Flashes From Fields Of Sport Abroad

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7031, 15 December 1932, Page 10

Flashes From Fields Of Sport Abroad

ments on his bowling, we have come to the conclusion that Nagel did spin the ball at times. Of course, neither flight nor spin would have been nearly so effective but for his excellent length. This fast-medium bowler, 6ft 6in tall, and 27 years of age, got his first wicket in that innings for three runs, his second, third, and fourth for nine, his fifth and sixth for 21, his seventh for 29, and his eighth for 32. The jump from 21 to 29 was caused by F. R. Brown, who likes to hit, hitting two fours off him.

A chap we know, who has recently taken to golf, and who has discovered that learning the game involves expenditure not only on a club subscription and an outfit, but also on the replacement of many balls , that hide themselves after he drives off, has come to the conclusion that while golf expands the muscles it also contracts the bank account. * * * A New World’s Championship Jules Rimet, president of the International Association Football Federation, has given some details of the World Soccer Cup competition to be held in 1934. Eliminating matches will be played in various parts of the world, and the teams of 16 successful countries will dispute the later stages in Italy. The first round will be played in various big towns in the north, the quarterfinals in Rome, Florence, Naples, and a centre still to be chriscn, and the semifinals and final in Rome. It is assumed on the Continent that Great Britain will again abstain from the competition. There will probably be other notable abstentions, so that the title of World Soccer Cup hardly seems justified. Professionalism has spread so widely in recent years that, whatever the character of previous contests, the next world tournament will not be an amateur one. Germany has just adopted professionalism openly, and, according to M. Riinct, only four or five of the 49 countries affiliated to the International Federation have not officially sanctioned payments to players. * * -xG. 0. Allen, Sydney-born member of the M.C.C. team, is known to his intimates as “Gubby.” That seems to be a polite way of expressing his initials, the third of which he usually suppresses. His full name is George Oswald Browning Allen. It would scarcely be nice to be called “Gob.” * * # Japan’s participation in the Olympic Games at Los Angeles has given such a tremendous impetus to athletics in Japan that official steps are being taken to see that the youth of the country do riot overdo it. The Education Office has included £3500 in its estimate, to be used in creating a sports medical clinic in the Athletic Institute at Yoyogi, a suburb of Tokyo. The clinic will have a staff of medical officers who will advise as to the extent of a candidate’s fitness to go in for athletics. * * * It is in the hope of remedying weaknesses in its forward play that the St. Helens Club, in the English Rugby League, has re-engaged L. Hutt, of Auckland, who returned to New Zealand early in the Dominion’s football season of this year, after playing for two years with St. Helens. Hutt should be back in England a few weeks hence. * * * L. E. Nagel’s Bowling Even among the English batsmen who were the victims of Lisle Nagel’s magnificent bowling performance at Melbourne there is, as among cricketers and critics who watched the match, a diversity of opinion about whether, or not Nagel spun the ball. The one. thing they are agreed upon is his variation ol flight when bowling into a slight crossbreeze. .But, after perusing many com-

D. R. Jardine’s possibilities as a stonewaller pale into insignificance beside the feat of Mrs R. Howarth, captain of a team of women cricketers in Sydney. Opening an innings for her team recently, Mrs Howarth played right through the innings, for nine not out, scored in 105 minutes. *. * * . French Rugby Depression French Rugby is feeling more acuteiy than ever the effects of the rupture with Great Britain. When the split in France was .healed last year it was hoped and believed that this season would bring a revival of good, clean, open play, but the results have been disappointing. “We. have the natural qualities, speed, courage, and strength,” says a wellknown Paris critic, “but we lack a profound knowledge of the game. We are suffering from the deplorable condition into which Rugby was allowed to lapse 12 years ago.” It is pointed out to players that “they arc diminishing their own pleasure as well as that of spectators, and M. Fernand Forgues, a former international and now chairman of the Basque Coast Rugby Committee, said recently: “K play with British teams is not resumed French Rugby will not improve. We owe to Great Britain the progress we made, but that progress may soon be only a memory.”

Dutch Girls And English Records Two girl swimmers from Holland broke English records for women at a swiiriming carnival in London recently. Willy Den Ouden, the 14-year-old girl who was runner-up in the women’s 100metre free-style swim at the Olympic Games, won a 100-yard race in 0.62 1-5. Edith Cooper, who finished second, equalled her own English record, 0.62 2-5. The other Dutch girl to break a record was Jenny Kastein, who in the 200-yard breast-stroke swim was timed at 2.52 3-5, whereas the old record was 2.55 1-5. Marjory Hinton was second in 2.56. * * # On A Wet Wicket Famous cricketers, as “Plum” Warner says, are modest. That is why Arthur Mailey lias not told how he helped a pavement artist in London on the last Test tour of England. On a rainy morning he was motoring with friends along the Embankment when they saw a pavement artist sadly holding an old umbrella over his wet sketches. Moved to pity, and encouraged by the others, the cricketer-car-toonist alighted and obtained the artist’s permission to do a chalk study of Don Bradman, then the lion of London. Mailey made a good job of it, and when the members of the motoring party drove back that way an hour later they saw that the pavement artist had given his own sketches over to the rain and was carefully shielding his Bradman with the tattered gainp. Bradman was already framed in threepenny bits and coppers, and passers-by were continually adding to the artist’s store. For a wet wicket it played beautifully.

J. L. Farrell, fine forward of the British Rugby team which toured_New_ Zealand and Australia in 1930, is still in excellent form. He was the outstanding forward in a series of matches

which his club, Bective Rangers, played in the English Midlands and in London recently. Johnny Farrell has been “capped” 29 times for Ireland. * * The New South Wales Women’s Amateur Athletic Association, threatened with disqualification for holding a race at a proprietary speedway meeting, has expressed to the N.S.W.A.A.A. its regret for having committed a breach of the rules. In view of this, and extenuating circumstances, tile trouble which was looming has been smoothed down.