GENERAL NEWS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20186, 2 March 1940, Page 9

GENERAL NEWS

REMARKABLE CATCHES GOLF AT NIGHT CRICKETING BROTHERS Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player, at present in New Zealand, recently received a wedding invitadon 4(i days after the event. He was asked to ’ attend the marriage of Catherine Ann Fisher to Robert Lorimore Riggs on December 9. 1939; Riggs is America’s No. 1 tennis player. * * * * Acting-Pilot Officer T. C. McGiilivray, of Oamaru, is lo fight Able Seaman Bradshaw, a naval diver, in a tournament arranged by the English Amateur Boxing Association and the Imperial Services Boxing Association at the Wembley Empire Pool on February 22. * * * * Charlie Smith, the well-known former Hawke’s Bay Maori footballer, who went to England a few years ago to play Rugby League, was injured recently while playing tor Halifax. A damaged leg kept him out of the team for some weeks, but enabled him to spend more time on his pig farm. He has over 100 pedigree animals. * » * # Two remarkable catches were taken in a senior cricket match in Melbourne. In the first the batsman snicked a ball to second slip, from whosp hands it flew to the third slip, the latter taking the catch. In the second case the batsman hit ball hard down on lo the foot of a fieldsman standing close in at leg. The ball flew off the foot into the air and was -caught by that fieldsman. * »:« v ! * ! A member of the Hutt second grade eleven, R. Roberts, was Wellington’s most unlucky cricketer in a recent match. Playing against University at ICelburn, he clean bowled one of the batsmen, but the umpire had signalled no-ball. The next delivery the batsman snicked to slips, and was dropped. Up came Roberts for his third delivery. Again the batsman was dismissed, and again, too, the umpire had called “No-ball! # * * * Golf at night may become Johannesburg’s new craze, for probably what is the first night course has i been opened to the public. 'This is the San Souci course. The fairways are floodlit through, lights suspended from trees and other vantage points, and the greens are also well lit. Local professionals are soon to test the course in a competition at night to see whether the new conditions make material alterations to the cards. <| * * a Regarding present-day war-time Rugger, I am sorry to hear that the Catford Bridge Club is lindijig some difficulty in carrying on owing to the fact that the majority of _ its New Zealand members have now joined up. barring those awaiting the arrival o! the New Zealand contingent, says an English writer. Catford Bridge, like a good many other clubs, varies in strength from week to week, being dependent to a large extent on members home on leave. In a recent match the team was able to play Don Cobden, the Royal Air Force Barbarian and All Black wing, Ross James and J. Murphy, all home on leave. The death of the Hon. Robert 11. Lytllcton recently recalls that he was one of seven cricketing brothers. He was elected to membership of the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1873, and was at the time of his death, an English paper reveals, second oldest member of the club. The distinction is held by The Mackinnon of Mackinaon iF. A. Mackinnon of Kent), who, now in his ninety-first year, became a member of the M.C.C. in 1070. •Bob" Lytllcton, who never missed an important match at Lord’s was famous in his younger days as a writer of the game, and was responsible, with Francis Ford, for the alteration of the l.b.w. rule. * * * * Rex King, Canterbury, captain of the New Zealand Rugby League team which went to England last year and who has enlisted with the New Zealand Forces, was tormely wel. yiown in Rugby Union Circles. From 1930 to 1933 he represented Canteroury 25 times, and also toured Australia with a New Zealand University Rugby side. A splendid all-round forward, King commenced playing Rugby League in England later, ana he continued in the League code on J his return to the Dominion, beinj | appointed captain of the Kiwis, whose visit to England last year was cut short owing to the outbreak ol war. * * * * Jack Dempsey, former world heavyweight boxing champion, who earned the equivalent of more than £500,00(1 and became "broke" six years ago, is on the way lo becoming a dollar millionaire again. Friends sav that his various enterprises have already made i him the possessor of three-quarters ol that amount —750,000 dollars (£150,001 at par). Dempsey lost his heavyweight title in September, 1920. to Gene Tunncy, who has kept the fortune he made in the ring. Dempsey j tried to take it back in 1927 and fail- I ed. Later he tried to stage a "come- j bade,” which inglorioiislv ended with j a defeat by King Levinsky.

Il is some time since a champion of the ralilire of 11. Tyrie has pi-o-duml 11io form the Empire Game, veprc.-ndalivo has boon doing in handicap events this season over every distance from 75yds. to the half-mile, and lie should ho very fit when he lines up for the defence of his New Zealand 440yds. championship at Wellington (his month. One of the mas' impressive performances of (he season was a great run on a recent Saturday when lie established a new track record of filsec for the quarter from scratch, the previous mark being 5f 2-ssec. to the credit of E. Fish since 1932. Tyrie beat G. Davie in the las 1 stride, and there is no doubt that his half-mile running lias still further developed his finish. He should be the first to break 50s in Dunedin if conditions arc right for the Otago championships.