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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 44, 22 February 1936, Page 9

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Japanese Skating Stax. Eleven-year-old Miss Etsuko Inada,of Osaka, is the Japanese figure skating star. In an Olympic Games trial held in Japan she scored the highest number of points, 999.8, in the school figure event, and 745.5 in the free figure, a total of 1745.3. . *** . * Ironmonger Ketires. H. Ironmonger, Australian veteran left-hand spin bowler, who is now touring with Tarrant's team in India, intends to retire from, the game. With tDon Blackic, who retired at the end of last season at the age of 53, Ironmonger formed the greatest bowling combinations, in Australian cricket. They played for the St. Hilda Club in Melbourne, and of course for the Victorian state side, but their appearances in test cricket were curiously infrequent. The bowling figures for this famous pair for St. Hilda, Victoria, and tests against .England are:

St. Hilda. Balls. M. R. W. Av. Blaekie . . 20,143 479 6949 495 14.03 Ironmonger 20,423 531 6754 502 13.45 Victoria. Blaekie .. 10,050 223 3798 159-23.88 Ironmonger 19,262 586 6997 313 22.30 Australia. Blaekie .. 1,260 51 444 14 31.71 Ironmonger 2,446 155 711 21 3-J.90 •■ • • ■ * • Longer Golf Courses. Important and interesting changes are being made at two of Britain s most famous championship golf links— Hoylake and Prestwick. For this year’s open championship the course of the Royal Liverpool Club is .to be extended to more than 7100 yards. Hoylake thus will become the longest of all the championship courses, Prince’s, Sandwich, coming next with 6890 yards. From tee to green Hoylake will be 4J miles long, and if to this be added the walks to the new teeing grounds and the deviations made by a player during his' round, he will cover well over five miles, before getting back to the club-house.-

In a championship six rounds are played, so that a competitor will cover more than '3O miles 1 •»; *" •: » “ “You’re Out;” A peculiar incident occurred in a cricket match at Auckland recently. This was in a special competition for teams from mercantile firms, each supplying their own umpire. The official who acted for the leading team on this occasion amazed his opponents by the following action: —-A oall was played in the direction of square-leg, where there was no fieldsman. The umpire was standing near the spot, aid he ran after the ball, picked it up, and threw it in to the wicket. The running batsman was well out of his crease, and the umpire—the man who had also fieldsd the ball—held up his hand and called “You’re outl” -•

The astonished victim and his teammates subsequently enquired from the umpire the reason for his action. The official's reply was to the effect that he was fielding as a substitute for a player who had temporarily left the iield.

Falwasser in Trance. A. Falwasser, who used to play Rugby for Hawke’s Bay and for New Zealand Maori teams, and who has French blood in his veins, is now the star player of the new Bordeaux Rugby League Blub. He played League football for two or three years in the North of England, and then went to France and was with a number of French clubs before transferring to Bordeaux. Falwasser, who speaks French fluently, is very popular in France. Recently he came to England in search of talent to reinforce his club, and returned to Bordeaux with L. Leeton, who used to play Rugby for Auckland. Falwasser has an ambition to bring a Maori League team to France.

End of Britannia. It is being said that the Britannia ■will never-race again, says a writer in 1 ‘Blue Peter.” Old age at last seems to have overtaken King George’s grand old racing yacht. Blow high or blow low, this season they could do nothing with her, and she ended her shortened season without a winning flag— a record unprecedented in all her 40-odd years of sport. Recent alterations seem not .to be to blame, and where the fault lies is difficult to say. Mr. Nicholson says that the _ only original material left in Britannia is her stem and stern-post, every other thing in the ship has been renewed once or more since she was launched in 1593. It may be, then, that finally the vessel’s inherent quality has been evaporated, so to speak, leaving a composite vessel without—shall we say—her own soul.

Winging Forwards. “Before the AH Blacks arrived there •were rumours that they were not going to use wing forwards as know in this country, and yet by the end of the tour they were winging as intensively as any side against whom tney played,” states the Rugby writer _of the Manchester Guardian in an article Seating with the wing-forward. He. says that winging was never so intensive as at the present-day, and he declares that present-day inside backs have a much harder task than the stars of former years. “The All Blacks' defeat at the hands of Swansea was in no small measure due to the destructive tactics of E. Long, the home captain, who w-as helped enormously by The fact that Tindill,;: the inside five-eiighth, stood too near to -the scrum and, Thus prevented an easy . target. Seldom, if ever, did he part with the ball on the move, seldom if ever, did Caughey receive the ball on the move, and as a result the crash tackling of C. Davey was made all the simpler and all the more effective. The same thing, to a lesser extent, happened at .Twickenham, where TLndill once again stood too near his forwards. Griffiths, for all his limitations as an attacking player, at least, stood a fair distance from his partner, usualy Sadler, who sent out a long and accurate pass. Had there been no wing-for-wards these two matches,might have ended differently.”