ALL SPORTS

Southland Times, Issue 25367, 20 August 1935, Page 11

ALL SPORTS

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. The American men’s and women’s tennis championships will for the first time be played together at Forest Hills, New York, commencing on August 29. F. J. Perry is expected to defend his title of singles champion, and the English ladies’ Wightman Cup team members will also be competitors. * * * * M.C.C’s. Strong Attack. H. D. Read, of Essex, proclaimed as a shock bowler likely to rout South Africa in the present Test, is coming to New Zealand in the summer with the M.C.C. team. He is particularly fast on some wickets, easily the fastest amateur in England, but is inclined to be erratic. However, he has the pluck to keep on hurling them down, and this makes him a first-class bowler under trying conditions. He made a name for himself last season by taking 55 wickets at an average cost of 20 runs apiece. It is becoming increasingly apparent, that . with Langridge, Holmes, Read,’Baxter, Sims and Parks, the M.C.C. side will have a strong attack for Dominion batsmen to cope with in December and January. Professional Tennis. While it is still doubtful whether Cochet will rejoin Tilden’s professional lawn tennis “troupe,” Plaa and Ramillon, his compatriots, have a busy and presumably profitable time ahead. Cochet has been practising recently, after his long illness, and there is talk of his making a visit to the United States for a playing tour with Mlle. Lenglen, who has said this trip would probably be made, but not before another five or six months. Whether she and Cochet would be under Tilden’s management is not stated. Many French sportsmen and sportswomen are hoping she will not go, as they fear she might lose prestige after being so long out of competitive' tennis. Plaa and Ramillon who visited the United States recently, will play in the Bonnardel Cup competition, a “professionals’ Davis Cup contest,” in which seven oi' eight nations, including Great Britain, will be represented. Next they will go on tours in Spain, France, and Central Europe, before competing in a tournament at Wembley. With minor engagements added this year will be almost wholly occupied by lawn tennis and travelling. Women’s Cricket in Lancashire. The growth of women’s cricket in Lancashire proceeds rapidly, and one of the reasons is the introduction of the league principle last summer. Another, undoubtedly, is the success of the English women’s team in Australia, where the first official touring side went from England, won the “rubber” in the Test matches and distinguished itself in its other games in a long itinerary One effect of the increase in the number of clubs is that the Lancashire County Women’s Cricket Association will have the call on many more players than have been available hitherto, as the teams which came into being last year’ wisely decided to establish themselves before becoming affiliated to the parent organization. It is the rule that players are only eligible for county trials in the event of their clubs being affiliated, and with that fact in mind the clubs intend to become affiliated direct instead of through a league, as by so doing they are entitled to greater representation in the trials.

Luidrum’s World Tour. Another Australian is about to travel in search of honour and glory (says the Sydney Referee). Horace Lindrum, dual billiards and snooker champion of the Commonwealth, has booked to leave for a world tour, by the R.M.S. Maloja, which leaves Sydney on August 23. The young chap deserves well, and is certain to render an excellent account of himself. While in England he will play under the management of Melbourne Inman, than whom there is no more astute general in the world. Horace Lindrum will not be idle on the way across, as he has already booked to play at Ceylon and certain towns in India on the way. However, having entered for the Sealed Handicap, which starts in London on October 14, he will need to keep moving to give himself a chance to become acclimatized, The forthcoming matches against Davis, Newman, Willie Smith, and company, will sorely tax the Australian, but we need have no fear about failure. Further, if the handicapper is not very careful, it is quite on the cards that Lindrum will collect the major money: in any case, we will be ablq to assess our champion in true perspective. After the English tour, Lindrum will play through China and the western and southern portions of Africa. Altogether he will be away for about eight months.

* * * * Departure Of Champion Walker. G. S. Cabot, the present New Zealand University champion walker and former New Zealand mile and three-mile champion walker, left Dunedin yesterday for the north to join the Maunganui at Wellington to-day, en route to Sydney. Cabot has received a mining engineering appointment abroad (states the Evening Star). Cabot is not going to give up track walking, but says that if conditions are favourable he intends to keep in trim for future competition. Cabot was undoubtedly one of the most stylish and dashing walkers New Zealand has produced, and his record in competition has been a very fine one. He had the honour of representing New Zealand at the Australasian championships, and won the New Zealand milk walk championship at Dunedin in 1926 in 6min 38 2-ssec, time which has not been bettered in the last 15 years—the same year he won the Otago mile walk in 6min 35sec —and at Auckland in 1927 he won the mile in 6min 39sec. He won the mile again in 1931 in 7min 7 2-ssec. Cabot won the three-milk walk twice. In 1926 his time was 21min 59 4-ssec, time which also has not been bettered in recent years, and in 1931 he won again in 23min 26 l-ssec. At one stage of his career Cabot also won a number of mile running races on the track, showing very good form. Like J. E. Lovelock (the famous miler), J. E. Man-. Chester (All Black Rugby captain), and P. S. de Q. Cabot (a New Zealand Rugby rep.), Garnet Cabot was an old boy of Timaru Boys’ High School.