ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 565, 18 January 1929, Page 7

ALL SPORTS

A Weekly Budget

New Zealand swimming champion- i ships will be held at Wellington from 1 February 2 to February 9. Sir Harry Lauder was greatly tickled when lie caught a 2501 b. mako shark off Cape Brett the other day. He got plenty for little that time. A solicitor fought in an English boxing ring recently. As the arm of the law is notorious for its length he should have a good reach. A request that Soccer referees in England should not be disqualified from amateur swimming competitions because they received fees, ir. addition to expenses, for refereeing football matches, was turned down by the English Swimming Association recently. She is Fast! It is very seldom that an athlete has to acknowledge that his performances on the track are bettered by those of his daughter, but that is the position of C. D. Burn, well-known Canterbury amateur sprinter. Generally when Burn appears at a country meeting—and he misses few of them —he is accompanied by his six-year-old daugh-

ter, Peggy, and invariably she has run in the children’s races. So far, 19 starts she has had 19 wins! Charlie Jenkins, former Wellingt College sprinter and holder of the We ington provincial 100 yards and 2 yards championships, is again in go form, and the indications are that will retain the titles that he alreai holds, though it is rather early to ma a forecast. It is thought by some the experts that he also will win t same two distances at the New Zealai championship meeting—but he shou have strong opposition there. He w< the 100yds event at the Plimmert' meeting during the holidays, in 3 0 2-1 in which he gave away good starts, a: the way in which he finished indicat that he has lost none of his last yea: dash. At Hastings during the holida Jenkins ran third to J. Stephe < 12yds), and M. Fulford (4yd in a race which was tim at 10s dead, being beaten a yard, Jenkins, of course, being the scratch mark. In the 440yds eve it seems hardly likely that C. AIL will retain the provincial title he hole in view of the improvement shown 1 L. T. Fleming and L. A. Veitch, wh a likely outsider is Thompson, who showing splendid form at present.