GENERAL SPORTS NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21173, 4 May 1932, Page 16

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS.

PROFESSIONAL'S FINE GOLF. SWIMMING RECORDS APPROVED. HOCKEY PLAYER'S UNIQUE FEAT. Toil Lee, a Yalo University athlete, is reported to liavo vaulted 13ft. 10 5-f3iu. recently to make a new world's indoor record.

The German Olympic Committee lias decided to send a team of 55 athletes to the* Olympic Games, including eight women.

Alex. Wilson, the Canadian Olympic, and Empire Games representative, hroko the world's 440 yards indoor record recently at South Bend, .Indiana. United States, when he ran the distance in 49 3-10 seconds. The previous record was 49 3-5 seconds, made by T. iiallYin in 1913.

It rarely occurs in Itugby football that a team goes right through a game 'without being awarded a free kick. 1 his happened on Saturday in the match between Manukau and Technical Old Boys, (he latter (cam not having one. opportunity of taking advantage of a penally against its opponents.

K, J. Moss, professional In the, Auckland Golf Club, is playing the. best gam.! of his career at present, and during the week-end he did two consecutive rounds fit" 69 and 68 by superb golf. His card for tho latter round was:-Out, 4, 4, 4, 4. 4. <5. 3. 4, 6—36; it), 3, 4, 4, 3' 0, 4, 3, 5, 3-32; total, 68.

After holding the Edwin Stars all through the summer season the holders, Keatley's team, from the Pocky Nook Bowling Club, were defeated by Mingins* challenging Remuera rink last Saturday. If. was a miserable day for bowling and the conditions could hardly have been worse. Lynch. Ellerslie, is the challenger for next Saturday's game.

J. J. Corbet t, world's heavy-weight champion between John L. Sullivan and Bob Eitzsimmons, and one of the greatest idols of boxing, is lying seriously ill at the Presbyterian Hospital, New \ ork City. Corbott will be 6b years old next September. He is a wealthy man; not so much through fighting, but duo to a £3OO a week salary he has earned many years as an actor.

France will not be out of the hunt in the swimming department at the Olympic Games this year, .lean Taris, holder of the world's 300 and 400_ metres records, made two great swims in England last month over 400 and 500 metres, and in the latter he clipped 110 less than 7 1 ss. off Arne Borg's world's record time, established in Stockholm in 1925, covering the distance in 6m. 1 l-ss.—a magnificent effort.

Jack Dempsey has just finished a tour of 34 American towns, during which he fought 102 boxing bouts; £IOO,OOO was taken at the gates, Dempsey's share being practically 30 per cent.—£3o,ooo. If Dempsey again fights for the world s title he is expected to draw £200,000, and if he only gets the loser s end —12Jg per cent, that is another £25.000. They say Dempsey's jaw and punch are still very strong, but his legs woefully weak. Dempsey is 36 years of age.

The Amateur Athletic Association of England has made two alterations in the programme for its championship meeting, to be held at the White, t ty—instead of Stamford Bridge—in July. r Lho four miles race has been replaced by a three miles race, to compare with the 5000 metres race, which is popular on the Continent, and which is an Olympic Games event, and a new event, a six miles race, has been added to the programme. Five members of the Manly Ladies' Golf Club were recently motoring to Manly to tako part in the inter-club game with Elanora. iMiss Upcklo was driving and with her were Mrs. .1, 1. Ihomsou. Mrs. Boreham, Miss \\ eldon and Mrs. 11. .1. Brown. On the way ihe car collided with a big motor lorry and lost its bumper bar and a mudguard. But it. would still function and the party arrived at the course just in time to hit off. If ever ihern was an excuse for defeat there was "lie, but four of the ladies won their matches, and the fifth, Mrs. Brown, was not beaten until the 16th hole!

The council of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association approved the following New Zealand records at its meeting in Christchurch last week:--150 yards, 3m 31 2-ss, 220 yards, 2m 23 3-ss, 500 metres, 6111 42 l-ss, C. Bridson (Auckland); 50 yards, 25 4-ss, E. McConville (Canterbury); 100 yards intermediate boys', 53 1 -ss, ( rump (Auckland): 100 yards intermediate boys' backstroke, 69 3-ss, G. Low (Canterbury) ; 75 yards intermediate pirls' breaststroke, 51 4-ss. Miss Judith Webster (Auckland): .100 yards junior girls', 755, .Miss Joan Walls (West Coast).

" I hope lie will not f:iil to bring honour to his native country, as he has done all through his past record." Thus wrote Mr. P. M. Dewar. head of the famous whiskv house in London when he granted leave of absence for Bobby Peareo to join the Australian Olympic team. " I was vcrv pleased," Mr. Dewar continued. to be ' able to give him the opportunity to come to England to compete for tho Sculls last year. Without a doubt his exhibition as a sculler upon that occasion has marked him, in the annals of English sport, as the best sculler who has ever plied an onr on the old Thames."

" I am 76 years of ago. and had it not boon for golf and swimming [ would not liave been aide to get, my mind oil' the torture of business. There is nothing like golf and a swim for the constitution." Tims Mr. Murdoch MrLeod. president of the Wellington Golf Club, New South Wales, for 22 years, at, the unveiling of his photograph on the occasion of his retirement, as president. Mr. Mcl>.od remarked thai lie, had been playing golf for 30 years. ".During that time I luive won one competition —and that was a fluke," lie added. Another gem from his speech was: " The main thing in golf is not, beating the other fellow, but beating one's own selfish self."

Tim Auckland Centre of tlic New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association iulends to endeavour to arrange for .in appearance in Auckland ot flic Australian Olympic swimmers as they pass through heir; on their way home early in September. The swimmers concerned are Andrew Charlton, Noel Rvan and Misses Frances Hult, Bonnie. Mealing and Claim Dennis. The centre has also approached the New Zealand Council in regard to having the. Dominion lady breaststroke champion. Miss Margarie O'Meara. who is travelling to the Olympic Oames in Los Angeles at her own expense, recognised as a member of the official team. ' .

Tn a women's international hockey match, recently, England heat Wales by six goals to one. and all its goals were scored by one player, Marjorio I'ollard, at inside-lelt. A Northamptonshire player, Marjorio Pollard first played for England in 1921, and she played in every international gaino for her country from then 011 to 1930. inclusive. After the 1930 season she announced her retirement from first-class hockey, but this year she was persuaded to come back. A week after the victory over Wales, England beat, Scotland by five goals to nunc, and this time Miss Pollard scored two goals—ono of them after a great run down the centre—giving her eight goals in two successive international games.