GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21359, 7 December 1932, Page 17

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

NEW ZEALANDER AT OXFORD

CANTERBURY TENNIS RANKING

ROWING CLUB'S BOAT DAMAGED

Members of llic Aucl<lfiticl Police 1) orcft recently formed fi sports club with a view to enabling them to compete in various branches of sport, including rowing, swimming, tonnis, cricket, shooting and others.

The Cricket (est mulch at present being played at Sydney is I lie sixth between England and Australia to be. decided there since the Great War. Australia, has won four of them, England winning that which was played four years ago.

Wager. Atianuiri, nnlcs: —Ts Charles Seeling. I lie 1905 AH Black Rugby forward, still living? Jf not, could you give the approximate date of his death ?—Charles Seeling is still living and is an hotclkeeper in the north of England. —Athletic Editor.

Competing at the senior sports meeting at Oxford University last month J. S. Wait, the .Auckland and New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, was beaten by a foot in the half-mile in 2m 7s. In the final of the quarter-milo "Walt finished third, the race being run in 51 l-ss.

L. T. .T. Montoith, who has beon captain of the Ponsonby Cricket Club's senior eleven for the past two seasons, was married on Monday afternoon to Miss J. Saunders, of Auckland. The couple loft later in the afternoon by the Monterey on a honeymoon trip to Sydney.

Criticism has been levelled against crews rowing oil the harbour in motley football or rowing attire, particularly on Sunday afternoons. Oarsmen must realise clubs liavo rules regarding uniform and executives should see that the rules are enforced. Rowing is a sport worthy of some dignity in dress.

Miss I). Xicliolls, formerly of Wellington, and ex-New Zealand ladies' tennis champion, Ims reached the first place on (he Canterbury ladies' ranking list by defeating Miss M..Wake, 6—2, 6—B, 6—l, Miss Wake won the second set from 4—3 against her, but she fell away in the third, in which she could get only one game.

A loiter was received at the last council meeting of the New Zealand Rowing Association from the Avon Rowing Club, Christchurch, reporting that serious damage had been done to the pair-oar boat lent to the association for the Olympic Games and asking that a new boat be supplied. Mr. C. A. Healey, coach of the Olympic rowers, is to be asked for a report on the matter.

Henri Cod let, ihe French Davis Cup player, has joined the ranks of 111 m stars. Cochet began making a demonstration film at tha Stade Roland Garros on October 13, but work was stopped owing to ra'n. In the film Cochet, who has the authorisation and encouragement of the French Federation, has to deal with balls which come across the net from an unseen and anonymous opponent.

Japan's participation in the Olympic Gaines at Los Angeles has given such a tremendous impetus to athletics in Japan that official steps aro being taken to see that the youth of (lie country does not overdo it. The Education Office has included £3500 in its estimate to he used in creating a sports medical clinic in the Athletic Institute at Yoyogi, a suburb of Tokyo. The clinic will have a staff of medical officers who will advise as to the extent of a candidate's fitness to go in for athletics.

In a mate]i for the first place on the Canterbury lawn tennis ranking list G. Angaa, Dominion champion, defeated H. A. Harriett decisively, 6—l, 6—2. Angas is reported to havo played a brilliant game, especially al the net, where ho volleyed decisively. Ho had complete control of the ball all the time and varied his game cleverly. Barnett, it is stated, did not do himself justice, boing too hasty with many of his shots and consequently making an unusual number of errors.

Interesting comment on the piny of P. C. Minns, a New Zealand' Rhodes Scholar of 1929 and a former Auckland representative .Rugby three-quarters, is made by J. S. Watt, a Rhodes Scholar of 1930, in a letter dated September 27 and published in the Auckland Grammar School's Chronicle. "Minns' football," wrote Watt, is not," I think, as good as it was in New Zealand, but, I ascribe this to the fact that in England wing-play is very different from that in New Zealand. ]n Auckland lie was used to having tlic hall passed rapidly out to him so that lie had plenty of room to work in and a good chance to swerve round his opponents and use liis wonderful fend. Here a great deal of the attack takes place in the centre, and the most successful wings are the fast, nippy men, after the stylo of IT. W. Lucas, able to see an opening and to use it in doublequick time."