GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21281, 7 September 1932, Page 14

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

FOOTBALLER MINUS BOOTS F. E. WOOLLEY'S TEST RECORD SHIELD FOR LIFE-SAVING J. 11. Wade, tho ex-Auckland cyclist, who now resides at Wanganui, has been reinstated as an amateur. " Good Bet." Mangapehi, writes:—To settle an argument would you kindly tell me through your sporting columns what four fours and one seven count in cribbnge ?—Tho hapd is worth 24.—Athletic Editor. To hole out in one with a 110-yard drive was the experience of Father Gcrrahty on tho Patea Golf Club course on Saturday. Tho hole is called " The Lake." Father Gerrahty later paid the usual penalty. P. McDonald, tho Marist wing-three-quarter, who suffered a broken leg in the last senior League competition match against Newton, is making good progress, and expects to be out of hospital in a few weeks.

Members of the Australian Olympic team on their way back from Los Angeles will pass through Auckland on the Mariposa next Tuesday. During their brief stay they will be entertained by various local sports bodies. It is rarely these days a footballer plays without boots. In the senior League match at Carlaw Park last Saturday between City and Ponsonby, Gardiner played on the wing for the latter team with only his stockings protecting his feet. The New Zealand Olympic team is now well on its way home and is duo at Wellington next Monday week. A welcome is being prepared in Auckland for Savidan, Elliot, Foubister and Purdy, the four Aucklanders, who performed creditably in their respective events. A peculiar way of expressing chagrin was adopted by Tommy John, a Welsh boxer, when he was disqualified for fouling an opponent in a recent contest at the Ring, London. John burst into tears, stamped about the ring, and then punched one of the corner posts. Arthur Mailey, the former famous Australian cricketer, considers the selectors of the M.C.C. team for Australia will have reason to regret their omission of F. E. Woolley. Ho says Woolley is C. V. Grimmett's "master, proving it on nearly every occasion in England in 1930. F. E. Woolley has made the most appearances in test cricket, with 62 matches. J. B. Hobbs comes next, with 61, and then follow W. Rhodes and S. E. Gregory, with 58 each, and W. W. Armstrong, with 50. Woolley has also made the most catches, with 60, and Rhodes comes next, with 58. A president of tho New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association some years ago and since then a vice-president, Major H. A. Lomax, of Wanganui, died last week. His loss will be felt particularly in that town where he was the patron of the Wanganui Rowing Association, while he had many other sporting interests. The New Zealand Amateur Athletic Centre has decided to include a marathon of 26 miles 385 yards in its list of championship events, the race to be run in October or November of each year. It is unlikely the contest will take place this year, but there will be a race next season with Wellington the most likely venue.

A shield for annual competition among tho life-saving teams of the Auckland province has been presented by Mr. T. H. Grenfell, on behalf of an Auckland firm, to the Auckland Centre of the Royal Life-saving Society. The shield is now being made in England and the first competition will be held at Mount Maunganui, Tauranga, early next year. No one is morn interested in swimming and life-saving activities than Mr. C. F. Stratford, honorary secretary of the Auckland Primary Schools' Swimming and Lifesaving Association. During the summer mouths Mr. Stratford conducts swimming classes for boys of tho Kowhai Junior High School at the Mount Eden saths every morning before breakfast. Mr. N. J. Percy, of Arkle's Bay, Whangaparaoa, who was an attendant to the New Zealand Olympic team, arrived in Auckland by tho Niagara on Monday. He states that Elliott and Savidan never showed better form than at the Olympic Games. Foubister, (he cyclist, was not well for two weeks prior to his race, and was troubled during the event. Everyone thought Purdy, although fighting as a light-weight, had won his match, but the judging was peculiar. Tho sustained enthusiasm of the old members of the Aramoho Boating Club has furnished what must be a new departure in the history of New Zealand rowing, if not all sports—an old members' association. With the object of retaining the support of those who, in recent years, have raised the Wanganui suburban club to its present high Btandard, many former members have announced their intention I of forming this contact. Three Aucklanders have been recommended to the central executive of the Royal Life-saving Society in London as being worthy of the distinguished service modal of the society. They are Mr. A. Dicker, for three years chairman of the local life-saving centre, Mr. M. E. Champion, one of tho centre's examiners i and a former New Zealand Olympic swimming representative, and Mr. D. Reid, physical instructor to the Education Department. Wrestling is gaining new followers in all parts of the Dominion, but perhaps the brightest and most unusual introduction it has had waa at tho Chateau at National Park recently, when two Aucklanders, J. Odlin and H. C. Sidford, wrestling instructor to the Y.M.C.A. gymnasium, gave a display. It was part of a concert programme and comprised a short talk on the history of wrestling, followed by a demonstration of holds and then an exhibition work-out. It elicited a good deal of favourable comment among the 400 guests at the Chateau.

G. Nepia is still playing Rugby football regularly, but is seldom lieard of because ho is buried in the isolation of the east coast district of the North Island, fringing on the Urewera Country, He is captain, coach and one of tho selectors of tho East Coast representative team and recently played against Hawke's Bay, his old province. Ho is said to have lost a lot of his old firo but can still kick an enormous length with either foot, and tackle like a battering ram. In this match he flew atone of (he Hawke's Bay threequarters, who weighed 13st., and who was travelling at top, and carried him bodily five yards into touch. Gene Sarazon has an odd method of teaching the correct swing of a driver to his golf pupils. He has a special club of ordinary size, but with tho head inordinately loaded with lead. His theory is that with a light club it is impossible for a beginner to describe a perfect arc, travelling tho same path each time tho learner swings tho club. It is impossible to swing this heavy club save in tho perfect arc, which it describes itself, in due course educating its wielder to the point desired. With this club the learner cannot keep the weight on the right foot after a club has passed the point of impact with tho ball, while ho automatically achieves a long, low follow through.