Miscellaneous

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 297, 1 December 1928, Page 8

Miscellaneous

(By

“Omni”)

PARS ON ALL SPORTS.

JOTTINGS FROM EVERYWHERE.

It is reported from Australia that more than 100 players will represent Australia in the New Zealand bowling tourney to be held in Wellington in January.

According to a Melbourne paper, the boxers who came to New Zealand from Australia in the past season were so pleased with their treatment in the Dominion that they and several other prominent boxers are thinking of coming again next year.

The lighter golf ball is not to come into use yet. At the request of the United States Golf Association, the Royal and Ancient Club has deferred its introduction until experiments in the United States have been completed.

The Football Association, England, will send a team to South Africa at the end of the current season at Home. While these Soccer players are in the Union, a South African cricket team will be in Great Britain.

A boxer who Weighs 17J stone has been appearing lately in mid-week bouts at the Sydney Stadium. He is an Irishman named Pat Redmond He has had half-a-dozen contests and has won each in a few rounds. His hands are so big that special gloves have to be made for him.

“Hop” Harry Stone, globe-trotting boxer, will be 40 years of age next March. Yet he is still after fights. Back again in Australia, he has challenged Jack Carroll for the welteiweight championship of the Commonwealth. Stone has had about 600 contests

While Maurice Tate is in Australia with the M.C.C team the firm of Maurice Tate. Ltd., of Brighton, England, is in voluntary liquidation. The firm, which started operations only last March, retails snorts re quisites. Tate was a life directorhut the directing part of it was a pretty short life.

Johnny Weismuller holds 29 American swimming records and five world’s records. From 100 yards to 220 yards free-style he has proved himself the fastest swimmer that ever lived. His achievement of Slsecs. for the 100-yard swim in a 25-yard pool may probably never be surpassed.

O. S. Carter, treasurer of the Queensland Rugby Union, has been in Sydney lately in consultation with the New South Wales officials of the amateur code. As a result of his visit it is probable that a triangular contest will be held between New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria before the arrival of the All Blacks in July next. Queensland has already laid the foundation of a promising interstate side, and this will be captained by Tom Lawton, the famous Waratah

uie ex-full-back for Sydney University five-eighth, who, with Otto Nothling, and New South Wales, has been givmg a lot of time during the past season to coaching.

Major Goodsell, Australian sculler, who has challenged Bert Barry, world’s champion, again, is taking out naturalisation papers in the United 1 States of America. He says that he will carry the United States colours when he races Barn-. Goodsell has been living in San Francisco for some time.

Suzanne says she will play tennis if and when she wishes. She will also dp any marrying under the same conditions. She is fed up with newspaper talk about her, and only wants to be left in peace.” This is what Madame Lenglen says about the rumour of Suzanne’s retirement from tournament play.

Miss Kathleen Miller, who has left Dunedin to take up her residence in Wellington with the rest of her family, started serious training before leaving the southern city. It was noticed that she is swimming higher out of the water than o he used to. This is something she learned at the Olympic Games, and it should help her to faster times.

\9 raffford > great Irish full-back who played against the New Zealanders in 1924, has not retired from the game. A London papers says that as a matter of fact, Crawford .played for Lansdowne against Malone recently, and showed noie than a glimpse of his old form. He is naturally not so quick as of sole, but, in.spite of his thirty-seven years, he is just as clever.

Enid Wilson, an 18-year-old girl, won the English women’s golf championship. at Walton Heath, a few weeks ago, by beating Dorothy Fearson, a girl in her early twenties, by nine up and eight to play. It was the first time since Joyce Withered made her astonishing debut at Sheringham in 1920 that Hie title hm- grve to a girl in her teens. Enid Wilson was beaten in the final last year.

As was anticipated, the wretched control of the boxing contests in the Olympic Games at Amsterdam, especially the bad judging, is causing Great Britain to hesitate about sending boxers to Olympic Games again. The Amateur Boxing Association of England has decided that before Great Britain competes again in the Olympic Games or European amateur championships, the questibn shall be voted on at an annual general meeting or a special general meeting.

Major Segrave, the English motorspeed expert, while waiting for the completion of the new car in which he hopes to break the American record, has been going in for motor-boat racing in England. The other day, he won a sea-mile contest, at Sythe, in Miss Alacrity, one of a standardised class fitted with a 1500-h.p. engine. His recorded speed was 50.6 knots (about 58 miles per hour), so the lady is evidently right up to date.

One George W. van Zyl, of Colesburg, South Africa, has written a letter to an English paper in which he complains of the methods of the All Black Rugby players. He says: “The fault lies chiefly in their method of ‘handing off’ tackles. After all, Rugby is football, and not a boxing tourney.” Apart from that bit of philosophy, people who saw the All Blacks in action and who understand Rugby football will consider G. W. van Zyl’s letter to be just zylly.

A note by a writer in a London paper: “The Rugby season, now in full swing, will be momentous even though we have no overseas tourists in the field. We are, however, to welcome one in the council chamber so to speak, for the great South African skipper of other days, Paul Roos, is coming to try to persuade the home unions to set up an Imperial Rugby Board 1 . I think the Rugby Union is shedding some of its conservatism, but whether it will fall in with the desires of our cousins in the Dominions remains to be seen. Every Rugger man who has not risen to the eminence of a long grey heard is on the side of New Zealand. Australia and South Africa; and it will be worse for the home unions in the long run if they do not march with the times.”

Nothing seems to have puzzled some Australian cricket writers so much as the narti-coloured cap affected bv the English amateur Jardine, which is the outward' and visible sign of membership in the Harlequins, a chib nf hinh renown and long standing for which only members of the University of Oxford are eligible. Cambridge has an opposite number in the Quidnuncs. One Sudnev evening journal referred to Jardine’s headgear as a "harlequin cap.” under the impression that its impressionist tinting was responsible for the title. England. within the universities and without. is full of nhibs of this kind After the famous Zingari, two instances taken at random are the free Foresters and the Tinnnashire Wizards, a noted North of England club, which once was almost, entirely composed of members of the Steel and Hornby families.

One of the strangest scenes that has ever been provided on a tennis court was that of a world-famous player pulling socks out of a box and throwing them into the air. On a rain-soaked court at Forest Hills, Karel Kozpluh, of Czechoslovakia, was going down to defeat hy Vincent Richards in the final for the professional singles championship of America—Richard's won R—6. fl— 3. o—fl. fl—2. Richards had spiked shoes: Kozeluh had not, for he is unfamiliar with spiked shoes, and he was slip, ping wet turf. From the third game Kozelnh played without shoes Tn the fourth set he pulled off his socks and played in his bare feet for a whole game, while a box of socks was obtained for bun and taken out on to the court. The Kozelnh pulled out of the box pair after pair of socks, throwing them heifer shelter into the air until he found l socks that were to his size and liking.