SPORT IN BRITAIN-

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26779, 24 May 1948, Page 5

SPORT IN BRITAIN -

BOS MURPHY’S PLANS RETURNING TO NEW ZEALAND DISAPPOINTED OVER LAST FIGHT N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent. LONDON, May 22. Bos Murphy is returning to New Zealand on the Rangitata, which sails on June 19. He is very disappointed over his fight with Dick Turpin, and would like to meet him again one day. Murphy said he was feeling very fit and confident when he entered the ring, and felt in the early stages that the fight going his way. “ I found Turpin easier to hit than I expected,” he said. “ Perhaps I was too confident. I connected with a left hook, and heard later from one of his seconds that it shook Turpin. Any way, he leaned on me, and we clinched. “ Then we clinched again, and I shot out a left. The next thing I remember was hearing a count of seven. What happened for the rest of it I don’l know. They told me afterwards I gol up at the .first count of seven, and, after throwing a few puches, went down again. I don’t remember anything about that.” Murphy said that Turpin’s knock-out punch landed on the cervical nerve ”It was a peculiar sensation,” he said. “It was like all the lights being turned out. There were no aftereffects, and as soon as I came round 1 felt as fit as a fiddle again. Murphy said he had made many friends in Britain,- and would like to return to this couhtry again. It all depended upon whether he could get his license back in New Zealand and win a fight or two. He does not yet know what his 20 per cent, share of the gatg at Coventry will be. High Jump “Hope”

Alan Paterson, the Scottish schoolboy, who is Britain’s “ white hope ” for the Olympic high jump championship, has now recovered from the leg

strain which has kept him away from competitive jumping for several weeks past. Paterson has been training carefully during the winter, and getting rid of minor faults. Earlier this year he set himself a minimum height of 6ft Bin as .his season’s target, but is now jumping so well that he has raised. his sights to 6ft 9in. If Paterson can clear this he should be able to beat the best the Games produce. Harris for Iceland Doug. Harris, the New Zealand half and three-quarter-miler, who is training steadily at Loughborough College in preparation for the Olympic Games, leaves on June 2 for Iceland as a member of the British team which will compete at the invitation meeting at Reykjavik. Harris will compete in the 400 Metres open event and the 400 Metres Relay. The New Zealand cricketer, Martin Donnelly, made his first appearance this season, playing for Warwickshire against Yorkshire. He made 16 in his first innings and 28 in his second. Henry Cotton Returns Henry Cotton, who has been playing in a series of American professional golf tournaments, returned this week in the Queen Elizabeth. He won one tournament and was seventh in another, but came nowhere in the American masters' tournament at Atlanta, Georgia. His profit on the trip, after paying all expenses, was a modest British Amateur Golf Championship opens at Sandwich on Monday. A strong American team, headed by Richard Chapman, who was last year’s runner-up, and Robert Sweeney, a . former American winner of the British amateur title, is competing. Chapman this week broke Bobby Jones’s 22-year-old record for the Sunningdale course with a round of 65. He returned this record score in a stiff wind, which it was considered made the course at least five strokes more difficult. Brightening Up Snooker A revolutionary idea, intended to brighten up snooker, is being tried out in Britain. The pyramid of red balls is placed behind the blue in the middle of the table instead of behind the pink at the far end. Advocate? of this idea argue that this increases the possibility of moderate player? making good breaks. France Eliminated France, which dominated the Davis Cup competition from 1927 to 1932, has been eliminated in the second round of this year’s European zone competition by Hungary. Britain, the Netherlands,' Hungary, Sweden, Italy,’ Denmark, Czechoslovakia and Belgiurr have now entered the quarter-finals Britain is to play the Netherlands ir the next series of matches.