, in winning the 300 metres. The previous record was 0.34 2-5, and this was also beaten by Boisset, who was second in 0.34 i. a * * * Messrs E. A. Dwyer (N.S.W.), W. J. Johnson (V.), and D. G. Bradman. (S.A.) have been appointed as selectors of the Australian test team which will tour South Africa next season. The appointments were made by the Board of Control at the last session of its annual meeting recently. The selection of Bradman indicates almost certainly that he will captain the Australians on the tour. He succeeds W. M. Woodfull on the Selection Committee. Woodfull has announced his retirement from test cricket. Bradman replaces Dr C. E. Dolling as the South Australian representative (says the ‘ Australasian ’). * * * *' Now that Barney Ross has lost the world’s welter-weight championship to Jimmy M'Larnin, he is being beseiged by six challengers for his world’s lightweight title. It is not thought that Ross can still scalo within the lightweight limit —but he might if a big “ gate ’’ is assured. * * ♦ ♦ P. W. Southall, the well-known English cyclist, recently rode from London to York, a distance of 196 miles, in 8h 59min 19sec. This lowered by 23min the record set for the distance earlier in the year by Hubert Opperman, the Australian champion. * * ♦ » The Australian heavy-weight boxing champion, Ambrose Palmers (says the Sydney ‘ Referee ’) continues to he dogged by ill-hick. Playing for Footscray (Vic.) seconds recently in the match in which they defeated Fitzroy seconds in one of the final games for the premiership of the Victorian Football League second eighteens, Palmer broke the knuckle of the first finger of his left hand. The bone is split, and is likely to take from six weeks to two months to mend.

For the third consecutive winter season •' Bill ” Hitch, old Surrey and England fast be vler. non- an umpire, is to act as official coach for the Nizam Government, Hyderabad. Accompanied by his wife. Hitch sailed for India on August 24. During the recent M.C.C. tour of India Hitch acted as umpire in all the test matches. A very fine fellow is Bill Hitch. We saw a lot of him in Australia (says the ' Referee ’).

Archie Warbnck. the twenty-two-year-old visiting Australian welterweight, is not unknown to New Zealanders through previous residence in the dominion and successes on the track in Wellington. Hailing from Scotland, he came to Queensland, where, at the age of seventeen, he won the State flyweight championship and was runner-np in the Australian championships. In 1930 lie annexed both the fly and ban-tam-weight honours, and came second in the five-mile novice cross-country race. Ti;e next year he ran second in two track events at three miles and 3,000 metres, and was just beaten in the sis and a-half miles State cross-country championship. He was runner-up in the feather-weight championship, being defeated by E. Cook, brother of the Olympic Games’ heavy-weight representative. In 1932 Warbrick spelled from the ring, won the 3.000 metres Queensland championship, was second in the cross-country over six and a-balf miles, and in the three-mile track event. He came to Motueka in August. 1932, and in the Wellington provincial athletic championships ran fourth in the three miles in 1933 and this ’. in the race this year. He took part in sis amateur boxing contests during his twenty months’ stay, winning five and losing one to W. Francis, of Otago, in the semi-finals of the New Zealand light-weight championship at Blenheim. Returning to Australia, he won the 10,000 and 3,000 metres Queensland cross-country championships and the welter-weight boxing championship of that State. « * * * Arthur Norris, one of the leading English long-distance professional runners in the ’eigh ties, died at Southend; aged seventy-six. In 1884 Norris won the world's professional ten miles championship for the London belt, and two years later he won the one-mile and twenty-miles championships. He was the first trainer to the Southend United Football Club, and acted in that capacity to Tottenham Hotspur when it was an amateur team. • * * * Nominations from ninety-seven Victorian cyclists for the centenary “ thousand ” in October have been received* by the Dunlop Perdriau Rubber Company Ltd., which is organising the event (says the ‘ Australasian ’). Among the entries are H. Opperman, W. F. Stuart, H. K. Veitch, R. W. Lamb, A. Angus. E. Milliken, all prominent riders on back marks in Victoria. Twenty entries have been received from interstate riders, hut until test .races in New Zealand. West Australia, South Australia, and Tasmania have been held the full list will not be known. One hundred riders will be chosen to compete m the event, and acceptances will be announced later. * * * * At a conference of representatives of the Sheffield Shield States, following the Australian Board of Control meeting, it was decided that the West Australian Association be informed that owing to the many difficulties the .instates competition advocated by it could not be proceeded with. West Australia will be informed that New South Wales is considering the question of sending a team to the West this season, and that South Australia is prepared to send a team in 1935-36. The conference requested Victoria to send a team at a later date. • * » * The congress of the International Amateur Athletic Federation at Stockholm a few weeks ago rejected an American proposal that races at 1,600 metres and 3,200 metres be held at the Olympic Games, instead of at 1,500 metres and 3,000 metres. An Italian proposal to remove the 3,000-mctre steeplechase from the Olympic programme was also rejected. » * * * The record total for a test cricket innings is 849, by England against the West Indies, in Jamaica, 1930. The highest score ever made in first class matches is 1,107, by Victoria against New South Wales at Melbourne in 1926-27. Victoria also compiled 1,059 against Tasmania at Melbourne in 1922-23. 4t * * * The New Zealand heavy-weight wrestler, Walter Browning, has had two matches recently with the exworld’s champion, Gus Sonnenberg (says the Auckland 1 Herald ’). In the first match Sonnenberg dived at his opponent, missed, and hit the ropes, which collapsed. Sonnenberg was incapacitated and the referee declared the bout no contest. At New Plymouth Browning met Sonnenberg again, the New Zealander being disqualified after throwing Sonnenberg through the ropes and struggling with the referee in an attempt to jump on his opponent. Each wrestler had one fall at the time of the disqualification. * * * * The chairman of the central executive of the Royal Life Saving Society, Mr H. Lock, of London, will be in Dunedin on Labour Day, almost two months earlier than expected by the Otago Centre of the society, Mr Lock, who is visiting the society’s chief branches in Australia and New Zealand, was originally to have toured Australia before coming to the dominion. but Victoria found it impossible to receive him for another month, so that his itinerary was changed to enable him to visit New Zealand meanwhile. His arrival at the beginning of the season is regretted by life-saving bodies in this country, since it will not now be convenient to arrange beach displays in bis honour. It is stated as likely that the Otago Surf Association will arrange a demonstration at St. Clair Beach on the occasion of Mr Lock’s visit. The annual meeting of the Surf Association will be held at St. Clair to-night. * ♦ * ♦ Explanation of the reason why Australia’s test player, W. J. O’Reilly, does not make more runs was forthcoming from Mr A. Vincent, captain of the North Sydney cricket team (states a Reuter message in an English paper). Vincent said that O’Reilly takes no risk with his fingers. " Few people,” ho said, “ know how O’Reilly looks after his fingers. What would it be worth if he scored 50 or 60 and bad a finger smashed in doing it? It would he a tragedy for Australia.” The North Sydney captain was moved to make this statement by various critics in Sydney who pointed out that O’Reilly was not making many runs. He added that O’Reilly could make them, n« he had on more than one occasion proved.