GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21245, 27 July 1932, Page 16

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

W. R. IRVINE PLAYS LEAGUE BOWLER'S UNUSUAL FEAT ' WORLD'S RELAY RACE RECORD The German Olyriipic relay team, running at Cassel, Germany, recently, established a new world's record by covering 409 metres in 40.65. Good .progress is being made with the auxiliary stand at Carlaw Park. The stand is expected completed on Friday, and will accommodate 1000 people. Another All Black, W.' R. Irvine, turned over to the League codo several weeks ago, and is playing in Wellington. Irvine toured England and Australia with the 1924 New Zealand Rugby Union team. A visit to Rotorua has been arranged for the English team, which will leave Auckland on Sunday by motor-cars. The visitors will play South Auckland at Taupiri next Thursday on their way back to Auckland. F. Coburn, of the Whangarei Bowling Club, who is having a lengthy .sojourn in the city, has been doing the rounds of the club tournaments with fair success. He has figured prominently in every tourney in which he has taken part. By taking a wicket with the first ball he bowled in first-class cricket, Copson, of Derbyshire, is said to have created a record. The English paper, Punch, sagely remarks thiit it is unlikely that even he will succeed in doing it again. The entries for the New South Wales ladies' amateur golf championship were so big this year that a start had to be made at 3 a.m. on each day of the qualifying rounds. Even then those who were drawn late had to come home in the dark. The New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association has placed £I,OOO of the " Rose fund " on fixed deposit with the Public Trustee for a term of five years. This money represents the balance left after paying R. A. Rose's expenses on his trip to England some years ago. At the National Collegiate Athletic Championship meeting at Cleveland, United States, Ralph Metcalfe won the 100 metres in 10.25, C. Saling (Iowa) won the 120 yards hurdles in 14.15, and J. Keller (Ohio) the 220 yards low hurdles in 22.75. All these are world's records. "Of course, there is no such thing cts luck, really," says A. E. E. Gilligan. " Yet I remember, when watching a 'varsity match from the Cambridge balcony, seeing an old Cambridge captain i scratch the back of a little light blue pig which he had brought with him. And each time he scratched, an Oxford wicket fell. And Cambridge won that match." L. L. Macey, the former fiemuera Bowling Club 'and Public Service player, has returned to the city after a number of years' residence in Dunedin. While in the South he did not actively engage in the bowling pastime as he preferred golf ill the colder climate. However, he now intends to became once more the enthusiastic bowler he was before leaving here. J. Peterson, the 20-year-old Welsh boxer, added the British heavy-weight title to his cruiser-weight crown when j he scored a knock-out against Reggie I Meen at London recently, after less than ! four minutes of fighting. George Cook, | veteran Australian heavy-weight, lias challenged the winner. Peterson has won .two professional., championships inside of 12 months of his entry into the paid ranks from the amateurs. Tile annual Rugby match between the first fifteens of Chr.istchurch Boys' High School and Christ's College was flayed last week and,resulted in a win for High School by 19 points to 6. The winning team's success was apparently due to the fact that it possessed a fast, light and enterprising pack against a heavy forward line which ;tired quickly in the second half. This gave the School backs some fine opportunities. The score at half-time was 6 —3 in favour of the win' ners. "Argument," Te Awamutu, asks:— Would you please publish the All Blacks' back division when they played the final lest against the British team at Wellington ? The match was played at Athletic Park on August 9, 1930, the All Blacks winning by 22 points to eight. The back division was as follows: —Fullback, G. Nepia (East Coast) • threequarters, G. F. Hart (Canterbury), A. E. Cooke (Wellington), F. W. Lucas (Auckland); five-eighths, W. A. Strang (South Canterbury), 11. Lilburne (Canterbury) ; halfback, M. Corner (Auckland). "Springbok," Opotiki, writes: —"To settle an argument would you kindly tell mo who is correct in the following ? My friend and I picked the score against each other for the second Rugby test match at Brisbane. He put down New Zealand, 15: Australia, 8. I put down New Zealand, 21; Australia 17. I consider I win. There was no stipulation of any sort made; it was just a case of picking the score..He is under the impression that because I am 14 over in Australia's score and he is only five that he wins, but I have a direct win as regards New Zealand's score. - ' —The exact score was, New Zealand, 21, Australia, 3. The correspondent would lose his wager for two reasons. In the first placo he was 14 points out in Australia's score, whereas his opponent was only 11 points out in both scores. Further, ho made the margin between tho teams four points, his opponent being nearer the mark with a difference of seven points.