SEARCHLIGHT ON SPORT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20010, 8 August 1939, Page 10

SEARCHLIGHT ON SPORT

Broad Jumper Injured

Tho you lift Now South Wales athlete, flasil Dickenson, of whom hiftli hopes are held in Australia that he will l,e an Olympic Games winner next year, will not ho seen in action attain before November. Playing ■Ruftby for St. George, he scored a brilliant try, but shortly afterwards he fractured his shin bone. At the last Empire Games held at Sydney ho war, third in the broad jump with 23ft. agin, against the. 24ft. 4!Jin of H. Brown (Canada), the winner, while in tho hoi) step and pump he was third with Soft. 3in, against the 50ft Klin of J. P. .Metcalfe (Australia). * * * * Well-Known Sport The referee in the Barry Junior Cup match between AVairoa and Poverty Bay juniors on the Oval last Saturday. .Mr. 11. K. Heiford. was a member of tlie Napier Technical Old Boy:.' Rugby Club from 1919 to 1921

and was a member of the senior team when the 1924 All Black A. E. (Bert) Cooke played for that Club. In 192 S he was a member of the Hawke’s Bay B senior representative team and has often played in the elect of NapierHastings representatives. He has been a, resident of Gisborne for live years and besides refereeing, he is well known in military circles, and was a member of the New Zealand contingent that 'went to England for the coronation of King George VI. His sport in the summer month's is rowing, being a member of the Gisborne Rowing Club. On several occasions since his arrival in Gisborne lie has acted as drum-major to the Wellington East Coast Mounted Rifles Band.

Born Abroad

An interesting point in connection with lho Kiwi team now on route to England is that both hookers were born at Home. George Orman came into this world at Loanhead (Scotland) and Albert Leathcrbarrow at Manchester. C. Beadle, a front-row man, was also born in England, at Durham. D. Solomon (Fiji), G. Mitchell (Haratonga), and R. Banliam (Australia) are other members of the side who are not New Zealand-born.

Great Batsman Passes On There died recently at Cambridge, England, at the age of (IS years, Thomas Hayward, an ex-England and Surrey batsman. Playing for England in test matches against Australia, he figured in six first-wicket partnerships of over 100 runs; three of these being with A. C. MacLaren, two with Sir Pelham Warner and the other with the Hon. F. S. Jackson, when they scored 185 runs at Kennnigton Oval in 1899, and Hayward scored 127 runs in the innings. The crowd was so pleased with his display that £l3l was collected for him on the ground. It. was with Jack Hobbs that .he was seen to best advantage as an opening batsman for Surrey as this pair scored 40 first-wicket partnerships of over 100 runs. During bis 23 years in first class cricket ho only gained one pair of "spectacles” and that was against Kent in 19-1.2,. but he was run out in the second innings. On eight occasions he was successful in carrying his hat, and two were against Australia for Surrey at Kennington Oval—l 29 runs in 1905, and 9G runs 1 909. Three times Hayward was in an opening wicket partnership of over SOO runs, viz., 352 and 312 with Hobbs and 314 with A. C. MacLaren. In all first class matches he scored 43,549 runs at an average of 41,84 and in his 29 tests against Australia he scored 1747 runs at an average of 35.05.

Champion Again Tho English bowling champion, K. J. Cross who, with his father, played' in several tournaments in New Zealand last Christmas, recently won the Eastbourne, England, open tournament when lie defeated a former champion G. W. A. Wright, 21 —10. * * * * Mrs. Morpeth in Form Defeating Miss Betty Kernot, the Australian ladies’ golf champion, 3 ! and 2, Mrs. Sloan Morpeth, the form--1 er national champion, won the Royal Melbourne Associates’ club championship over the East course. Mrs. j Morpeth, who was not down at any ; stage, played solidly throughout, j while Miss Kernot played a mixture of good and bad golf- Her pitch shots j were undecisive, and she had a I tendency to take too much turf.

Large Rugby Boot Ross Jones, second-row forward in the New Zealand Rugby League team, shouldn’t have much trouble in getting a man-sized grip on English soil. 1-Ie is reputed to have the largest pair of feet ever to grace Carlaw Park, Auckland, in football boots, anyway. Jones, so the tale goes, takes “125.” But then, he is a big fellow—15st Gib and Oft 3Mn no less. As befits a man with such a sturdy frame, Jones is by calling a son of the soil. Ho is a farmer at Matakana. Only 21, he is one of the several youngsters in tho New Zealand team who are expected to develop no end in England. « * * * * Having a Spell Billy Parris, the Wellington professional boxer, who has had a very successful season so far is now having a spell on account of having injured a thumb in his bout with Barney Down at Dunedin recently.

Referee Injured For the second time this season the referee in charge of the match on the Athletic Park, Wellington, has been injured and lias had to be replaced. Twenty minutes after the start of the match between Wellington and Athletic, Mr. J. S. King suddently developed leg trouble —a ligament being affected —and had to be replaced by another referee. It is coincidental that Mr. A. Hooper, who was a touch judge at tho time, was called upon to referee, as he took charge of the previous game on Athletic Park when the referee was injured. * * * * Five Golfers Tie Five professional golfers—’Norman von Nida, Ted Bolger, Lou Kelly, Charlie Gray and Sam Richardson—recently tied with par rounds of 70 at tho Oatlands (Sydney) Club. It is very doubtful if there has been a previous record of five professionals ’tieing for first prize.

BY " FOUR-FORTY”

Sutcliffe’s Record

The English test cricketer Herbert Sutcliffe is now in his 45th year but

ho maintains his high standard as a batsman. One June 39, playing for Yorkshire against Middlesex, he scor-

ed 175 runs before he was caught and bowled toy Compton and this made his fourth consecutive century innings, a

feat that the great W. G. Grace was never able to achieve, although Sutcliffe had previously achieved the same feat eight years ago. When he scored 107 in the match at Lords this season his tally for first-class cricket was 50,000 runs. The only other cricketers in England to score more than this are Hobbs, Hendren, Mead, Woolley and W. G. Grace, but they all took longer than tile 20 years that Sutcliffe, took.

One June 17 in the match against Nottinghamshire Sutcliffe scored 71 runs to bring his tally for the season to pver 1000 runs, a feat that he has achieved in every season since 1919 — on 21 occasions. Ho was very steady in compiling the 71 runs, as it took him three hours 10 minutes. * * * * New Gisborne Referee A new referee to the Poverty Ba> Referees’ Assn. Mr. A. Gabolynscy has had previous refereeing experience having been a member of the Thames Valley Referees Assn. He has controlled a number of representative matches. While a resident of that district ho also played representative football and was a member

of tho Thames Valley Rdgby Union. Ho .is well known on the East Coast where his duties of dairy inspector take him.