THE SEASON’S EVENTS

Southland Times, Issue 20044, 4 December 1926, Page 18 (Supplement)

THE SEASON’S EVENTS

SUMMARISED FIELD SPOR’SB. RUGBY. MAORI TEAM’S ITINERARY. December s.—Bordeaux. December 9.—Limoges. December 12.—Bayonne. December 16.—Pau. December 19. —Beziers. December 26. —Paris. RESULTS TO DATE. The matches so far played have resulted as follows:

Summary—Played 22, won 14, lost 6, drawn 2; points for 276; points against 159. EUGBY LEAGUE NEW ZEALAND TEAM. ' FEATURES OF THE TOUR. The fixtures of the New Zealand Rugbj Le ague football team in England for the present tour are: — December 4.—v. Wales, at Pontypridd. December B.—v. St Helens. December 11.—v. Wigan. December —v. Yorkshire County, December 18.—v. Hunslet. December 25. —v. Pontypridd. December 27.—v. Broughton Rangers. January 1. —v. Hull Kingston Rovers. January 3.—v. Rochdale Hornets. January B.—v. Cumberland County. January 15.—v. England (third test), at Leeds. January 22.—v. Wakefield Trinity. January 29.—v. England, at Paris. RESULTS TO DATE. The record of the team in England so far is as follows— Points

Summary: Played 21, won 13, lost 8; points for, 354, against 288. CRICKET SHEFFIELD SHIELD Sheffield Shield and other inter-State cricket matches for the coming season have been arranged as follows: December 10, 11, 13, 14: Victoria v. South Australia, Adelaide. December 17, 18, 20, 21: Queensland v. Victoria. Melbourne. December 17, 18, 20, 21: New South Wales v. South Australia, Adelaide. December 24, 27, 28, 29: New South Wales v. Victoria, Melbourne. December 24, 27, 28, 29: Queensland v. South Australia, Adelaide. January 1,3, 4: New South Wales H. v. Victoria 11., Sydney. January, 1,3, 4,5; or December 31, January 1,3, 4: South Australia v. Victoria, Melbourne. January 7,8, 10, 11: South Australia v. New South Wales, Sydney. January 26, 27, 28, 29: Victoria ▼. New South Wales, Sydney. February 5,7, 8,9: Victoria v. Queensland, Brisbane. February 12, 14, 15, 16: New South Wales v. Queensland, Brisbane. BOXING. December 6—Artie Hay v. Salvino Jamito, at Dunedin. December 13—Charlie Purdy v. Reg. Trowern, at Wellington. December 14—Harry Casey v. Lachie McDonald, and opponent to be selected i v. G. Griffiths, at Invercargill. December 27—Harry Casey v. Artie Hay, at Millerton. A novel feature at the Maidenhead Waterman’s Regatta was the contest over the punting championship course between Wilson ‘Edwards, professional punting champion of the Thames, in a punt, and Luigi Dalzennaro, the Venetian gondolier, in his gondola. The men changed craft after the first race, the gondolier punting and Edwards manipulating the gondola. In the first event the punt beat the gondola by a dozen lengths, but on changing craft the gondolier defeated the punting champion, who was uneasy with the. oar, and utterly failed in pace and steering, taking nearly ten minutes to negotiate the turn. It is anomalous that Australians, keenest of cricketers, have for years been content to import all the implements of the game (says a Sydney writer). Many thousands of expensive bats are sold in this country every year, yet no one here seems to have attempted to cut into the lucrative trade by starting bat-making on a large scale, or investigating the possibilities of Australian timbers for bats or wickets. The Australian cricket ball has definitely arrived, and the recent importation of fifty “slips” of the cricket-bat willow by the Commonwealth Government —they are to be planted out at Canberra —may mark the beginning bat-making in this country. There wall be a long wait, for a tree must be twenty years old before being felled, and must be pollarded annually; then the “billets,” split and not sawn, have to season four years mor*. It might be a quicker job, after all, to ferret out some Australian wood having the necessary qpalitics.

Points Against. Result. For. Against. Burgundy . . Won 27 3 Alpes , . Won 34 6 Grenoble . ■ . Won 29 8 Lyonnaise . . Won 26 9 Languedoc . . Won 8 5 Basques . Won 11 8 Central France . Won 16 3 Paris . . Lost 9 11 Somerset . . . Won 21 8 Newport . . Drawn 0 0 Swansea . . , Won 11 6 Yorkshire . . . Won 17 9 Harlequins . - . Lost 5 11 Devonshire • . . Lost 0 20 Cardiff . . • Won 18 10 Gloucestershire . Lost 0 3 Llanelly . . . , Lost 0 3 East Midlands . Drawn 6 6 Blackheath . . . Won 9 5 Cornwall , . . Lost 6 3 Leicester . . . Won 15 13 Lancashire . . . Won 11 6

Against. Dewsbury » • Result Won For. Against. 13 9 Leigh . Won 28 16 Halifax Lost 13 19 Rochdale • • Won 11 9 Barrow • Won 19 16 Widnes Won 15 5 First Test * Lost 20 28 York Won 19 11 Warrington . Lost 5 17 Bramley Won 35 12 Hull . . . Wen 15 13 Bradford Northern Won 38 17 Oldham . . . Lost 10 15 Leeds . • Won 13 11 St Helens ... Lost 14 28 Salford .... Won 18 10 Huddersfield . . Lost 8 10 England . . . Lost 11 21 Wigan Highfield W’on 14 2 Keighley . . . Won 21 3 Swinton ... Lost 16 14