SPORTS AND PASTIMES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21362, 16 June 1931, Page 9

SPORTS AND PASTIMES

MOTOR CAR RACING THE EUROPEAN GRAND PRIX. (United Press Association.) , (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) PARIS, June 14. After a gruelling 24 hours, the European Grand Prix was won by Sir Henry Birikn, who drove an Alfa-Romeo car, and averaged over 88 miles per hour, beating Wolf Barnato’s record, last year Twenty-five started. The majority failed to finish. WRESTLING. ARRIVAL OF PROFESSIONALS. {Special to Daily Tikes.) AUCKLAND, June 15. By the Niagara, which arrived from Canada this afternoon, came the first contingent of overseas wrestlers who will appear in New Zealand this season. The party comprised the Mormon, Tom Alley, Stanley Pinto, the “Nebraska Wildcat, and Harry Demetral, a countryman of John Kilonis. Also on the boat was Kjng Elliott, the Auckland policeman, who went to America last year with Alley to become a professional. LADIES’ HOCKEY NEXT TOURNAMENT AT AUCKLAND. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON. June 15. At a meeting of the New Zealand Ladies’ Hockey Association it was decided that the 1931 Dominion tournament be allotted to Auckland. The probable date of the tournament will be August 28 or 29 til] September 5. The entries close on July 25.

The Hopp Museum for East Asian exhibits, which was opened in 1923, has been presented by a Hungarian art dealer living in Peking with a quantity of North China ornaments, dating from the time of Christ. The new exhibits are regarded aa particularly interesting, as they appear to prove that the Huns who wandered westward to Hungary from a territory adjacent to North China brought the Chinese culture as far as Hungary. The motifs and designs on the Chinese ornaments are similar to those seen on objects dating from the time of the “Volkerwanderung,” which have been unearthed in Hungary. Chiselled dress ornaments of cast bronze are decorated with a beast of prey motif, which is seen on leather strap-endings from the same time.