Searchlight on Sport

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19375, 13 July 1937, Page 8

Searchlight on Sport

(By "Four-Forty.")

B. S. (Joey) Sadler, the All Black half-back and also a player for Wellington College Old Boys, was recently injured in the match against University and it is expected that it will be some weeks before he will be able to play again. It looks now as though the half-back for the first test will be either L. Russell (Waikato) or L. Clothier (Hawke's Bay).

Billy Aitken, the Wellington professional lightweight boxer who has been in the limelight lately on account of disputes with associations over the size of the purses, announced his retirement from the ring at the sametime that the New Zealand Boxing Council decided to withhold his license indefinitely.

In G. Allen, Matawhero, the Gisborne Boxing Association has a good middleweight who should go well at the New Zealand championships. Allen is being trained in the noble art by Johnny Summers, who has a high opinion of the boy’s ability.

Another lad who should be among the Gisborne team for the championships to be held in Greymouth is R. Harrison, the featherweight, who is a good two-handed fighter, but who is inclined to “slap" with the open glove at times.

One must hand it to the members of the various basketball teams for being the keenest trainees. On any night of the week and in the early mornings can be seen as many as two or three teams on the courts practising. In fact, the colder the night the more players are to be seen on the courts.

The English amateur soccer team which recently concluded their tour of New Zealand scored 85 goals, while they had only six registered against them. Matthews, the centre forward, scored 24, while the other goals were scored by Thornton 14, Eastham 12, Finch 11, Parr five, Lewis four, Leek four, Joy three, Davis three, Riley two, and Collins 2, while the other goal for them was scored by a member of the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay team

New Zealand's record in soccer test matches does not read as well as those of Rugby, as the following will show:— Against P W L D For Ag.

* * « * One of the best half-backs in the junior Rugby competition is Bob Carroll, of the Old Boys B team. He sends out good passes from the base of the scrum and uses the “blind" side of the scrum to good advantage when near the goal line, * * * i*t Boxing in Gisborne Last Friday evening the writer paid a visit to Johnny Summers up-to-date gymnasium. Several of the leading amateurs were doing light work outs, but D’Arcy Heeney was the only one to do anything of a serious nature. The present holder of the welterweight title is out to defend his title and expects that it will be harder to win this season than last as

amongst the entries are expected ti be Heeney, Waugh, and M. Callaghan, while it is also understood that Vic. Davy is to reappear in the ring. Last Friday Heeney did one round on the heavy punching ball and then sparred two rounds each with N James, Askew, a promising novice from the Te Karaka district, and A Wilkins.

During the evening Jerry Leonard the Australian welterweight who is under contract to the Gisborne Boxing Association for a series of fights made his first appearance in Qisborne He stripped a bit lighter than he appeared to be in “street dress," bu expects he will weigh about lOst. 51b. for his fights. He is tall, blonde, and has a good pair of shoulders tha: taper down to a fine set of legs. He indulged /in shadow sparring, but appeared at the time to be a bit “short of a gallop.” Took All 10 Wickets A. W. Matthews, Cyphers’ star bowler, took all 10 Sutton, London wickets recently, and conceded only 16 runs. The feat is to be suitably recorded, probably by having the ball inscribed and presenting it to Matthews as a souvenir.—Daily Express. Pros. Banned The Japanese are stricter than is the L.T.A. regarding the 'definitions of a tennis amateur. Jiro Yamagishi, captain of the Japanese team for Wimbledon, says the rules would disqualify an amateur who accepted coaching from a professional.—Evening Standard. Blind Sock-Maker A man who went through the Great War without receiving a wound, and returned to Capetown to lose the sight of both eyes in a blasting accident at the docks, had the contract for the supply of 87 pairs of stockings in green and gold for the Springboks. He is L. F. C. (“Bill”) Horstman, who threads 84 needles in the process of making a single stocking. This sightless man also made 30 pairs o stockings for the junior Springboks who toured the Argentine, and 36 pairs for the South Africans who played against the Wallabies.—Cape Argus. Still Walking “Uncle” Tom Payne is a walker of no mean ability, and, like wine, he improves with age. He’s only 55 years young. It seems remarkable that a man who won a 24-hour endurance test at the White City in 1909 by covering 127 miles 543 yards should still be walking with the best. Still more remarkable is the facl that Uncle Tom started walking al- - cure for chest trouble. He’s retired from the sport at least four times.— Sunday Pictorial. Coached by Post Hardy Ballington, the 24-year-old Durban long-distance runner, who recently broke the 13-year-old Lon-don-Brighton record, held by another South African, Arthur Newton, will go down in history as the athlete wlio owes his success to a “correspondence course.” For the past five years he has been coached by post by Newton, who has taken great interest in him.—Cape Times.

Must Box On Air Ministry orders recently had a touch of humour that will appeal particularly to the Navy and Army. Courses of instruction in boxing for airmen will be held from time to time at the R.A.F. School of Physical Training, Uxbridge, “to improve tin standard of boxing in the R.A.F.”, Here is the point. At the recent Imperial Services tournament, the R.A.F. had 11 men in 14 finals, won seven events, and carried off the championship. There is nothing like being thorough —•Daily Mail. Father anil Son Sixty-year-old M. J. G. Ritchie, win was winning lawn tennis tournaments last century, reached the last eight in the men’s singles in the Surrey championships at Surbiton by beating a 20-year-old player, and his son. It J. Ritchie, also passed into the last eight.—Daily Express. Sunday Tennis Banned Playing'tennis on Sunday was forbidden recently at Goodwood Tennk Club, in a Capetown suburb, under a century old Sunday Observance Act. In protest, the club authorities have written to the Minister of Justice, demanding that all Sunday sport should be stopped—golf, swimming, angling, even concerts. The tennis club leaders are not being spoil sports. They want to test the Act and, if possible, force its repeal.

Against P W L D For Ag. England :i — 3 — 1 30 Australia 12 4 7 1 25 43 Canada 4 1 2 1 5 8 N.S.W. 5 1 2 2 10 11 Chinese University 4 3 — 1 13 8 Totals 28 9 14 5 54 100