GENERAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23052, 1 June 1938, Page 22

GENERAL NEWS

WINTER GOLF TITLE RUGBY IN AUSTRALIA CANADA'S CRICKET STRENGTH REMARKABLE SOCCER GOAL G. Brand, the Springbok Rugby fu'lback, was injured in a friendly match recently. As a result he was expected to be out of the game for at least six weeks. The annual Rugby match between the North and South Island will bo played at Wellington on Saturday week. It will be a final trial prior to the selection of the All Blacks to tour Australia. A New Zealander, B. W. T. Ritchie, was a member of the Cambridge University Rugby team which made a tour of Eastern America recently. He has a reputation as a place-kick from as far as 40 yards out from the goalposts. Negotiations have been completed for Benny Lynch, the world's fly-weight boxing champion, to defend his title against Jackie Zurich, holder of the American championship, in Glasgow on Saturday. The bout will probably be staged at one of the Glasgow football grounds. The Austrian amateur Soccer team, which desired to tour Australia, has been forbidden by the German Football Association to accept the invitation. Germany was invited earlier, but the answer was that "no footballers could be spared from employment in Germany for such a long period." An aeroplane flying over the ground and dropping the ball performed the kick-off at the recent Soccer match between England and Switzerland. The game was played at Zurich. To add further zest, there was a totalisator on the ground. As he is unable to devote the necessary time to the work of the Northland League, Mr. N. H. Dunkley has resigned from the position of secretary, a post he has filled with success. Mr. Dunkley intimated to the management committee that he would continue to take an interest in the code. The English women's four-oared rowing crew, which is at present touring Australia, has won all of its races, according to the latest information. The crew beat a four representing the Essendon and Melbourne Y.W.C.A. women's clubs over three-quarters of the Henley mile course. J. Ferrier, amateur and close champion of New South Wales, added to his many notable victories by winning the I Queensland open championship by 15 strokes, a margin unprecedented in big golf in Australia. His aggregate of 284, made up of rounds of 72, 73, 70 and 69. the latter a record for the Royal Queensland Club's course, gave him par j figures. The Auckland winter golf champion- j ship will be played ou the Akarana j Club's links next week-end. The course is in good order, and the new greens at the fourth and 18tli holes will be in play. The majority of low-markers, including W. J. Davidge, provincial champion, and B. G. Thomson, J. H. Young and H. D. Brinsden. will be among the competitors. By pushing a billiards ball along three and a-half miles of roadway, Norman Shaw, of Penrith, New South Wales, recently won the unique title of Australia's "champion road billiardist." He covered the distance in 40i minutes, defeating five competitors and winning* a prize of £B. He finished weary, but contented, in spite of bruised j and bleeding knuckles. j The match which commences to-day ! between the Australian cricket team and Gloucestershire recalls an exceptional happening in the 1930 tour. Having dismissed Gloucestershire for 72 and 202, the Australians, with 157 as their first innings score, required lIS runs to win in their second innings. The team was out for 117, and the match resulted in a draw. Things are moving along _in the Rugby Union world in Australia. With the tests with New Zealand in the offing, keen attention is being riveted on the form of our best players, says an Australian writer. Towers has shown that he will make a bold bid for his place in the New South Wales and Australian sides at outside-centre. Playing for Rand wick he has revealed his old dash and cleverness. C. Saxton, who played in the All ; Black Rugby trial matches last year, and whom the Springboks regarded as probably the best halfback they met in New Zealand, has been showing consist- ! ently good form in Timaru this season. | He has been receiving a lot of attention ! from opposing breakaways, but, for all that, he has been doing his work well. The South Island selectors may prefer him to either Simon or McAuliffc, comments a southern writer. A correspondent, "1.1.D.", Hamilton, i inquires: Did C. W. Smith, a wingthreequarter, who toured Australia with the 1935 Maori team, ever play there as a five-eighths? Was there also a P. Smith in the team? —C. W. Smith played at five-eighths on the tour against New South the 10th. match. There was also a P. Smith in the team, who was a middlerow forward. Both players were then from Hawke's Bay. Messrs. Kingi Tnhiwi and W. J. Wallace were joint managers of the team. Athletics Editor. Writing to a. friend in Auckland, Mr. F. Burge, the well-known League football coach and New South Wales selector, states that the retirement from the game of Norman, McKinnon, Beaton and Ward, all Kangaroo backs, has considerably weakened the New South Wales team, and they will be hard to replace. However, there are several younger players showing promise, but not up to the standard of those whose decision to retire after the English tour caused 6ome surprise in Sydney. Canadian cricket enthusiasts consider it only a matter of time before their representative eleven will take its place with other countries of the Empire in international cricket. The M.C.C. has invited Canada to send a team to England in 1939. Canada's last visit in 1936 was disappointing, owing to the class of opposition supplied them. They plaved fair club sides, and some of the bigger schools. Last summer, an M.C.C. touring team, which included eight "Blues," was beaten by All-Canada in a test match at Toronto. On the 1939 visit it is proposed that_ the Canadians should play the Universities, and some of the first-class Counties. What must be described as a remarkable goal was scored in a recent English Cup-tie match. The right haltback of Manchester United threw the ball in from the touch line close to the corner flag in Barnsley's half of the field with such force that it hit the cross-bar of Barnsley's goal and was deflected into the net bv the goalkeeper, who must have been so surprised at the dexterity of the thrower that he allowed the ball to slip over the goal line instead of clearing it. Under Soccer rules a goal cannot be scored direct from a throw-in, but this remarkable throw, which was of 'lO to 45 yards, resulted in a goal because it was played by the goalkeeper.