SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 13 (Supplement)

SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

Cost of Olympic Gain**. Germany spent £4,165,000, at current rates, on the 1936 Olympic Games, £3,350,000 being on building and construction generally, now placed at the service of German youth and to be used chiefly for training sports instructors. 4 McLean Quiet. Jock McLean, who has embraced professionalism and begins his duties at Buchanan Castle Club at Drymen. Stirlingshire, on March 1, will be compelled to play only a modest part in competitions for the next five years. The rules of the Professional Golfers’ Association will prevent him from taking part in most of the big tournaments. * * * Derbyshire Recruit. Derbyshire, English county cricket champions, have added Clifford Gladwin, a 20-year-old all-rounder from Clapwell Colliery, to their nursery staff. Gladwin, who is over six feet tall, bowls right arm medium fast, and is a good batsman. He is a son of a former Derbyshire player who assisted the county as a fast medium bowler in 1914 and 1919. * * * The American Henley. For the first time in its 32-year history, the annual American Henley regatta will be taken from the Schuylkill River in 1937, says the New York Times. It has been scheduled for Saturday, May 15—two weeks earlier than usual—on Lake Carnegie, Princeton University. The chairman of the American Rowing Association (Mr. J. A. Brown) declared “the condition of the Schuylkill is such, with the present condition of the mud there, that we did not deem it wise to schedule the Henley in Philadelphia. . . . For several years it has been necessary to stage the events In heats on the Schuylkill and there was much criticism. “As long as the present mud condition prevails, the regatta probably will be held elsewhere."

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Cotton’. Pupil. Harry Bentley, English amateur golf champion, was the first pupil of Henry Cotton at Ashbridge, Herts, England, on January 4, when the former open champion began his professional duties to the club. * ♦ * A. F. Wensley. A .F. Wensley, the Sussex all-round cricketer, who was not re-engaged by (he county for the coming season, has been appointed professional to the West of Scotland Cricket Club, at Glasgow. Wensley was coach to the Auckland Cricket Association In the 1931-32 and 1932-33 seasons. * *■ ♦ Hagen and Kirkwood. Joe Kirkwood and Walter Hagen, two of the most famous golfers In the world, arrived In Auckland by the Monterey last week. Owing to the American shipping strike their Dominion tour has had to be curtailed and the players will leave Wellington for Auckland on March 9. They an at present touring the Dominion. * * 4* Boys' Golf Title. For the 17th English Boys’ Amateur Golf Championship, which begins at the Bruntsfield Society’s course, near Edinburgh, on August 24, entrants must be under 18 years on August 28, the day the championship finishes, and no boy who has ever been employed in any golf professional’s shop can enter. *■ * * New Captain of Golf. N. S. Mitchell-Innes, one of the English cricketers who toured New Zealand in 1935 ,is captain of the Oxford University golf team, and In iu last engagement with Worplesdon he won both foursomes and singles. In the singles he overwhelmed a scratch player by 5 and 4, and, except for one loose Iron shot which disappeared Into the jungle, he played sound and capable golf, averaging fours. ♦ + ♦ Harold Mudge. Harold Mudge, the young New South Wales spin bowler, who is to join Sir Julien Cahn’s team at Colombo this month, will afterward go to England and qualify for Leicestershire. On the return of Sir Julicn's party Mudge will take up his residence In Leicester, where he is to five for at least three years. Mudge came into the limelight when playing against M.C.C. at Sydney he took six wickets in the first Innings lor 42 runs.

McCormick Very Fast. E. L. McCormick is a faster bowler at his top than any of the Englishmen, states a Sydney cricket writer. But his top is not his average pace; lie does not keep it going as well as the English three. Catching Is not a strong point with McCormick. He missed two sitters in the Adelaide Test; the first so expensive that it might have cost Australia the match. At practice he made catches perfectly. In the match he grabbed the ball Imperfectly and put It on the grass. * ♦ ♦ Crawford’s Future. J. H. Crawford, Australian tennis champion, has followed the lead of his old rival, F. J. Perry, by making his future secure. With this difference. Crawford has taken an appointment with a sports store in Sydney which will not affect his amateur status, nor prevent him continuing his Davis Cup adventures for Australia. The firm he has joined has undertaken to grant him leave for overseas trips whenever necessary. Incidentally, this is the same firm which employs the Australian cricketer Alan Kippax. * + ♦ The Blood of Oldfield. The wolves of cricket are crying for the blood of Bert Oldfield as picketkeeper in the cricket Tests, say* a Sydney writer. They discovered no flaws In his keeping. But they do not see many runs in his bat—6, 10, 1,1, 27 not out, 7,5, and 1 in the Tests. Three of these were played on tricky wickets. In Melbourne they fancy B. A. Barnett, in Brisbane D. Tallon, and in Adelaide C. W. Walker, for the position. Meanwhile the selectors have taken a different view. Oldfield has not been burdened by wicketkeeping luck in the Test*. He is still Australia’s star 'keeper. 0 *■ ♦ Methods of Lifesaving May Chang*. It is expected that an outcome of the visit by the Australian surf lifesavers will be discussion by the New Zealand Surf Life-saving Association on the question of replacing its methods of giving resuscitation, organising teams, and paying out and hauling in the line with the methods employed in Australia. So fix as resuscitation is concerned, Mr. J. Cameron, manager ot the Australian team, has suggested that a conference should be arranged of the medical advisers to the Australian and New Zealand Associations with the object of adopting one method or the other es the standard. * * ♦ Jim Ferrier** Ranking. T. Suffem Taller, writing In the American Golfer, ranks Jim Fender, of Australia, the eighth best amateur in the world. His list Is as follows: 1, Johnny Fischer, 2, Johnny Goodman; 3, Jock McLean; 4, Scotty Campbell: 5, Hector Thomson; 6, George Voigt; 7, George Dunlap; 8, Jim Ferrier; 9, Reynolds Smith; 10, Ray Billows. Concerning Ferrier, he says: “Jim Ferrier, Australia’s finest golfer, competed in the British amateur for the first time this year, and proved himself worthy of ranking in the first 10 by reaching the final. He won many other important events this summer in England, and we should very much like to see him in action on these shores. He is a big. hard-hitting golfer, with an awkward style, but a fine, delicate touch that is close to miraculous on the greens."

’Keeper as Bowler. As a slow bowler, Leslie Ames, the English wicket-keeper, achieves success in Australia, which does not come his way in England. His three wickets for nine runs in 4-3 overs at Canberra brought his bowling figures for the tour to 8.59 in matches at Ipswich, Launceston, Geelong and Canberra. In the last four seasons in England in which Ames has taken a spell from wicket-keeping to toss up a few overs for Kent, he has failed to take a wicket, and 95 runs have been hit off his bowling. The most notable case of a wicketkeeper leaving his job behind the stumps to bowl was in a Test in Englanw in 1884, when the whole English eleven bowled in Australia’s innings of 551. The ’keeper, Alfred Lyttelton, took 4.19 in 12 overs of under-arms. Another Test ’keeper for England, W. Storer, occasionally took off the pads to try his hand, and his Test bowling figures were two wickets for 108.

Artists and Sportsman. Fred Cady, popular coach and manager of the American world svyimming champion, Jack Medica, in his tour of Australia, has shown marked interest in horses and horse racing since he arrived in Australia, writes a Sydney journalist. When i asked him if he had the winner of the Oakleigh Plate, Fred said, “I can paint ’em—but I can’t pick ’em.” World famous as a swimming and diving coach, Fred Cady is also an artist and sculptor, specialising in portraits of horses and dogs. He studied at the American Academy of Fine Arts, but says he went from the sublime to the ridiculous 30 years ago when he became interested in athletics and coaching. Now his art work is just a hobby. He has done several bronzes, the last just beforehis departure for Australia, which will be given as a trophy to the outstanding swimmer in the inter-Col-legiate Association this year. Fred, whose father was also an artist, has no difficulty in obtaining the best physocial types as models for his work—his pupils are only too willing to sit for him. One of his methods of coaching is to sketch the faults of his swimming and diving pupils on a chart. In addition, he sketches the correct methods and the charts are then studied carefully by the pupil, so that Fred’s artistic ability has not i been lost entirely in his work as a .professional coach.