GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23839, 14 December 1940, Page 18

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

A.j.i x will represent Canterbury in the Sanders Cup contest to be held at Auckland at the end of January. She was selected at a meeting of the Canterbury Sanders Cup Committee after the final cup trial. The skipper and crew of A.jax in the trials were also selected. They arc R. Pririd.v (skipper), A. Norris (spinnaker), A. Olson and A. L. Sinclair. With bones in his left hand badly fractured, Jack Ryder, former Victorian and Australian captain, may be unable to play cricket again this season for bis club, Coilingwood, Melbourne. <At batting practice recently Ryder was struck by a fast brill from Foster. Ho said both injury and method of getting it were similar to when Ponsford was injured by Larwood in .Ryder's team iri Sydney in K>'_'S. He tried to guard his head from a high flier on tho leg side. Prolonged rallies arc not unusual in cornpetition tennis, says a Christchurch paper. In a men's singles, between players of a good many years' experience, every point was keenly contested, the number of long rallies being remarkable. The match held the attention of spectators completely, and one with a mathematical turn of mind kept a tall v. In ono of the rallies the ball crossed the net SO times, and that may not have been the longest. The record rally is claimed by America, where two women are said to have sent the ball across the net something like 500 times in succession, four men completing two sets of doubles in tho time tho superrally was in progress.