GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21411, 8 February 1933, Page 14

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

RECORD BY LADY CYCLIST POOR DIVING FACILITIES WINNERS OF MOLLOY SHIELD Tho team of Australian athletes which is coming to the North Island next month will appear in Auckland on March 25. The Takapuna Junior Surf Life-saving Club, which is training under Mr. E. McInman, is taking an active part in patrolling Takapuna Beach during the weekends.

A strong team of American wrestlers is expected to visit Australia this season, and the names of Ted Tliye, Gus Sonnenberg, John Pcsek and Joe Stecher are among those mentioned as almost certain to be in the party. No doubt New Zealand will bo included in tho itinerary.

D. R. Jardine, captain of the English cricket team, stated last week that the crowd which watched the match at loowoomba between England and the Queensland Country eleven was the best he had played before in Australia. Ho made such remarks during the luncheon adjournment on the first day.

The Te Puko Surf Life-saving team made three saves on Anniversary Day week-end at the Mount Beach, Tauranga. The captain, F. H. Wilkie, brought a man ashore on the Sunday and H. Pile rescued two people on the Monday morning. The club is training for tho provincial four-men championships, which will be held in 3 few weeks' time on an Auckland beach.

The executive of the West End Rowing Club ha 3 elected D. G- Stotter club captain in place of G. Conway, who now resides at Waiuku. Tho new captain stroked the light maiden four last season and at the beginning of the present one. He was a member of the Auckland University senior Rugby fifteen that won the Auckland championship in 1929.

A feature of the athletic and cycling carnival conducted at Papatoetoe last Saturday was tho successful attempt by the Auckland lady cyclist Miss V. E. Baird on her one mile paced record. Miss Baird, paced by her brother, S. J. Baird, covered the six laps in 2m 31 2-ss, which is just short of 24 miles per hour. This was a reduction of 12 l-5s on her previous record and was a really fine effort.

"Larwood, Voce and Bowes are quite within their rights in bowling as they have been doing," S said Mr. E. L. the former New South Wales representative cricketer, in Sydney last week. "I will not admit that leg theorv is body-line bowling. Larwood is the only one doing any damage, and 70 per cent of his wickets have been secured with balls bowled on the off-side, which rather upsets the body-line bowling allegation."

Surrey's professional cricketers received a surprise Christmas-box. This was nothing less than the repayment of 10 per cant of their salaries, which they voluntarily gave up last season because of the precarious financial position of the club. In spite of a wet May, which lost the Surrey Club hundreds of pounds, the balance-sheet showed a profit, and the committee has been quick to remember the sacrifice of the players. In the case of the regular members of the first eleven, the cheque which each received amounted to, roughly, £4O.

W. L. Hope, who was the leading amateur in the British open golf championship last year, has taken up his residence in Melbourne. He made an auspicious debut at the links of the Sandridge Club last week, going round the course in 71 to win the men's bogey event with a card of 6 up. He is a powerful player with a splendidly-balanced swing, and 6wings the club with a rhvthmic movement that is always well under control. His play was outstanding for the perfect timing of his shots through the green. Apart from a somewhat erratic chip shot at the home green, his play was faultless.

The inadequate facilities here for high diving had an adverse effect on the standard in the Auckland diving championship last week. The display by the competitors generally off the low boards at the Tepid Baths was described by the judges as good. The second stage was decided from the high board at Mount Eden Baths. Only two of the contestants in the championship came forward for this stage and their display was mediocre. The championship was awarded to W. Hassan, of the Ponsonby Club.

Generally regarded as Tom Lurich's toughest opponent, Bonnie Muir was engaged to referee a wrestling match at the Leichhardt Stadium, Sydney, last week between the Russian and Alex Lundyn. The usual referee, Mr. J. McMaster, had his arm in a sling. The previous week ha and Lurich had one of their usual ring affairs, and McMaster had to have his arm X-rayed. It is not yet known whether the arm is broken. "I am feeling quite all right again," he remarked, "and hope to be able shortly to resume at Leichhardt."

A.G., Napier, writes: A one shilling bet was made as to who would win a cer. tain rubber of bridge. Our opponents won two games out of three, but we finished up with the greater number of points. A larger wager was laid as to " what constituted winning a rubber of bridge " under the circumstances as set out. Would you kindly favour me with your opinion in this connection ?—The players winning two games out of three would certainly win the rubber.—Athletic Editor.

The Ponsonby Amateur Swimming and Life-saving Club's harbour race for the Molloy Shield was held last Saturday for the first time since 1930. From the inception of the race in 1912 to 1927 the course was between Northcote and Shelly Beach, a distance of about three-quarters of a mile. However, with the formation of tho boat harbour at Ponsonby in 1928 the course had to be changed and the race has sinco been swum within the boat harbour, the distance of two miles being the second longest open course in New Zealand. Tho shield has been competed for on 13 occasions, the various winners being as follows:—1912, J. E. Inkster; 1913, Miss D. E. L. Large; 1914, J. E. Inkster; 1921, H. Moore; 1922, N. Goodchap; 1923', H. Moore; 1925, G. Burgess; 1926, R. J. Webster; 1927, Miss M. Jepson; 1928, W. J. Stevens; 1929, F. G. Ansell; 1930, R. B. Ashby; 1933, H. Briggs.