TALBOT'S TALENTS WASTING

NZ Truth, Issue 1220, 18 April 1929, Page 14

TALBOT'S TALENTS WASTING

THE sportsmen say that when business interferes with sport give up business, and there is one all-rounder m Christchurch, if he could be persuaded to give partial effect to the

axiom, would be a valuable acquisition not only to his province, b.ut also to the Dominion. When. Ron. Talbot, following m his father's footsteps, took up insurance as a business, he., forfeited the spare time- which previously had been devoted to the development of the most prolific all-rounder the country has known this- decade. As a junior boy at Christ's College he quickly came under the notice of the sports' instructors, who selected him as a' prodigry and he proved by his subsequent sue-

cesses that" their judgment was correct. Wellingtonians will remember the Collegiate Rugby tournament of 1923 tiiitiniiiiii|iuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiini

when, leading Christ's against Wanganui, Talbot scored 48 of the 81 points recorded by the winners. This was only one instance, of which there are many similar, m a brilliant

sporting career, and Canterbury is the loser through the extreme demands Talbot's business makes on his time. As a cricketer, a Rugby footballer and a track athlete, Ron., Talbot was without peer m his. class. • He represented Cantei-bury m each branch of sport, and if everyone had had their dues he would have oeen a member of Tom Lowry's team to England. Pnictically his only cricket now is the play ho gets each Christmas ,with, the Nomads, and his br'il-

liant attainments with both bat and ball:— achieved without, the backing of any practice — merely emphasises- the loss he is to Canterbury sport. iiiiiniiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiuiiiiuii