GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21505, 31 May 1933, Page 17

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

WALLABIES TO OPEN TOUR BOWLING SECRETARY'S RECORD GERMANY ENTERS RUGBY FIELD The annual Bay of Plenty schools' tournament will be held at Tauranga in July, when the pupils of the various schools will meet in athletic contests and football and basketball matches. f> Mile. Suzanne Lenglen, former world's lady tennis champion, stated last month that she was willing to play Mrs. Helen Wills-Moody 011 her terms., "They are money terms. 1 must make a fortune out of it," she added. "Gentleman" Jim Corbctt, former world's heavy-weight boxing champion, who died in March in America, a contemporary of Peter Jackson, L. Sullivan, Jim Jeffries and Bob I'itzsimmons, left his widow £20,000. A team representing the New Soiith Wales Women's Hockey • Association will visit Suva at the end of next month, leaving Sydney on about June 28 and returning 011 July 17. It is anticipated that the team will play at Auckland both 011 the outward and homeward journies.

John Langridge, who is figuring prominently for Sussex in English county cricket matches this season, is ft younger brother of James Langridge, who was formerly engaged as junior coach to the Auckland Crickot Association. The last-named is also showing splendid form with both bat and ball. The Bay of Plenty rifle shooting meeting will be held on the Thornton rango 011 Saturday next. The principal contest i.s for the Moore championship belt, which is now held by Rifleman C. J. Kiddie, of Tauranga. ,Marksmen will compete from all the Bay of Plenty defence rifle clubs, including Tauranga and Katikati. The Australian Ilugby team, known as the Wallabies, will open its tour of South Africa dn Saturday next with a match against Natal at Durban. Thereafter games will be, played on Saturdays and Wednesdays until July 1, when a week's spell will be had before the first test against the Springboks at Capetown on July 8. An interested spectator at the Auckland ladies' hockey matches last Saturday was Miss Edith Thompson, C.8.E., ex-president of the All England Women's Hockey Association. Miss Thompson considered the standard of hockey good for so early in the season and she was greatly surprised at the fine condition of the grounds. The R.V. Cricket Club held a most successful smoke concert last Saturday evening when the president of the club, Mr. A. Harvey, expressed his pleasure at the success of the senior team in winning the Suburban competition. Bats were presented to S. Guiniven, for the best batting average, C. G. Finlayson, for best bowling performance, and A. Cloke, captain. A special bat was presented to H. Hunt for wicketkeeping.

The International Bowling; Board has come to an important decision concerning the vise of greens before a competition. Any competitor practising on any part of a green on the day of the event and beforo its start, they decree, renders himself liable to disqualification. Thus an unwritten rule of the past, which has in all innocence been broken often enough, has become law. Most English bowlers view the change with satisfaction. P. C. Mijjns, Auckland Rhodes Scholar and Oxford blue, showed good form as a member of the Barbarians Rugby Club in an Easter tour of South Wales. The Barbarians are solely a touring club, mostly of international and ex-international players. There no fewer than 31 of them in the South Wales tour, and 26 had' played for their countries—ll for England, six for Ireland, five for Scotland, and four for Wales. ' Mr. W. E. Arey, honorary secretary of the Carlton Bowling Club, claims a unique record. He has been a member of the club for 26 years, has been on the committee continuously for 24 years and has occupied the position of honorary secretary for twenty years in succession. He has been in office with twelve presidents and five treasurers. Eulogistic reference to Mr. Arey's services was made at the annual meeting of the club last week. "Aria," King Country, -asks: —(1) Who invented television? (2) What country was he born in? (3) The colours of the Ponsonby Rugby Football Club? (4) The colours of the Marist Rugby Football Club?— The principles of television were recognised for a long time. In 1884 Nipkow patented a system which proved abortive until the advent of current amplifying devices. Certain success was achieved in 1925 by J. L. Baird, England, and C. F. Jenkins America. Baird transmitted, images across the Atlantic in 1928. The colours of the Ponsonby Club are blue and black hoops and those of Marist dark blue and light, blue hoops.—Athletic Editor. Austin Robertson, of Victoria, holder of the world's professional sprint running title, is going to America in company with Mr. Rufe Naylor, of Sydney, who is taking the racehorse, Winooka, to the United States. He will pass through Auckland on the Monterey on Saturday. Robertson will undergo special exorcises on board to keep hini fit, and on arrival in America will have seven or eight weeks in which to become acclimatised. At the conclusion of his running engagements Robertson will appear at several of the American universities to demonstrate kicking and some of the finer points of the Australian rules game of football. Robertson is a prominent football player in South Melbourne.

"Jf German Rugby players go on improving," says a .Jfrcnch critic of the game, "they may be playing international matches with British teams before France meets them again." A friend of a London paper, who saw the France v. Germany match in Paris in March, says that in the first half the Germans played extremely well except for their weakness in getting offside. France eventually won by a big margin, but many thought the referee had been generous to the winners over three of their tries. Germany's Rugby teams are increasing in number, especially in the north. Hanover, from where many international players are chosen, has 11 teams. In largo areas of the country, however, the game is still unknown. Melbourne Inman, the well-known billiards player, was„ever a tactician. However, his efforts in that direction are not wholly confined to the billiard table. The erstwhile champion of the world is at present paying his fourth visit to Australia and at his reception at the Sydney Sports Club recently hit it bo distinctly understood that ho was ever a barracker for this country. So much so that in ,1912 ho declared that if ever be were blessed with a son his name would be "Sydney Melbourne." Quoth Inman: "I now have a son and his name is Sydney Melbourne, hence my sincerity is proven." When a wag suggested that the firstcomer might ho jiave been a girl, the old champion replied that he was quite prepared, and in that case the lassie was to have been named "Victoria Adelaide."