GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21577, 23 August 1933, Page 14

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

golfers disqualified ATTEMPTS TO COPY LARWOOD WINS FOR HUSBAND AND WIFE G. Ollivicr, tho former ex-New Zealand champion lawn tennis player, will arrive in Auckland within tho next fortnight to take up an engagement as professional coach. Ollivicr holds tho record for the number of wins m the Dominion men's singles championship. Those who seek golf honours have to abide by tho rules of the game, and rain and lightning must not deflect them, even women, from the course. Miss F. Rennio with a handicap ot t won the 12 holes competition conducted bv the Yarrawonga Club, Melbourne, with a net 49. All the other competitors were disqualified because they took shelter during a thunderstorm. A. E. Ehlcrth and E. English of Queensland established a new Australian record for a teams' 30in standing cut in the teams' wood-chopping contests at the Royal Show at Brisbane last Friday week. Conceding up to 41 seconds to the other eight teams, they won from scratch in 3m 31s, clipping seven seconds off tho previous Australian record held by McCarthy Bros., ox New South Wales. Tho Australian cross-country championship of 10,000 metres, run in Melbourne last week, saw W. Barwick, tlio Australian Olympic runner, and Tasmanian representative, win in a brilliant manner from J. Sheaves, the New South Wales champion, and F. Colman, of Victoria. Barwick ran a tactical race and led over the last two miles only, after lying in a handy position in the early stages. A meeting of tho management committee of tho Mudgee Rugby League Club was held in New South Wales last week under extraordinary difficulties. During tho proceedings somebody turned out the lights, and club supporters were constantly trying to gain admission to the meeting room through tho windows. The meeting had been called to discuss alleged offences by several players and a referee. The attempts by inferior bowlers to follow Larwood's example have met with opposition, even from those who accepted leg-theory as fair, says an English writer. It is evident that tho summary suppression of these players has had a tremendous moral effect on the mass of the followers of the game. It can be assumed that, if Larwood does not play, there need bo no fear that body-line bowling will be introduced in future tests.

South Africa provides a remarkable instance of husband and wife sweeping the board in a lawn tennis tournament. Five titles were at stake in the Midlands District tourney, Natal, and this is what Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Lowe achieved: —F. H. Lowo won the men's singles in three straight sets. Mrs. Lowo took the ladies' singles in two straight sets. Mr. and Mrs. Lowe won the combiued doubles, Lowe and A. S. Knight the men's doubles, and Mrs. Lowe and Mrs. Hathorn the ladies' doubles.

The death at Valetta a fortnight ago of R. Morris, a member of the Australian League football team on its way to England, recalls the fact that when the liugby Union "Wallabies were on the'way to England in 1908, C. E. Murnin, a forward became seriously ill at Colombo, and the captain of the team, Dr. H. M. Moran, after consultation with other doctors, decided that the player should not be asked to face an English winter, and Murnin was left at Naples. He returned to Australia and recovered after a long illness. He died a few years later.

With tho growth of golf clubs, necessity arises every now and again for some revision of by-laws and etc., the "etc." most often relating to the relations of men and women on tho course —or, rather, to such times as they may and should meet thereon, says an Australian writer. In the growing days, when members were few, the sexes played how they liked and when they liked, but with increasing numbers chaos, and not a few petty squabbles, arise. The one solution, so older clubs have found, is systematisatiou.

The long faithful and skilful service of the best-known curator of a sports field in Sydney ended with the death a fortnight ago of Mr. Albert Arthur Chislett, caretaker of the University Oval. He was affectionately known to more than two generations of "University undergraduate-sportsmen as " Chis." Long after thev graduated, those sportsmen would visit the pretty oval in the shadow of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, and yarn with the little grey veteran about incidents of the past. " Chis " numbered among his friends more eminent doctors, lawyers, and engineers than probably any other man in Sydney.

The game of badminton, which has made great progress in Auckland during the last two years, bears a marked similarity to tennis. The net used is sft. in height, the court 44ft. im length and 20ft. in width. The court is marked in a manner very similar to a 1 tennis court. The game is naturally very fast, as everything is hit on the volley, and shots such as the smash, clear, drop and drive lend variety to the play. No better exhibitions of the game could bo seen than those which will be witnessed at the North Island championship tourney, which commences at No. 5 shed, King's Wharf to-morrow.

Tho Now Zealand Swimming Council has recognised the following times as New Zealand records:—2m 36 2-ss, 220 vards junior bovs, S. Jarvis, Dnnedin, July 20, 1033;'1m 13 4-ss, 100 yards intermediate boys' breast-stroke, R Geddes, Dnnedin, April 29, 1933; 55 4-ss, 100 yards intermediate boys, N. Crump, Auckland, March 11, 1933; 3m 27 4-ss, 300 yards intermediate boys, N. Crump, March 14, 1933; 2m 22 l-ss, 220 yards senior men, U. Frankham, Auckland, March 6, 1933; lm 47 2-ss, 150 yards senior ladies, Miss M. Farquhar, Auckland, February 14, 1933.

The winner of the men's singles at Wimbledon becomes holder for ono year of a challenge cup presented to the All England Club by the King when he was Prince of Wales, and of a challenge cup, valued at 100 guineas, presented by the All England Club itself. In addition, there is as first prize a piece of silver —value £2o—known as the Renshaw Cup, presented annually to the club by the surviving members of the family of tho famous "oldtimers," the late Ernest and William Renshaw. A gold medal is presented to tho champion, and —best of nil, perhaps—his name is engraved on the cup with those of former champions.

Mr. Norman Brookes, tho well-known ox-champion Australian lawn tennis player, recently visited Honolulu in connection with the forthcoming Victorian centenary celebrations. Tho Governor of Hawaii formed a committee of many prominent citizens to arrange for representation at tho celebrations, and Mr. Brookes is confident of a special visit by a polo team, yachtsmen, and, possibly, swimmers, from the islands. Ho said that tho possibility of sending the liner Lurline as a special tourist ship to Melbourne was being discussed. If this was decided upon, a number of yachtsmen had promised to ship their yachts to Melbourne for the celebrations.