CABLED SPORTS ITEMS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 235, 18 September 1922, Page 2

CABLED SPORTS ITEMS.

At the Sydney Stadium BiUy Grimes beat Jack Daniels, the Welsh featherweight, in five rounds. It was a onesided contest. Jimmy Semmens (Australian bantam champion) knocked out Bert McCarthy at Melbourne in the seventh round. The Victorian ten miles cross-coun-try championship was won by Kohlman in 59min. osec. .Yorkshire scored 233 after losing five for 58 (Robinson 53) against the Rest of Englad. The Bathurst to Sydney cycle road race was won by C. Post, whose riding time was 7hrs. smin. 22sccs. The roads were bad. At Oyster Bay, Long Island, America won the international six-metre yacht races on the total points, scoring 111 to Britain’s 104, though the British Coila won first place m the fifth and sixth races, the Coila’s total, 36 points, being the highest individual score. At Sydney C. Campbell, of Leura. won the open golf championship of Australia. The Australian tennis team, now in America, sail homeward in the Niagara on September 22nd. A hockey match between Australia and Canterbury, played at Christchurch. was won by the latter by two goals to nil. A few minutes after the opening bully, Abel, the visitors’ captain, had to retire.