OVERSEAS SPORT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19503, 6 December 1926, Page 11

OVERSEAS SPORT.

NEW WALKING RECORD. ITALIAN ATHLETE'S FEAT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 7.35 p.m.) ROME, Dec. 4. ■ An Italian athlete, Armando Valenta, walked 20 kilometres (about 12^ : miles) in 1 hour 39 min. 20 2-ssecs. He thus beat the world's record, held by tlie Dane, Petersen, of 1 hour 39min. 22secs. WORLD MIDDLE-WEIGHT TITLE. fc WON BY FORMER WELTER-WEIGHT Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 6 p.m.) CHICAGO. Dec. 3. In a contest here to-day for the world's middle-weight boxing championship Mickey Walker, the former world's! welterweight champion won the title by defeating the negro boxer, " Tiger" Flowers, in'lo rounds. SWIMMING IN SYDNEY. LADIES' HALF-MILE RACE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 7.35 p.m.) SYDNEY. Deo. 5. The race for . the ladies'. 880 yds. State swimming championship yesterday resulted as follows :--Edna Davey, lj Claire Couldwell, 2; Doris Mclvor, ,'5. Miss Davey won by 15yds. Time, 13m. 355. INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING. CHARLTON TO MEET JAPANESE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 7.35 p.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 5. The Australian representative swimmer, " Boy " Charlton, announces that he will race against the visiting Japanese swimmers in January. NEW SOUTH WALES WALKING. SEVEN MILES CHAMPIONSHIP. .Australian rnd N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 7.35 p.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 5 The-seven miles walking championship of New South Wales yesterday resulted as follows:—Sunderland (Victoria), 1; Lathan, 2; Foster, a. BOXING IN AUSTRALIA. WINS FOR TYNCKE AND JONES. Australian and N.Z Cable Association. (Reed. 7.35 p.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 5. At the Sydney Stadium last evening Ernest Tyncke defeated Frisco McGale on points in 20 rounds after a tame contest. At the Melbourne Stadium Jack Jones defeated Ansell Bell, knocking him out in the seventh round. Bell was badly punished. TENNIS AT MELBOURNE. VICTORIAN STATE TOURNAMENT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. CReccL 7,35 p.rn.) MEIiBOT7I££*E» Dec. 5. In the finals of the Victorian tennis championships held yesterday the results were:—Women's singles: Miss Boyd beat Miss Cox, 6—3, 6—l. Mixed doubles: Hawkes and Miss Boyd beat Wertheiin and Miss Cox, 6—2, 6—o. Men's singles: Patterson beat Crawford, 4—6, 6—3, 6—4, 6—4. Women's doubles: Mrs. Harper and Miss Boyd beat Mrs. O'Hara Wood and Miss Lemesurier, 7—5, 6—2. Men's doubles: Crawford and Willard beat Patterson and Hawkes, 4—6, 6—4, I—s, 6—3, 6—3. SMALLER CRICKET BALL. . ENGLISH TEAM TO USE. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Dec. 3. Mr. P. F. Warner embarked with a team representing the Marylebone Cricket Club for Argentina. He said a small . sized ball would be used throughout the - tour, and revealed the fact that there was : a stock of these made by inadvertence bei fore they were permissible under the rules.