GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22211, 11 September 1935, Page 20

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

REMARKABLE BOWLING HOCKEY TEAM'S RECORD BRITISH WOMEN ATHLETES The annual Rugby match between the Technical Old Boys and Lynndale Harrier Clubs will be played on the Suburbs Club's ground, Avondale, next Saturday. Complaints of injuries to players from nails in football studs were received at the weekly meeting of the Auckland Rugby Referees' Association It was decided to make a general inspection of boots next Saturday. The Rugby representative season in Auckland will be brought to a conclusion with a match against Wellington at Eden Park on Saturday week Play in the Auckland Rugby Union's senior championship competition will then be proceeded with. G. Golding, one of the most outstanding athletes Australia has produced, has definitely retired. The arches of his feet have suffered as a result of the pounding they have received in hurdling on the hard tracks, and it is impossible for him to race again. The Canterbury Amateur Cycling Centre has decided its annual 50 miles championship event under the usual handicap conditions, and the title was gained by P. J. Grose. Grose clocked the almost phenomenal time of 2h 7m 45s for the out-and-home journey. Mr. A. M. Matheson, New Zealand and Auckland representative cricketer and former Auckland representative footballer, has joined the Auckland Rugby Referees' Association and passed his oral examination recently. Mr. L. Colgan, a foiyner member of the University Football Club, is also a member of the association. Extensive renovations and improvements to the court appointments of the Ngataringa Tennis Club, Stanley Bay, are being carried out at present. The pavilion is being completely repainted throughout, and players should find a greatly-improved building and better courts when play is resumed next season. A remarkable cricket feat was accomplished in a recent match at Windsor, England. Playing for Windsor Gas Sports Club against Windsor Juniors, F. G. Hibbert took seven wickets with successive balls —all clean bowled. Windsor Juniors scored three! Hibbert took eight wickets for/ two runs.

After 42 years, John Marshall, the famous groundsman at Trent Bridge, is retiring. At the age of 82 he has surely established a record by preparing the wicket for the first test match between England and South Africa for 1935. Marshall was at Trent Bridge in 1878, when the first Australian eleven opened its tour in England. The result of the annual Palmerston North to Wanganui road cycling race of 45 miles throws interest on the forthcoming Dominion road championship event, the Palmerston North to Petone race, of 102 miles, for the winner was the Wellington rider, O. Disley. Disley rode the distance in lh 56m 7s. Disley last season was the fastest rider in the Palmerston North to Wellington race Eastern Southland, winner of the New Zealand ladies' hockey championship for three out of the last four years, again provided the winning .finalist in the tournament which concluded at Gisborne on Saturday last. The winning team loft no doubt as to its superiority, defeating South Otago by four goals to nil. A feature of the champion team's display has been its sound defence, only one goal having been scored against it throughout the whole week's play. For the first time in the history of Rugby Union in Western Australia a representative team will make a trip outside the borders of the State, when a side will visit Adelaide this week-end. There will be 17 members of the team, who will be under the managership of Mr. G. Squire, a former Queenslaud player. Matches will be played in Adelaide on Saturday and Monday next. The visit will coincide with Adelaide's Show Week and is a healthy sign.

An end-of-season camp was held by the University Harrier Club at the Alpine Sports Club's hut in the Waitakeres during the week-end. Members ran to the camp from Henderson on Saturday afternoon and in the evening the annual dinner was hold, representatives of several other clubs being present. The following morning a trip was made down the Piha Gorge and back by Mackenzie's track, and a return run to Henderson was made in the afternoon, the distance beiug covered in 1 hour 7 minutes.

Winners of titles at the English Amateur Swimming Association's national meeting, held at Blackpool recently, recorded times exemplifying an improvement in the standard of the previous season. The pool in which the contests were swum was of an exceptional length, 110 yards, and in view of this, performances were considered the more meritorious. The victor in the 220 yds. men's championship, N. Wainwright, succeeded in lowering the British native record from 2m 20 2-5s to 2m 18 3-ss.

Golfers in Taranaki are keen to see Miss O. Kay, former holder of the New Zealand women's title, compete in the national championships to be held on the Heretaunga links, Wellington, next month. Miss Kay, who is now a member of the Hawera Ladies' Club, said recently that she had benefited considerably from her trip abroad last year, and in particular was bitting a longer ball than formerly. She is especially keen to compete against the membors of the touring British women's team, who will be included in the field.

The question of sending a tennis team to Australia during the coming season was raised at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association. It was stated that a team could not be sent before February and consequently there was no urgency regarding arrangements. In the meantime players who could go to Australia eariier would probably apply to the association for a subsidy. After considerable discussion on the advisability of sending players to Australia a motion was carried recommending the management committee to go into the question of subsidising a team to visit Australia.

Nellie Halstead, the 24-year-old Lancashire mill-worker, by winning the 800 metres in record time —2m. 15.6s —at at the Women's Amateur Athletic Association's championships at the White City, London, last month, created a record which is thought likely to stand unchallenged for all time. This was her first appearance in the race, but in previous years she had won at every other available championship distance. During last winter she won the national cross-country championship at three miles. In spite of her record run and her 10th national championship win, the lladclili'e £irl did not gain the special award i'or the best performance of the day. The honour went to Eileen Hiscock, who gained her third successive win in the 100 metres (109 yds Ift. lin.), made a new British record of 10.9s in winning her heat, and regained the 200 metres (218 yds 2ft. 2in.) title she lost to Miss Halstead at Herne Hill last year.