GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23969, 20 May 1941, Page 4

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

PROMOTIONS FOR ATHLETES A hospital examination disclosed Dial Tony Galento damaged tun left hand in his recent boxing bout with Buddy Baer. The Italian's purse of f>!)1"2.50 dollars, which had been held up, was released to liini. N. 11. McMillan, of Auckland, whose appointment as a second-lieutenant in the NewZealand forces overseas was announced recently, was formerly a well-known Auckland cricketer. A stylish hat and useful change howler, he gave Kood service to the King's Old Boys' side, and ultimately won senior representative honour.-. His father, Mr. George McMillan, of Uemuera, is well known in .sporting circles. Lieutenant H. D. Ball, of Auckland, whose promotion to commissioned rank was recently gazetted, joined the Xe w Zealand Expeditionary Force as a private al the outbreak of war and was sent 1o the Middle Mast. He had an excellent at h let ic record which included she winning of the NSOyds flat and I 10yds hurdles Auckland provincial championships in l!>.'!7. lie was New Zealand University champion for the same events in in:!!) and was for some years a member id' the executive of the Auckland Amateur Athletic Association. A New Zealand Gazette notice states that Second-Lieutenant H. K. Brain-by, of Auckland, has been granted the temporary rank of lieutenant, dating from September '_>!) last. Lieutenant Brainsby, who has been overseas with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force for several months, is well known as former long jump and hop, step and jump champion of Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland and New Zealand Universities and British Empire Games and Olympic Games representative. The .sympathy of all athletes will tie extended to him in the death in Whangarei last week of Jiis father, Mr. A. T. Brainsby, who was also a good athlete and one-time swimming champion of the Isle of Man