GENERAL SPORTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23995, 19 June 1941, Page 2

GENERAL SPORTS

BOWLEKS HONOURED

ATHLETES IN AIR FORCE

AUCKLAND BOXER'S PROGRESS

Past presidents of Hie Mount Eden Bowling Club who arc still members were presented with special badges at its annual meeting. Among those to receive the honour was Mr. George Tutt, who was attending his forty-first annual meeting.

The New Zealand open and amateur golf champion, J. P. Hornabrook, went round the Ngamotu links in New Plymouth recently in 7o which was three better than the scratch score. In spite of this effort, however, he did not get into the prize list for 'he day. as his handicap of plus four put him out of the running.

Helen Wills Roark, formerly Mrs Helen Wills Moody, one of the greatest of all women tennis players, is preparing in California for a "comeback" this season, She is .35. She first won the singles title at Wimbledon in JU'.'T and the last time in 1938, when she defeated Helen Jacobs, a compatriot. She has played little serious tennis since.

Described by southern writers as a clever and versatile halfback is M. N. Paewai, who plays behind tho scrum for the Otago University first fifteen, lie is a nephew of Lm Paewai, a member of the New Zealand team which played against New South Wales in the third test at Wellington in 1023, and who toured Great Britain, France and Canada with the undefeated All Blacks in 10-4.

The Auckland secondary schools Rugby , championship will bo continued on fcaturday, when two matches will be played at the Show Grounds. Auckland Grammar School will play , King's College at 3.15 p.m., while in the , curtain-raiser Mount Albert Grammar School will oppose Sacred Heart College. The remaining game, between Takapuna Grammar j School and Seddon Memorial Technical Col- , lege, will be played at Takapuna at 3 p.m.

By its decisive victory oyer City last Saturday Old Bovs maintained its unbeaten record in'the Hamilton Rugby competition for the. Slag Trophy, and now has a commanding lead, being four points ahead of Taupiri. Technical Old Boys is in third position with seven points. Cifv, five points, is fourth, while Raglan and Franklon have scored only two points each. The Old Boys' team has a fast sit of backs, which has been mainly responsible for its clear-cut victories.

L. Steers, University of Oregon high jumper, who has been threatening the world outdoor mark ever since his high sc b°°\ days, succeeded recently with a leap of Oft 10 :25-3'2in. It was at his second attempt that Steers surpassed the mark established in 1037 by M. Walker at lift y%in. Then he set the bar at seven feet, but on three tries failed to clear the height. A measurement correction by officials of the American Athletic Union credited Steers with a fraction of an inch more than the originally-announced height of lift 10%ili.

The goal scoring in the first division championshin g*ames of the Auckland rootball Association has been well distributed among the players of the respective clubs. Masters, the speedy Comrades and Auckland leftwinger, heads the list with eleven goals, not counting those scored in the preliminary game against Air Force or in representative matches. Next is C. Ekma/i, the Abels centreforward, who has scored eight. Hope-Ede and Sutcliffe, of Metro College, Wiseman, of Thistle, and Welch, of Eastern Suburbs, have each scored six goals, while there are several players with five.

The name of Brownlie is again prominent in Poverty Bay Rugby. Three brothers, Jim. Jack and Earl, and half-brothers to the famous All Blacks, f Maurice and Cyril, are playing for tho Athletic Club in Wairoa. Between I hem they scored 17 of tho 31 points registered by their side in a recent match. Jim, a Wairoa and Hawko's Bay representative, scored three tries, and Jack and Earl one each, Jim converting one. Still another brother, Ralph, was absent from this particular contest on account of an injury to his hand. Like tho All Blacks, all four brothers play in the forwards.

According to an American boxing journal, Joe Louis has announced that ho will retire from the Ting at the end of this year. Be figures that by then he will be out of opponents and, from a racial angle, can best perform the role of a model negro by quitting the game unbeaten champion and still at his peak, as Tunney did. Furthermore, he is ready to go into the army, and wants to have finished his career when that time comes. Before the end of the year, Louis hopes to earn at least £75,000, which will insure him against possible reverses in the operation of his 475acre farm near Detroit.

Among prominent sportsmen who have completed their Air Force training in New Zealand aro Pilot-Officer W. R. Kemp and Lead-ing-Aircraftman R. Branch, of Auckland. Both are well known in Rugby and boxing circles. Kemp played for the Ponsonby Club's senior fifteens which won the Auckland Rugby Union's championship in 1030, 1937 and 1938. Ho is a former holder of the heavyweight. boxing championship of Auckland. Branch played Rugby for North Shore for two seasons. Ho won the Auckland middleweight boxing title for two years and was twice runner-up in the New Zealand championships.

T. Berghan, formerly of Rotorua, and the outstanding five-eighths in Otago and New Zealand Rugby three seasons ago. has entered Trent ham Military Camp with a Dental Corps appointment. It is more than likely he will play with the Army team in the Wellington Rugby Union's senior championship from now onwards. In addition to being an Otago University and New Zealand University representative, Berghan played for (he South Island in ions, and tpured Australia the same year with the New Zealand team. Being unavailable for the proposed South African tour last year, Berghan did not participate in the trials held in "Wellington at the end of the 1!>39 season.

Soccer Is the most popular of all sports in China, according to Mr. P. Woo, manager of the Chinese team at present in Australia. It is the only code of football played in China, and is favoured because of its international character. The stronghold of the game is Hongkong, where, of course, there is a big British element in the population. Mr. Woo estimates that there are about (>ono players there, while it is impossible to estimate the number of thousands who play throughout China. The team now in Australia is one chosen from the players of Hongkong, and is regarded as a thoroughly representative side. That they are players of ability is indicated by the fact, that of the four games played in Sydney they won tnree.

Sergeant-Pilot L V. Dickison, of Otago, who has finished his training with the Royal New Zealand Air Force, is one of the finest distance athletes the Dominion has produced. Apart from his many successes in the south, ho won the three miles title at the New Zealand championships in Wellington two years ago in 14m 30 '2-ss. This time has only once been bettered in New Zealand, that being by C 11. Matthews, Canterbury, New Zealand and British Empire Games champion. At the same meeting Dickinson was just beaten on the*tape by W. A. C. Pnllar in the mile, which was run in 4m IS LHckison, who is now only years of age, was one of the outstanding performers at that particular carnival, and but for the war he would no doubt have come even more to the forefront.

This year promises to be one of the peak seasons of Rugby in Fiji, with the Isew Zealand troops taking part in the Suva Union's competition during the week, and the Tj.autoka and Yatukoula Unions holding series of matches, states the South Seas Weekly. There is at times an impression held by present-day residents that Rugby football has only been played here since the union was founded in 1011 by Mr. P. J. Sheehan, now a member of the management committee of the Auckland Rugby Union. This is not so, Rugby having been played in Suva for some (!() years. In the issue of the Suva Times of July 21. 188<!, there is a report of a match played by Suva against H.M.S. Diamond, which resulted in a win for Suva by 2 goals anil 5 tries to 0

Krnic Underwood, the well-known Auckland amateur boxer, rho recently turned professional and went to Sydney under the management of Hughie Dwyer, has made an auspicious debut in the Australian cash ranks. In his first light-weight, contest, he knocked out, Billy Darcy, and last week he won on points from Art. Mitchell. Young Gitdo. the Filipino, who has been a great favourito with Auckland crowds during the past few seasons, was featured in the main bouts on both programmes on which Underwood appeared. Gildo defeated Billy Hash on points, but lost on points last week to Ron MoLanghlin, who substituted tor Hockey Bennell, as the latter was ill. Gildo had to concede a good deal of weight to McLaughlin.

\n interesting game of Rugby was played recently in England between two teams from M.M.S' Ganges. They were the Ganges fifteen and the Ganges Now Zealand fifteen. The personnel of the latter side was as follows —G Anderson, Southland High School Old Boys' Club, Invcrcargtll; C. Parkinson, Poverty Bay junior representative; A. Stewart, Massey College, Palmerston North. Mannwatu and New Zealand University representative; .T. Twecdio, Christchurch High School Old Boys' Club and Canterbury representative: .T. W. Simpson, Victoria University College (Wellington) and Hawke's Bay representative; K: .1. Grant Pirates Club. Dunedin; S W. Campbell, Mount. Albert Grammar School, Auckland; R. Ongley. Poneke Club. Wellington; B. W. Thorpe, Seatoun Roniatai College Old Boys. Wellington; W. G. TToli"'s. Gisborne High School Old Bovs; X 11. Whitman. Christchurch Training College; C. Burrows. Palmerston North High School; 1!. Pearson. Baldutha Club. South Otago: W. L. Crawford (captain). Southland High School Old Boys (lnvercnrgill), Canterbury, Marlborough, end Southland representative. The New Zealanders won by 30 points to 0 after leading at half-time by 14 points W'4