GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24189, 3 February 1942, Page 2

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

Fritzie Zivic who was defeated by Rav Robinson in a weltei-weight boxing contest in New York recently, won the - world* welter-weight title when he beat Henry _ Armstrong on points on October 4, 1940 He lost it, in July last year, when fcreddy Cochrane defeated him on points. Robinson will now meet Cochrane tpr the world'" welter chain pionsbip on February 20. jimmj Deniaret, the Texas golf professional, won the Argentine open champjonship over the San Isidro links with a ' 2 - total of 279—the lowest score ever made in the 37-year history of the event. Demaret climbed from fourth place at the start of the final day's play to a deadlock with Leonardo Nicolosi at the end of 54 holes. In the afternoon he returned a 32. 37 —69. three below par. A brilliant catch was effected by a player fielding on the boundary in a senior match in Wellington He was running fast when he caught the bail and a second or so later he fell over the boundary line. A heated discu# sion took place among spectators in the vicinity as to whether the batsmen had scored four runs or six. The umpires were appealed to and their decision was that the batsmen was out-—caught The United States Lawn Tennis Association ranks Bobby Riggs No. 1 and Frank Kovacs No 2 amateurs for 1941. Both turned pro- ! fessional recently following their suspension by the association. The women's ranking is:— Mrs. Cooke, 1; Pauline Betz, 2; Dorothy Bundy, 3; Margaret Osborne, 4; Helen Jacobs, 5. Men's doubles: J. Kramer-J. Schroeder, l; A Mulloy-W. Sabin, 2j W. D. McNeill-F. Parker, 3; G: Mako-R. Riggs. 4 Fifteen-year-old Jack Campbell, Sydney swimming prodigy, broke the Australian 100 vards junior free-style record at the Bronte Baths the other day. His time will not be officially recognised, because the race was not started by a gun Campbell, who finished third in a 100 yds handicap, swam the distance in 50s. The time is three-fifths of a second better than A Crawford's Australian record, established in 1933. It is only 1 3-5s slower than R. Grier's best-by-an-Australian record. "Campbell was clocked by three timekeepers and the swim will be recognised as a Bronte Baths record,' said his coach. "The baths record, 56 2-ss. was held by K. Foster, a senior Should the war cause abandonment of Slate championships, Campbell will make an official attack on the record " A great swimmer wasted for lack of competition is Miss K. Grey, who won the 100 yds and 220 yds ladies' championships of Auckland last week unopposed. It was her sixth consecutive victory for the 100 yds title, which she first won in 1937 when only an intermediate. but since 1938 she has had in this event cither the ( competition of one or two relatively weak opponents or of none at all. In 1939 Miss Groy put up the New Zealand record of 1.3 3-5, a brilliant time still unbeaten. and likely to remain so for a long period. Yet, in spite of the fact that no other Auckland girl has been so successful as holder of the local title. Miss Grey has never won the ladies' national 100 yds championship Twice, in 193',) and ijvjo, she was in second place, finishing as close to the champion. Miss C Garvin, as snj possibly could without dead healing. Two of Miss Grey's immediate predecessors as A lick and champion wer> Miss M. Famnhsr and Miss E eiocklev. whose winning performances were generally bv no means as good as hers, bat b.-t!, won'the'Ncw Zealand, Miss Stockley on five occasions and Miss Farquhar on three. Each' was assisted in Auckland by evenly-matched competition. Hid j.fjss Grey had this incentive to keep her at a high pitch it is feasible that ner performances would have been of a higher standard.