LATE SPORTING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17058, 12 June 1926, Page 16

LATE SPORTING.

RACING. “NUGAFONOS.” f RACEHORSE’S NAME DISLIKED. “Xugafonos, 'Mi'. A. Anderson \s b g, by Brent Locnndo —General Mac mare. ’ ’ That is a name which might have appeared on trotting cards in future, but for the fact that the board of tho New Zealand Trotting Association gave it an emphatic “No.” Mr. It. A. Armstrong demurred when the name was submitted for registration. ‘ ‘ Xugafonos, ’’ lie said meditatively; “it is not a very nice name. Can’t we have better names for our trotters?” “What does it mean?” queried another member. “It has just occurred to me,” said Mr. J. B. Norris, secretary, that it is ‘son of a gun’ spelt backwards.” “Oil,” said members, and promptly decided that ‘son of a gun’ backwards, should not race on New Zealand trotting tracks, GOLF. Mr. G. O. Hutton, secretary of the New Zealand Golf Council, has received advice from Mr. W. A. Windover, chairman of the. New South Wales Golf Council, who was recently in New Zealand, that it is quite probable that a team of amateurs will come over for tho New Zealand championship meeting in October. Ho mentions that Balcombe and Armstrong, two “phis three’ men, who won the foursome championship last year, will come, and that they think they can get Russell, of Melbourne, to come also. It. is possible that some players from Adelaide will also visit New Zealand.