ALL SPORTS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6867, 23 March 1929, Page 15 (Supplement)

ALL SPORTS

A WEEKLY BUDGET Yellbourne. * * * Maul-oney. # * * Getting ready—golf divotees. Jit * * Is he arn-e good? * * * < English cricketers would like to alter the first letter in Melbourne. * * * Wanted: A golf ball that croaks when it is lost. Ours croaks when we hit it. * * * The annual meeting of delegates to the New Zealand Rugby Union will bo held in Wellington on May 2. ifi i'fi * A profit of exactly fourpence was made on the English counties athletic championships meeting, held at Edmonton, last season. Well, it would not make a Frothblower pensive. * * * Many complaints about doping of greyhounds in Australia. Every dog, it seems, has his daze.

An English paper notices a peculiarity of Irish Rugby Union selectors, that they still refuse to be converted to the policy of other countries of choosing men who fit In fixed positions in the scrums. At one time, of course, this Irish attitude was general in .tho British Isles,

Another One Gone Another famous Rugby player has joined the ranks of the Benedicts. This time it is K. S. Svenson, known to all Rugby people* in New Zealand as “Snowy.” He was a member of the 1924 All Black team which toured England with such success, as well as of other New Zealand combinations. Ho had as his best man at his wedding his erstwhile captain, Cliff Porter. The wedding, a very quiet one, took place at St. K. S. Svenson John’s Church, Wellington. Several members of the New Zealand team of 1924 have married and now settled down, which generally means giving up playing football. Among those “off the hooks” ai'o A. E. Cooke, F. W. Lucas, G. Nepia, J. Mill, and now Svenson. * >• *

Some English girls continued bathing even in the recent very cold weather at Home. Zeroines!

When Jack Roberts, of Newcastle, who weighed 9.4, knocked out “Kid" Johnson, from the Philippine Islands, who weighed 9.3, at the Sydney Stadium the other day, he improved on his previous performance against the Filipino. About five weeks ago it took him 2m 20s to knock out Johnson. This time he did the trick in lmin 40sec.

France’s new Rugby full-back, J. Magnol, of Stado Toulousain, is reported to have played brilliantly against Scotland, at Edinburgh. He was exceedingly expert in fielding the ball, his kicking was strong and welldirected, and his positional play was extraordinarily fine.