GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22714, 28 April 1937, Page 19

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

BOWLING CLUB'S LOSS

RANFURLY SHIELD GAMES

EARNINGS OF ICE-SKATER

r- Walter Hagen, 0110 of the finest [. golfers the world has ever seen, has announced his intention to retire from T big golf this year. He will compete in 3 the British Open at Carnoustie in July, s That will probably bo his last big competition. ' Tho Epsom Bowling Club has suffered 3 a severe loss in the death of one of its oldest and most respected members, _ Mr. ,J. Ainbury. The late member was ) always a popular figure on the green (. and in spite of his age, nearly 90. he was an enthusiastic and ablo trundler. According to tho present programme, s Otago has to play only three matches g in defence of the Ranfurly Shield this season:—July .'sl, v. Southland; Septenibcr 18, v. Marlborough; September 25, v. Hawko's Bay. Of course, other challenges may be received later —and £ accepted if they can bo fitted in. 3 W. Oliver, a prominent wing-three-quarter in the champion Sunnyside .Rugby fifteen in Canterbury, is a younger brother of C. J. Oliver. Like tho All Blacks' vice-captain, he has wonderful ability in restarting an attack that appears to have lost momentum and springing to his feet to join in again himself, writes a southern critic. In the sport-entertainment line nothing lias happened for years to apJ proach the furore Sonja Henie, champion lady ice-skater of the world, is causing in the United States just now. | People fight, almost, to watch the iceflights*of this blonde little magician of the steel blades. She has put into her banking account as much as £2OOO for one night's performance I H. Deavoll, one of the finest forwards to appear in Canterbury Rugby football for some years, was listed as > an emergency for the Merivale senior > team in the opening match of the ! season, his first appearance on the proi gramme since he received a severe shoulder injur}' last year. Merivale i hopes that lie will be back in its vanguard shorjtly, and every follower of tho game will be glad to see this fine player in action again. "Jazz, not funeral dirges, is what people who watch cricket like to-day," This remark was made b,w Sir Charles Hyde, president of Warwickshire County Cricket Club, at its annual meeting. "We must have good sporting cricket and bright batting, otherwise we have no right to appeal for support. 1 do not blame people if they stay away from dull cricket. Let us give them what is worth watching, and worth paying for," he 'said. When the Old Boys and City Rugby teams took the field at Rugby Park' last Saturday afternoon, at the commencement of the Whangarei Rugby Union's season, they did so under novel conditions. The Whangarei Boys' Mouth Organ Band, under the leadership of Mr. C. S. Taylor, "piped" them on to the field amid loud applause from the spectators. The band also entertained the spectators and the teams during the half-time interval. Clarrie Grimmett has more strings to his bow than a singular ability to make a cricket ball. perform weird evolutions from the turf. The other day he took part in the second open championship events and in handicap matches at the South Australian tennis championships, and astonished the spectators by his remarkable mobility and court coverage. Although not a severe Slayer, he showed control of the ball, fe had colour, too, because whenever he played there was usually a fair crowd of spectators watching him. Considerable amusement was caused by an early-season mistake in the . Rugby match between Ponsonby and University at Eden Park last Saturday. Tl,~ Km M t,„,1 „ «J.

Hie ball had come out or a ruck at the feet of the University forwards, and was quickly kicked downfield, to be snapped up by a Ponsonby back. With the opposition bearing down upon him in full cry, lie coolly threw the ball . out into touch, instead of attempting to get in his kick. The forwards began to line out for the throw-in, but the referee rightly blew his whistle for a penalty to University. Leo Kelly, the coloured American boxer, who created a favourable impression in his two appearances in Auckland last year, has left Australia for England with his manager, W. Newman. Kelly will meet McAvoy, the English middle-weight champion, and Eddie Phillips, the light-lieavy-weight champion of Great Britain. He also expects to have a contest with Marcel Thil, middle-weight world champion, in Paris. Kelly will then return to America in time to participate in the tournament to be conducted for the light-heavy-weight championship of the world. In an English Rugby Union county match at Kendal the ground conditions became so bad that the referee stopped the match as he was unable to discern the Yorkshire white jerseys from the Cumberland blue. The latter team was leading by two tries to nil, and the ■ decision annoyed the home supporters, especially one woman standing on the duck-boards behind the goalposts. "What's tha' stopped match for. ref. ?" she shouted, "thou can easily tell which is Curnberlan': it's them~what's been comin' to this end of t' field for over 'all' an hour." The replay in Yorkshire cost Cumberland the championship. On the ground that the event is injurious to health and leaves effects in after-life, the Australian Women's Amateur Swimming Association has deleted the mile championship from future programmes. Opinion was so divided that the vote of the chairwoman was needed to secure the threefourths majority for its adoption. Cases were quoted where mothers, notably ex-Olympian Edna Davey, had won the State title without any detrimental effect. This year's title event was won by a ]5-year-old schoolgirl. For years it has been her practice to, swim a mile every alternate day, by which, she says, she has maintained her physical fitness. Miss Dorothy Hound, the famous English tennis star, gives the following advice to business girls on how to keep fit: —"Widen your interests, get out for walks in the fresh air as often as you can, and above all, get proper food. Strenuous exercise can do more harm than good, especially if the body has not had proper nutrition._ The business girl who imagines that in one strenuous half-hour on Saturday she can make up for lack of exercise all through the week is making a great mistake. Two steady spells of exercise a week are far better than one strenuous effort." Miss Round has been appointed to the British Government Advisory Council on Physical Fitness. A team from the English National Rifle Association will be in Australia in February next for the 150 th anniversav of Governor Phillip's landing. An English team has visited the Dominions only twice since the War —in 1920 to Australia and South Africa, and in 1931 to Canada._ As there will he an Australian team in England for the Coronation meeting at Bisley in July, it is thought fitting that the. return visit should be made during Australia's own celebrations. The expenses of the six months' tour of the Englishmen will be about £IOOO, and the council of the National Rifle Association is appealing for assistance here.