GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22205, 4 September 1935, Page 18

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

POPULARITY OF TENNIS PRIMARY SCHOOLS' RUGBY POSITION OF J. E. LOVELOCK J. A. Dunning, the former Auckland representative cricketer, now stationed in Dunedin, is spending a holiday here. He is on the staff of McGlashan College and has represented Otago ever since going to reside there. " 5.W.0." inquires whether L. Blomfield had met McCready in Auckland previous to their bout of last week. — McCready made his wrestling debut in Auckland with a match against 'Blom(ield on July 3. McCready secured the decision when Blomiield was unable to continue after the sixth round. — Athletics Editor. The number of players affiliated to the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association is estimated at 33,807, an increase of 3239 over the total in 1934. The Auckland Association is the largest, its membership numbering 0287; 5225 players belong to the Canterbury Association and 3544 to the Wellington body. An English paper states that Harold Larwood, the Notts and England fast bowler, was invited to play for the England eleven against South Africa at Folkestone last Saturday. It adds that Larwood accepted, but later withdrew. Voce, the left-handed fast bowler, did not receive an invitation. Members of the Otahuhu Golf Club will be interested to hear that. J. A. McPherson, who was a member of the club for a number of years, recently won the Parkvale, Hastings, club championship. McPherson had a very correct swing, and since going to Hawke's Bay he has had more opportunity for play than when he was in Auckland.

C. E. Mnlfroy and A. C. Stedman did well for New Zealand at the Northumberland County lawn tennis championships. Malfroy was beaten by Stedman in the final of the men's singles, while the pair won the men's doubles after a struggle with D. McPhail and C. N. Jones. Miss Heeley and Malfroy won the combined doubles, beating Senorita Lizana and McPhail. The well-known former New Zealand cricket representative, Harry Siedeberg, of Duncdin, is at present in Auckland for the national billiards championship. Mr. Siedeberg is president of the New Zealand Billiards Control Association and has won the Dominion billiards championship on four occasions. He has a world's amateur losing hazard break of 667 to his credit. The first six placings in a world's tennis ranking have been made by a prominent American critic. Perry he places first Without question and von Cramm second with equal certainty. The third position he gives Austin in preference to Budge, whom he places fourth. Crawford is his logical choice for fifth position and Allison for sixth. The next best claims, he considers, are those of Menzel and Boussus. The Auckland Hockey Association had a highly successful day on Saturday, when five representative matches were played under its control. The A team successfully defended the New Zealand Challenge Shield against Waikato, the junior representative team won easily by a margin of six goals and the other three teams all won their matches. Goals scored for Auckland totalled 28. compared with six against Single-wicket. cricket matches are not so common in England now as they were a century ago, but one was recently played at Canterbury. The early conclusion of the game between Kent and Gloucestershire prompted C. S. Marriott, the Kent bowler, and Goddard, of Gloucestershire, to stroll out for a single-wicket competition. Fielders were permitted, and Goddard, after scoring 37, 28 of which came from fours, declared his innings closed. Marriott was caught by Fagg before he had reached Goddard's total, and when he was sent in again he was neatly caught and bowled after making four. Marriott received 28 balls and Goddard 82 "Subscriber" asks for the names of the All Black team which toured South Africa in 1928. —The team was as follows: 11. Lilburne, B. Grenside, F. \Y. Lucas, C. A. Rushbrook, A. C. C. Robilliard, D. Lindsay, T. R. Sheen, S. 11. Carleton, L. Johnson, N. P. McGregor. M. F. Nicholls, W. A. Strang, W. C. Dalley, F. D. Kilby, G. Scrimshaw, J. Hore, J. T. Burrows, S Hadley, J. Swain, G. T. Alley, I. Harvey, C. Brown lie, M. Brown lie. I. Finlayson, W. E. Hazlett, It. McWilliams, E. Snow, R. T. Stewart. P. Ward. —Athletics Editor The high standard of football revealed by teams which took part in the tournament for the Roller Mills Shield held last week by the Auckland Primary Schools' Rugby Union was the subject of comment by the president of the Auckland Rugby Union. Mr. H. Frost, when the Shield was presented at Eden Park on Saturday. "I saw one try scored in this tournament which would have done credit to Jimmy Hunter himself," he said. Mr. Frost remarked that the training of players when young was invaluable and he urged coaches to spare no effort in this direction C. b. Malfroy, the New Zealander, won the men's singles cup in the Hampshire lawn tennis championships, beating I. G. McVeagh, the Irish Davis Cup player, in the final. McVeagh, who is verv fast on his feet, often surprised Malfroy in the first set, which he won at B—6,8 —6, with some remarkable " pickups " and clever passing strokes. But. when Malfroy added power and depth to his forehand drives and thus paved the way for a close-quarter attack, Mcwas more or less kept on the defensive. The winner did not employ so much top-spin, and this saving of seconds undoubtedly helped Malfroy. Describing the tactics of Walter Lindrum, the famous billiards player, a critic writes as follows:—" There is no lucky flash about his sensational run of breaks and where the average playerperforms the obvious shot, Lindrum thinks in hundreds, looking ahead not one or two shots but a dozen shots, and launching out in scoring tactics which are part of a definite plan. McConachy's style is in marked contrast to the posture and familiarity of the world champion. The New Zealander plays tensely and produces colourful billiards which have a variety all their own. It might bo said that he plays better exhibition billiards than Lindrum, although in match play the latter is obviously his master " Some people do not appear to under stand the position of Johu E. Lovelock as an athlete in Britain, says an English writer They ask if it is necessary of him to obtain the sanction of the Amateur Athletic Association for trips abroad to run why he cannot represent the governing body here in matches. People do not understand that Lovelock, (being a New Zealander, and having represented his country in the Olympic Games, would be out of order in a team tor Great Britain in an international match. Yet, while he is with us Lovelock, equally with English athletes, must conform to the Amateur Athletic Association laws and rules. Consequently, any international competition the famous miler gets must be in an individual capacity.