GENERAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23112, 10 August 1938, Page 21

GENERAL NEWS

RUGBY GATE RECEIPTS GOLFER'S UNUSUAL PENALTY t SUVA BOWLING TOURNAMENT D. Trevathaii, up to last week, had scored 114 points this season. These were made up of i'our tries, 12 conversions, nine penalty goals, 12 field goals and a drop-kick from a mark. The North Island clay-bird shooting championships will he held at the Auckland Gun Club's • grounds at Pakuranga from August 25 >to August 27. All matches will be decided under, the rules of the New Zealand Gun Club Association. Five matches will, bo played by the Hawke's Bay Rugby representatives during the approaching southern tour. They are as follows: —v. Wellington, August 20; v. Canterbury, August 24; v. Southland, August 27; v. Otago (Ranfurly Shield), August 31; v. South Canterbury, September 3. The Australian cricket captain, Don Bradman, purchased a bicvclo in England with a view to getting a close view of the countryside. Bradman has attributed his ability to stand up to long sessions at the creases to his early cycling, when he never rode less than 40 miles a day. The Queensland Rugby League, at a special mooting of delegates, agreed to increase the salary of its secretary, ! Mr. H. Sunderland, from £3OO to | £520, as an offset against the offer of ; the Wigan Club in England, which is endeavouring to secure the Australian official's services. ' Football experts in South Africa say that the present British Rugby Union team touring South Africa is a better side than any recent New Zealand or Australian team. Critics in .South Africa, after due consideration, hail them as the best side that has visited South Africa since the Avar. M. H. Jerram, formerly a member of the Grammar Old Boys hockey eleven and a Parnell Cricket Club senior player, will sail for the Malay States by the Tasman j on Saturday. His future plans are as'yet uncertain, but there is the possibility of his taking up a position there. Playing in the second qualifying round of the British open golf championship at Sandwich, the former titleholder, Alfred Padgham, took nine strokes at the 17th hole —the worst hole he has ever had in a competition. But he qualified easily with a 77, and a total of 148. Such progress has been made with ice hockey in Australia that it is now proposed to invite a Canadian team to visit the Commonwealth this season. The team would be comprised of amateurs, and three tests would bo played, one on i-ach of the three rinks in the country —two at Sydney and ono at Melbourne. A rather unusual table tennis match took place when L. Bellak, who, with G. V. Barna, recently toured New Zealand, challenged the Mayor of Blenheim to a game. The conditions were that Bellak should give 10 points in a game of 21 and play sitting in a chair, ihe Mayor accepted the challenge, but .bellak, handicapped as he was, won the game by seven points. The gate receipts at the All Blacks games in Sydney were handsome. Against New South Wales the takings were £I2OO and against Australia £I4OO. These figures produced a margin that pays the whole expense of the tour, says an Australian writer. The receipts at the third test in Sydney will be all profit to the Now South Wales Rugby Union. L. K. Heazlewood, the veteran Otago, Wellington and Auckland Rugby fullback, this year missed selection for Canterbury in favour of G.*T. Nolan. Heazlewood's exhibitions on heavy grounds and with a greasy ball have been outstanding this season, and, while Nolan is always reliable, the latter has not been playing as good football as his rival. The Welsh professional golfer, Frank Hill, opened a gate to give him more room to play his second shot at the sixth hole in the recent British open golf qualifying competition at Prince's (Sandwich) course. He completed the round in 73 strokes. Attention was called to the incident when he handed in his card. The officials decided he should not have opened the gate, and penalised him two strokes. Blazers bearing a specially designed badge will bo presented to the competitors cliosed to represent Auckland at the New Zealand boxing championships! at Gisborne next month. Last year at Greymouth the general appearance of the" Auckland team created a very favourable impression, and there.is no doubt that the addition of blazers will lend an air of smart uniformitj' to the team. New Zealanders were prominent in the Suva bowling tournament, W. Chegwidden, T. B. Booth, Russell and Lock (skip) being the winners of the fullrink section. Another New Zealand four, with Langley as skip, were the runners-up. The Martin Brothers, >\ ellington, won the pairs section, with Booth and Locke (Hamilton) as runners-up. The South Pacific Pennant was won by Dudor, Russell, Bishop, Langley, Martin, Cooksley, Lock and Martin, all of New Zealand. Breaking all previous records, more than 80 players will compete in the Australian women's inter-Stato basketball carnival, which will be officially opened by the Lady Mayoress, Mrs. Edward Campbell, at Royal Park on August 15. With the exception of Western Australia, all States and New Zealand will bo represented. Including a night gala on August 17, the carnival week is the biggest over attempted and will conclude with the match, Australia v. New Zealand, on August 20. Max Carpenter, who scored eleven of the fourteen points obtained by Australia in the second Rugby test at Brisbane last Saturday, is quick ill thought and action, writes Syd Malcolm, former Australian and New South Wales representative and special correspondent of the Hkuai.d, lrom Sydney. He is a thorough sportsman, who has excelled at cricket, tennis and Rugby. He has beaten Adrian Quist the Australian Davis Cup player, in singles. His goal kicking in the first test at Sydney was an eye-opener. He landed, ono from near half way and the ball soared high through and above the posts right over the middle of the crossbar to land outside the dead ball line. . Sir Samuel Horire, in his presidential speech at the jubilee ball of the English Lawn Tennis Association, paid a tribute to the tennis of the United States, which had swept tho boards at Wimbledon. "So ..far," remarked Sir Samuel, "from grudging this succesa, we welcomed it from old friends, but I should like to point out in this fiftieth year of the association that had it not been for us there would have been no championships at all! While we owe America many things, perhaps a certain amount of money, they owe us the invention of lawn tennis. What a good thing it would be if we could call these two things quits!"