Betty Nuthall Hasn't Got a Sweetheart

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 103, 22 July 1927, Page 10

Betty Nuthall Hasn't Got a Sweetheart

MERRY YOUNG TENNIS CHAMPION DRIVES LIKE A MAN At Wimbledon somebody asked Betty Nuthall, the brilliant young English tennis player, if she had a sweetheart. Betty laughed, and shook her head. “What sort of girl is this Betty Nuthall?” asks Mr. S. N. Doust, the Australian, writing in the “Daily Mail.”

wrestling match in the world. That match was between Sunni, the Indian wrestler who went to Australia recently, and the Maori giant, Ike Robin. So confident were the connections of each man that the stakes put up amounted to £1,500. The men wrestled until 11.50 o’clock one evening without arriving at a definite result, and the bout was continued some days later, when Robin, who had gone into training in the interval, beat Sunni with ease. Robin, by the way, holds the title of Australasian champion. ROBIN—SPORTSMAN The association brought to New Zealand Stanislaus Zybszko, the Pole, who met Robin twice, one match resulting in a draw, and the other in a win for Zybszko. Afterwards the Pole said that be could make a world champion of the Maori, but Robin is content to wrestle when he can without travelling round the globe in search of titles. Undoubtedly he is a magnificent grappler, and if the sport could be built up in New Zealand of good sportsmen as he is it would be a fine achievement. On one occasion on which the association had fared badly in the promotion of a match in which Robin took part he solved some of the financial difficulties of the promoting body by volunteering the information that if he were given a walking-stick by the association he would not worry about his end of the purse! CHAMPIONS WANTED The association has found that the public of Auckland will not attend an amateur wrestling tourney, and it is obvious that if wrestling is to progress in the Dominion the public will have to be “educated” by the importation of some of the men who are giving Melbourne its thrills. It has the assurance of some, of them that they will visit New Zealand if matches are arranged. In order to arrange matches the association would like to see promoting bodies formed in other parts of the country. In most centres, the game is as dead as the equally ancient moa. The only way it is likely to be placed on a firm footing in New Zealand is to promote