GENERAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22988, 16 March 1938, Page 22

GENERAL NEWS

SWIMMING COACHING

SCHOOLBOY'S "HAT TRICK"

DEFEAT OF ENGLISH RUNNER Hamilton East won the Waikato senior cricket championship last Saturday by defeating Old Boys. to the filial series of games Hamilton East and Hamilton were equal in points, but the latter suffered defeat at the hands of Claudelands.

A correspondent, "A.P.L.," Ohakune, asks who holds the water speed record. Sir Malcolm Campbell, in bis speedboat Bluebird, created a world's record at Locarno on September 2 with a speed of 129.5 miles an hour. —Athletics Editor.

Films are to lie used by the council of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association for instruction and coaching purposes, it decided last week to purchase a motion-picture projector, and to spend op to £2O on film. In the course of the meeting, several films were screened for the council.

Playing cricket for the Mount Roskill School against the Maungawhau School, Cyril Young, a member of the senior team, captured five wickets lor no runs in the opening over of the match. With the first three balls he did the "hat trick." Of the five victims three were clean bowled.

"It is the Ranfurly Shield that makes most of the rough play in Rugby," declared a speaker at the annual meeting of the Sydenham Rugby Club recently. "The man who goes in 'boots and all' gets in a representative team. Rough play is a player's best qualification for a place in representative Rugby. Men who have been ordered off- two and three times in the season get picked for representative teams."

Twenty-one years' service as secretary to'the Auckland Public Service Bowling Association is the record of Mr. C. G. Maher, who was re-elected at the annual meeting on Monday. Mr. Maher was congratulated and appreciation was expressed of his work for the association. Mr. L. L. Macey, who was re-elected rice-president, was congratulated on his success in the pairs tournament at the Empire Games, in which he played lead for Mr. 0. W. Denison.

The 21st rink tourney of the Public Service Rowling Association will be held at the Carlton green to-morrow, when special arrangements will be made to celeurate the occasion. During the 21 years of the association's existence there have been 15 presidents, four treasurers and only one secretary. The first president, Mr. J. Hollows, is still taking an active interest, and the skip of the first winning combination, J. Find lay, plays for the Mount Eden Club.

The protest entered by Nanette against Avon in the race for class 2 at the Victoria Cruising Club's annual regatta for an alleged breach of the rules, has been dismissed by the sailing committee. The original placitigs were confirmed as follows: —Avon, 1; Falcon, 2; Ranini, 3; Wild Rose and Josal, dead heat, 4. In the race for class L Tamariki was disqualified for going inside St. Mary's boat-harbour on the way up to the Rona buoy. The placings in this race are now: Macushla, 1; Komini, 2.

Great improvement has been made in Brisbane golf courses in the last couple of years. It was a costly business because of the long drought, says an Australian writer. That has disappeared and copious rain in recent months has resulted in the best growth of grass-for some time. Two years ago Brisbane had 11 courses, but only four of 18 holes. Now there are 10 "eighteens" in a total of. 13. Special work .is being dofte at Royal Queensland, where tfie State championships will be decided in May.

Before he left Sydney last monih E. V. Mills, the great English cyclist, made a successful attempt on the Australian unpaced record for one hour's riding. Mills covered 25 miles 1282 yards in 60 minutes, comfortably breaking the previous record of 24 miles 942 yards held by F. Thomas. The figures established by Mills are of more than passing interest to Xpw Zealand enthusiasts. for his distance is just one mile further than R. G. Foubister's record established at Western Springs. Stadium in 1931.

The Auckland Rugby Union in its annual report acknowledges the assistance rendered by the Auckland Racing Club, the Avondale Jockey Club, the Onehunga Borough Council, the Otahuhu Borough Council, and by all local bodies which provided grounds for use free of charge; to the railway and tramway authorities, to the honorary medical and dental officers, the St. John Ambulance, and the medical and nursing staff of the Auckland Hospital, the members of the Referees' Association, the officials of the Secondary and Primary Schools' Unions, Mr. J. L. Conlan, honorary solicitor, Mr. J. G. Roache, resident delegate in Wellington. Mr. J. H. Muir, sole selector, and all other supporters and helpers who assisted during the season.

The defeat of the English distance runner, P. I). Ward, in the three miles at the Empire Games in Sydney by (1 H. Matthews, of New Zealand, came as a great shock to supporters in England. says the London correspondent of the Hkrat.l). Ward was looked on as the most certain winner in thp entire English team, and there was hardly one sporting writer who did not pick him ns unbeatable at the distance. His defeat was described by the Times as "a great blow to England." News had reached Britain of the good time dono by Matthews in the trials in New Zealand. but after his indifferent showing at the Olympic Games in ]9.'16, he was not expected to he a serious rival (o Ward. Nevertheless, his time of 13m. 59.65., which is described,as "a magnificent. effort," has convinced the experts that his win was well merited.