MISCELLANEOUS SPORTING.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4045, 19 April 1932, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS SPORTING.

[By Gleaner]. RACING.

Grand Jury proved too good for the hot pots in tho Mas ter ton. Gold Cup, but had to go eyes out to head oil' a rank outsider in Shrewd. Inflation and Midinette are expected to go well in Sires’ Produce stakes at Awapuni. , , ~ Gay Crest and Night March should stage a battle royal in Awapuni Cup, Gibraltar might have* a say, although he was out of a place at Master ton. Aga Khan in Mick Carroll’s stable is a useful hack sprinter. Tai Ao is the And of the season. Hector G ray loses the final round m the Antique case and goes out tor three months. is feeling the advance of old a°ge and should be pensioned oil. Ex-S'outhland trainer \V. Stone had another win with Apinist at Masterton. Now established at Palmers ton iN*orih, Stone lias oone weft with hj» two new purchases. Constant Sun oy Australian Sun is being 'boomed at present but so far hasn’t shown anything startling. Action won again for Owner Kemball in Australia. . Owner-trainer Jack Cameron missed the bus with Lotus Lily and Nea Lap, which were both parcelled with stable money. The form shown by both fillies in Australia has been oelow expectations. Grandcourt, sire of Grand Jury, has not had the opportunities the many other imported sires have had, but lie has a good handicap performer in the winner of the Masterton Gold C Given a good pop by Dick Humphreys, Harold Logan will be cleaning chem up again. The champion pacei riiiould set new two mile figures this year. . , , Gold Country is going to make a classy sprinter. . ..Ahuriri is going to Tasmania, where he Will do stud duty. Orwell and Mannamead were hot pots for the Lnglish Derby, but the latter has gone amiss. So far the owner of Orwell has never won a Derby, though his horses have been second on four occasions. Old King Balboa is moving ircely now the tracks are soft. Little Crubenmore is sprinting m great style. FOOTBALL. Cl ill Porter is confident the new rule about putting ’the ball in the scrum does not necessitate altering our scrum formation. In fact, he says it operates against the 3-2-3 scrum rather than against our N.Z. and, reading the two rules together, it cert airily seems as if be is correct. A°-ain, Union delegates have come to'heel and S'. S. Dean and Co. are in control of Bugby football for U3International tours galore arc tamed about. Lots of hot air about our uuty to English Bugby Union, etc; why we have as much right to be governing Rugby country as the English Union. Bugby is our national pastime, and if our heads would only sit tight and demand an xuipcrml board where the English, Welsh,, Irish, Scottish. Australian, 8. African and N.Z. Unions were equally represented, with S'. Africa as the meet •mg place ror an annual conference, irugoy lootbalf within the Empire

wo Ufa receive a great blip. Freudy Roberts, taiuous AU Black half back, is decided in bis opinion that we sliouhT retain our 2-8-2 formation. , Boutiry, who played half lor i ij’ates, Dunedin, last season is playino- for Christchurch club this season. '-Charlie Oliver will again be the star back for Merrivale (Ch’ch). Bert Cooke says he isn’t turning out for Hastings. We shall see! Jack Lillev will coach Star Brds o-b»w.«.wa winners, should field a good team again this year. So far there is no ludicatiun that Les Cockerill will play this season, so Star will try out young Milne tlb Should O’Toole, Maloney, Cab, Burdue. Mattingly, Donnelly, Sinclair ami Henuessy 'line out ties year, Star will field a heavy set hi forwards, but they will require To hard ro loot ft with some of the lighten packs. % Local games commence on **a> <• Local coaches will have a job working the 8-2-8 scrum at first. GENERAL. Interest in local basketball tompetition is already 'keen. "Delegates from clubs will meet the First Saturday in *May. ■'TTornabrook, the young Wairarapa golfer, is practising assiduously in view of a trip to Australia. Walter Lindrum is Finding the \ Yank snooker players prdtty hot stuff. 1- The N.Z. Olympia Council is like - the Management Committee of NZl> p p— out of toncli with the rank ’ nn( i’ file of our athletes, and a clean •sweep should be made of old men H, like MeVllly and Co. The selection I, of the rowing reps, was an astound-

ing bungle—the best bow man ’in N.Z., Pritchard, being passed over tor an oarsman or Teisiser ok ill and experience. 'Then the Council talks of sending Miss Kench away and leaving men like Savidan and Cameron at home. What a ridiculous situation, especially when the selectors chose b'avklau and Cameron ami had no recommendation to make about any women athletes. After a fight in which Delaney was the aggressor most of the time, Bobby Blay had to admit defeat after being badly battered.