GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21707, 24 January 1934, Page 14

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

NEXT GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS CRICKETERS' BIG CHEQUE HANDBOOK. FOR BOWLERS An unusual result was witnessed in a singles bowling match played on the Kaukapakapa green on Saturday last, 0110 player defeating his opponent on the 13tii head by 28 points to 0. f '

Mrs. Wills-Moody, the famous American lady tennis player, states that she expects to be absent from tenuis competitions for at least two years. She has resigned herself to a period of rest and recovery.

Athletics in Canterbury suffered a loss recently when A. T. Anderson, the New Zealand 440 yards hurdles champion and record holder, left Christchurch to reside in Palmerston NorthHe will probably be available for Wellington this season.

D. 0. Hay, a member of the Geolong Grammar School cricket team, which has been touring in New Zealand, is held to bo the best schoolboy batsman in Australia. Last season his aggregate of 746 runs for five matches created new record figures.

This year's Now Zealand golf championships will probably be held at Miramar, according to the latest advice from Wellington. The tourney was last held at Miramar in 1926, the year in which several Australian golfers also competed.

K. Stewart, coxswain of the successful crew in the Auckland Rowing Club's trial fours on Saturday last, has been with the crew throughout the season. He is a younger brother of D. Stewart, coxswain of the New Zealand championship fours winner, Auckland, at Wanganui last March.

"Aurora" asks:—Was Ted Phelps an Englishmen when he met Bob Pearce for the world's sculling title, and has he since become a naturalised American?—Phelps was an Englishman when he rowed Pearce, but whether he has since become a naturalised American is not ascertainable. —Athletic Editor.

From Capetown comes the news that a (suggestion that a British Rugby team should bo invited to tour South Africa received scant support at a meeting of the South African Rugby Board. The board agreed, however, to accept an invitation to tour Australia and New Zealand. Tho tour will not be made before 1937, and then only subject to arrangements which are mutually satisfactory.

According to an English paper, a sensation was caused in the north by the announcement that the St. Helens Club had placed of its leading players, Ellaby, the England captain, Hardgrave, the New Zealand international, and Griffin, on the transfer list. It is understood that a sudden fall in gate receipts brought about this drastic decision.

Illustrating an anecdote in the course of his " toast " to cricket at the jubilee smoke concert of the Auckland Cricket Association last Saturday night, Captain Cosmo M. Graham, R.N., referred to a wet Sunday in Manchester and then amplified his remarks by stating humorously that one would have to spend a summer in Auckland to appreciate what a wet Sunday in Manchester was like.

T.M. (Otorohanga) asks:—"Could a professional axeman, cyclist, or runner compete at an amateur swimming carnival, or would he have to be reinstated as an amateur?"— According to the rules of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association, it is impossible for a professional at any athletic sport to compete in amateur swimming events. fo be eligible, reinstatement is necessary.—[Athletics Editor.]

The North Island lawn tennis championships, which have just been completed at Rotorua, have not been without their surprises. J. C. Charters, who has many fine performances to his credit, excelled himself and his defeats of E. D. Andrews and E. L. Bartleet on successive days indicate that he is right back to his best game. Charters was ranked in the Dominion's first ten in 1929-30 and should be assured of a place again this season.

The Australian lawn tennis championships at present in progress in Sydney will be watched with interest by all followers of the game in this country. With her strongest player, F. J. Perry, England has commenced an attack on the singles title with high heart and rosy prospects, while in the doubles Perry and Hughes, England's No. 1- pair should be very close to the final, although they will meet with tough opposition from a number of fine Australian doubles combinations.

Very keen rivalry has always existed between Canterbury and Wellington athletes and the second annual contest between the two provinces was decided in Cliristchurch last Saturday when Canterbury won by seven events to six. One of the best performances was that of T. G. Broadway, of Canterbury, who ran the best quarter-mile of his career in defeating J. M. Watt, Wellington, in 49 2-ss. Broadway hung on grimly to get home in a race in which both men ran inside 50s,

Mr. T. .T. Richards, who represented Australia and England at Rugby football, and who also played in South Africa and France, has been spending a holiday in the North Island. For the past two years Mr. Richards has been located in New Guinea, where, ho says, the game of football is immensely popular. It is played with a Soccer ball and there are no scrums — in fact, local rules prevail. The matches are played among tribes or mining teams and the rivalry is so keen that the games usually end up in a quarrel and the intervention of native police becomes necessary.

Several presentations were made at the jubilee smoke concert of the Auckland Cricket Association on Saturday evening. The five life members of the association received gold medallions. Tho Hellaby Shield was presented to Pukekohe, winners of the country week tournament, Messrs. A. M. Rose and H. Pleydell, captain, receiving the trophy. Other presentations were made as follows:—Mr. J. Roborts' bat to M. Wallace, # for fielding in Plunket Shield matches; Mr. F. Earl's bat to D. R. Garrard, for all-round performances in Plunket Shield matches; a pair of batting gloves to each member of the Auckland team which won the Plunket Shield, given by a-n anonymous donor.

" The Bowlers' Handbook No. I, The Aft of Delivery," by that champiou exponent of bowls, Maxwell Walker, whose performances have earned him the respect of all bowlers throughout the Dominion, should find a ready welcome among enthusiasts of the game. Released recently, the book aims at presenting the underlying principles of a game which is gaining fresh adherents each year, and, coming from a player of such ability and experience, the advice and opinions contained in it should be eagerly absorbed and appreciated. As the title explains, the book is given over to that all-important phase of the game, the delivery of the bowl and other matters pertaining to the delivery. A series of illustrations add further value to a volume which should prove of greatest assistance to the experienced player as well as the novice. The book is published by Messrs. Innes and MacGregor, Limited, Wellington.