OVERSEAS SPORT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18954, 27 February 1925, Page 9

OVERSEAS SPORT.

! RUGBY LEAGUE FOOTBALL. 5 \ N.Z. TEAM TO VISIT ENGLAND. > Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. > (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Feb. 26. 1 At a meeting of the council of the English Rugby League the New Zealand League's acceptance of an invitation to send a team to England in the 1926-7 season was received. F ' I GOLF IK FLORIDA. DIEGEL WINS OPEN MATCH. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Weed. 7.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 25. In the Florida open golf championship of 72 holes at Tampa, Diegel won with a score of 286. Barnes was second with 288, Hagen fourth with 293, and Kirkwood seventh with 296. BILLIARDS IN ENGLAND. McCONACHY V. NEWMAN. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Feb. 26. In the billiards match, McConachy (New Zealand) v. Newman, the scores arc McConachy (receives 3000) 12,428, including breaks to-day of 132, 270, and 131 unfinished; Newman, 10,456, includ- , ing breaks to-day of 443 and 205. BOWING IN AUSTRALIA. CHAMPION EIGHTS DRAW. ' Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Heed. 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 26. The draw for positions in the rowing races to be contested on March 14 placed the New Zealand eight third for the champion sculls. CYCLING IN AUSTRALIA. AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIPS, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 12.5 a.m.) SYDNEY. Feb. 26. The amateur cycling championships of Australia were contested to-day. The 10 miles race was won by R. Lamb (Victoria). Time, 25m. 335. The halfmile was won hv E. Broadbent (Victoria) in Im. 6 3-ss. The international scratch race (five miles) resulted: Bayeaton (America) 1, Cecil Walker (Australia), 2. Won "by a wheel. Time, 10m. 575. . ENGLISH LAWN TENNIS. PROPOSED FOOT-FAULT RULE. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Feb. 25. The English Lawn Tennis Association is to submit to the International Federation on March 20 a new foot-fault rule. The proposal is that a server shall stand behind the base line within the imaginary continuation of the centre mark and the side-linos, and shall not, move his feet until his service has been delivered. It is also proposed that tenuis shall be eliminated from the Olympic Games owing to the existing number of international matches. TENNIS IN AMERICA. TILDEN'S OCCUPATIONS. A. and N.Z. NEW YORK. Feb. 25. Although he was victorious in the fight to remove any question of professionalism in the case of player-writers, William Tilden, the lawn tennis champion, still faces some doubts as to hi.s status as a result of newspaper work. He is, moreover, devoting more time than before to the cinema and drama. Tilden is nevertheless expected to carry off the American tennis championship for the sixth year in succession, and to once more form the main link in America's defence of (lie Davis Cup.