GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21529, 28 June 1933, Page 17

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

CCfLLEGE TEAMS' SUCCESSES

GOLF WIN FOR S. MORPETH NEW OPENING TEST BATSMEN Much success was gained on the Rugby field last Saturday by Sacred Heart College. The six teams of the college scored a total of 144 points without having a point scored against them.

Miss Emflia Tersini, the .London girl who was recently awarded' £4200 damages in a breach of promise suit against the Italian giant Primo Camera, in London, has now instituted law proceedings in New York against the Italian, claiming 14,000 dollars.

The British Empire Games Council has again made a grant of £IOOO toward the expense of sending a New Zealand team to the games to be held in London in August next year. lor the 1930 games held in Canada the £IOOO grant was used entirely for the rowing crew, but athletes and cyclists will now probably receive the benefit.

'lvor Jones the Welsh forward who toured New Zealand three seasons ago with the British Rugby team, scored 117 points out of 474 registered by the Welsh champion team Llanclly, this season. An English writer says: I should imagine this easily excels any scoring done by a forward in firstclass llugby during one season. Incidentally, it is a feat any threequarter would be proud of."

Referring to criticism of Australian crowds on the grounds of unsportsmanlike " barracking," C. Fifield, a Rugby League footballer from Hull, who arrived in Melbourne by the steamer Jervis Bay recently, said that Australians did not compare unfavourably with England in this respect. '* The Threepenny side of the Hull ground is worse than the hill in Sydney," he added.

The defeat of J. Ferrier in his first match in the amateur championship of New South Wales was the most surprising featuro of play on the opening day last Saturday week, when the first and second rounds were decided at Kensington. His conqueror was C. 11. Smith. The winner played superbly, in spite of several lapses. Ferrier was never in front, but fought with his customary gameness. Smith displayed a beautiful swing, while his putting was also of a high standard.

A very fine goal-kicking performance stands to the credit of J. Nicholson, of the Marist junior Rugby team, playing in the Auckland Rugby Union's competition. He has kicked 12 goals in succession, some of them from right by the touch line. He kicked five against Northcote B last Saturday, four against Waitemata the previous Saturday, and three against Tamaki the week before that. To have kicked I'2 goals without a miss must be something approaching a record.

A new opening test match batsman in England has arisen in tho person of C. J. Walters, captain and secretary x)f Worcestershire. Last season he was the most dependable batsman in the county, heading tho averages with figures of 35.50. Ho has made wonderful strides this season, being the first batsman in England to reach 1000 runs in first-class cricket. He scored I2i against Derbyshire, 115 against Notts, 226 against Kent, and has scores of 92 not out, 66, 63, and 61 not out. He made 51 against the West Indies in his first test innings, and so did well in his initial game.

The sincere sympathy of the executive and members of the Auckland Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club has been extended to the relatives of the late Mr. Nigel Ernest Williams and of the late Major Percival Beaumont Greenhough. Mr. Williams, who was only 2-3 years of age, was a Victor Ludorum Cup winner and a good all-round athlete. He was a younger brother of the one-time Auckland sprint champion, and now starter, Mr. Lance C. Williams. The late Major Greenhough was for a number of years a prominent club official and a vicepresident.

The injury sustained by S. J. Malcolm, the Wallabies' halfback, in South Africa' recently is a recurrence of an old trouble. When the Waratahs toured Great Britain in 1927-28 Malcolm was the third halfback of the combination, and it was not until the Oxford game—the 11th match of the tour —that ho got his chance. That was the first match the Waratahs lost, and Malcolm dislocated his shoulder. Nevertheless he had started to make his name, and finished up by playing in three of the four internationals. On the way home, via Canada, Malcolm again put the shoulder out —this time while? swimming at Montreal.

Sloan Morpeth, the former New Zealand golf champion, won the championship of the Commonwealth Club, Melbourne, last Saturday week. The final was over 3(3 holes, and Morpeth defeated Harry Torr, 3 and 2. Five up at the close of the morning, Morpeth, who holed the course'in 7t>, was in an extremely handy position, but Torr counter-at-tacked strongly early in the afternoon, holing the outward nine in 38, including a 6 at the eighth. After getting back three holes, however, Torr found the leeway too much to make up, and Morpeth, turning for home 3 up, maintained the upper hand, ending matters at the lake hole.

\ WRESTLING ITEMS RETURN OF CHARLIE POLLARD Charlie Pollard, the Auckland wrestler and referee, returned home from Australia by the Niagara on Monday. Ho went over a few weeks ago to take part in five matches, but, after winning three in Queensland, he discovered that the financial returns did not nearly come up to what was held out to him as an inducement to go across. Pollard defeated Paul Eagel, a German, George Tiki, otherwise known as George Gardiner, of Auckland, and Nick Demetsky, a Rusuian. Pollard was billed os " the Canadian Iron Man."

During Pollard's absence, Mr. H. C. Sidford has acted as referee in all bouts at the Town Hall .and ho has given every satisfaction except to the handful of spectators who always appear prepared to find fault and to hoot at the slightest provocation. Mr. Sidford has pleased the officials and also the overseas professionals and that is what matters. He was kept busy on Monday evening with several of the amateurs who displayed a tendency to fight instead of wrestle, but the official maintained a commendable control throughout.

Followers of wrestling in New Zealand who have seen both men in action will be interested .to learn that Tom Lurich in a final answer to Billy Meeske's claims to the Australian heavyweight wrestling title states that he is ready to meet Meeske in Brisbane or Sydney over the championship courso with a sidestako of £'ooo on the issue. Meesko is in Perth at present, but is expected to return to Brisbane in a few weeks for the match,