THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG.

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6912, 18 May 1929, Page 20 (Supplement)

THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG.

Complaints of- rough play in professional Soccer in Sydney continue. * * £ A player In a junior cricket match in Sydney a few days ago scored 182 runs in 90 minutes. He hit 14 sixes and lfi fours —148 in boundary shots. * * * In a great game, 11. Hopman beat J. Crawford 9 —7, 4 —o, o—B,0 —8, o—2, 7 —5 in the final of the men’s singles at the City of Sydney championships. * * * An advertisement in a Scottish paper reads: “For sale—Bruisers, small, 50s, GOs.” Aro British heavy-weights not even worth advertising? '* * » Larger and lighter golf baits are not recommended by the Rules of Golf Committee. It would be unfair to expect a player who has adjusted his vocabulary to ono set of conditions to start all over again. • • » Riding a horse named Dungog, Miss Emile Roach, ono of Australia’s greatest horsewomen, recently broke the high jump record for the Sydney Showground. Dungog cleared the bar at 7ft Jin, without a rap. The prize was- £SO, and with other prizes that she won Miss Roach took something like £l5O out of the ring.

| Rugby Changes Brown, the speedy winger who j played Rugby for Victoria University l College in Wellington last season, is tliis year playing :or Technical at Wanganui, while another famous player, F. Kilby, All Black and Wellington representative, h a s joined the Pirates Club in the same town. Kilby is playing five-eighths for his new club, but judging from all accounts he has not yet struck form.

Following Styles Sixteen clubs were represented in a field oL’ 103 competitors for the Women’s National Cross - country Championship of England a few weeks ago. Tho course was over two miles and three-quarters of grassland, fairly hilly, and frozen hard. Ninety-nine finished. Perhaps tho explanation why so many finished is Hint they were following Styles. For the second time in succession the race was won by

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Miss L. D. Styles, of Littlehampton. It would have been more appropriate if Miss J JD. Wear, of Polytechnic A.C., had been second instead of third to the Styles girl. Middlesex L.A.C. team won tho teams chompioriship. Some unkind opponents of cross-country running for women might suggest that it was but natural for a Middlesex team to Win an event ofvtliis kind. * * <> The Pladner-Genaro fight in Paris on March 2—a fight that was over in 53s—produced admission re; ceipts of £8,160, which were £3,200 more than the previous record at Velodromo d'Hiver. * * * Roger Blunt, Golfer The energetic Roger Blunt, Otago's champion batsman, does not believe in resting between ...

cricket seasons. Last winter he did very well at golf and this season he has again started off in good style by winning the handicap medal competition and finishing in the first four of those who qualified for the St. Clair Golf Club’s championship. Dr. Ken

Ross, by tho way, headed the list of qualifying players for the Otago Club’s championship.

Motto for ducks' calendar, May: Duck! * * * “England will have to find a new opening batsman,” says Jack Hobbs in an article in a London paper. “Age makes a difference. I felt the glare of tho Australian sun, and was not ‘seeing them’ as I would have liked.' I shall {day against tho South Africans if I am asked, but I would be happy to seo another man coming along.” * * * Some remarks that we heard on the links a few days ago reminded us of the description of a golfer as a man who hits a little ball over fields and streams and dams. * * * Management Committee of the Now Zealand Rugby Union proposes to bring tho old kick-into-touch rule into force again for two seasons. Looks as if the New Zealand Union needs a kick into touch with public opinion. * * * When Bobby La Salle, American boxer, got into the ring at the Sydney Stadium, for His fight with Charlie

Purdy, the back of his dressing-gown was adorned with a large question mark. Purdy answered the question effectively. * * • F. C. Toone was a justice of the peace beforo he became a wicket knight. He should be an authority on bails. • • • In a meeting at Lausanne, the Inter* national Olympic Committee discussed at length the vexed question: “What is an amateur?" It reaffirmed the principle that the Olympic Games must be restricted to amateurs, but left precise definition to a meeting to be held at Berlin next year. • • • Wairarapa Rugby is to benefit this season by the services of W. Wilson, the Hawke’s Bay representative, who was also in the New Zealand Maori team which went on tour in 1926. He has now gone to live at Masterton and will be turning out for one of the local teams, probably Red Star. That team is already strengthened by the inclusion of Tommy Corkill, the exHawke's Bay half, and great things are expected of it, even though Old Boys still have the services of A. E. Cooke, New Zealand’s most brilliant five-eighths of a year or two back. • * •

Six changes were made in the English Rugby team for the match with Scotland on March IS. One of the men who were dropped was Dr. R.'CoveSmitli, who had captained England since W. W. Wakefield’s retirement from international football. The new captain of England is H. G. Periton, a Lancashire man, who came into international Rugby in 1925, and who is the winging forward of the English pack. But Periton could not start his captaincy with a victory, for Scotland won by 12 points to 6.

Playing in a senior trial cricket match at Oxford University, W. G. Kalaugher, of Auckland, New Zealand Rhodes scholar, took four wickets for 38 runs. This was the best bowling performance of th» match. * *

The New Stouth Wales Government has appointed three Cabinet Ministers to search for Crown lands which would be suitable and available for sports areas and playing fields, * * * Ball In Scrum

Tho Otago Rugby Union wants the New Zealand Rugby Union to grant permission for Otago referees to place tho ball in every set scrum in their district. But the New Zealand Rugby Union should have a special dispensation from the English Rugby Union before it could grant such permission. Law 15 of Rugby football says: “In all cases when tho referee orders a scrummage, or one team exercises its right to claim a scrummage, the referee shall