GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21553, 26 July 1933, Page 14

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

GOLF PLAYER'S FREAK SHOT AUSTRALIA'S SWIMMING AIM ILL-FEELING IN RUGBY TEST Freak golf shots arc given prominonco in the newspapers from timo to time, and the latest comes from a course in South Australia. Driving from the.first too a player skied the ball nicely over the clubhouse for ik to come safely to rest, in the eighteenth hole—tho round in one I 11. G.- Huslnm, the former Technical Old Boys' and Auckland representative Rugby.footballer, was married in Auckland iafet week. Haslain has been in tho country for tho greater part of tho football season, but intends to play again for tho Technical Old Boys' Club in the near future. , Mrs. «T.. B. Crawford, wife of the world's champion lawn tennis player, must have become thoroughly worked up over her husband's contest with H. E. Vinos in tho recent final at Wimbledon.'Sho collapsed as the match pnded, but quickly jocovered. Tho fashion set by 11. W. Austin, tho English Davis Cup representative, by appearing, in " shorts " at Wimbledon was followed by other players during tho courso. of tho recent tournament. Among tiieni was H. K. Lester, a former English Davis-Cup player. G. G. Aitken, tho ex-Wellington and New Zealand Rugby representative, who captained tho All Blacks in tho first two tests against tho Springboks in 1921 and who subsequently playpd for Oxford University and Scotland, recently sustained a severe loss in tho death of his wife. Ho has been left with a small child and is himself in very indifferent health. Australian Rules football has obtained such a grip oil the peoplo of ' Melhourno that each season it sets £250,000 in circulation. It means a revenue of .at least £520 a week each to tho railways and tramways for six months. It attracts an average attendance for each Saturday of 10 per cent of tho population of Melbourne, and nearly £50,000 is paid in admission to metropolitan games each season. Two holes-in-ono on tho samo course on a singlo day is a most unusual occurrence. but it took placo at Waioliiki, Napier, recently. Tho first player to accomplish this feat was F. C. Fryer, captain of the Napier Golf Club, whose tee-shot at tho temporary fourth, 120 yards, sank into the cup. In tho afternoon round tho Hawke's Bay champion, H. E. Troutbeck, followed suit at tho seventeenth, a distance of 150 yards.

According to tbe well-known swimmer, Miss Ena Stockley, who returned to Sydney last week, a campaign lias been started there with the object of making Australia supremo in world swimming. Sydney is without public tepid baths suitable for winter swimming, but the Tattersall's Club has co-operated by giving the Now South Wales Amateur : Swimming Association the use of the club'R warm pool for coaching purposes. In this pool, promising young swimmers are being instructed by champions and competent coaches. A young negro, Jesse Owens, of the East Cleveland Technical High School, Ohio, is reported 1o have won the 100 yards at,-the United States national inter-scholastic track and field championships—corresponding to the national championships of secondary schools in other countries —at Chicago, recently, in 9 2-ss, equal to the world's record. This youth is following upon the footsteps of Tolan and Metcalfe, two negroes, who played such a prominent part in the last Olympic Gaiiios at Los Angeles. Further details of the first Rugby test. South Africa v. Australia, played at Capetown recently, shows that thero was plenty of incident in tlio match, some of it unpleasant in character. ]n one special report to Australia it is recorded that the battle between the forwards became torrid, and with the rising of tempers the refereo stopped the play and kept the forwards apart for a minute to allow theni to calm down. There was an unpleasant incident later in the game, when Cerutti was struck bv a fist in a loose scrum and fell prostrate. This was the first test ever played between the two countries. American women, are keonor than English girls on golf. They seem to think golf, talk golf, and even dream golf, according to Miss Dix Perkins, a member of the British women's team, on her return from an American tour. She expressed .the opinion,- however, that the average American club players are not up to the standard of the club players .in England. Tlio British women• had only one criticism to make on their tour, that tho golf courses on which they played are too long for women. " Tho courses taxed our stamina," said Miss Garnham. "The length involves too much slogging, and not enough, premium is placed on iron shots."' ' Commenting upon the success of Miss Mona Macleod over Miss Susie Tolhursfc in tho final of the Victorian ladies' golf championship, a Melbourne" paper says:—Miss Macleod has further confirmed her right« to bo considered the actual, as sho already is tho official, best woman golfer in Australia, by defeating Miss ' Tolhurst, her most formidable rival, for tho State titlo. Miss Tolhurst lias been tho winner three times, beginning in 1929, and she might have won last year, too, but she; was away in England contesting the British title,, and incidentally acquiring fresh golfing laurels for Australia. She defeated in successive matches the British and tho American champions, Miss Diana Fishwick and Miss Virginia Van Wie.