OVERSEAS SPORT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19254, 17 February 1926, Page 11

OVERSEAS SPORT.

SWIMMING IN AUSTRALIA.

HUNDRED YARDS CONTEST. A. and N.Z. ADELAIDE, Fib. 16. The reswim of tHe 100 yds. championship of Australia resulted: —F, Doyla (New South Wales), 1; E. Grier (Queensland), 2; F. Carberry (New South Wales). 3. Time, 58s. The reswim was necessary owing to a protest by Grier being upheld. Doyle was the holder of the 100 yds. championship. SOUTH AFRICAN FOOTBALLERS. MATCHES IN -NEW SOUTH WALES. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY, Feb. 16. At the annual meeting of the British Football Association, the matter of fixtures against the South African team was debated. To ensure games against New South Wales, it was decided to advise New Zealand that, if necessary, the financial guarantee would be increased and an effort made to have the South Africans in Sydney, on their way to th« Dominion, in July. , AMERICAN INDOOR TENNIS. FRENCH PLAYERS' VICTORIES. A. and N.Z. NEW YORE, Feb. 35. Borotra and Lacoste won their matches in the opening round of the national indoor tenuis championship, pkyed at the Seventh Regiment Armoury courts to-day. RUGBY TEAM FOR ENGLAND. AN INVITATION ACCEPTED. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY, Fob. 16, The New South Wales Rugby Union has decided to cable the. English Rugby Union accepting the latter's invitation to send a team to Britain next year..