ALL SPORTS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6902, 7 May 1929, Page 4

ALL SPORTS

Don Bradman and A. Jackson, brilliant colts of the Australian cricket eleven, will keep themselves fit during the winter by playing baseball in Sydney. * *. The Empire women’s hockey tournament in South Africa is to be held next year, not this year. * * * Members of the amateur athletic clubs in Wellington are' taking an active part in the refereeing of Rugby. Dave Paris passed his senior exam, two seasons ago, while C. Jenkins, R. Lander, J. Fleming and T. Wiggs are holding a whistle this season. * * * One hundred and forty-three teams have been entered in the Rugby competition in Wellington. London defeated Paris by 12 to 5 in Rugby at the Colombes Stadium, Pans, last week. • * • Maurice Brownlie will play Rugby football again this season, but Cyril Brownlie says that he has decided definitely to retire. * * * Tom Heeney has been offered a fight with Max Schmelling, in Berlin. An invitation to a Spree. * * * The team of English cricketers organised by J. Cahn for a tour of the West Indies has not been meeting with as much success in its games as was expected. Seems that Cahn can’t. * * * N.2. Leaguers in Sydney According to advice received from Sydney, “Audie” Cleland and W. Matheson, two well known Rugby League players in Wellington some three years ago, are now playing for Eastern Suburbs and St. George’s respectively. It is also expected that both players will gain representative honours this season. * s * S.A. Cricketers The South African cricketers arrived at Southampton last Monday week. H. G. Deane, the captain, said: “It is the best team which has represented South Africa since Sherwell’s 1911 team. It comprises some promtsing young cricketers with the bigmatch temperament, good all-round-ers, and excellent fieldsmen. “Only Taylor and myself are over 30 years old, and the average age Is 24. The team has an advantage over other South African combinations which have visited England because for a year past the players have been able to practise on turf wickets, and by artificial preparation had reproduced slow sticky pitches, which are to be met with in England.” At a colliery in Northumberland a golf course, of nine holes, is being laid out for miners. and their wives. The miners certainly should be good in the bunkers.

Martha Norelius, brilliant American girl swimmer, has set a new world’s record for 220yds free-style swim. She recently won the American 220yds championship in 2min 35see, which was 5 3-ssec better than,her old record. She is only 20 years of age. * * *

The Australian bantam-w eight fight champion, Billy McAlister, who Is to meet the American, Petey Saron, at Melbourne to-mor-row night.

New Zealander George Modrich, who is doing better in the British ring than his Dominion record suggested he would, is being trained and managed for his bouts in Great Britain by Fred Dyer, the “Singing Boxer” of other da y s - .

Skating was very popular in Scotland during the recent long spell of very cold weather. It saved a lot of bootleather.

The Olympic Federation of Australia has decided that a special capitation fee of sixpence a head shall be levied on affiliated amateurs in Australia for the Commonwealth Olympic Games Fund.

England has a “wonder” woman hockey player, Miss Mabel Bryant, who

first played for England in 19Q1 and is still playing international hockey. * * * ■ ■■ Les Duff who was criticised by the Australian Olympic Federation for; his management of the team that repre? sented the Commonwealth at the Olympic Games last year has an-* nounced his immediate retirement from all sport. No plums in it now for this Duff. * * * Phi! Scott well-known British heavyweight boxer has taken to the stage. He. is appearing in an American farce “Is Zat So?’’ on tour in England. In the farce there is a fight in which Scott is knocked out. He ought to act that part well? Yes zat is so. * * * League Tourists’ Pay Allowances for the players of the Australian Rugby League team which is to visit England this year have been fixed at £4 10s a week for. each man —an increase of 5s a week. At the end of the tour the players will share two-thirds of the profits. The two managers will receive £5 a week.with a further allowance of £2 a week for incidental expenes and a lump sum of £IOO each. The players are to be bound by a contract more stringent than hitherto so that the managers will have greater control over them, both on and off the field. * # * “Bobby” and St. Andrew’s The peerless American amateur does not like St. Andrew’s golf course. The British amateur championship is to be played there in 1930. “Bobby” Jones has never won this title (about the only one of importance that he has not added to his collection), and an Ameri-. can paper says that when he heard it was to be played next at St. Andrews, “he groaned, as he is just spoiling to make his record complete py winning this tftle.” * * • Youngest Representative T. H. Cotton, most brilliant t of the younger school of English golfers, recently spent some months in America to gain experience, but he appears to have received too much advice. One result was that he altered his swing, adopting the full swing which is so much in vogue in the United States. Instead of improving his game, this change unsettled him, and he did not display anything like the form he is capable of producing on English courses. Cotton is the youngest member of the British team to meet the Ryder Cup invaders from America. * * * Would He Stoop to New Zealand?. Many Rugby enthusiasts in New Zealand would like to see A. D. Stoop, the most brilliant English stand-off half-back of his time, travelling with the British team in New Zealand next year. Stoop is one of the selectors of that team. As a member of the Harlequins Club, he modelled hi 3 play a great deal on what he saw of the All Blacks’ play in Great Britain in the British season of 1905-06., Fpr three seasons before that he had been Oxford University’s stand-off half. He did not play for England against the All Blacks, J. Braithwaite, of Leicester, being the stand-off half for that game, with D. R. Gent, of Gloucester, immediately behind the scrum, but Stoop did play against Scotland .and France in that season, and from then on until the 1911-12 season ended 'he appeared often for England.