WORLD OF SPORT

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10065, 1 August 1925, Page 6

WORLD OF SPORT

TURF

* TO-DAY’S RACES

HUNT CLUB MEETING

The acceptances for to-day’s Hunt ■Club meeting at the Park racecourse are very satisfactory and the racing should prove most enjoyable. Proceedings will commence with the Hunters’ Hurdle Handicap, which lias attracted a field of ten. Apart from Garzor. and Kendal little is known of the contestants and these two will probably be the public fancies. The latter should be benefited by last week’s racing and will be bard to dispose of. The most interesting ' event win probably be the Handicap Trot in which a classy held will go to the post. With the exception of Miss Marvin all have recent winning form to recommer.d them and speculation will be rife as to which will be the actual favorite. Gladys Cole gives promise of turning into a c-lassy performer, while Bingen King, on 24yds, is reported to be constantly on tho improve. In the Hunters’ Bracelet there are likely to be several defections as most of the acceptors have other engagements. Manutai, if started, uni be accorded warm support and should .show to advantage. The Hextou Handicap has drawn an entry of seven. Chaplin, who is well seasoned, will have plenty of admirers and may hud a strong opponent in The Author. Principal interest wall centre around the Hunt Club Steeplechase, for which the: e is a prospective field of seven. Silta is usually a safe cor.vcvance and will probably cany the bulk of the investments. Sdveriish, providing lie negotiates the country safely, is another that will have to be reckoned with. ~ .\ field will contest tho Maiden’ Hack Handicap. Whaikorero can be depended on to put up a creditable showing. Gold Streak also reads well and should find five furlong* to his liking. ' ' . Anything but a classy lot will line up for the Awapuni Hurdle Handicap. Fort George gave an impressive display on Saturday last but it remains to bo seen whether the longer distance will trouble him. Thiganthu appears to have struck form again and will have a host of admirers. . The drv’s racing will conclude with the 11 apami i Hack Handicap and Will see another big field come out. Chaplin, if started, will be heavily supported, as r.l-'o will Manutai and Mountain Top.

■RICCARTON TRAINING NOTES

(SPECIAL TO THE TIMES.)

CHRISTCHURCH, July 31. The weather was dull but fine for training operations at Riccarton this morning, following on showers during the night. It was an off morning, and not many horses were given strenuous tasks, though some jumpers were schooled and their work was followed witly interest. Heisler beat Kitlocra in a. useful spin over five furlongs. Killoera s track form since his arrival here has not been impressive. Volant reeled off half a mile, chewing a fine burst of speed. Boomerday, Birkenella and Tinokoha finished in that order at the end of a mile with gaps of half a dozen lengths between them. Boomerday put uu useful time, outclassing his opponents, but this was to he expected. Tircokaha was a disappointment. . . , Penury Rose and Captain /Sarto were associated in a working gallop once round. They were both going •on strongly at the finish. Sir Rosebery and Santiago covered a mile at a sound pace and appeared anxious to go on. Mainspring jumped two hurdles, giving a good display. Lucullent was schooled over, four hurdles. He gave a satisfactory display but might have done Rotter with sounder pace. Night Raid jumped the double and the sod wall. 'He got rather close to the second of the double but got out of trouble very cleverly. En Route, North Inch and Grim Joke set out together for a school over the hurdles. Grim Joke was pulled up after jumping two in excellent style, while the other pair went on for two more* En Route gave one of his customary brilliant (displays -while North Inch was also responsible for a smart display of clean jumping. Tlntion'nl was among those who did easy work. ■ He was schooled over eight hurdles by himself the previous afternoon and acquitted himself well while going a fair pace.

CLOUDBANK WINS GOODYYOOD

(A. and N.Z. Gable Assn.) LONDON, Ju'y 30.

The Goodwood Clip resulted: Claud bark 1. Caprier 2. Son of Spring 3. S : x started. Won by three-quar-ters •of a length.

SOCCER

TO-DAY’S TEAMS

The team to represent Thistle y. Oisgasco on the Reserve to-day, will bo selected from the following.: Easton Vnugh. Downie, Nibblock. Bell, McLean. Yaugh. Wallace. Reserves• Dunr-u and Sweeney’. The team to represent Kaiti v. Essex House on the Reserve to-day wi] 1 be selected from tbe following: McFadgcn, Parkin, Greenwood, McKay. Parkinson, Scott. Howarth, Coek'Nor) Easton, McLean. McKenzie, •and Griffin.

RUGBY.

LANGLANDS RETURNS

IMPRESSIONS OF INTERISLAND CONTEST.

Poverty Pay’s captain and North Island representative, Wally Lang- ■ lands, lias returned to Gisborne after making his first appearance in interisland rugby at Invercargill on Saturday. Ground and other conditions militated against a good display of football, he said, but the short punt tact.es adopted by the North Is nuclei's were very success,til no less than three tries being converted by these mean--., j.anglands played at first five-eighths in company with Cooke, t-lio Auckland All Black at ‘‘second” rod ’. as instructed to stab punt over the heads of the opposing hacks instead of passing the leather out in the orthodox manner, thus, enabling Cooke and Blake to break through and penetrate the opposing defence and carry on the attack Nevertheless some of the crit’ca thought that Le.ngi. ud.s was overdoing the. kicking business, hut he was assured bv Porter, the North ls'and eapta’n tlwt had a change of tactics been required, he would have worded him during the game. Hew Langlands scored his try is a point that’, has caused some speculation, The telegraphed report stated th”t, 'n the course of an attack”T/anglands picked up the waiting hall ’hard got over. Another version .states';, “A scrum in midfie'd was earned py, the Blacks. and a short grwed'.H/p went to Harris. The fullfaded to field the ball, and before he could recover, Tan glands was on bin. Parris recovered, fell, and in falling, threw the ball into the air. Th’s gave Langlands an own field, and he made no mistake, scoring near the. posts. •. .“On-side Mac,” writing in • the ; . Southland Times,. stated that ‘"‘the • . North , backs were not cogging properly till wfell on in the second spell—

alter Nepal went off. I think Cooke was responsible, put to one side Ins superb individualism, and :t will he found that he was seldom up for his passes, thus forcing Langlands to kick, or to take, the gruelung h.nisei t. Support to this view is lent by the fact that when Cooke left the attacking lino to play full-back., the combination of the North Island hacks improved considerably. Langlands may cr may not be up to inter-island form—under the conditions ruling on Saturday it was impossible to form an accurate estimate of bis ability—but he proved himself an exceedingly handy man in the match.”

PRIMARY SCHOOL FOOTBALL

Tiie result of last Tuesday’s games as follows: — Senior Grade : Mangapapa 30 v. Convent 0; ToHapava 17 v. Kaiti 5_ Junior Grade: Gisborne 24 v. Kaiti 0; Te Hapara 8 v. Mangapapa 0.. , Third Grade: Convent 4 v. Te Hapara 0. On Tuesday next at the Oval the final games will he played in the 'senior and junior grades. These contests promise 'great excitement as the fate of ,tho challenge cups in bath grades depends on the results of these games.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION.' CHRISTCHURCH, July 31. Owing to injury, Harris, the Canterbury full-back, will not play against Southland to-morrow, nor will he go on tour, being replaced by 1). Dixon.

ATHLETICS-

NOTES AND NEWS

(By “Stride.”)The most important face of the winter season will he held on Thursday next, July 6th, when the Gisborne Amateur Athletic and Harrier Club will conduct their 20 miles Poverty Bay Road Championship. As an inducement to the “lessor lights,” a stated handicap will also be held in connection with this event.'

The present champion' is Frank Herbert, who is reported to be in excellent fettle and quite confident of retaining his title. His most dangerous opponents will he Goldsmith, J. Algie, and Frank Pollard, all of whom are in strict training. Doubtless this 'event will be one of the fastest races ever held in Gisborne, as keen rivalry exists and it is anticipated that the course record will be broken. From information received, it is quite possible that the 50 mi ! es N.Z. read championship may be offered to tho local club by the N.Z.A..A.A. “Stride” is of the opinion that, should this happen, it would now he too late to hold such an event here, as it would not allow outside riders sufficient notice to prepare for .such a. strenuous contest. The council are indeed easy-going, as tin's event should have been allotted long ago.

j It may ho of interest to amateur cyclists to know that tho N.Z.A.A.A. have fixed the foPoWng standards for track racing:—1 mile cycle (grass track). 2min. 30secs., (banked track) 2tnin. losses., 3 miles cycle (grass track) Smiii., (banked track) '/min. I The standards for the grass tracks are quite within the reach of several of the local amateurs and it will ho interesting to see who will be the first to do New Zealand standard tins. Are you listening Douglas, Herbert, Goldsmith and Algie? Charles Paddock, the famous U.S.A. sprinter, usually “gets there” by moving faster than others. He had to try another way in Japan. The Kinsey Bros., American tennis players, were invited to play before the Prince Regent of Japan. Paddock. I was in Tokio, but got no invitation, although He had aspirations of ‘breaking into royalty.” When the tenir’s oLavers arrived at the Palace they had their “valet” with them to carry their luggage, the menial being none other than the ex-world’s champion sprinter, Charley Paddock. Nurmi, the great Finnish distance runner, left the United States for home the other day, and he managed to get away from America retaining Ids amateur status, ft was not the fault of a host of professional promoters who offered til's running marvel unt.ohl wealth to g : ve up his amateur s+nnd’ng. Not, being content in bein'l- - in trying to have Nurmi turn professional, some peop’e apparently tried to see to it that- the man was beaten before lie left Air.uvien m rt least one race, and we all know that flic race in which he was finally defeated was not his distance. However. tbe fact remains that Nurmi is the greatest running marvel of all times and the records he now holds will stand for many years. The fo 1 - jow ng is a short account of the race in which Nurmi was defeated: Finlander Nurmi, who has been busy running himself to a stand-srill in U.S.A., crashed badly in what may be regarded as another freak contest. Having seen the imperturbable Euronean demolish the Jnd'an wight of A. E. Ellis’s imagining, the Yankees kidded the world-beater into an 880 yards d”sh, and trotted out two of .the best middle-distance runners in the country to confound Nurmi’s stopwatch. The one by name Barnes took the first quarter rule, whilst No. 2. cognomen Helffrieh, innocently rmh’ed along in the rear of the other two. Starting the second round Barnes walked off the track , and left Nurmi to li’s lonesome. The recordbreaker carried on to the straight, where Helffrieh duly came to light and smothered the Finn’s finishing run. to win by 10 yards in lmin. 50 4-5.

It was ax parent that Barnes was only in this race as a pacemaker with the sole object of taking all the dash out of the Finn in the first lap. This lie succeeded in doing, whilst Helffrieh was able to run his own race. This is just another example of track tactics'.—“Stride.

A short time ago I made some comments on high-jumping and the following was brought to mind whilst looking through some old army sports programmes. Georges Carpentier, world famous ns a boxer—as a champion jumper hut little known! Yet the great Frenchman is a jumper of cons’devable ability. sft. ilin. presenting little difficulty to him. During war-rime army, sports, Carpentier jumped sft. 11-Jin. a performance which measures up well against those of Roy Harbison, the present Austra--Psian ehamp’on. The best of present Dominion jumpers would- be forced to admit, defeat at the hands of the ath.etic Frenchman.' As Carpentier also 'wori the 100 metres championship of the French Army in 11 secs., it is read ly seen that only for his boxing prowess, he mav have been a possib lity- for the Olympic Games. The next A ustrahisan track and field eh rmpionshins are scheduled for August of next year in Brisbane, tho u misun 1 date 1-einp - a concession to Banana land’s torrid summer. The date, however, does not lead we’l for New Zealand, where track training does not commence until about October.

Latest athlet e fi’es from America contain news of three great atli'etes who v'sited Gisborne sometime back. That great sprinter, Maurice Kirksev. has - retired from tbe track and is now an athletic coach at one of the h’rgo universities. Jack Merchant, tho big hammer-thrower and' field - gaums exponent, srill competes and has been getting the javelin out to Croat distances.- Who will forget his great, sprint against Jim Pollock in tbe first lap of the relay race against dje Poverty Bov team? George TC.rogoess sriU walks over the* sticks /burd'es) with success, but, most of bis time is spent trying to make • arrangements for the American team’ that is to tour t'lid Dominion next season. / . ■ ' - , - '

Writing to an Australian paper, an American coach at the Stanford University says: There is at present at Stanford a marvellous track and field athlete- by name of Glenn Hortranft, a huge lump of a chap we.ghing 2CO odd lbs, but a man that can sprint 100 yards in 10 secs, put the shot 53ft.. such as he did in practice a few weeks back, and who has already broken Jim Duncan’s world’s record for tho discus throw.

This is one of the athletes . wlu> w’ll tour New Zealand next summer. “Stride.” Cyclists are reminded that entries for the 20 miles P.B. championship close on Tuesday next with Mr. W. Ingram, Bright Street.

BOXING

DWYER GETS THE WIND UP!

DOCTOR INSISTS ON SECOND EXAMINATION OF HIS HEART.

BLACKBURN WARNED NOT TO

HIT HEAVILY

A good story is going the rounds locally at the expense of Hughie Dwyer. 'Tis said that when he was being medically examined for his fight with Blackburn the medico did not seem quite satisfied with his heart. At any rate Dwyer was greatly surprised when the doctor came back to him when he was buttoning up his vest and re-examined him. As this was the first occasion l in his lengthy career that ho had been re-examined he enquired if anything was wrong, but he was informed by the. medico that lie bad passed him. The humor of the situation arises from the lact that Blackburn’s second let it out after the fight that he had warned Biackburn not to hit Dwyer very hard, as he doubted whether he could stand heavy punishment! Dwver, on getting into the know, told a group of admirers at the races that lis medical friends in Australia would get a chock when they heard that be had had to undergo a double examination in Gisborne,

DEMPSEY TO MEET 1 WILLS ON JULY 4 NEXT,

(Reuter’s Telegram.) (Received Ju’v 31. 9.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 30.

A. telegram from Los Angeles says Dempsey will be ready to fight Harry Wills on July. 4 next. It is announced here that Dempsey will so inform the New York Boxing Commission.

SWIMMING.

WORLD'S RECORD FOR 220YDS BACK STROKE.

(Reuter’s Telegram.) (Received July 31.’, 8.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 30. Walter Lanfor, of Cincumtti, set a world’s record for the 220 yards back stroke in the national championships, doing the distance in 2inin. 50sec. No record was listed previously.

RUGBY LEAGUE.

NEW ZEALAND TEAM FOR TO-DAY.

(UNITED P/ HISS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.)

(Received Julv 31, 8.15 p.m.) BRISBANE, July 31

For the Queensland match on Saturday, the New Zealand team is as follows: Full-back, Dufty; threequarters, Delgrasso, Pa rices, Bpown, W.eatheraT; five-eighths, Saunders; half, W'lson and Hall; forwards, O'Brien, Lawry. Carroll, Dixon, Henry and Monatt Emergencies: Gregory, Iyerwir, Webb. Ellis, Green. The foPowing rre unable to play owing to slight injuries: Herring and Avery.

BILLIARDS.

McCONACTIY V. TOTHILL

(PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

DUNEDIN, July 31

The McConachy-Tothill billiard match 1 was cont'nuod tills afternoon and th’s evening. McConachy’s best breaks were 116, 63, 114. 276, 80, and To tli il I 139, 123, 108 (unfinished). The scores to dato are McConachy 7416, Totli'.U 9327. -

LAWN TIENNIS.

SEA BRIGHT TOURNAMENT. , (Reuter's Telegram.) (Received July 31. 8.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 30. At the Seabright women’s doubles (.Misses Wills and' Brown •defeated Misses Charlotte Hnsmcr arid Helen- . Jaeqbs,—6—(4—3 ; • -Misses RyanyanohEjeanof Goss defeated Mrs. Bundy and Miss .-Williams, —6—3,' 6—4... v£K ,'• ' : rK