GENERAL SPORTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23760, 13 September 1940, Page 11

GENERAL SPORTS

GIBL GOLFEB'S BECOED BAN UPON JIM FERRIER SERVICES TO SWIMMING Mrs. Little, formerly Miss Dorothy Round, English tennis player and twice winner of the Wimbledon singles title, arrived recently in Canada with her two-year-old son. She will live in Nova Scotia for the duration of the war.

Norma George, 14-ye«r-old schoolgirl, broke her own associates' coarse record at iLithgow Golf Club (New South Wales) this month, when she returned a card of 73 off the stick. Par is 09. When she broko the record before, Norma was reduced from a Hi handicap to 32. Sho will play from 9 in future.

Competitions are being finalised rapidly in League football, the following clubs have annexed the championships in their sections:—Senior, Richmond; senior reserve, Richmond; senior B, Otahuhu; fifth grade, Richmond; sixth, Point Chevalier; seventh, Richmond. Knock-out honours have also been gained by Otahuhu (senior B and seventh grade).

important changes have been made recently lo the New South Wales Rowing x\ssoriation rules. Oarswomen there will now be classed as cither maiden, junior or senior, instead of light-weight or heavy-weight. New South Wales women rowers are becoming increasingly interested in sculling, and hope that in future championship sculling races will he included on inter-State programmes. Already some of the girls are training in outrigger.-', and it is planned to have an outrigger at the next regatta on Octobor 12.

According to a southern writer tho main for discussion at tho annual meeting of the Wellington Cricket Association to be held shortly will be the programme for the local season. It is considered that all cricketers available will be catered for. A suggestion has also been made that Auckland and Wellington should play homc-and-liome matches, in view of the fact that it is practically certain that there will be no Plunket Shield competition this season. The Auckland veterans' team is expected to go down to play its annual match against Wellington's old-timers.

Many famous names, with unfamiliar prefixes, reappeared on tho score sheet at Lord's cricket ground recently, when Sir Pelham Warner's eleven, in a one-day Red Cross match, beat West Indies by 2(53 runs to 1-10. Sir Pelham Warner's team included Sergeant-Instructor L. Hutton, Sergeant D. Compton, Cadet B. H. Valentine, Major G. O. Allen, Fli>?ht-I,ieutenant Robins, Lieutenant F. R. Brown, Captain S. C. Griffith, of Sussex, and Pilot-Officer R. M. Taylor, D.F.C., of Essex. Hutton scored 44 and Compton 73. The West Indies sido included Constantino, Martindalo and C. B. Clarke Smith.

On his return from a world tour a Scottish journalist, wrote a series of articles entitled "Circling the Globe" for the Shetland News. The author, who is a keen golfer, visited' Auckland last summer and played at Maungakiekie and Middlemore. Ho stated that, although tho courses were sun-baked in comparison with Scoltish links, they were very interesting and were playing well.. He concluded the article with the remark that, "The Auckland Club has a handsome clubhouse, not to mention a genial secretary, who gave me a game and, incidentally, a heating."

_The Auckland Rugby Union used the Three Kings reserve n« the venue for the match between Technical Old Boys and Universitylast Saturday. It was the first senior championship fixture to be staged on the reserve this season, but Technical, which regards it as its home ground, played a practice game (hero with an Army team earlier in the year. Although in need of top-dressing, the surface was in good order, and its scoria foundation makes it one of the best wet-weather grounds in the suburbs. An improvement would bo the erection of goal-posts with higher uprights.

Dick Chapman, who finished third amateur to D. Wehrle and Jim Ferrier in the American open gold championship, is a wild man off the tee. During the event he broke a spectator's wrist, and hit four others with wild drives, fortunately without serious injury. In the final 36 ho'es Chapman was in the rough on 22 occasions from the tee. Yet his total for the 72 holes was only 301. The secret is that he needed only one putt on 32 of the greens. He had five "one-putters" in the first round, 10 in the second, eight in the third, and nine in the fourth. And he did it with a putter which he bought for a shilling.

In spite of the United States Golf Association's ban on his competition in the national amateur championship, many prominent golf clubs will welcome Jim Ferrier in their amateur tournaments, writes the New York correspondent of the Sydney Sun. Ferrier's announcement that he would play in these tournaments raises an interesting point that the association would prefer not to notice Ferrier can play with 2200 clubs outside the association, because of the 3000 in America only 800 are affiliated. Many of those unaffiliated are in the big cities. They will he glad to have Ferrier because of his great drawing power.

Among the many sportsmen who will be coing into camp this week is H. W. Moore. J well known in swimming circles. He has been I secretary of the Mount Eden Swimming Club ' sine? its formation 22 years ago. and he was ! a member of the Auckland Swimming Centre for six years. He is a life-member of both bodies. Moore was one of the best water polo i players Auckland has produced He repre- i .sentcd the province in the New Zealand i championships at Wellington in 1027. at Grey- j month in 1030. and at Auckland four years j atro. He was also a member of the Mount | Eden Club teams which were successful in | both the A and B grade Auckland championships.