Miscellaneous

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 22, 12 January 1929, Page 8

Miscellaneous

(By

“Omni”)

’ARS ABOUT ALL SPORTS. GLEANED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Wales has produced so many good Rugby backs that it is not strange to read now of its having no centrethreequarters comparable with the centres available for England The pick of England’s boxers got a good hiding from a team of jockeys recently. It was an Association football match in aid of London hospitals. The jockeys won by six goals to nil. The best cartoon of 1928 appeared in “Punch” of November 21 last. It was entitled “Study of a Street Bathed in Sunshine,’’ and showed rain simply pouring down in buckets over a London highway, but men were walking up and down, smiling broadly, for the newspaper headings said “M.C.C. going strong.” Emil Descamps, who brought Georges Carpentier into boxing prominence, has been booming cne Maurice Griselle as a coming Carpentier. But an English boxer. Charlie Smith, gave tho “hope’’ a hiding in London a few weeks ago, and the towel was thrown in from the French lad’s corner. We hope that Descamps did not Griselle over it. • * w The enthusiasm which keeps a cricketer on the field a hundred miles away on the eve of his wedding must be keen, says a Southern writer. A case in point was that of E. H. Diack, well-known Southland cricketer, footballer, tennis player, high jumper, etc., etc., who Trent to Dunedin with the Southland cricket eleven at Christmas and played inril late in the afternoon of tho last day of the match, before slipping off back home to Invercargill to attend his own wedding next day. Cricketers and other sportsmen in the south wish the pair a “recorl partnership.'' Another well-known cricketer, Rupert Worker, of Hawkes’ Bay, also started a matrimonial partnership about the time, this particular ceremony taking place in Dunedin.