ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 91, 8 July 1927, Page 10

ALL SPORTS

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Fourth and final Soccer test between New Zealand and Canada at Carlaw Park a- fortnight from All Black Dropped W. Elvey, the All Black three-quar-ter was dropped in the final selection for the Wellington team to play Taranaki on Wednesday. Along with Svenson, two youngsters, South and Ramson, were selected in the three-quarter line. Red Hair and Football "It is a strange thing that the majority of footballers who have red hair are good players,” says a contemporary. But are they? A flaming crest, and little else, has got many a man into big football before to-day. Chapman For New Zealand? Once again, it is rumoured in England, that A. P. F. Chapman, the English test match captain, may settle in New Zealand owing to his wife’s health. Chapman, who married Tom Lowry’s sister, would certainly receive a royal welcome in this part of the world, where his dashing batting is still remembered. Age of Football The antiquity of the game of football is indicated by the record that one of the first official acts of Augustus Caesar was to revise the rules of football, a game learned by the Romans from the Greeks. In ancient Rome, the game was called harpastum. • * * Dempsey’s Big Purse Jack Dempsey is guaranteed £50,000 and 25 per cent, of all receipts over £200,000 for his fight against Sharkey on the 21st of this month. Sharkey’s

end of the prize money is a straightout £40,000. These are the largest purses ever offered for a non-title contest. The winner of this bout will fight Tunney for the world’s championship in September. Football Kick Specialist Described as the most powerful kicker in the League Rugby code, Harry Caples (Queensland), made the “fans” gasp in the first test between New South Wales and Queensland by boosting the ball on one occasion from just outside his own 25 to within five yards of the New South Wales line. There was certainly a wind behind him, but the kick was an eye-opener to the crowd.

Rep. Honours? “Phonse Carroll all over again,” was the remark of an observant spectator in the Richmond-City match at Carlaw Park on Saturday. The reference was to the nuggety

Richmond forward, Carroll, who was always on the thick of it. Carroll did not play in some of the earlier matches, owing to a disagreement with his club, but his “comeback” on Saturday left no doubts as to his standing in Auckland League. On present form, Carroll may give

some of the “regulars” something to think about when the rep. team is being sorted out.

Schoolboy Hobbses A remarkable feat was performed in England recently by two 13-year-old boys in a school match. Batting for Co'ldicott School against Fretherne House School, D. Whittaker and .1. Aitken went in first and scored 344 runs before they were separated. Whittaker made 234 not out and J. Aitken 102 not out. It is stated in the “Athletic News” that they made their great first-wicket score in 98 minutes, but whether or not this is correct and what were the circumstances, it was certainly a wonderful performance for two boys of their years.

Boxing or “Stouch” ,A boxing saying, in which there seems to be more truth than poetry, tells Ut&t ringmen of to-day cannot hop.# to keep their boko unbroken, and get among the money. Seems a fact, too (says the Sydney “Sportsman”), for few of the daintv, side-stepping, tap-tappers are rated as public idols nowadays. It’s the bash ’em, crash ’em and mash ’em brigade who rake in the shekels.

Women in Sport Jay B. Nash, professor of physical education at New York University, in a recent speech denounced the practice of women engaging in strenuous sport and denounced sports goods dealers for urging women to participate in them. This savours rather of laying the blame on a garage proprietor because the man to whom he sold a car got drunk and fatally injured someone. Woman has come to stay in sport. Of the wisdom of their taking part in some forms of it there may be doubt, but no number of learned pedagogues will stop them from doing so if they so desire. That’s the wilful and lo.vable way they’re made. What They Do London “Sporting Life” has been digging out details of the New Zealand cricketers in private life. Here is the list: —Tom Lowry and M. L. Page are on the land—the skipper with his father in a big sheep-rearing business, and Page on his own. McGirr runs a sports depot, and Dacre is caretaker of the North Shore Park at Auckland. Bernau practises law at Wanganui, and James is studying to practise it. Allcott is in a bank. Blunt in a mercantile office, and Henderson a clerk to the Hanbour Board at Wellington. Dempster is in the drapery line, and Cunningham is employed in a timber yard. The manager, Dougles Hay, is a commission agent.