SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 184, 6 August 1938, Page 12

SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS D. Trevatliam’s scores. D. Trevathan, up to the week bclast, had scored 95 points in Rugby matches this season. These were made up of four tries, ten conversions, eight penalty goals, nine field goals and a drop kick from a mark. N.Z. Women’s Badminton. Compared with men’s badminton in Australia and New Zealand, women players in the Dominion are of a higher standard than those in Australia, according to Miss I. Hewitt, a member of the Australian badminton team which recently toured New Zealand. Miss Hewitt said that New Zealand women are expert singles players, but lack system and finish in doubles play. Former N.Z. League Flayer. R. Hardgrave, the former New Zealand Rugby League three-quarter, who played both for Newton and Mount Albert several years ago, will arrive in Auckland by. the Niagara next week. Hardgrave played for Halifax and York in England, but las. season had a very successful time with Bendoux. one of the leading French clubs. He intends to remain in Auckland and should be an acquisition to club football. He is accompanied by Mrs. Hardgrave. ...»

Crows Steal Golf Balls. Ballarat crows are the latest to take up stealing golf balls from Alfredton golf links in Victoria. In recent weeks balls have mysteriously disappeared after golfers had believed they knew where they had hit them. The mystery was solved when the curator of the Botanical Gardens, Mr. T. B. Toop informed the club that many balls with beak marks on them had been found in gardens a mile from the links. . . « .

W. N. Carson Now 22. W' N. Carson, one of the Aucklanders with the All Blacks in Australia, celebrated his 22nd. birthday on the day of the match against New South Wales. A New Zealand representative cricketer, Carson, says a Sydney writer, holds the conviction that, if Australia could send an eleven, including some of the stars, to the Dominion it would put the game on its financial feet again. Such a visit is well overdue from Australia. The players would welcome it. Don Bradman said that it would give him great pleasure to take part in a tour if the time could be satisfactorily arranged. N.Z. Cross-Country Runner. A. R. Geddes, the New Zealand track and cross-country representative, continues to dominate the open events in the South Island, and, following his easy victory in the Kenneth Cup event in Christchurch, he won the Edmond Cup in Dunedin for the third year in succession. He equalled the record of S. L. Brown and J. Barnes, who had previously accomplished the treble victory. If Savidan does not journey to New Plymouth in September for the New Zealand crosscountry championship, Geddes will again provide the strongest opposition for the title-holder, C. Weller, of Wanganui. * * * • A Brilliant Golfer. The American golfer, C. R. Yates, won the British amateur championship with a club that he had discarded for three years. It was the putting which decided the final, and it was the brilliance of Yates’ holing-out in all his ties which took him to victory. It was accomplished with a club, too, which appeared unworthy to have a place in his bag. It had reposed rusty in his locker at home for three years, and it was only when he was packing his bag that he was suddenly seized with the idea to bring it with him. A shabby-looking club without a grip and wrapped with twine that might have been taken off a rubbish heap, yet he worked magical feats with it. • • ® • Australian Women's Golf. A record entry of 85 has been received for the women’s golf championship of Australia, to be played at the Australian Club from August 12 to 26. Fifty-five visitors from New Zealand, Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania will compete in the title events and handicap competitions. The entry is not as representative as last year when South Australian and Western Australian players were also in the field. Five familiar championship players are missing from the lists— Miss Nell Hutton and Miss Bertha Cheney (Victoria), who are abroad' Miss K. Rymill (South Australia) and Mrs. Pennefather and Mrs. J. Ferrier (N.S.W.). Mrs. Pennefather is ill, and Mrs. Ferrier will accompany her husband to Adelaide.