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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 80, 16 March 1934, Page 13

The Oxford-Cambridge boat race will be rowed to-morrow (March 17). Including the grant of £3OO from the proceeds of the M.C.C. Australian tour, 1932-33, and £l7B, the share of receipts of the test matches last summer against the West Indies, Yorkshire cricket in 1933 reveals a profit of £1393. The gate receipts increased by £2913, and altogether 223,652 paid for admission to Yorkshire’s homo matches, compared with 17-1,032 in 1932. Tho match with Lancashire at Leeds brought in, inclusive of entertainment tax, £2225. Miss Edna Davey’s time in winning the half-mile Australian swimming championship, when she narrowly defeated Miss Joyce Cooper, the English girl, was an Australian record, but official recognition for the time as a world’s record is to be applied for. When the American champion, Miss Helene Maddison, made her historic set of records at many distances she in some way overlooked the 800 metres. Miss Davey's time will displace Miss Yvonne Goddard’s record of P_'in 18 4-ss, established in Paris on July 23, 1931. Miss Davey’s time was 12m 9 4-ss. Disappointment at the way in which members of the Pirates (Napier) Rugby Football Club failed to avail themselves of the Gymnasium, was expressed in the annual report of the club committee “We were fortunate in having Sergeant-Major .1 [I Kearney as our physical instructor,” they commented, “and it must have been very disappointing to him to see the poor attendance of players.” Earlier in the report the committee said that the main reason for the failures of the junior team, wae members’ not turning out to practice.