GENERAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23226, 21 December 1938, Page 21

GENERAL NEWS

ENGLISH GOLF SCOEES AUCKLAND ROWING REGATTA TENNIS MEN OVERPLAYED Every nation with pretensions to athletic: ranking, including oven Albania and Luxembourg, took part in the recent European championships at C'olombes Stadium, Paris, in all, 355 athletes were engaged, including six Olympic champions and world-record holders. How good English golf is this season may he judged from the fact that in the qualifying round in the southern section of the Nous of the World tournament, even lours failed'to get in, while five players with scores of 143 one under lours—tied for the last of the 23 places. February 14, 17 and 18 have been approved as the dates for the Canterbury amateur athletic championships. The preliminaries will be held on the first two dates and the main events on Saturday, February 18. Women's and junior events will be included in the programme. The New Zealand amateur cycling championships will he decided at Duncdin on February 17 and .18. This will be the second successive championship meeting to be held in the South Island. The Auckland provincial meeting is scheduled for March 4 at the Western Springs Stadium. The Auckland championship rowing regatta will be held on the Waikato River at Mercer in February. It is hoped that tho Auckland Centennial Games regatta will also be held at Mercer. Tho course is claimed to bo tho best in New Zealand. It provides excellent rowing facilities, and spectators, can obtain a good view of tho racing. Although a good many oarsmen will be away for the holidays, it seems that quite a fair entry will be received lor tho Cheltenham regatta on December 31. West End will contest all events, while St. George's and Auckland will be well represented. Waitemata will unable to get any crews together for this regatta. Playing against the leading cricket team, Paeroa, last Saturday in the Bay of "Plenty Association's competition, L. R. jSpring, the former Canterbury and Auckland representative, compiled the highest score yet made in the Rangitaiki district. Spring, who was formerly a member of the Grafton Club, made 148 in one and a-quarter hours, including nine sixes. The German Davis Cup plnver H. E. Henkel. in an interview the other day, said that his former team-mate, Gottfried von Cramm, was in perfect condition after his term of imprisonment, and was eager to play international tennis. He would like to represent Germany in the Davis Cun. There is little chance of his turning professional. Karl McCready. the well-known Canadian professional wrestler, recently defeated the South African champion, Van der V'*lt. McCready now claims to be undisputed champion of the British Empire, having defeated the reigning champions in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England and South Africa. It is possible, that McCready may be seen in the Dominion again next season A largo -number of people in the Motumaoho district attended the official opening of the recently-formed Motumaoho Tennis Club, which has two hard courts. The club was started as a result of a meeting of enthusiasts in September, and no time has been lost in carrying on the project. The patron of the new club. Mr. S. A. Ferguson, is one of the oldest settlers in tho district. Don Bradman went Ho hospital in Adelaide recently—as visitor. At the invitation of the Junior Red Cross visiting committee he visited tho paralvsK patients at the Adelaide Hospital." He chatted with them, talked with some about mutual friends in New South Wales, and sitrned about 40 autograph books. One of those kindly actions for which Bradman is well known, it was greatly appreciated. The former test' batsman E. Hendren told members of a North Middlesex club at a dinner that he once took three wickets with one ball. "The eighth and ninth men were butting," he v said. "Number eight drove the ball to coverpoint. Both ran, and, wittching the ball, collided, were knocked out, and carried off. Number ten, ready to go in, fainted when he saw the others carried in bleeding, and number eleven did not have a partner." . When Percy Arliss, the well-known English professional golfer, resigned his appointment as professional at the Templenewsam course. England, he stated as his chief reason: "I have found the members here do not sufficiently support their professional, and, although I have no appointment in view, 1 shall find work which will be more congenial than being attached to a club where mv services are apparently not. appreciated."

S. Brogden, English Hugbv League threeqnnrter, was recently- transferred from Leeds to Hull at a fee of £IOOO. ft was the third time lie had been transferred. Each time the fee was at least £IOOO. The transfers were:—■ 1931. from Bradford to Huddersfield. fee £1000; 1934, from Huddersfield to Leeds, fee £I2OO (record League fee); 1938, Leeds to Hull, £IOOO. Brogden toured Australia and New Zealand with the English teams in 1932 and 1936. The president, Mr. H. A. Pitt, in moving the adoption of the annual report and balance-sheet, at the annual meeting ( of the Victorian Lawn Tennis Association, referred to the success of the Davis Cup team this year, but considered that uotli Broinwich and Quist bad been overplayed. 31 r. Pitt said that he had been against sending a team for that reason, and was also of opinion that a serious injustice had been done to Jack Crawford in sending him away year after year, thereby undermining his health. From the point of view of the future of Australian cricket nothing was more pleasing in the Melbourne Cricket Club's centenary match than the bowling of C. Christ, the Queensland lefthander, and G. Eyres, the fnstish medium from Western Australia. Both created a fine impression by their bowling against Bradman and other test players. Clem Hill, the former test batsman, paid high tribute when lie remarked that they are two of the most promising bowlers Australia has seen fox* many years. t The. Onehunga and District Returned Soldiers' Association recently waited on the parks and reserves committee of the Onehunga Borough Council with a request for the construction of a bowling green at the rear of the Carnegie 'Public Library. The deputation stated that, if the council would lay down a green, the ex-soldiers would maintain it themselves, erect a pavilion if found necessary, and allow employees of the council and veterans of the district to use it. After consideration the committee recommended that the borough engineer should bo asked to submit an estimate of the cost of the work, which was to be carried out by subsidised labour. The borough council adoptsd the recommendation.