WORLD OF SPORT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 421, 12 June 1922, Page 6

WORLD OF SPORT.

The League football inaidi in V\ eJmgtoli on Saturday resulted: Wellington il, banterbury It). At Brisbane on Saturday ibe .'’unri League footballers defeated Queensland by 23 points lo 22. At half-time Queeiuiahtl was leading by 11 points to live. In a billiards match in Sydney S levensbli, with 9001, defeated L. Smith, senr., who with a handicap of 2500 scored 64ib. Surrey and Yorkshire are level m ine English’ county cricket championship, with 87 points, Lancashire 77, Notts (5, Mit.olesex 71. Hampshire 57, Kent 56, Sussex 55, Essex 45. COMING DAVIS CUP MATCHES. LONDON, .Juno 10. The Australian Davis Cup repfesenUdives are practising daily at Wimbledon. Patterson. interviewed, said his decision not to play in any future tournaments was due to a feeling that it would be more advantageous io practise amongst themselves on Wimbledon’s splendid courts than to dissipate their energies over tournaments and courts of varying qualities. Ihe team goes to Scarborough on June 19. to have three days’ plav there before meeting Belgium. C/.echo-’Slovakia is expected to scratch, in which case, if the Australians beat Belgium, tliev will next meet France in the semifinal, w hich by 1. idled States choice will be played in America. The Australians have provisionally arranged to sail lor America on July 19, which will give them three weeks’ practice before their next mutch. Patterson expressed the opinion that the team had not yet reached its top form. Wertheim was improving steadily, especially in the doubles game; Anderson was playing in the singles splendidly, but so far liad not shown his best form in the doubles. , . Critics express the opinion that the Australians should beat the Belgians comlortablv and that advantages favour them against France, the Frenchmen being better oil a hard court than on the grass. A plavcr with the Italian Davis I up representatives, Deinopugo, is attracting much attention in London, one writer expressing the opinion that his service will he almost as sensational at Wimbledon as was 1 alterson’s because his spin is so great that t he ball looks like an egg as u Hashes over the jiet.—A. and N./. cable.

NORTH LONDON CHAMPIONSHIP

LONDON, lime 10. In the North London tennis championship semi-linal, Barclay beat Fisher. 'I Ins was a close match. marked by .asl h.itn.g and brilliant volleying, Fisher md in the first set 5-2, but lost the second and third sets 7-6. 11-9. Lowe beat Belgrave 6-4, o-m —A, and N.Z. cable.

GOLF AT GLENEAGLES

MITCUFLL WINS CHAMPIONSHIP

LONDON, June 9. U the (Hem agios golf tourney, in the third round. Oabb beat Ockendea at the nineteenth hole; Mitchell beat Anderson by one hole; Bay beat Bob.-rtson, two up aiid one; and Compston heal Allis by two holes. In the semi-final .Mitchell beat Dadd, three tip and two, and Bay beat Oompston two ii|) and one. A feature of the Gleneagles golf tournament was the disappearance of all Scottish and overseas competitors. Anderson, who gave Mitchell a fright in the. third round, owing to the latter’s indifferent pulling, is an all-round athlete, and one of the best batsmen in Boot land, who always balled fivsl iiLjiunst the Australians and owiet visiiiih/’ itMiins. Six times Anderson took two more than Mitchell to reach the greens, Put halved by virtue of his accurate pulling. Milehell was only saved by his terrific driving against the wind over the last; nine holes. Critics all comment on llntcbiison’s irons. Though be discarded riobed clubs in obedience to British ridings. He bad holes drilled through his ma-liie, gtvin.r him extra facility in -looping approaches. Tins is generally declared a breach of die spirit, it not of the letter, of the rule. In the golf final Miicliell beat Bay two and one -—A. and N.Z. cable.