GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22864, 20 October 1937, Page 25

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

DOMINION CRICKETERS SERVICES TO SWIMMING MISTAKES MADE BY GOLFERS Auckland bowlers who intone! taking part in the Australian Bowling" Carnival next January should note that entries must be in the hands of the Centre secretary, Mr. G. L. Gladding, bv November 4. One of the best features of the start of one-day cricket in (Jhristchureh was the running between the wickets. Very few short singles were missed, and the games in consequence had more sparkle about them than customary iirst-ol'-the-season fixtures. r Frank Woolley, the veteran England test all-round cricketer, who visited Now Zealand some years ago, stated at the end of the recent English season that he will play cricket for Kent another season providing lie remains in good health. Woolloy is in his 51st year. A correspondent has inquired as to tho world's record attendance at a Uugby football match. Available records indicate that this was established on the occasion of the test match between the All Blacks and England at Twickenham on iJanuary 4, 19.16, when tho official attendance was reported as 72,000. England won bv 13 points to nil.

In tho Now Zealand cricket team's opening match, against South Aus* trillia at Adelaide from November sto 9, it is likely to be opposed by a, side of test match standard, as the home eleven is expected to include Bradman, Grimmett. Badcock, Darling. Robinson. Scaife, V. Richardson, Ward and White. The New Zealand team will play Victoria on November 12 to 16, and New South Wales on November 19 to 23. r All the resources and power of the South Australian Cricket Association are being put into tho RichardsonGrimmett testimonial match, to be played on tho Adelaide Oval on November 26-30. Co-operation of other States has been promised and the match promises to be a spectacular success. It is being regarded as a test-team trial match for the side to visit England and very strong elevens are likely to be selected. p A cable message, received in Australia last week indicated that an English eight will probably visit Sydney for the Empire Games next February. Sir James Leigh-Wood, chairman of the Empire Games Association of England, is most anxious that a crew should compete, and announced that one donation of £SOO had been promised toward the expenses, and another enthusiast had guaranteed to make up any deficit before the crew left. The Council of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia has unanimously decided to send an Australian women's team abroad next year, providing that suitablo players are available. Inquiries have been made to each of the 10 ranking women: —Miss N, Wynne, Miss T. Coyne, Mrs. V. Westaeott, Miss .7. Har- ' tigan, Mrs. H. Hopman, Miss D. : Stevenson, Miss M. Wilson, Miss M. ! Blick, Miss V. Sehvin, Miss M. Hardcastle—as to whether they will be available if selected.

When Frank Beaurepaire. now a councillor of the City of Melbourne, created a new world's swimming record in Honolulu in 1921, his time was 23m 30 4-os, Arne Borg reduced the time to 21m 6 4-5s in 1929, and five years later Jack Medica won the mile championship of the United States in 20m 57 4-ss. That looked as if it might last for a while, but last week another American swimmer, Ralph Flanagan, swam a mile in 20m 42 1-os, thus reducing the record by 15 3-ss.

Five hundred and seventy returned soldiers from all parts of Victoria competed for the A.I.F. Cup at the Eastern Club's links in Melbourne recently. The ultimate winner was A. J. Sinclair, formerly of the 24th Battalion, with 6 up. He had a net 60 off a handicap of 22. He had trained for the event for 12 months, and against the advice of several friends kept to his unorthodox method of playing right-handed with a left-handed grip. The scratch event was won by C. Connors with a gross 70.

If you find that you arc Huffing your approaches, it is almost certain that you are quitting on the shot, says an Australian golf writer. See if the head is coining up, the eye off the ball, or the grip relaxed at the critical moment. Ascertain whether you are following through properly. Merely as a temporary measure it is a good idea to take a shorter grip of the club. This will leave you no alternative but to give the ball a sharp, firm rap; for otherwise you know you cannot make the distance. Once you have become used to the idea of hitting the ball firmly again you enn return to the onormal longer grip. However, quite a number of golfers employ this shortened grip permanently, finding that they get more regular results with it.

I Commenting upon the selection of the Australian cricket team which is to tour England next year, a writer in a Melbourne paper states: —Practically half' the toam will pick itself, but a team to be representative must be strong at all points, as a frail spot here or there is a weakness that might easily spell disaster in a test. Australia has had one intensive struggle to roach the top of the tree in the cricket world, and, as we have the men, if properly chosen, to keep us there, nothing should bo left undone iu building up an edifice capable of withstanding any shocks that the might of England can hurl against us. The combination is not to bo chosen until January 27, and in the meantime shield cricket should prove most interesting, so many players being on trial.

The election of Messrs. T. C. Hobbs.Tones, R. Moore and L. .T. Kenny as honoraiy life members of the Auckland Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association was an honour conferred in appreciation of their notable services to the sport. Mr. HobbsJones is chairman of the centre, and has held this office for several terms, having also been a member of tho Hawko's Hay Centre and of the New Zealand Council, which has its headquarters in Christehurch. As vicechairman, Mr. Moore has done considerable work, particularly as a handicapper. Until business reasons necessitated Mr. Kenny's retirement from the centre last season, he had been one of its oldest members, and on numerous occasions had acted as manager of the Auckland team competing at the national championships.

Like Alex Murray, many other players have lost important titles hecause of foolish mistakes or carelessness. says a Victorian writer in commenting upon Murray's disqualification in' the New Zealand open golf championship at Hamilton recently. A most unusual and dramatic sequence of events followed the near disqualification of Jamie Anderson, who won the championship at Prestwick in 187 R. Anderson was playing the second last hole, and was just about to make his tee shot, when a girl remarked that he was standing outside the teeing ground, and that if he played the stroke from there he would he disqualified. Haying so. closely escaped disqualification, Anderson re-teed his hall in the proper place. He then holeil in one. The circumstances previous to this feat were almost- as extraordinary. At "The Burn hole .Anderson lioled a full iron shot, and at the next hole he ran down a 45-foot putt. He won the championship by one Btroke.