GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22241, 16 October 1935, Page 22

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

BOWLING TEAMS' TOURS SUMMER GOLF ADVOCATED CRICKET TESTS OMITTED A. C. Harrisor., who played a great game on the wine for NorthumberlandDurham against the All Blacks, was an English international in 1931. He playecl for England against the Springboks that year. The first of the local cycling clubs to commence its weekly track meetings is the Papatoetoe Club, which has every prospect of a busy season. The electric lighting of the banked asphalt track will make the sport more popular in the Papatoetoe Club's area. A tour of South Africa is to be carried out bv eight British athletes whose programme provides for competition at seven meetings in three weeks. They will cover in all 1000 miles. The first stage of the journey, a stretch of 400 miles, is to be travelled by air. It has been tentatively proposed by the International Bowling Board that a British team visit Australia toward the end of 1936. The matter is at present under consideration, but it is expected that a decision will be reached at its meeting next January. A visit by an Australian team is also planned to South Africa, the team to depart in December. The Wembley Stadium authorities propose to match Ambrose Palmer, the Australian boxer now on his way to London, with Tommy Loughran, oi America. Loughran is not the force in the boxing world that he was a few years ago, but ho should still be a great attraction at Wembley. His meeting with Sharkey in New York six years ago drew gate receipts worth £60,000. Three former presidents of the Isew Zealand Bowling Association, Messrs. J. Pascoe, R. Sheath and 11. G. Mayer, of Wellington, were associated in a match played on the Mount Eden green on Saturday. They assisted the president of the Auckland Bowling Centre, Mr. A. E. Whittcn, to score a victory over a Mount Eden executive rink led by the club's president, Mr. A. Dignan. An opinion of the manager of the British ladies' golf team, Mrs. P. Hodgson, has revived the advocacy for more and bigger competitions during the summer months. Mrs. Hodgson expressed surprise when told that the season for women's play ended in a few weeks, when nearly all competitions ceased until next autumn. She pointed out that in England play took place all the year round. A cricketer now mentioned as a possible leader for England in the next tests against Australia is Maurice Turnbull. Turnbull is captain of Glamorgan, and is a fine batsman, having already represented England. He also played Rugby Union football for Wales, so that he is a double international. Turnbull is a hard hitter, and, moreover, a man who is not afraid to hold an opinion and express it.

Australia has not held the Davis Cup since 1919, in spite of many efforts and high hopes. Now Norman Brookes suggests that Australia should not enter for the Cup contest next year, but should concentrate everything on a bid in 1937. He still pins faith on Crawford, Quist and McGrath, in spite of the fact that Crawford is now 27 and is not improving and the other two are the reverse of consistent.

S. Fairweather (Malone), the winner in 1926, regained the Irish professional golf championship title at Belvoir Park, Belfast, last month. He aggregated 293 for the 72 holes and beat P. J. Mahon (Royal Dublin) by a stroke. Fairweather and Mahon each had scores of 71 in the third round and started the last round on level terms. Mahon had a fine chance of winning the title, but dropped several strokes over the last four holes.

The conscientious German is determined that Berlin's Olympic Games next year will not go unnoticed. Eight short-wave beam radio transmitters are being built near Berlin to cover such countries as Australia, India, China, New Zealand, Siam, the Dutch East Indies, South and Central America and South Africa. These stations are to broadcast all programmes, but are to be used specially in connection with the Games.

The loss of Tindill, who is with the All Black team in Britain, will be felt when the Wellington cricket season opens next Saturday. Another footballer who should be missed in cricketing circles is Tricklebank, who will leave in December with the University Rugby team for Japan. However, T. C. Lowry will be playing regularly, while another attraction will be the Melbourne player L. R. Keating, who will be coach to the Wellington Association.

A strong movement to brighten club cricket in Sydney has secured recognition of its aims in measures recently passed by the Board of Control. These provide that any team which bats for the whole of the first day's play be prohibited from batting again in that match, subject, to reservations for unavoidable stoppages. Only three and a half hours of batting are to be permitted each team in one-day fixtures, while the afternoon tea interval has been abolished.

G. Low, of Christchurch, who is well known throughout Now Zealand for his performances as a swimmer, has joined the small band of athletes who have won national championships in two branches of sport. In 1933 ho was the New Zealand backstroke champion, and last week he won the amateur middleweight boxine championship of the .Dominion at Dunedin. It was his first appearance in a New Zealand tournament and his style of fighting created a very favourable impression. . J. E. Lovelock's British mile record of 4m 12s was equalled at Glasgow by a 26-year-old Scotsman, Robert Graham, the holder of the Scottish native record of lm. 55 4-ss. for the half-mile. Four days later, at the White City Stadium, London, he won the mile at the England and Wales versus Scotland and Northern Ireland meeting, in 4m. 16 2-5s on a track that was very heavy and holding. At one time from 1919 until 1933, D. L. Mason, of Auckland, the brilliant army athlete, held the Scottish half-mile record at lm. 55 l-ss.

Exception to the fact that no test matches will be played on the coming tour of the M.C.C. cricket team in New Zealand is voiced in many quarters in England. It is pointed' out that the New Zealand team which toured England in 1931 was heaten by an innings and 26 runs in the only tost that was finished, but that the New Zealanders had the better of the draw at Lord's. The 1931 team's record is held to have shown that New Zealand cricket is entitled to full respect and that under their own playing conditions New Zealanders will be still more formidable. In reply to the invitation of the New South Wales Lawn Tennis Association, Henri Cochet, the famous French player, has offered terms of a £SOO minimum, plus travelling expenses, and CiO per cent of gross receipts from his matches. The New South Wales body is of the opinion that the terms are exorbitant and that, as Cochet can only be matched against professionals under the ruling of the International Federation, good opponents will be limited to one or two players. Officials declare that, if a proposed visit of American players to Australia is made, a tour by Cochet could not be entertained.