THE PLAYGROUND.

Southland Times, Issue 19546, 9 May 1925, Page 16

THE PLAYGROUND.

Sports and Pastimes.

Tn the present hard-court tennis season in | -peered on the Nefr, Zealand horizon. E. D. have eUo convinced us that the opposition

and should provide goods games for an Australian eleven out to experiment and gain practice before arriving in England, it is a case of mobilising forces before Meeting the enemy proper. A short tour through New Zealand has everything to • ; or! it. Now that New Zealand has built up a combination of good young players a liule reciprocity on Australia’s part \ . J ' be of 'Teat value to both countries .. . crxket in general. After the New ■ i tour the team could travel via ' ’ > rica. and, if the weather is suitable, • -y a match in the greatest cricket centre Xmer.ca, on one of the three finest < r j t ground* in the world —at Manheim, I . u. ieiphia. The alternative is the Red r ; . An uninteresting match might • played at Colombo, and it might not be • ve«i if the skipper of the boat agrees with • per of the team that the sights of olombo are more interesting than bruised Lnuokles or shins. A couple of days are i in the Red Sea, where everybody floundering about the decks gasping for r and ice cream. Then the ship calls a number of more or less filthy ports, whDh do not tend to improve the health oi a team anxious to retain the ashes. In v of the tremendous advantages gained it-.. New’ Zealand route, the Board of > t’rol* might do well to consider that before completing arrangements for the next trip Home.” A ueer set of coincidences was the • nee of Jack Dempsey in the second i unds of his many fights. Seven times ■ John Sunrenburg floored Dempsey in -• • of his earliest fights in that round. But -• . won in the end. His ribs were r <en by John Lester Johnson; Gunboat *• b lifted him 18 inches off the floor . ’ • a right uppercut and so dazed him • he did not know till long after the fight • ■ had won; Jess Willard dazed him with ■:u uppercut; Billy Miske landed his only r-.I punch in his fight against Dempsey; Bill Brennan shook him with a right cross; r ; eutier landed his only punch in the iight. All in the second round. And it v. . - also in the second round that Dempsey . . : red the pugilistic aspirations of Luis OoO