TOPICS AND PEOPLE IN THE WORLD OF SPORT

Northern Advocate, 28 January 1939, Page 11

TOPICS AND PEOPLE IN THE WORLD OF SPORT

UNOFFICIAL WORLD’S GOLF CHAMPION If Henry Cotton makes the American trip, matches are proposed with such American golf stars as Ralph Guldahl, Paul Runyan and Sam Snead, the idea being to find an unofficial world champion. Let’s hope he makes the trip. He and Snead would provide a great tussle.

CRICKETER SHOWS “CRAZY STUPIDITY” , “There is no attempt ito defend the summonses; their conduct can only be described as an act of the most foolish and crazy stupidity,” said Mr A. C. J. Greman recently, when representing Joseph Hadstaff, the English cricketer, and his father-in-law, Arthur Rose, both of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, states an English paper. They.were summonsed for trespassing in pursuit of game on the Duke of Portland’s Welbeck Abbey estate. The case against Rose was dismissed, the chairman, Col. R. Thompson, stating that he took no actual part in the offence. Hardstaff was lined £2, with an additional fine of £3 for shooting a pheasant. Mr A. P. Williamson, prosecuting, said Hardstaff and Rose had been fishing on the estate. When returning, Hardstaff shot a pheasant from his car and Rose picked it up. The pheasant, all ready for cooking, was, later found at Rose’s house. The chairman said it was a “dirty trick,” even if the two men were dissatisfied with their day’s fishing. « * * % FARR DEFEATED AGAIN Battered and dazed and all but knocked out by an underdog novice in his fourth straight defeat in U.S.A., Tommy Farr, the hardy and game Welshman, recently was committed to a programme of remaining in the United until he finally wins a fight. His most recent loss is to Clarence (“Red”) Burman.

BUDGE TOPS ATHLETIC POPULARITY VOTE For his unprecedented achievements on the tennis court, Don Budge again tops the list as the United States of America’s foremost athlete of 1938. In a nation-wide poll conducted by the Associated Press, the Ted-thatched Californian was given top ranking by 26 of the 63 participating sports writers and enough seconds and thirds to roll up 122 points. During the year the lanky tenpis ace won the Australian, French, British and American titles before turning professional for 75,000 dollars.

The tabulated results of the leaders: Men Firsts Pts. Donald Budge, tennis .... 26 122 Henry Armstrong, boxing 19 104 Johnny Vander Meer, baseball 8 37 Davey O’Brien, football .... 2 28 Glen Cunningham, track 3 16 Ralph Guldahl, golf .... 1 14 Sam Snead, golf 1 13£ Joe Louis, boxing .... 0 9 Hank Greenberg, baseball 1 8 Jimmie Foxx, baseball .... 1 6 Women Patty Berg, golf 45 164 Helen Wills Moody, tennis 10 58 Katherine Rawls Thompson swimming 4 58 Alice Marble, tennis .... 5 54 Helen Jacobs, tennis .... 0 9 Sonja Henie, skating .... 1 9 Mrs Lela Hall, trapshooting 1 3 Stella Walsh, track .... 0 3 Mildred Babe Didrikson, all-round 0 3 £ * * *

VON NIDA WINS PHILIPPINE OPEN AGAIN For the second year in succession Norman von Nida, the Australian professional, has won the Philippine Islands open championship. As the first prize was £SOO, and von Nida was also paid appearance money, the little boy from Manly (von Nida was born at Manly, Sydney, although he spent most of his youth in Queensland) is on velvet. On this occasion an aggregate of 292 was good enough for a win. The par of the course on which the event was played is 72. In the first three

rounds von Nida equalled par in each but he fell away to a 76 in the final round. MATTHEWS UNDERGOES OPERATION News that Cecil Matthews, Empire Games champion distance runner, had undergone an operation for hernia was received with dismay by New Zealand athletics enthusiasts. Actually, the trouble, if it had to come, came at an opportune time. Matthews will not be able to compete .this season, but the spell will do him good, and he should be ready to start next season with a graduated training schedule, which will bring him to peak condition for the Olympic Games.

BY GUN SHOT Jack White, the Somerset and England cricketer, has lost the sight of one eye and his face is injured as the result of the accidental discharge of a gun while pheasant shooting with friends on his father’s farm near Williton. A doctor attended Mr White soon after the accident and motored

him to Taunton and Somerset Hospij tal. He was afterwards taken to' a Taunton nursing home where an operation was performed. a # * » GALENTO BELLOWS FOR BOUT WITH LOU NOVA Tony Galento, New Jersey’s globular contribution to the prize ring, headed home after the Nova-Farr contest bellowing contempt for “that hobo, Lou Nova,” states an American paper. “Give me Nova and any three chaps like him,” the two-ton terror of the taprooms shouted when he learned of Nova’s win. “I’ll take them all at the same time. I’ll knock them loose from their ankles without even perspiring. Joe Jacobs, Galento’s manager, backed him up. “That fellow, Nova,” Jacobs sneered, “Tony would chase him out of the ring—if we could get him in it. But the way things are in New York now, the only chance we’ll ever get at him would be in Philadelphia, Chicago or Newark. We haven’t a chance of getting a crack at him in New York.” Galento knocked out Dick Daniels, Minneapolis, in the third round of what was billed as an “exhibition” on the same night that Nova blasted Farr. Angered when Daniels poked him with hard rights on the face, Galento flattened him once with a right over the heart, then warned, “Now will you behave?” When Daniels threw some more punches Galento repeated the treatment and Daniels stayed down.

ROBINS RESIGNS CAPTAINCY | , ■' • R. W. V. Robins has informedMiddlesex county cricket club that ; owing to business reasons he must re->; sign the captaincy, although he hopes*, to play for the side occasionally. IriJ| a letter to the president, Robins wrote:., “I spent four of the happiest years as’captain of this great county, and I amf? sure that you will understand what a wrench it is for me to give it up.” He;: also thanked the committee for the support he had received while captain#