ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 417, 27 July 1928, Page 10

ALL SPORTS

A Weekly Budget

Tour de Frantz. * * $ Canterbury canned and Cooked. * * * Fast women—for the Olympic Games * * * The Olympic Games kick-off at Amsterdam to-morrow. 1928 is a most phenomenal year in sport—just think? The North Island v. South Island Rugby League representative match will take place at Carlaw Park to-morrow afternoon. Mr. T. A. (“Scotty”) McClymont, wh«* captained the New Zealand team which beat the visiting English Leaguers at Auckland in 1924, has been Hiosen by the council of the New Zealand Rugby League to coach the New Zealand team for the first test against the English test thirteen on August 4. * * * Unless the Auckland rep. League team can show in the future a little more consistency than they did on Wednesday against South Acukland, it will only be a shame what the English Leaguers will do with them next month. * * * How does the little golfing dub The wretched sap hunts up a trap, And drives his new ball in it. * * * So they cut off Tom’s beer. It must have made him frothing to get at Tunney. However, you’ll read all about that on another page.

According to an English writer, most first-class tennis players are teetotallers. Yet we have heard of many who have suffered from lifting their tennis-elbows. A French reporter’s comment on the Soccer match at the Olympic Games, in which Italy beat France. 4—3: “II fut heurte, tres severe, parfois dur.” Literal translation, by the office linguist: “It was willing, severe sometimes hard.” It’s a small world! * * * Hoch! Hoch! The Germans take their sport seriously. At the conclusion of a • Soccer match at the Olympic Games, in 1 which the German team was victorious, over 12,000 Germans thundered out in 1 triumphant song the great “Deutsch ’ Über Alles.” t * * * There have been complaints that M. W. Tate, England’s foremost bowler, 2 is having an off-season this year. “The ; Cricketer,” though, differs, saying that i he has, as much as he ever had, the , one quality that makes the great . bowler —pace, not through the air, but t off the pitch. ❖ * * Olympic Games Soccer In the final of the Association football tournament at the Olympic Games Argentine drew with Uruguay, holder of the championship, each side scoring t a goal. Argentine got its goal in a : hailstorm. In a match to decide l second and third places Italy beat Egypt by 11 goal-s to three.