ALL SPORTS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6815, 19 January 1929, Page 4

ALL SPORTS

Jack Standen and Duncan Gray, Australia’s leading amateur cyclists, both well known in New Zealand, had a three-heat match at the opening of I the new board track near Sydney. Standen won. * • * London printers held a boxing tournament recently. They should have made a good impression. * * • Rubber playgrounds are being advocated in England. They should be ideal for bouncing boys. * * * Arthur Hailey says that W. R. Hammond uses his feet much better than any other batsman playing cricket in Australia at present. • * * Wilfred Rhodes, famous English cricketer, who took 115 wickets for 19.63 runs apiece in the 1928 cricket season at Home —30 years after his first appearance for Yorkshire —has become a grandfather. * * • At the annual meeting of the English Bowling Association it was disclosed that the membership of the association has almost doubled in the past seven years. There are now 1,048 clubs affiliated with it. * * • A London bridge player recently had to undergo an operation for muscular wrist strain caused by excessive playing. Our trouble is weak hands.

Wales has produced so many good Rugby backs that it is not strange to read now of its having no centrethreequarters comparable with the centres available for England. * * * Kathleen Miller is suffering from a poisoned foot, and it is doubtful whether she will be competing at the swimimng carnival in Wellington on January 14. * * • Sydney’s 16st-boxer, Pat Redmond, has crashed again. Don McLeod, of Melbourne, who weighs 12st 21b, put him out in seven rounds. McLeod gave ’a fine display with his left hand, and used his right with discrimination and weight. • • • Overseas students gained nearly all the honours at the seniors’ sports at Cambridge University, a few weeks ago. E. D. Blundell (New Zealand) won the 440yds. Three Australians were winners, A. E. Young (Geelong) taking the high jump, I. R. Mann (Geelong) the 120yds hurdles, and J. P. Wallace (Geelong) the putting-the-vveight. A Norwegian, N. R. Bugge, won the half-mile and the mile. An American, H. H. Bailey, took the pole Jump. •

T. Perkins, British amateur golf champion, considers that American golfers generally, are better putters than British players are. • • • When T. C. Lowry was batting in the Wellington-Canterbury cricket match last week he straight-drove a ball from W. H. R. Cunningham so hard, headhigh, that Cunningham dropped flat on the pitch to avoid having his head removed from his shoulders. Next time Lowry was at Cunningham’s end, he asked the bowler, “Why didn’t you catch that one, Bill?” “I smelled the chloroform, Tom.” Cunningham’s reply was prompt.

Another Faded Hope' Francois Descamps, who brought Georges Carpentier into boxing prominence, has been booming one Maurice Griselle as a cpming Carpentier. But an English boxer, Charlie Smith, gave the “hope” a hiding in London, a few weeks ago, and the towel was thrown in from the French lad’s corner just after the fifth round started. We hope that Descamps did not Griselle over it.

“Old and Reminiscent” “Jack Dempsey, 1 grown old and reminiscent, is. reduced to the necessity of calling at newspaper offices in order to obtain publicity for a pugilistic drama which curled up and died after a brief season, notwithstanding this ■ heroic condescension.” Tha.t is a little excerpt from a chat by Westbrook Pegler, a well-known American sports writer. No wonder Jack Dempsey is talking about getting into the ring again!