GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21855, 18 July 1934, Page 18

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

FOURTH TEST ON FRIDAY CONTEST FOR DAVIS CUP MOST LIFE-SAVING AWARDS The fourth cricket test between Australia and England will commence at Leeds, Yorkshire, on Friday. J>ike the three preceding games, it will be confined to four days.

The fact that .'35 hockey players, representative of each State in the Commonwealth, have been nominated for the Australian team to tour New Zealand this season, suggests that a powerful combination should be got together.

In a 12-a-side club cricket match in England recently a slow spin bowler took all 11 wickets in one innings. Four of his victims were caught in the field, three were caught by himself, three were stumped, and the other was out leg-before.

Authority was given Miss B. Lee at tho last meeting of the management committee of the Auckland Basketball Association to send 12 players to represent Auckland in the New Zealand tourney, which commences at Dunedin on August 23. '

Wellington's first big cross-country raco of tho season for the Dome Cup was run last Saturday and was won by G. Prosser, who staged a "comeback" to defeat A. Stevens by a margin of ten seconds. Scottish harriers easily won the teams' contest.

The inter-zone final of tho Davis Cup competition will be played at Wimbledon between Australia and the United States on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday next. The challenge round between the winner and Groat Britain will bo played at the same rendezvous a week later.

Bad luck seems to follow G. D. Inncs, tho ex-All Black and Canterbury Rugby representative, who is now playing League football with the Wigan Club, England. After standing down for several weeks with a hip injury, he had the misfortune to receive a shoulder injury against Hunslet.

J. Watt, a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar and the Auckland half-mile champion a few years ago, was in Auckland during the week-end. Now stationed at tho Masscy College in Palmer.ston North, he gets few opportunities of taking a competitive part in his favourite sport.

L. Mason, the big Waikato forward, continues to play outstanding football at centre-threequarter for the Wigan Rugby League Club. In a recent game against Hunslet, Mason scored the winning try for Wigan. An English critic classes Mason as equal to the best threequarters in the English League.

What must nearly constitute a football record occurred in a primary schools' Association football match at Devonport last week. St. Leo's was playing Devonport, and throughout the game, the St. Leo's goalkeeper neither handled the ball, nor did it cross St. Leo's back line. St. Leo's won by two goals to nil.

The Queensland Rugby Union has decided on a final muster of all available talent before the Queensland team to meet New Zealand is chosen. It is likely that the game will take the form of a Queensland v. The Rest fixture. Thero are so many players almost up to inter-State standard that the game should arouse plenty of interest.

Presented for competition between the Waikato powerhouses, the first annual Rugby match for the Ragwort Bowl was played at Arapuni last weekend, Arapuni defeating Horahora by 6 points to 0. The howl was donated by a Horahora supporter, Mr. Peter Johnson, and is made from the bottom of a large electric lamp with a base of wood from the forest beneath Arapuni.

A contingent of supporters will accompany the Hawke's Bay Rugby team to its match with Canterbury for the Ranfurly Shield, at Lancaster Park, on Saturday next. Napier and Hastings fqllowers of the game make no secret of their belief that, provided the ground is dry, there is a very real chance that the trophy may be taken back to the territory in which is rested for six years. • Describing an incident in the tennis championships at Wimbledon, Harry Hopman, the Australian, writes:— "Austin's court manners are usually faultless, but when he netted a volley that gave Shields a 6—5 lead in the fifth set, he was so chagrined that he took a flying kick at his racquet, which landed in a woman's lap. Austin apologised, but following his defeat he nervously biffed a ball into the stand." Commenting on another match, Hopman says: "Perry's behaviour on the court still leaves much to be desired."

An invitation from Germany for an Australian rider to compete in the world's cycling championship at Leipzig in August has been received by the president of the Australian Federal Cycling Council, Mr. W. Maddock. It is most unlikely that any rider will be sent from Australia, but if Hubert Opperman, tho Australian all-round champion, wishes to compete in Leipzig the Australian body will be only too pleased to make him its official representative. Opperman is now in England preparing for an attempt on the record from Land's End to John o' Groats.

Some very humorous incidents have been witnessed during tho present series of test cricket matches in England, arising out of the action of the authorities in selling the rights to certain firms of photographers of taking pictures of the play. During the first test match at Trent Bridge, one photographer, who did not possess a permit, built himself ,i private grandstand on the top of the chimneys of a house near the ground. This expedient was immediately countered by authorised photographers within the ground, who sent up a large captive balloon which formed a dead stymie from camera, to wicket.

W. Hassan, the former New Zealand representative halfback at League football, and more recently for a few weeks a member of the Marist Rugby Union Club's senior team, has transferred to Hamilton, where he has accepted employment. As a five-eighths for the Marist Rugby Club, Hassan played well enough to be selected as an emergency for the Auckland B team. Ho is continning to play Rugby with the Marist Club in Hamilton. Hassan will be missed in Auckland swimming, having last season gained distinction by his victory in the New Zealand diving championship, the first time it had been won by an Aueklander since 1920.

The Bamford Shield, which is awarded each year to the club, college or organisation in New Zealand obtaining the most awards of the Royal Lifesaving Society, was retained last season by tho Auckland Training College. The college having since been closed bv the Government, the annual report of tho society's head centre in Auckland records appreciation of the enthusiasm shown for life-saving work by tho former principal and physical instructor, Messrs. D. M. Rao and K. C. Reid respectively. Air. Rao is at presont touring the world as the holder of a Carnegie Travelling Scholarship, and when in London he intends to visit tho Royal Life-saving Society's headquarters.