GENERAL SPORTS NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20889, 3 June 1931, Page 14

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS.

SECRETARY'S LONG SERVICE.

TENNIS CLUB'S ACHIEVEMENT.

ANOTHER SWIMMING RECORD.

Peter Limutkin, who meets George Walker next Monday in a return wrestling match, is a giant Finn, who has been in Australia for the past six years. Ho has wins over Kaminski, Nelson and Kendall, among others.

The Auckland Rugby League has definitely decided to play a senior match on tho main ground at tho Western Stadium whenever tho area is available. The code lias a popular following in tho western districts and good gates are confidently expected.

The New Zealand Rugby League Council has upheld "the Auckland governing body in its decision to replay tho match between Richmond and Marist on account of a dispute regarding the playing pf overtime. The appeal of tho Richmond Club, therefore, has been dismissed.

The crews of tho yachts Rangi and Teddy and also Mr. C. Constance, of tho Oiinara, will be tendered a welcome homo by Ihe Akarana Yacht Club to-morrow evening. Tho- cup will bo presented to tho Teddy in the Town Hall concert chamber at a later date.

America introduced tho rubber-cored golf ball and tho steel-shafted club. England. has adopted these rofoims and, in spite of a good deal of present-day opposition, tho probability is that the Royal and Ancient authorities will also eventually legalise tho larger and lighter ball.

A new 22ft. mullet boat will bo seen on the harbour next season. Tho craft, which will have a beam of 9ft., is being built at the home of Messrs. J. H. and A. Worthington, of Byron Avenue, Taka* puna, and was designed by Mr. F. Lidguard, who is supervising the construction.

Tho Hutfc Valley Amateur Athletic Club, of Wellington, is staging a relay run to-day from Petone to Masterton. Tho team will bo comprised of 12 men, each running about five miles. A lottor from tho Mayor of Potone to the Mayor of Masterton will bo delivered by V. Smith, tho team captain, who will run the final stage.

Mr. W. E. Arey, who was elected secretary to the Carlton Bowling Club at tho annual meeting last week, has now entered upon his eighteenth year in that position. In addition to his secretarial duties Mr. Arey is on next season's match committee, and, now that he has retired from business, ho will be ablo to perform the dual duties in his usual satisfactory manner.

Grant the lawn tennis player youth, an iron constitution, the will to win, tho time, and the money—can he, or she, become great? The answer is a vigorous negative, says an English writer. The great player must have the lawn tennis brain, which in this case means "ball sense," and that again, in the championship degree, one cannot learn; one must be born with it.

Freak golf is comparatively rare, so that tho stated intention of a player to play from Brisbane to Adelaide will be closely watched. Some years ago a golfer made a wager ho would play through certain of London's busy thoroughfares, and, while he duly collected, the stunt was not commercially profitable by reason of a big offset for damage to property in tho way of broken windows. v'

The Auckland Suburban Lawn Tennis cup competition was won by the Selwyn Club, Mount Albert, which went through the season without a loss. This club has now won the trophy for three successive seasons and, during that time, has lost only one match. Tho runner-up this year was the Auckland Transport Club, which sustained only one defeat. The matches in the competition were keenly contested by the various clubs and some splendid tennis was witnessed.

One of the most entertaining of the season's fixtures staged by tho Royal Melbourne Golf Club is the annual match in which the professionals oppose a team of leading women golfers. This year's match proved a triumph for the professionals. They conceded their fair opponents half a stroke a hole and administered a defeat to the tune of 5 games to 3 in tho singles, and 4 to 0 in the foursomes. Previously, honours had been mostly on the women's sido.

Mrs. Larcombe, Mrs. Lambert Chambers and Mrs. Bundy, formerly Miss May Sutton, all previous winners of the British women's lawn tennis championship at Wimbledon, have become professional coaches. Mademoiselle Suzanne Lenglen closed her amateur career by undertaking a tour under the aegis .of Mr. Pile, tho American professional promoter. Mrs. Ilelen Wills Moody, tho latest champion, apparently has no desire to forfeit her amateur status, as she has turned down some tempting offers and recently asked a prohibitivo prico to engage in motion picture work.

Tho Auckland junior boy swimming champion, Noel Crump, was responsible for another fine performanco last week when he covered 50yds. free style in 27 2-ss. The previous best time for the distance, stood to tho credit of W. Jarvis, Dunedin, and this was claimed as a New Zealand record. However, tho New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association does not recognise a record for 50yds., but application has been made for the time to bo accepted as one. Even if Jarvis' timo is an official record, Crump may not liavo his recognised, as an important condition in connection with a special attempt to establish new figures is that it should be advertised in the press at least three days beforehand.