GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22400, 22 April 1936, Page 22

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

CRICKETER'S OPERATION ENGLISH SOCCER FINAL RUGBY PRESIDENT'S RECORD The Cambridge bowling tournament during Easter again proved very successful. Tho Wast End team, skipped by J. Darby, did well, the young skip being in great form. "The code is steadily re-occupying its old place in tho country districts, and we have a surplus from last season of £700," states the annual report of the New South Wales Rugby Union. Don Bradman made a spectacular last appearance for the season in Adelaide cricket. Using a steel-shafted bat, ho scored 194 in two hours 11 minutes for his club, Kensington. The Canterbury Rugby Union has received an entry of no fewer than 115 teams in this year's grade competitions. This is five in excess of last year's total and a record for the union. The union has decided to send a Canterbury colts' team on a tour of tho South Island centres this year A. W. McCoy, tho Parnell and Auckland representative cricketer, underwent an operation to his knee in hospital on Monday. The injury was sustained at football four years ago, and he has since been playing cricket under difficulties. McCoy is progressing favourably, although it is not yet known whether he will /be free from slight lameness. No fewer than six players who had at one time held the title of New Zealand amateur champion took part in tho Wellington provincial golf championship at Easter. T. H. Horton and H. A. Black just managed to qualify, and they were later defeated by J. P. Hornabrook and J. L. Black respectively. Hornabrook again beat B. M. Silk and in the final he met Black, who was defeated at the 17th. A. P. F. Freeman, the great Kent googly bowler, who, with another professional, H. J. Hubble, runs a cricket school and sports business in Maidstone, has developed a scheme to discover bowling talent for tho county. With the approval and support of the Kent County committee, Freeman is giving a ball every week for the best bowling performance by young players in tho Kent villages. Tho English Association Football Challenge Cup final will be played at Wembley Stadium next Saturday. Tho finalists, Woolwich Arsenal and Sheffield United, are first and second division teams respectively. Arsenal, which has contested the final on three occasions, has won tho cup once. Sheffield United has reached the final five times and has been successful on I'our occasions. Several swimming carnivals this season have been marred by faulty judging. Races are likely to bo so keenly contested that it is of the utmost importance that the judges should be fully competent. Swimmers will hope that, in appointing the members of the panel of expert judges, nominations for which it has already received, the Auckland Centre will select men of sharp eye and cool decision and with a fairly wide acquaintance with swimmers. As a means of enforcing discipline among footballers it was suggested by Mr. F. H. Tomlin, a member of the Surrey Football Association Council, at the -annual dinner of the Farnham Society of Referees and the Farnham and District Football League, that if a player did not play the game properly his club should suspend him until he "came to his senses." If a club took that line a little more frequently, the task of the referee would not be so arduous, he asserted. Argument was revived at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Referees' Association on the question of the mark. 4'he Canterbury and Wanganui delegates considered that it was "splitting hairs" to insist that the catch and the heel mark should be made simultaneously. Another delegate said that a mark should not be allowed except for defensive purposes within the twenty-five. A motion that a heel mark could be made slightly before or after a fair catch was lost on a division. In nominating Mr. Norman Finlayson as president of the Otamatea Rugby Union last week, Mr. H. McCarroll said Mr. Finlayson had been president for the past 33 years, and the speaker felt sure he had thus created a record for the Dominion. Mr. Finlayson's interest in the Rugby game was proverbial and he trusted that he would carry on for many more years to come. In thanking the delegates, Mr. Finlayson said the prospects for the new season were bright and he would do all.in his power to make the 1936 season a record one for. the Otamatea Rugby Union. In the course of an interview with the representative of an English lawn tennis production, Fred J. Perry is reported to have said: Crawford is one of the most difficult men in the world to beat. You never know where his shots are going, he masks them so well. If when he returned to Australia he had rested from tennis for six months, lie would still be in the running for top ranking. As it is, 1 can imagine that tho papers over there are playing up Quist just now. And when you read for 365 days in the year that you are not as good as you were, believe me it doesn't help. Wilfred Wooller, the Welsh international Rugby player, was, at Colwyn Bay, his native town, presentod last month with an illuminated address. This contained the Borough Council's resolution of appreciation of his services to Welsh Rugby. The presentation was made by the Mayor, Mr David Edwards. Mr. Edwards described Wooller as tho greatest threequarter playing to-day. Ho referrod to his brilliant performance against tho Now Zealand touring team and tho prominent part he played in gaining the Rugby championship for Wales. Something tells mo that the county cricket championship is coming south this summer, after an interval of 14 long and weary years, and that Middlesex, under 11. W. V. Robins, is the sido to bring about tho great revival, says an English cricket writer. Middlesex was third last season to Derbyshire and Yorkshire, and only needs to improve a pip or two all round to achieve the highest honours. After all, it would not be very strange if the last southern county to hold the title, that was in 1921, changed the championship from the war of the roses it now seen.s to be into a triumph for London. A trophy case of polished walnut, the gift of a life-member, Mr. C. G. Herdman, was unveiled at the West End [lowing Club's At Home on Saturday afternoon. Designed to afford nr. unobstructed view of the club trophies, the case has a front-piece of one unbroken sheet of polished plate glass. The ends also are glazed, while the internal fittings include two adjustable plate glass shelves. The top is of glazed mystic-glass through which the light strikes on to the silver trophies Embodying the club shield and colours, the case is an example of skilful craftsmanship. It was designed by Mr. T. J. Clarke and constructed by Mr. J. H. Hitchison.