GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22726, 12 May 1937, Page 19

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

WELSH SOCCER WINS "PERMANENT GOLF WIDOW" RUGBY PLAYERS TRANSFERRED "Enquirer," Auckland, asks: On what ground did the Springboks play New Zealand in the third test match at Wellington during their last tour of the Dominion? The game was played on Athletic Park. —Sports Editor. A friendly gesture to golfing visitors from overseas for the Coronation is to he mjule by the English golf clubs. It is believed that many visitors will welcome the opportunity to play on tho famous courses, which are to be thrown open to them, By beating Ireland at Wrexham, Wales, having already overcome Scotland and England, carried off the international Soccer championship and also tho Jubilee Tropbv, awarded for the first time last year. The last time a country won all three international matches was in 1931-32, when England triumphed. An acquisition to Auckland ltugby will bo (J. McKinley, a Maori centre or wing-tlireequarter, from Poverty Bay. Ho played an outstanding game for tho Now Zealand Maori team against tbo Australian fifteen at Palmerston North last season, displaying fine speed, determination and handling ability. MeKinley has joined tho North Shore club. During tho course of a recent Soccer match in Cardiff a man among tho crowd frequently blew a whistle. This caused players in the respective teams to hositate. Tho reforeo held up the game and addressed a section of the crowd from which tho whistling came. Jeers greeted his appeal. The referee summoned the aid of a policeman. The whistler was not heard again.

Edmund Ivracner, German heavyweight wrestler, recently arrived in Australia from India in search of matches. He began wrestling at the age of 11 and won the Gorman amateur championsliip six years later. He represented his country at the Olympic Games at Amsterdam in 1928 and at Los Angeles in 1932. He ivas third and second in the respective centres.

Mrs. Walter Hagen, wife of the famous United States golfer, telling the Judge that her husband's profession had mado her "a permanent golf widow," was granted a divorce at Newark last month. Mrs. Hagen failed in her claim for alimony. Slio said hor husband earned £IO,OOO a year. Walter Hagen did not contest the divoreo proceedings. The Hagens were married in 1Q23 and separated in 1927.

A golf championship for schoolboys will be held on the Rcnuiera links next Wednesday, and in past tournaments two players who have been prominent have since performed well in other events. R, E. Moll won the Auckland provincial championship and M. Dudley broke the course record at Manurewa. on Saturday. His round of 73 represented very fine golf and, as he possesses a good natural style, lie should develop into a first-class player.

The failure of the Ponsonby senior Rugby team to field its players with the numbers printed on the official programme was the subject of much adverso criticism at Sturges Park, Otahuhu, last Saturday. Only three bore corresponding numbers. While this practice is at all times exasperating to spectators, it is especially so on a suburban ground when two city teams are playing, and the majority of the onlookers are not familiar with the players.

Mention was made at the Mount Eden Amateur Swimming and Lifesaving Club's smoke concert last week of the talent of two young members. A. Wiles, an intermediate, and R. Cranch, a junior. The opinion was expressed that they woidd eventually become champions, and prove worthy successors to P. Hanan and It. 13. Frankham, the club's foremost members at present. Cranch, who is 14 years of age, recently won a 220 yards race in 3m 4 4-ss.

The death of A. H. Tavendale, fullback for the Waimairi (Cliristchurch) Rugby League team, in a motor-cycle accident last Saturday week, removes a promising young player who gave indications of real talent. His death was all the more tragic because at the time he was on his way home from the hospital, where his brother, E. Tavendale, one of the forwards, had been admitted with injuries received in the Linwood-Waimairi match that afternoon.

Of interest to swimming enthusiasts in Auckland is the announcement of the engagement between two former Auckland sprint champions, Miss Edna Rainey and P. J. Fnrrell, both of whom now reside in Hastings. Prior to going there two years ago Miss Rainev had won Dominion junior and intermediate girls' championships, crowning her achievements in February 1935, by winning the 100 yards ladies' national title. She defended this at Dunedin last year as a Hawke's Bay representative, but was unplaced. Her age is 19 years, Farrell was 100 yards men's champion of Auckland in 1928 and 1929.

Auckland cricket will suffer a loss through the transfer of A. W. McCoy, the Parnell and Auckland representative, to the Now Plymouth branch of the National Bank of New Zealand. McCoy has been one of the province's leading cricketers for a number of years and he has secured representative honours on several occasions. He was a member of the combined AucklandWellington side which played the visiting M.C.G. eleven at Eden Park last April, McCoy is a dashing bat when in form, but his greatest asset is his slow bowling, which has proved the downfall of many good batsmen., Ho will carry the best wishes of many friends in his new appointment.

Although S. Worthington, solidly built all-round cricketer, could not. strike- his English batting form on the recent test tour of Australia, he recaptured it for Derbyshire, his county, with a century —only five days after he and the rest of the team had stepped ashore from the Queen Mary. Worthington's batting average in England last season —when he gained the honour of being one of "Wisden's five cricketers of the year"—was 42; for the Australian tour it was only 21.52. In Australia Worthington simply could not get going, although he seemed to possess excellent defence and a wide range of strokes. He could not get the pace of .the wickets, and was almost invariably streaky early, especially when the tension was high.

Several well-known Rugby players have received notice of transfer to other centres G. Hook, the brilliant Ponsonby fullback and Auckland representative, will leave for Wnnganm" on Monday next. Hook has shown firstclass forin this season, and is regarded as one of the most promising young players in New Zealand football. TTe is also well known as an Auckland cricket representative, being a forceful batsman, brilliant field, and a useful change bowler. •!. Butler, the Marist captain and Auckland representative last year, has received notice of transfer to Wellington. He is a fine allround forward, and will be a loss to the provincial team this season. T. Pearce, Manukau, who was to have been transferred to Gisborno, is now likely to remain in Auckland.