OVERSEAS SPORT

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 157, 4 June 1929, Page 8

OVERSEAS SPORT

ATHLETICS. (Australian Press Association—United Service.) LONDON, Juno 2. In the athletic contest, Cambridge versus tho Amateur Athletic Association, R. Mann defeated Lord Burghley in tne 120 yards hurdles by two yards in 15 1-10 sec. Y T oung defeated Mill in the high jump, and is therefore going to America with the combined Universities team on Juno 21. RUGBY LEAGUE. SYDNEY, June 3. Tho return Rugby League match was played in the presence of 40,000 spectators. New South Wales defeated Queensland by 17 points to 8. In Saturday’s match New South Wales won by 21 points to Queensland’s 8. LAWN TENNIS. FRENCH TOURNAMENT. (Australian Press Association—United Service.) PARIS, June 2 In tho final of the ladies’ singles. Miss Helen Wills beat Miss Mathieu 6—3, 6—4 The semi-final of tho men’s singles resulted: Borotra beat Co-Let 6 —3, 5—7, 7—5, 5—7, 6—4. CRICKET, (Australian Press Association). LONDON, June 2. Tho teams for the trial match from which an eleven will be chosen for the first match against the South Africans have been selected. The are as follow:

England.—White (captain), Hobbs, Hammond, Hendren, Sutcliffe, Larwood, Tate, Gcnry, Duckworth, Leyland, Mead, E. Tylclesley and Freeman.

The Rest.—Fender (captain), Duleepsinhji. Wyatt- (Warwickshire), Killick, Robins (Middlesex), A. M. Crawley (Oxford), Dawson (Leicester), Ames (Kent), Mitchel (Derbyshire), Goddard (Gloucester), and Voce (Notts).