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

G. F. Hart is still the fastest player l*i Rugby in Christchurch, says a southern writer. Early this season it was thought that ho had lost some of his dash, but ho is now back to his best form. On tho few occasions that the ball reached him in a recent match he showed a dazzling burst of speed.

The South African Rugby Board’s tentative programme for the tour of Australia and New Zealand next season includes 29 matches in all. eight in the Commonwealth and 21 in New Zealand. There will be three tests against the All Blacks.

King Elliot's Experience. While in the United States the New Zealand wrestler King Elliot spent two and a-half months under Ted Thye, receiving a special course of instruction, and later won 38 matches out of 53 in that country. Long Drives Practising at St. Andrews for the British amateur golf championship to he decided on that course, Jim Ferrier, the well-known Australian, holed at the filth a distance of 520 yards, in two strokes—a drive and a No. 3 iron, par of the hole being five strokes.

Big Cricket Loss. A loss of about £2500 is expected on the M.C.O. tour of Australia and New Zealand, which has just concluded. Mr. A. T. Donnelly, chairman of the New Zealand Management Committee, testified to the popularity of the touring team and said it was no fault of theirs that ths tour had resulted in a financial loss. E. R, T. Holmes, captain of the M.C.O. side, in reviewing the tour, said that the New Zealand team will provide strong opposition when it next tours England.