SPORTS AND ATHLETICS.

Grey River Argus, 29 November 1927, Page 3

SPORTS AND ATHLETICS.

Sculling. PAT HANNAN RETIRES. w fPress Association}. WELLINGTON, November 28. Pat Hannan, professional champion sculler of New Zealand and of Australasia, who has been advised to give up rowing for a year, stated to-day that he had decided to retire, from tomorrow. Swimming. ARNE BORG’S LATEST PERFORM ANCE. (Received November 28 at 9.40 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, November 27. Arne Bqrg jswam three hundred metres, free style, in 208.1 seconds, and three hundred yards in 190.2 seconds. Boxing. INVERCARGILL CONTESTS. NVERCARGILL, November 28. I There was a small attendance at the Municipal Theatre tonight, when Harry Casey (Australia holder) met Jim Broadfoot (Auckland) for the professional middle weight title. Three fine preliminary bouts put the crowd in a good humour for the big event. Casey had the better of the opening round and had Broadfoot down, for seven and eight in the second session. Broadfoot came back strongly over the middle stage, and was going great guns at the .finish. The verdict of a draw was well received.

In the second preliminary, Jaggers (Christchurch) beat McEwan (Invercargill). U. S. FOOTBALL CASUALTIES. NEW YORK, November 27. The hazardousness of at least cue branch of Am rican Sport is emphasised by the announcement that seventeen young men were kill*- i and a Lundn d suffered major injuries during the college football season just ended. The game, which is avowedlv one of the roughest, claims annually a large number of casualties. Eight were killed and 280 injured in 192(5, and twenty were killed and a hundred injured in 1925. The season last' only through October and November with an occasional game played in September, and December. One of th v chief manoeuvres ot ‘he game provides a shoulder to shoulder charging by players, one side carrying the ball to the other’s goal. The dead this year ranged betwe n fifteen and twenty-two years in age. It is emphasised that the percentage of casualties is low in view of the gigantic scale on which the game is now b ung played throughout the country. A public protest has resulted in a mollification of the rules, principally for the purpose of eliminating injuries.

AUSTRALIAN OLYMIPC TRIALS. SYDNEY, November 28. A meeting of the Australian Olympic Federation decided that the Australian national games which will assist in finding representatives for the Olympic Games, will be held at Sydney from January 7 to 14. CANTERBURY TEAM. FOR N.Z. CHAMPIONSHIPS. CHRISTCHURCH), November 28. The team to represent Canterbury at the athletic championships is: M. Leadbetter, A. B. Clarke, J. H. Murphy, C. L. Allen, G. L. Nicoll, C. J. Thomson, G. Austin, A. A. 'Smith, J. McKee, D. W. Bain, R. J. Hillary, E. B. Taylor, G. McGregor, R. 11. Neville. A. E. Joseph, Nf. Farrell, R. Cordery, G. P. Bradford. J. W. McHolm, A. W. Page, C. B. McKenzie, 11. Mullaney, Dehiry, G. T. Alley, E. H. Barnes, J. M. Carrick, J. W. Satstone, Misses M. Boyd, F. Maxwell, B. Millichamp and Unwin.