SPORTS BUDGET

Southland Times, Issue 25746, 9 August 1945, Page 6

SPORTS BUDGET

Soccer Team Walks Off Field TWO BROTHERS ORDERED OFF (By ONLOOKER) During the first half of the HospitalStop Out Chatham Cup Soccer fixture at Wellington on Saturday, the Hospital side left the field after first R. Jeffrey and then E. Jeffrey had been ordered off by the referee. No goals had been scored up till the time of the incident and there was every indication that the game, had it been completed, would have been most interesting. With the half drawing towards its close, R. Jeffrey was ordered off. He refused to go and the referee held the game up. Meanwhile E. Jeffrey was also ordered off and after a few minutes, the whole of the team went off the field. Nominated By Manawatu J. P. Butt, the former Pirates and Southland three-quarter, was nominated by the Manawatu Rugby Union for the North Island team. He was not selected. Butt may be available for Southland next season. Cricket Tour

Writing in the Cricketer, Sir Pelham Warner, former English Test selector, suggests that an English tour of Australia should not be contemplated before 1947-48. “We need two full seasons—l 946 and 1947—t0 build up a side,” he states. * Seven Out Of Eight Eight players from Otago and Southland were nominated for the South Island Rugby team and seven were selected. The eighth, A. D. Saul, Otago wing three-quarter, was unlucky. His play at Dunedin stamped him as a three-quarter much above the average. Record Entries Record entries have been received by the Southland Miniature Rifle Association for its 1945 championships at Invercargill on August 18 and 25. The entries total 300, a figure almost double the 160 entries for last year. Every club in Southland is represented and all the club champions will be competing. Last year’s winner of the A grade championship, W. Veint, of Gore, will be on hand to defend his title.

In South Island Team Southland did not nominate any players for the South Island Rugby team last season and consequently had no representation in the inter-island match. This year the Maroons will have 100 per cent, representation, M. P. Grace, A. G. Sutherland and J. A. McRae being tire only nominations sent forward from Southland. Grace and Sutherland were members of the 1939 South Island team which defeated the North Island by a big margin. Mcßae was nominated two years ago. He has proved himself one of the most consistent forwards in the war years and his selection will be well received. Cyclists For Dunedin

The Invercargill Amateur Cycling Club will be .represented by a strong team of riders in the Otago 25-mile championship tomorrow. A. Drury, H. Rubber and M. Beer will compete in the senior section and A. Henderson, L. Grossi, G. Young and W. Young will start in the junior section. It is a strong team with plenty of form to recommend its chances of success.

The weekly race on Saturday in Invercargill will be held over a course through Woodlands and Rakahauka, finishing about Wallacetown. Long Hitting Most golfers have heard of A. E. Guy, the Middlemore (Auckland) professional, and his prowess as a powerful hitter. Guy went round Middlemore last weekend in 74 and put up a notable performance airthe 570-yard ninth. This hole takes the average golfer two woods and a lengthy iron to reach the green, yet Guy was on the green in two. His were colossal shots, being all carry as the course was heavy and there was little or no wind.

South Otago Rugby History Rugby history was made for the South Otago Rugby Union when two of their players were selected to play for the South Island against the North Island at Auckland this month. The inclusion of sub-union players in island or New Zealand teams is not uncommon, but it is the first time recognition has come the way of South Otago players. Both J. Haig (half-back) and C. Willocks (lock) have produced a standard of Rugby well up to interisland standards and it would cause no surprise in Southland to see them win even higher honours.

Boxing On Monday Almost as much interest as that which marked the bout between Dick Baker and Cliff Hanham is being taken in the professional fight between Laurie Bolger of Mataura, and Ken Wright, of Timaru, at Invercargill on Monday night. Bolger had an excellent record as an amateur and he looks like carrying it on to his professional career. His first two bouts have proved crowdpleasers and there is no reason why the next one should, not be the same. Ken Wright is a rugged boxer-fighter who fully extended Bolger at Dunedin and he will make a bold bid to reverse the decision this time. Excellent, amateur preliminaries have been arranged. Through Dunedin Eyes

Though not so virile and on-coming in the loose as the traditional Southland. forwards (they were outweighed on Saturday by about 101 b per man), there was no question about their soundness in the tight, comments The Evening Star on the Otago-South-land game. Time and again Mcßae beat the Otago hooker, and the pack generally showed a cohesion that was lacking with the Blues. Stewart (an exOtago player) was prominent in the back row, where Budd did good work as well as in the line-outs. Newell and Purdue were also conspicuous in the loose.

Grace (the Southland captain), first five-eighth, was Southland’s best back. He led his team well, and, in spite of poor passes from the scrum, made play on several occasions which deserved a better fate than usually befell it. Now and again, however, he overindulged in kicking, maybe because of a lack of confidence in his fellow-backs. Watson, behind the scrum, did not impress; he gave his forwards unnnecessary work by ill-judged kicking. Sutherland, on the other hand, was continually in the picture. His splendid line-kicking evoked frequent applause. Bennett, first on the wing and then brought into the five-eighth position, did much useful work; Walker, at centre and second five, was sound. Amateur Preliminaries

Some of the clever novices who were seen in action at the amateur toumament in Invercargill last week have been matched in special preliminaries to the professional bout on Monday night. The draw is as follows:—A. Wilson (Invercargill) v. E. Munro (Invercargill); C. Patterson (Invercargill) v. I. Maxwell (Invercargill); M. Taylor (Nightcaps) v. B. Patterson (Invercargill); M. Kelly (Nightcaps) v. J. McKenzie (Invercargill); J. Beal (Invercargill) v. T. Taylor (Nightcaps). Emergency bout: F. Hutchins v. E. Harper.

Big Fight “Gate” The 40,000 people who saw the Bruce Woodcock-Jack London fight contributed a gate of between £28,000 and £30,000. Woodcock, a 24-year-old railwayman, knocked out London to win the British and Empire heavyweight titles. It is unlikely that Woodcock

will go to America immediately. The promoter of the match, which took place at the Tottenham Hotspur Football Ground, says Woodcock will appear in the same arena in September against an American. N.Z. Basketball Tournament The Southland representative basketball team will leave on Tuesday, August 21, for Christchurch to take part in the first New Zealand basketball tournament to be held since 1940. The matches, which will be played in three sections, will begin on Wednesday at the East Christchurch school courts. Details of the draw have not yet been received in Invercargill. An excellent programme has been arranged to celebrate the 21st anniversary of basketball in New Zealand. A banquet will be held at the Wentworth on Wednesday night and on Friday there will be a conversazione in the Mayfair Lounge. The New Zealand Council will meet on Thursday night. A church parade will be held on the Sunday at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church.

The last New Zealand Tournament was held in 1940 in Wellington at the Centennial Exhibition. The New Zealand Cup was won by Auckland. In 1940 Southland was captained by Betty Ingram. Winsome Sadlier and Leona Barrett, who are in the present team, played that year, and Betty Ingram, Winsome Sadlier and Alwyn Pittaway were selected for the South Island team.

Football At Gore High School have been declared the winners of the Eastern Southland Rugby Football Sub-Union’s second grade competition, with an unbeaten record. Next Saturday a match has been arranged between High School and the Rest, the purpose of the game being to enable the selector, Mr W. I. Shrimpton, to pick the team to represent Eastern Southland against South Otago in a match for players under 18 years of age on August 18 at Gore.