GENERAL SPORTS NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20760, 31 December 1930, Page 15

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS.

JUNIOR CRICKETERS' FEAT.

INCIDENTS IN BOWLING GAME.

SUNDAY FIGHTING IN ENGLAND

In a junior cricket match in Victoria recently two bowlers dismissed the opposing side for 30 runs. Each performed tho hat trick and, curiously enough, finished with tho same average, five for 14.

Tho British Lawn Tennis Association's official ranking list places Mrs. Holcroft Watson first, Mrs. Mudford second, and Miss Betty Nuthall third. Miss Joan Fry is classed as eighth. Singles matches only, of course, are taken into consideration.

In a pairs tournament conducted by the Lyall Bay Bowling Club in Wellington there were no fewer than ten touchers on the fourth head in one game. In the absence of official figures a southern writer considers this must be a record for a single head.

A motion expressing appreciation of the services rendered to swimming by the secretary of the Auckland Centre, Mr. H. Moore, who has retired from tho position, was passed at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association held in Christchurch recently.

Tho programme for the Olympic Games to be held at Los Angeles in 1932 caters for 19 different sports, if one includes an Olympic fine arts competition as a sport. This is the widest range of any Olympiad to date, and includes two hitherto unheard-of items, fencing and shooting with the pistol and rifle.

Two new challenges are likely to be made for the America's Cup, one of which may come from the Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes, presumably on behalf of Mrs. Benjamin Guinness, and the second from a famous French car manufacturer. In addition Sir Thomas Lipton, with the pertinacity of the Celt, is going to be in the field again.

The Oxford-Cambridge boat race has been fixed for March 21. Cambridge has had a great run since 1914, when it broke an Oxford series of five years, having lost only once since then, the war years being left out of the reckoning. Nevertheless, the score is 40 wins to each university, with one dead-heat in 1877.

Not many of the younger golfers in England are much superior to K L. Calender, a Britisher, 74 years old, who, by means of three remarkable matches, reached the final of the Jubilee Vase tournament at St. Andrews. In one match he met L. G. 0. Hutchinson, 54 years his junior. In this he finished square, and by the rules of the tournament both players went into the next round.

Walter Lindrum has been styled the Brad man of billiards, but it looks as if the whole family could come under the category. In Melbourne recently Horace Lindrum, an eighteen-year-old nephew of the champion, ran up a break of 1324. His previous best was 998, while a snooker score of 103, which is claimed as a world's record, also stands to the youngster's credit.

The United States Golf Association has intimated that employment as an instructor in putting, either by salary or direct fees, or giving instructions in driving at a miniature golf course, means the surrender of the amateur status of the person most immediately concerned. In other words, if an amateur accepts any such position with payment for his services he at once becomes a professional.

Several families in Victoria have placed cricket elevens in the field and won competitions, but the prize must go to the Harrisons, of Waubra, who have bettered the record of the Richmond Maconchies by fielding a football team during the season just finished, and a cricket eleven the season before. Seventeen of the Harrisons in the football team were related, and the others possessed the same name.

M. J. Turnbull, captain of Glamorgan County Cricket Club, who was in New Zealand last season with the M.C.C. team, has notified the club that in all probability he will shortly enter upon a business career nnd consequently will not be able to continue the captaincy. The Glamorgan committee discussed the matter before Turnbull sailed for South Africa with the M. C.C. team and it is now awaiting definite news from the player.

Miss Ena Stocklej', former New Zealand swimming champion, has started in competition in Sydney after a season's absence from the sport. She has joined the Sydney Ladies' Club and in her first club race recorded 69s for 100 yds. free style. This is by no means near her best form and providing she can regain this in time, Miss Stockley will in the New South Wales championships,, which are to bo decided early next month.

Renewed interest is being shown in lifesaving clubs this summer. During last week-end a team from the Takapuna Surf and Life-Saving Club gave a demonstration to the committee and members of the newly-formed Thorne's Bay Club. Milford has the honour of being the oldest club, but this season it is not quite so strong numerically as Takapuna, which will be able to place two teams on duty at either end of Takapuna beach, apart from the usual regular patrols.

New South Wales has probably never been so strong in golfing talent as at the present time. For somo years, largely because of the predominance of Ivo Whitton and a few other Victorians, New South Wales was rather overshadowed in amateur golf, but there has been a decided swing over during the past year or so. With the exception of the Australian professional championship, held in Tasmania by J. Robertson, the whole of the national titles are now held in New South Wales.

Fights under the old London prize ring rules are regaining popularity in Monmouthshire, England. Sunday after Sunday hundreds of people gather secretly on a lonely mountain side to watch bareknuckle • fights, which often last more than an hour. There are no rounds. If a man is knocked out, half a minute is allowed for his seconds to drag him to his cornor, and another five seconds for him to come up again. One of the promoters said the men are tired of modern boxing and the red tape connected with it.

The Wairarapa Amateur Athletic Centre is using every endeavour to make a success of its big meeting on January 22 when the American trio will make their first appearance in Now Zealand. Invitations have been sent to R. A. Rose, J. W. Savidnn and all other Dominion champions in the various sections of athletic sport and cycling. The . Mastorton track is a very fast one, as was proved by Rose's performance on March 4, 1926, when ho defeated Lloyd Hahn, of America, over a mile in 4m 13 3-ss. The Wairarapa meeting should prove an ideal opening to the tour.

J. Langridge, the young Sussex allrounder, who was coaching in Auckland, two seasons ago, is now acting as coach to tho Christian Brothers' College, Kimberlev. Ho is finding both the South African climato and the matting wickets much to his liking. In his oponing gamo ho took seven wickets and scored a century, whilo he has written home to state that ho never felt fitter. Many Sussex cricketers—including Tato and Bowley—have held this coaching post in recent years, while the present Auckland coach, A. F. Wensley, has also spent seasons in Sonth Africa.