THE SPORTSMANS LOG.

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6955, 8 July 1929, Page 4

THE SPORTSMANS LOG.

Some of the male tennis players in England have taken to wearing shorts on the courts. * * * Warwick Armstrong, more mountainous than ever, plays golf nowadays. His gx-eat handicap is that he has to stand so far from the ball to be able to hit it! • • * Bookmakers in Great Britain are now to pay £4O tax for each of the telephones they use for their business. Expensive, talkies! • * * The round-the-mountain cycle road race in Taranaki, a iOO-miles trek round Mount Egmont, which' is second in importance to the Timaru-to-Christ-church road race only in New Zealand, will be held on October 26. * * • The right back of a London amateur Association football team is an undertaker by trade. Spectators’ usual advice to him is “Box him up!” * * * The International Rugby Board has ruled that a player throwing the bah Into the field of play from touch must have both of his feet in touch. * * * Paolino Uzcudun is to fight Max Schmelling in New York on June 27, for the benefit of the Poor Babies’ Milk Fund. Charity, of course, demands that a and a German shall spill blood to provide American babies with milk.

Forgot His Reticence J. T. Burrows, that strong, silent man of the High School Old Boys senior Rugger pack, broke his habit of reticence last SatC h ristchurch “Sun.” A. Y. Montgomery, tall ' 'SI Varsity forward, ■Mk; biffed Burrows in £,] the eye with an XJ elbow. We are not assuming that there was intent £ ■ in the biff, but any ' other forward a smacked in the « eye like that J. T. Burrows might well have been tempted to swing a punch. Not so with Burrows, who has the sportsmanship of a really good boxer. Burrows contented himself with addressing a few crisp words to Montgomery.

E. A’Beckett, Victorian and Australian cricketer, is expected to take up residence at Oxford University in October.

Looks as if girls are giving English batsmen a lead in the “brighter cricket” movement. A London girl recently hit 17 fours in scoring 111 runs out of 144 made by her team. » » * Scott Does Not Impress Phil Scott, the British heavy-weight boxer who makes some pretensions to a match for the world’s championship, did not improve his credentials in beating Ludwig Haymann (Ger- /, '\ many) on points /fp "'MI in a 15-round contest for the Euro- ™ young boxer who V’-aJlglji, /fflM/ held the German amateur championship before he' became a profes- p. Scott sional, and who has not had a great deal °f expedience. Scott was very slow in taking advantage of obvious openings, and he seldom landed his blows with real “pep” and accuracy. Indeed, j ud fh"r from descriptions of the fight, which was held in London, it could almost be said that the less-experienced German lost, rather than that Scott won. •* * * Announcement that K. S. Duleepsinhji is coming to New Zealand with the M.C.C. team causes cricketers to leap and sing. • • *

Cash Athletic Tour Negotiations are now in train for the bringing to New Zealand of two of the best professional athletes in Australia for a series of meetings. If the tour can be arranged it is anticipated that match races of world’s championship class will be arranged, and that New Zealand will see once more racing of the sort that was provided when Arthur Postle and Jack Donaldson met in matches before the war. If possible, the tour will be started just after Christmas, and the visitors will be in the Dominion for about a month. • • *

A Contrast A Sydney paper says that when the New Zealand University athletic team’s challenge match with a New South Wales team was to start, in wet weather, several of the New South Wales A.A.A, officials had not put in an appearance, and it seemed as if the races would have to be abandoned. However, two men were recruited from the spectators, and a start was made. “The non-appearance of the officials,” it continues, “was the subject of a good deal of criticism, as invariably the New Zealand A.A.A. sets a good example in this respect.”