LAND AND WATER.

Otago Witness, Issue 3714, 19 May 1925, Page 47

LAND AND WATER.

* ATHLETICS. NURMI AT LOS ANGELES. LOS ANGELES, April 29. Before 40,000 people, tiie greatest crowd that has ever attended a night open-air event here, Paavo Nurmi broke three world’s records. Willie Plant, the walking champion, set one new mark by walking 2500 metres in 10min 39sec. Nurmi covered 2000 metres in smin 3 3-ssec, then a mile and a-quarter in smin 35sec, and finally a mile and a-half in 6min 425=ec. In the first two Nurmi broke his own records of smin 9sec and smin 33 4-ssec respectively, and in the mile and a-half event he broke the record set by T. P. Conneff at New Jersey in 1895. HARRIERS. The Civil Service Club held its annual one and a-half miles maiden race at Forbury Park on Saturday. The result was as follows: —E. C. Bro'Mi 15sec, 1; O. Melville, 6sec, 2; O. E. White, 30scc, 3. Time, Bmin 27sec. A small, fast pack afterwards ran via St. Kilda and Ocean Beach to Lawyer’s Head, returning the same way. The Anglican Harriers held their one-mile novice race at St. Kilda, the course being from the St. Kilda terminus along Victoria road to the main gate of For bury Park and back. Following is the result and time:—Pollock (lose© handicap), 1 and fastest time; Connel (ssec), 2; Poyntz (lOsec), 3; Green (scr), 4. Time, 4min held, 27 taking part under the whistle of Captain Rolfe. The Caversham Harriers held their mile maiden handicap at Forbury Park. In the straight White obtained a decisive lead, and won by 25 yards from Hopkins, who beat Anderson by 8 yards, with Hebbard a good fourth. Time, sroin 20 2-ssec. The Leith Harriers held a three mile handicap at Forbury Park. The ground was heavy, hut the race was done in good time. 6. Peterson (80sec) led all the way, while W. Buchanan (20sec) cut down his handicap from Peterson by about 23sec, and secured second place. J. Fraser (25sec) ran a good race and secured third place. The St. Kilda Harriers held their one mile and a-half novice race on Saturday, there being 14 starters. G. Pope 15sec, 1; A. Foley, lOsec, 2; J. Dunn, 6Bec, 3; J. Pearce, lOsec, 4. BOXING. AUCKLAND, May 11. The Baxter-Trowern light-weight boxing match for a purse of £l5O to-night resulted in a draw. AT SYDNEY STADIUM. SYDNEY, May 17. At the Stadium, De Leon defeated Jim Newbury in the tenth round of a sultry ontost. The loser ohaped well, but was not strong enough to stand the Filipino s heayv punching. LONDON. May 11. A fifteen round® cruiser weight boxing match between Dave Mugill and Ring resulted in a draw.-

BILLIARDS. "WORLD’S RECORD m LINDRUM. Lindrum,. playing Frank’'Smith, created a world s record when he made an unfinished break of 387, in which he secured 157 consecutive cannons, in the phenomenal time of seven minutes. GOLP. The first round of a knock-out competition was played on the St. Clair Links on Saturday. The following are the resultsM'Cartliy beat Shepherd, C. Amtman defaulted to T. de Clive Lowe, Bell beat G. B. Williams, M'Keefry beat Potaka, Smith beat Wren, Matheson beat Harris, Houston beat Paterson, Chapman beat Marshall, ii.il beat W. J. Williams, Brown beat Walker, Alloo beat Gregory, Irvine beat Sineock, Drake beat Hanlon, Carrington beat M'Ghie. Dr Hunter defaulted to Forbes, Harding beat Wrather. FEAT BY WOMEN PLAYERS. LONDON, May 10. Two women playing golf at Ramsgate halved a 110-yard hole in 1 each. This Peat has only once before been accomplished in the whole history of golf—namely, t>v two men at- Forest Hills, New Jersey, in 1919. A NEW STAR. LONDON. April 29. George Turner, a vonng Scottish golf professional, until recently Herd's assistant, beat a whole field of champions in the qualifying round of the Daily Mail tournament at Epsom. Turner made a record round of 71. Other scores were: —Robson, 72 ; Duncan, Havers, A. Seymour. Wvnne, 73; Mitchell, 74: and Herd and Ray. 75. Tn the fifth round of the close amateur Tolf championship af Hovlake, the Sorthnort (Lancashire) artisan. S. Robinson, beat Volley, 2 up, repeating- his performance in the Prestwick championship of 1922. ENGLISH CHAMPIONSHIP. LONDON, May 11. The golf cliammonshin entries include that of Gillies, of New Zealand.Dr H. D. Gillies, a native of Dunedin, has been a resident of Great Britain *or many years. CYRIL TOLLEY’S SCORE. LONDON, May 6. Cvril Tollev, with a s ore of 72 which equals Wethered’s record for the course, won tPr- ■v'ring medal golf competition at St. Andrews. Gordon Simpson (79) won the Bombay medal. There were 106 competitors. LADIES’ GOLF. LONDON, Mav 16. Miss Lascellea had a walk-over in the first round of the Ladies’ Open Golf Championship, opening at Troon on Monday. Her opponent scratched.—Reuter. HOCKEY. The results of Saturday’s matches were as follows: City, 9 goals; University B, nil. Albany. 4 goals; Technical Old Boys, 2 goals. The ladies’ matches resulted: Taieri, 12 goals; Technical Old Girls No. 3, 1 goal. Training College 1 A, 4 goals; Training College 2 A, nil. &CULLINC. WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP. SYDNEY, May 13. To-dav Saul wired from the Maclcay River in connection with the kculling championship: "No communication received from Major Coodsell, but am willing to row on June 29. I want an answer not later than May 15.” A private wire received in Sydney from Hannan states that he is keen to row Goodsell, and is quite .prepared to go to Sydney on May 22 to make arrangement for a contest on the Paramatta Rivpr.

LONDON, May 13. Tonks, sculling champion of Tyne, will shortly meet Bert Barry on the Thames. Afterwards he intends challenging Major Goodsell for the world's championship. CRICKET. EIGHT-BALL OVER CONDEMNED. LONDON, May 14. The Daily Mail slates that Gilligan, when the guest of the Sussex Club, emphatically described the eight ball over as the rottenest thing ever invented. The entire English team was opposed to itr. If the Australians wanted it they should haVte it, but he did not seo why an English team should be compelled to submit to such a strain. M.C.C. FOREIGN FUND. LONDON, April 29. The Marylebone Cricket Club, in view of the success of Gilligan’s tour of Australia, intends to resuscitate the foreign tours fund, which became exhausted through previous trips. The M.C.C. committee has communicated with Australia and South Africa on the question of whether a change from the method of tossing for innings would reduce the element of luck. ENGLISH COUNTY MATCHES. LONDON, May 15. Somerset: First innings, 123 (Hearne, four wickets for 34); second innings, 119 (Hearne, five wickets for 17). Middlesex: first innings, 13d (White, six wickets for 43); second innings, 106 for one wiexet (Dales not out 53). Lancashire: First innings, 321 (Hallows 140, Green £6, Scobie five wickets for 112;. Scotland: First innings, 52 (R. Tyldesley four for three runs, Parkin four for 2b); second innings, 195 (Parkin fait for 49). Playing for Surrey against Gloucester Hobbs made 104. For I’orkshire against Worcester Kilner took five wickets for 74 in the first innings and Macaulay seven wickets for 20 in the second innings. For Worcester Rogers took eight wickets for 85. For Northants against Hampshire Wright captured five wickets for 42. for Sussex against Essex Tate took u»e wickets for 43. LAWN TENNIS. PHYLLIS COURT FINALS. LONDON, May 16. At Phyllis Court,. in the finals of the Men’s Doubles, Barclay and Creoie-Rees beat Fisher and Hunt, 6—l, 6 —3, 6—o. In the Mixed Doubles Creole-itees and Miss Harvey beat Utz and Mrs Utz, 6—3, 6 —o, 6-2.-DAYIS CUP FIRST ROUND. BRUSSELS, May 16. In the first round of the Davis Cup, Dr Andreae (India) beat Watson (Belgium) 6 —o, 6 —5, o—3; Jacob (India) beat Washer (Belgium) 6—4, 4—6, 6—3, 5—7, 6—4. WARSAW, May 16. In the Davis Cup first round, Britain versus Poland, Gordon Lowe defeated Swede 6—o, 6 h 6—l ; Wheatley de feated Foerster 6—l, 6 —2, 6—l; Godfree and Kingsley defeated Puzfcar and Steiner t 6—4, 6—2, 6 —2. LISBON, May 10. By winning the doubles and two singles Italy eliminated Portugal from the Davis Cup. BUDAPEST, May 10. France eliminated Hungary. RESTRICTIONS ON PLAYERS. SYDNEY, May 15. The council of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association has decided that no in terviews, paid for or otherwise, will be allowed to be given by any member of the Davis Cup team between the commencement and the end of any tie or challenge round in which Australia is playing. Players are also debarred from cabling comments on +l, e play. O’HARA WOOD NOT AVAILABLE. MELBOURNE, May 15. O'Hara Wood states that he will not be available to go as a fourth member of the Davis Cup team. Only £250 of the £SCO required has so far been raised. The money will be returned to the subscribers. DENMARK AND RUMANIA. LONDON, May 14. In the Davis Cup contest Denmark beat Rumania, 4—l. INJURY TO J. N. LOWRY. NAPIER, May 12. J. N. Lowry, a son of Mr T. H. Lowry, of Okawa. who has received semi-official advice of his selection as a member of the New Zealand Davis Cup team, to-day received serious injuries to his right thumb in a circular saw. It is possible that his thumb may have to be amputated, in which case his value as a member of the team will be gone. POLO. SYDNEY, May 12. New Zealand will play its opening polo match at the Australasian Cup meeting against New South Wales on Saturday. South Australian, Victorian, and Queensland teams will compete, and are engaging in strenuous practice. May 13. After a brilliant practice same the polo teams have been chosen for the Australasian Cup contests. The New Zealand teams will be: J. Lyons, 0. Nelson, C. Mackenzie, W. Mackenzie, N. Campbell. PRACTICE GAMES. SYDNEY, May 14. The New Zealand polo players in a practice game defeated a Sydney club scratch team by 4 goals to 1. The visitors, whose practice has been much interfered with by rain, gave a fine display of stick work. They state that they are accustomed to faster and more even grounds than \hat on which the tournament will be played. The New Zealand ponies appeared to be hardly as handy as those of the local players. In a second practice match the New Zealand polo players went down before the Queenslanders, who had an easy win by 7 to 1. Tho New Zealanders will meet some very strong inter-State opponents in the cup contests. i

NEW SOUTH WALES DEFEATS NEW ZEALAND. SYDNEY, May 17. The tournament for the Australasian Polo Cup challenge trophy, presented by Messrs R. T. Melrose and A. Horden for competition between four of the Australian Stales and New Zealand began on Kensington racecourse yesterday. The weather was unpropitious, rain the previous night and throughout the day making the ground sloppy ana slippery, and preventing the players from getting a proper hold of their sticks. There were several falls. O. Neilson, No. 2 man in the dominion team, went down in the first chukka and again in the second, the latter fall whacking him so much that he was compelled to retire, N. Campbell (reserve) taking his place. The opening match was between the New South Wales Red team and New Zealand. Owing to the dangerous condition of the ground the second match, New South Wales Whit© team versus Victoria was postponed In the first chukka J. Lyons (No. 1) secured first blood for the visitors, but within a couple of minutes New South Wales equalise with a score just at the close of the term In the second chukka New South Wales added a couple of goals, their ponies appearing faster and their combination superior to that of the New Zealanders. The third chukka produced four more goals, while the New Zealand score remained unaltered. In the fourth chukka the visitors livened up and after some fine play W. A. Mackenzie (back) scored, but New South Wales added two more goals, making the scores 9 to 2. The remainder of the game was played in a downpour, which drove the spectators to shelter. The New Zealanders defended well under very difficult conditions, but could not prevent their opponents from piling Up the points. In the final chukka Lyons placed another goal to the visitors’ credit. The game ended: New South Wales .. .. 15 goals. New Zealand 3 goals. The visitors were obviously outpaced by players whose constant piactice and participation in competitions had perfected their combination. The New Zealanders were un fortunate in striking such wretched weather but they are bound to show considerably improved form in the next contest. Neilson s fall is not serious. OTAGO HUNT. The opening meet of the Otago Hunt took place on Saturday at Woodeaton. The weather was beautmul. and there was a large number ot- followers. The many spectators who journeyed up to view the run saw some fine jumping. There were a few young riders out, ana they acquitted themselves very well, and are sure to get much better as tho season gets more advanced, and the hounds, considering it was their first run worked excellently. The following 100 k part in the run: —Mr 11. Brunton (master) on Spanker; Mr L. Mowat (deputy) on Tahuna; Mr D. Wheeler (huntsman) on John Peel; Mr E. Buddicom (whip) an Mack; Miss D. Mowat on Elaino Miss M. Statham on Bonny Jean; Miss E. Smyth on Joker; Miss E. Green si ade on Bloom; Mrs T. Daizell on Tornado; Mrs J. M‘Kay on De Cruz; Miss Reeves on Topnote; Miss Murdoch on Felix; Mr E. Makio or* Golden Sarto; Mr A Cassells on Prize Rose; Mr N. Murdoch on All British; Mr L. Wait© on Vasilkov; Mr M. Caudwell on Paris; and several others. Among the spectators were noticed: Mesdames J. M. Samson, M. Quirk, J. Mitchell, A. D. Edgar, J. Edgar, D. Scott and party, J. Fogg, J. Lindsay, Mr and Mrs J Miller, Mr and Mrs G. Anderson, Mr C. Cameron. A most unfortunate accident happened to the master (Mr R. Brunton) when on his way from his home at Tomahawk to the hunt. As he crossed over the bridge ot the lagoon at Tomahawk bis horse shied at a person reading a paper among the lupins by the roadside and collided with a motor car, with the result that his fine mare (Sunbeam) had her hind leg broken and had to be destroyed. Mr Brunton will have the sympathy of all lovers of a good horse, for Sunbeam had competed in jumping events all over Otago, and was one of the best jumpers in tho province.