GENERAL SPORTS NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21239, 20 July 1932, Page 16

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS.

UNIQUE RUGBY CONTEST

v MARATHONS IN WRESTLING.

REBUKE BY GOLF PLAYER.

Mr.. VV. J. Wallace, the manager of tho All Black team now in Australia, has a nephow playing for Eastern Suburbs, Sydney. The player is <7. B. Movvatt, who fills the outsido centre position,

J. E. Lovelock, tho New Zealand athlete, has been elected secretary of the Oxford University Athletic Club for next year. If established procedure bo followed, tho New Zealander will bo the club's president in tho following year.

Two unique features of the recent University A-Zingari-Richmond Rugby match, at Dunedin were that the first spell occupied what is probably a record period of time—s3 minutes—and that two penalties only—one to each side—were awarded.

A world's running record for an unusual distance—a mile and a quarter — has been claimed by Lavri Lohtinen, a protege of tho Finnish wonder Paavo Nurmi. In spito of unfavourable conditions, Lehtinon covered the distance in 5m 265.

The annual Ilugby football match, between the first fifteens of Auckland Grammar School and Hamilton High School is to bo played on July 30. If tho custom of former years is followed, the game will bo staged at Eden Park. Auckland Grammar will meet New Plymouth High School at New Plymouth on August 20.

A cup for competition among naval whalers belonging to tho New Zealand Division of tho Royal Navy has been donated by Mr. F. W. Jeffers, commodoro of the Akarana Yacht Club. Twelve entries have .already been received for tho race, which will bo held in Auckland in September.

It is rather remarkable that two bowlers have taken all 10 wickets in an innings in first-class county cricket matches in England in consecutive weeks. H. Verity's great porforinanco of taking 10 for 10 followed only a few days after V. W. C. Jupp, slow spin bowler for Northamptonshire, had taken 10 wickets of Kent for 127.

Miss Enid Wilson, who recently won •the British ladies' open golf championship for the second year in succession, won tho' British girls' championship when she was but fifteen years of age. Tho only other players to win the open title twice in succession during the last quarter of a century were Miss Cecil Leitch and Miss Joyce Wethered.

C. C. Dacrc was tho middle man in the hat-trick which tho googly bowler I. A. R. Peebles secured on a drying wicket for Middlesex against Gloucestershire recently. Peebles took five wickets for 34 runs, in 13.4 overs, in the innings, but ho got the five in his last 11 balls, and only two singles were hit off him between tho fall of his first wicket and tho last wicket.

Among t,h© trophies exhibited at the Akarana Yacht Club's prizo night was a small blue flag owned and valued very much by Mr. W. A. Wilkinson. Accordtng to the harbourmaster, Captain H. K, Sergeant, the flag was the first trophy competed for under the auspices of tho North Shore Sailing Club, now known as the Akarana Yacht Club, and was won by Mr. Wilkinson 37 years ago in the 24ft. mullet boat Hinemoa.

Bonnie Muir, the Australian wrestler, who meets Harry Demetral at the Town Hall next Tuesday evening, had two marathon matches in tho United States last year. Ho wrestled a draw of two hours' duration with Casey Kazanian, a powerful Stanford footballer, and another with Nick Nutze, a strong Venetian, lasting two hours forty minutes. Ho lost almost a stone weight in the laltfcr contest, which took place in September in very hot weather.

Two thousand wrestling enthusiasts were turned away from Leichharclt Stadium recently when the New Zealander, King Elliot, wrestled with Tom Lurich in a return bout. Lurich defeated Elliot on this occasion by catching the ex-Auckland policeman On tho jaw with his boot. Each had gained a fall prior to this incident. With Elliot knocked out Lurich had to apply a body press for tho deciding fall. The incident occurred when Elliot endeavoured to throw the Russian over tho ropes.

R. Anderton, the English Rugby League team's business manager, has had some problems to overcome in Australian country districts during the present tour, but thern was one at Cairns which could not be handled. Three hundred unemployed were encamped on Parramatta Park where the Englishmen played. They refused to move and tho local police did not feel inclined to take any action. The result was that the unemployed remained and saw tho match freo of charge.

The following incident is recorded in connection with a match in the British open golf championship, decided last month. Archio Cornpston finished a round with four expensive fives and a justifiable sense of grievance, which was caused by the remark of a spectator, who, standing close to Cornpston, cried, " Go on, go on," to the ball when tho player over-hit his second shot to tho sixteerith hole. Cornpston, resenting this form of addressing the ball, turned to tho noisy spectator and said, " That is not done. Give a man a chance "—a very proper rebuke.