THE SPORTS MAN'S LOC.

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6954, 6 July 1929, Page 8 (Supplement)

THE SPORTS MAN'S LOC.

Jack Dempsey will return to the boxing ring—if he gets a million dollars for doing it. Like a good antique, lie seems to grow more valuable with ago.

A contemporary asks, "What is the best method of judging the weight of a fish?” By the scales, of course.

R. H. Bettington, well-known Australian cricketer, and his brother, 13. C. J. Bettington. have won the foursomes golf championship of New South Wales

J. Fitzpatrick, the star forward in the Australian hockey team which will tour New Zealand in July and August, is considered by competent Sydney critics to be the best forward that Austranian hockey has produced.

Johnny Weismuller, the famous American swimmer who recently abandoned his status as an amateur, is reported now to be taking up flying as a profession. A flying fish?

"Cook beat Risko on a foul.” Sounds like a culinary operation.

Women tennis players at Nice have taken to wearing trousers when they are playing. A nice sort of thing!

Now' that Sir Thomas Lipton’s challenge for the America Cup has been accepted, we shall hear more about the cultivation of friendliness between Great Britain and America, by means of sport. Hands across the teas!

“Hop Harry” Stone, old man of the boxing ring, w'as awarded a draw with Carl Salm, of Germany, in a la-round bout at Melbourne. It was a poor affair, but neither boxer was worse than the other. Melbourne people say that they do not want any more “Stone Age” boxing.

Australian Test cricketers are to receive an additional bonus of £lO a match, making £4O a match, plus 30s a day allowance, plus firstclass travelling expenses. Seems that they are bonus-to-goodness amateurs!

Convenient Twin Brother Twin brothers sometimes form a convenient combination., especially when

they are boxers in the same class. Instance, the Webber twins. At Oamaru last week Billy Webber won the featherweight division, and then, when twin brother whs unable to continue (after winning the first round), lie took on the light-weight finalist. He was, however, disqualified for hitting low. Rumour has it that twin Billy substituted once before without being detected by those “not in the know.” All Black Had the Wind Up Jim Burrows, who recounted his experiences in South Africa to the Canterbury. Referees’ Association recently, seems to have experienced his most trying time on the tour at a wedding. He was the only white man at a Zulu wedding, and he said that he “had the wind up” all the time. The natives were drinking, and he had heard that a wedding is seldom solemnised without one or two deaths occurring also. The trouble, it appears, is that part of the ceremony is a procession, in which the relatives march in order of precedence. It is not difficult to sort out the most important of them at the head of the procession, but at about the middle of it there is always trouble. The oldest member of the Australian hockey team, which will arrive in New Zealand on July 16, is 29 years of age. The majority of the players are in the early twenties, and they are a particularly fast and physically fit combination

The Australian representative hockey team has been selected from 47 nominated players, each of whom put up a deposit of £5 as a guarantee of being definitely available for tlie New Zealand tour. The side is much stronger than any previous combination that has left the Commonwealth. AV. Rothwill is the manager.

A Rugby Stunt Glory be to the gods of Rugger! In the "good old days” we occasionally saw a half-back who got the ball from a scrum within striking distance of the goal-line, slip round one side, and toss the ball over the scrums to the first five-eighth, who had moved up on that side. The five-eighth would promptly return the ball over the scrum to the half-back, who would either dash for the goal-line or else pass to another centre-back. When Freddy Roberts was New Zealand’s half-back, and H. J. (“Simon”) Mynott and Jimmy Hunter were its five-eighths, this “stunt” occasionally had another frill or two — sometimes this frill was a scissors pass —grafted on to it. Of course, the trick was not tried too often, and it was never tried more than a dozen yards or so from tlie goal-line. But it often was successful.