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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 146, 5 June 1936, Page 12

Complete "Sell-out." ’All the tickets (180,000) tor the Olympic Stadium seats at Berlin were sold by the end of January. Admission includes reservation. In must overseas countries advance sales and reservations are the usual thing—an instance is the English Rugby Union ground at Twickenham, which seats 80,000 ticket holders. The system does away with congestion at entrances and “gate-crashing.’’ Frenchmen Interested.

The report that the French Rugby League has challenged for the Roy Courtney International Goodwill Cup, which Australia won from New Zealand last year, has aroused considerable interest in the Dominion, states a writer in the "Herald.” If either Australia or New Zealand can beat the coming British team, it means the assurance of an early tour by a JfTench team.

A War Office Announcement. The H ar Ollice might have sent this out: When the cricket season opened in Jamaica, where the Ist Battalion .Sherwood Foresters are stationed, u Garrison trial match was arranged— Officers v. Warrant Officers and Sergeants. The officers were doing quite well until a warrant officer or N’-C-O. •ame m wearing a great black bushy moustache. The officers sow there was something disquieting in the way he walked to the wicket. The first nine balls he hit for nine sixes. As perspiration began to pour off his face off came his moustache —disclosing Herbert Sutcliffe, borrowed from the Yorkshire touring side for the day. Footnote.—Sutcliffe served in the Sherwood Foresters during the war.