TOPICS AND PEOPLE IN THE WORLD OF SPORT

Northern Advocate, 29 July 1939, Page 1 (Supplement)

TOPICS AND PEOPLE IN THE WORLD OF SPORT

*' CHAMPION’S LEFT HOOK 4 •> ♦ ❖ These graphic “magic eye” pic- *:* tares toll their own story of the ’♦* Louis-Galenlo title' bout in New *j* York on June 28. Second-round ❖ -vviews begin (on top left) with *:* ❖ Louis starting a terrific left hook, f £ and the blow reaches its objec- ❖ tive "in the third picture. The % ❖ three pictures on the right show *:* £ the result from which Two-Ton *t* Tcny look the count of three. .*♦ ♦j‘ Louis won on a technical knock % out in the fourth round. V

OLD FIGHTER’S VIEWS Billy Murphy, featherweight champion of the world in 1890, who died this week, recently received from Tommy White, another old-time fighter in the States, a letter, from which the following is an extract: “Now, Bill my lad, I am fair when I ■Jell you that this fellow Louis is not a Sullivan, Fitzsimmons, or Jack Johnson, and I do not think he could have laid a glove on Jim Corbett or Peter Jackson. There is not a fighter in America who knows how to feint. They just trade punches all through a fight. None of them learn anything.”

PRICES OF BIG FIGHT SEATS Ringside seats at the recent Loin's v. Galcnto contest cost 27 dollars 50 cents. For the Nova v. Baer scrap ringsiders paid 27 dollars 50 cents. And for the McAvoy v. Harvey and Phillips v. Doyle double bill in England on July 10, seats were advertised from three guineas to 5/-. * ir * ENGLAND’S R.XJ. CAPTAIN ON HOOKING H. B. Toft, England's Rugby Union captain, a hooker without a superior lasi season m the four home countries, stood up at the annual meeting of the English Rugby Football Union and made a speech which was analytical, constructive, and also unanswerable, fie had taken part in special tests to expose the complete impracticability of the hooking law, in which he had been assisted by a slow-motion film and a War Office expert on velocity. He declared that in last season's three international trials a totally different hooking law was enforced each time because a different referee was interpreting the law in Iris own way.

U.S.A. SCHOOLBOY’S POLE VAULT RECORD A new U.S.A. national scholastic pole vault record was set at the recent Ohio (U.S.A.), High School sports carnival by 19-year-old John Linta, who skimmed over the bar at 13ft 9 7-Bin. The Mansfield senior dug his bamboo into the ground for the mighty leap in a meet swept by heavy wind and rain. Previous record of 13ft 9,Jin was held by Maynard • of Belmont „ High School, Los Angeles. * * * CRICKETING TWINS ARE HARD TO PICK The ciicketing twin brothers. Eric and Victor Bedser, brought into the Surrey team: a few weeks back, are so much alike that, in a club game the scorer put down "the runs scored by Victor to Eric, and the wickets secured by Eric to Victor. One of them usually wears an armonnd to distinguish him from his brother. * * * THE “RED HAT” Members of. Chart (Surrey) second eleven cricket team who fumble catches will have to wear the “rad hat.” The hat was. purchased by the captain recently in an effort to improve the fielding of the team. In one match a player dropped the ball and had tc wear the hat during the rest of the match. He caught two difficult balls in fine style afterwards, but this did nipt entitle him to remove the hat. * ■# * PASSING OF TOM HAYWARD One of the most stylish and hardhitting batsmen ever tc find bis way into English first-class cricket, Mr Thomas Walter (Tom) Hayward, former All England _ and Surrey representative died* recently, aged 65 years. As well as being a master of all strokes and a master batsman, Mr Hayward was also a good medium-paced bowler and in his earlier, days a fine outfield. As a member of the Surrey Club, Mr Hayward had a great record, extending from 1893 to 1914, His highest score was 315 not cut against Lancashire at the Oval in 1898. On three occasions he scored two separate centuries for his county in one match and his last four hundreds were compiled in one week. With R. Abel he once put on 448 runs for the fourth wicket

and on 22 other occasions he figured in partnerships which produced- over 200 runs.

Mr Hayward was a'member <?f Lord Hawke’s team in South Africa in 189495, while he also visited Australia with A. E. Stoddart’s team in 1897-93, A. C. MacLaren’s side in 1901-02 and the M.C.C. in 1903-04. He played for England against Australia,' in England, in 1696, 1899, 1902 and 1909. In 33 matches he represented the Players against the Gentlemen while he also played in 33 test matches, three being againt South Africa.

Prolific Scoring In all first-class matches Mr Hay* ward scored 43,409 runs at an average of 41.G9 and took 481 wickets at a cost of 22.94 runs a wicket, while his catches numbered 484. In test fixtures he compiled 1810 runs at an average of 33.51 and for Players against Gentle- i men to hit up 2531 runs ; his average being 46.10. In 1906 he obtained 3518 runs, a record aggregate for the season and aggregated over 2000 runs a season on 10 occasions. He also scored over 1000 runs in each of 20 successive seasons. In 1897 ho secured over 1000 runs and took over 100 wickets. 'ln, first-class cricket Mr Hayward made 103 centuries, a number exceeded only by W. G. Grace at the time of his retirement. In 1906 ho scored 18 centuries, a season’s record which he shared with C. B. Fry. Por many years, since 1914, Mr Hayward was cricket coach at Oxford University. ‘ •