All Sorts of Sport.

Free Lance, Volume XV, Issue 801, 5 November 1915, Page 20

All Sorts of Sport.

By Touohline.

William Johnston, the new lawn tennis champion of America, is not yet 21 „years old, and weighs only Bst 81b. In winning the championship the" last two men he defeated were R. N. Williams (champion of 1914) and M. E. McLoughlin (champion of 1913).

I have, to thank Mr. Jim Eraser, of the Labour Department, for a photograph of the English Rugby team that toured New Zealand in 1888. There may be other readers of the Free Lance who have by them old-time photographs of football and cricket teams. If they are likely at any time to "scrap'* them, it would afford me much pleasure to add them to my collection.

!Les Darcy, the Australian champion middle-weight boxer, still continues winning matches. _ Jimmy Clabby, the clever American, is his latest victim The bout went the full _ twenty rounds, Darcy being ahead in nineteen of them.

Harold Baker, who, for nineteen months filled the position of boxing referee at the Sydney Stadium, left for the front last week.

The amateur golf championship of the United States has been won by R. A. Gardiner, who previously held the title in 1909. Gardner is an all-round athlete, having been a member of the track team while at Yale University. At one time he held the world's record for the pole vault with 13ft lin.

An effort was made by those working for the Waitemata Queen in Auckland

to match William Webb, New Zealand champion oarsman, and George Towns, of Australia. The race was to take place Takapuna on the 20th. inst. but Towns has signfied his inability to accept the invitation to take part in the race. The New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association are to be asked to allow Hadfield, the amateur champion, to row Webb, but I don't think that would be possible unless the rules were suspended.

J. C. Parke, the Irish tennis .champion, is fighting alongside the Australians and New Zealanders at Gallipoli. He has the rank of captain. It will be remembered that he visited this Dominion with the British Isles team that lifted the Davis Cup from Australasia. His great victorv over Norman Brookes was not the least surprise of that .contest.