ALL SPORTS A Weekly Budget

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 85, 1 July 1927, Page 10

ALL SPORTS A Weekly Budget

At any rate, Broadfoot Is not “slow foot.” i * * * Will Hawke’s Bay regain the Ranfurly Shield next week? Wairarapa fans say no! *. * * “Popular prices” were about the only thing that was popular at the boxing carnival this week. * * * Reported that the New Zealand Rugby Union will shortly deal with the question of representative teams being sent into camp before big matches. * * • A Welcome Return. “Wally” Ripley, popular Auckland League Rugby referee, made his reappearance with the whistle la st Saturday after being laid aside with sickness for a lengthy period. As of old, he tootled his whistle with promptitude and judgment. • * m The Clicking Turnstiles.—A record for a club match in Sydney League Rugby, viz., 31.000 witnessed South Sydney-St. George match last SaturV day week. It is satisfactory to note that though the season has barely begun, several of our eminent cricketers are already writing at the top of their form, says ‘“London Punch.” Striding over the distance in 3hr 63 min 16 2-ss, E. W. Sutherland established a world’s record for a 'Marathon (26 miles) walk at Melbourne last Saturday we°k. In Auckland we could do it nearly as fast in a tram. * * m Fatal Football Accident. The first fatal football accident in Sydney for many years occurred in a school game the other day, when Richard Wiseman, aged 17, slipped and fell backwards on his head. He was picked up with a broken neck. One More In the lists of teams published in a Southern paper recently cne team included a player named A.N. Other. Next day’s paper gave the names of the opposing fifteen. The last man was O. N. E. More! mm* ? ? ? But the R. C. Queree, who has been selected to go into training in Christchurch for the New Zealand amateur athletic championships, is “dinkum.” He is only 17, and is considered t.o be a coming distance champion. m m * Heeney Fit Again Tom Heeney, New Zealand boxer, went into an American hospital in April to have an operation performed on his eye, which was injured in his fight with Paolino. Judging by his success last week-end he made a good recovery. m m m Sydney League Premiership In spite of having two men ordered off, South Sydney preserved its undefeated record in the Sydney League Rugby championship last Saturday week by defeating St. George, 17 points to 13. The southern suburb has now a lead of four points on St. George and Western Suburbs, both of which are level with 14 points.^ Not Cricket There was an unfortunate incident at Lord’s recently, when the M.C.C. met Surrey, and one that is very rare on the cricket field. Hendren, who had scored 130, and was hitting at everything, drove a ball high into the air in the direction of Baldwin. The hit was beautifully judged, but as this usually reliable fieldsman was accepting the chance a stentorian voice called to him to “drop it.” And Baldwin did! Hendren, like the good sportsman he is, took unnecessary risks, and immediately was dismissed.

“Some Drive.” An English girl golfer, Miss Molly Ramsden, drove a ball in competition play at Stoke Poges a distance of 232 yards 8 inches. The average man couldn’t beat that. m m m Keeping Warm “Saturday was a freezer,” says a South Island contemporary, “and more than one player was to be seen flinging his arms about in an endeavour to keep warm.” Players in Auckland have been flinging their arms about this season, too, but it is the Soccer and Rugby executives who have been getting warm about it. • • * One Too Many At any rate, it hasn’t been as bad as this in Auckland: “Leggings, overcoat, muffler, and unmbrella comprised the outer equipment of a line umpire at a Timaru Rugby match, and that man knew what he was about. Snow began to fall while the game was on. Up went the umbrella, which previously had been used only as a linesman’s signal. It was the first game that has been played in Timaru in a snow*storm. Players were unanimous in the opinion that it was one game too many. Overworked ? Thus an English critic on W. E. Merritt: “He takes no run to speak of —just two steps and a halt, followed by a fairly high delivery, with the ball well flighted. But he is so slow in the air that a batsman quick on his feet, if any of that breed still exist, might hit him with severity. Merritt is still a boy—he is not yet 19. Although he is strongly built, there is a danger that he will be ‘bowled to a standstill,’ as the phrase goes, if he is given as much work to do, week after week, as is the case at present.” mm* Premature! We are sorry for the Otago Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. It has decided to 'draw the attention of the New Zealand Council to the fact that J. W. Tapp and E. L. Brown have not yet received the caps which were promised them for participation in the Australasian cross-country championships in 1925, and to the other fact that although R. W. Lander has won the Keddell Memorial prize twice he lias not yet received it. We would point out to the Otago Centre that these competitors have not yet begun to wait for their trophies.' C. S. Thomas, of Christchurch, who received the right to wear a New Zealand blazer just the other day, earned it in 1913! * * * Never Doubt a Woman’s Word! The piece of pure wisdom which is epigrammised so neatly above is the result of a bitter experience. There is a certain artist at Canterbury College who scoffed when a woman student expressed her opinion that she could walk from the Sumner tram terminus, via Lyttelton, Governor’s Bay, and Dyer’s Pass, to the Cashmere tram terminus in five hours. Moreover, he declared his intention of rolling a peanut round the “quad” at Varsity with a wax match, and of taking her to afternon tea afterwards, if she’d perform • lat feat. She performed the feat in 4hr 40min, and last week there was a select gathering of friends of the parties to the wager to watch the perambulation of the peanut. The ai'tist —and that term fits him nicely—appeared with a peanut and a wax match which was specially made. The match was about as big as a candle. He fastened it on the end of a walking-stick, and had proceded blithely halfway round the course when an irreverent student inadvertently (?) trod on the peanut. The rest of the journey was slow, because the peanut had to be shifted in sections, but the course was covered, and then the match was struck just to prove that it was a real wax match.