SPORTS JOTTINGS

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 144, 20 June 1936, Page 9

SPORTS JOTTINGS

ITEMS FROM THE SCRAP-BOOK

ACTIVITY HERE AND THERE

Sport on the Water. Probably because of the ample facilities they have, German sportsmen are renowned fc-r their interest in yachting, rowing and canoeing. These three sports have a prominent place in the programme for the Olympic Games at Berlin in August. Canoeing, which has lately attracted a large following as a competitive sport, will bo specially provided for. Special quarters have also been built for the oarsmen at Kiel, and the rowing contests will bo followed keenly by Germany’s 120,000 oarsmen and 10,000 c-arswomen. Sound Finance. A determined effort is being made by the executive of the Canterbury Amateur Athletic Centre to put its finances on a sounder basis. Initiative has been used in drawing up some useful plans, c-ne of • the most attractive of which is tile proposal to have an associate membership for old athletes, officials and friends of the sport. Mr. C. H. Taylor, jun., is the popular chairman of a committee appointed to set the scheme in motion. It is intended to assemble a big gathering of prospective members at the Pioneer Amateur Sports Club and from that build up an associate membership of 500. A number of special privileges for members are proposed.

League Replacement Rule. During a discussion on tho replacement of players at a meeting of the Auckland Eugby League, Mr. G. Grey Campbell, who presided, said he opposed the proposal for non-replace-ments at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Eugby League, and he had grave doubts about the application of the rule being possible in Auckland or Now Zealand. “We are not going to sacrifice the game for the sake of a fetish,’’ said Mr. Campbell, “and I think that in view of the position that has arisen we should rescivd the resolution we previously adopted and continue to allow replacements as formerly.” He added that the rule was all right, where players wero able to give most of their time to training and fitness, but tho position was different in New Zealand generally from what obtained overseas. It did not appear that tho strict enforcement of non-replace-ment would be in the interests of the game. The replacement concession up to half-time which obtained in Auckland was working satisfactorily, and he thought it should not be interfered with.