GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21921, 3 October 1934, Page 17

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

RECORD CRICKET SCORES ! NOVEL GOLF TOURNAMENT DEMPSTER'S PLUCKY INNINGS The Lynndale Harrier Club pro ml tliat it again lias the best Rugby team of the athletic clr.bs when it defeated Technical, which had previously beaten I'niversitv. In a hard game at Western S[)rings Lynndale won decisively from Technical by 19 points to 6. Questioned in England recently regarding his engagement to Miss .Mary Lawson, the film star, F. J. Perry, champion tennis player of the world, said he hoped to be married soon after his return from Australia next March and probably before next year's Wimbledon. F. W. Southall, the well-known English cyclist, recently rode from London to York, a distance of 196 miles, in 8 hours 59 minutes 19 seconds. This lowered, by 23 minutes, the record set for the distance earlier in the year by Hubert Opperman, the Australian champion. The record total for a test cricket innings is 849, by England against the West Indies, in Jamaica, 1930. The highest score ever made in first-class matches is 1107, by Victoria against New South Wales at .Melbourne in J926-27. Victoria also compiled 1059 against Tasmania at Melbourne in 1922-23. F. Tucker, a popular trainer, who has had some of Auckland's best athletes under his care during the past few years, is now in Wellington, where he has once again taken one of his old stars under his care. This is L. Schnoideman, formerly of Auckland, and now one of New Zealand's best jumpers, as well as being a high-class sprinter. The annual " devil's own " golf tournament for members of legal profession was played on the Manawatu Golf Club's links at Hokowhitu recently. Among tho entrants were lawyers from the Wellington, Wairarapa, Manawatu and Hawke's Bay districts. The competitions were divided into three sections, the devil's own championship, the mortgagors' relief stakes and the paupers' appeal stakes. The recent death of its educational officer, Mr. C. F. Stratford, has left the Auckland Swimming Centre with the problem of making fresh arrangements for the control of its activities among schools. The question was discussed by the centre last week, the unanimous opinion being that the A«ck\ind Primary Schools' Swimming and Life-saving Association should be invited to perform the duties, through an educational officer appointed by itself. After a sporting declaration by the M.C.C., Scotland came very near to victory at Lord's in August. At the close it was only 16 behind, with two wickets in hand. It did not achieve thin honourable result without some effort and considerable fortitude on the part of Dempster, says an English newspaper. He sustained a badly cut face at the beginning of Scotland's seqpnd innings, when he was struck by a ball from Edrich and had to be assisted from the field. He came back when Scotland, having lost five wickets for 74, was in great danger, and stayed until the end for 85 not out. The New Zealand heavy-weight wrestler Walter Browning has had two matches recently with the ex-world's champion, Gus Sonnenberg. In the first match Sonnenberg dived at his opponent, missed, and hit the ropes, which collapsed. Sonnenberg was incapacitated and the referee declared the bout no contest. At New Plymouth on Saturday evening Browning met Sonnenberg aj;;ain, the Neiv Zealander being disqualified after throwing Sonnenberg through the ropes and struggling with the referee in an attempt to jump on his opponent. Fach wrestler bad one fall at the time of the disqualification. Foursomes exhibition golf matches were played on the Waiwakaiho course, Taranaki, last week by A. J. Shaw, I. Lambie, H. I). Brinsden, E. J. Moss and F. ltutter. The last-named pair were partnered against Shaw and Lambie in the morning round, but H. D. Brinsden took Moss' place in the afternoon owing to the Middlemore professional suffering from an attack of influenza. Shaw and Lambie won the morning round by 3 up, while they were also successful in the afternoon by 5 and 4. Shaw, in returning a good card of 72, was within one of the course record. At one stage he stood a chance of lowering the record, needing fours over the last four holes, but he slumped sligtly at the 16th and 17th holes. The chairman of the central executive of the Royal Life-saving Society, Mr. H. Lock, of London, will arrive in Auckland from Sydney next Tuesday, almost two months earlier than expected by the Auckland Centre of the society. Mr. Lock, who is visiting the society's chief branches in Australia anil New Zealand, was orginallv to have toured Australia before coming to the Dominion, but Victoria found it impossible to receive him for another month, so that his itinerary was changed to enable him to visit New Zealand meanwhile. His arrival at the beginning of the season is regretted by life-saving bodies in this country, since it will not now be convenient to arrange beach displays in his honour. The Auckland Centre will meet to-day to consider a means of welcoming him, and of demonstrating the results of its activities. Walter Hagen, in outlining a few essentials in the playing of iron golf clubs, states: —"One hundred and fifty yards to the pin—traps to carry and a sloping green to hold —here's the shot that makes the average golfer stop, look, and wonder Most players will try to lift or scoop the ball into the air with an iron club. Stand a little closer to the ball than usual, slowly take the club back. Start the- club down with a stiff left arm. Hit the ball on the down swing, keeping the wrists fairly firm. Played this way the face of the club takes care of lofting the ball. Taking turf is usually the result of a wellplayed iron shot, not the cause. It means that the ball has been hit first and the turf afterwards. Practising these important essentials will make for straight-flying, quick-stopping iron shots." O. J. Nicholson, the champion cyclist, who was under disqualification for six months, will be able to enter for the Centenary 1000-mile race round Victoria this month. The appeal board of the Australian Federal Cycling Council has decided to reduce the period of Nicholson's disqualification as "a Centenary gesture." Mr. Keon, a member of the council, has resigned as a protest against the methods of the appeal board in arriving at its decision. Nicholson was disqualified for three months on May 7 by Mr. L. Gardiner for "conduct derogatory to the best interests of cycling" during an attempt on tlm Adelaide-Melbourne record by E. Waterford. Nicholson appealed against the decision, but the appeal board increased the disqualification to six months. On July 7 Nicholson issued writs against the members of the appeal board for damages.