Sportsmen’s Leg

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 665, 17 May 1929, Page 6

Sportsmen’s Leg

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This “imaginary line” business reminds me of the small boy’s definition of the equator as being a menagery lion running round the earth and roaring every 24 hours. The roaring in this case seems to have come about 11 years too late. Plus four for Walter Hagen in British open golf championships. College Rifles carried too many guns for Grammar. Karl Ifwerson put Marists’ pot on on Saturday. The Auckland City Council has sold its farm to use the money for acquiring land for weary and broken-down horses. There are five or six racers and trotters that I can recommend for a place there. Barometer rose steadily in the last race at Pukekohe on Saturdav. ♦ * * Great Britain beat Poland in the second round of the Davis Cup at Warsaw. Had a little more Polish, presumably. The increase of the fee paid to the Australian Eleven players for each test match brings the amount up to .£4O a match, plus expenses. Thus those who figured in the five tests receive £ -00, plus expenses.

The cricket Board of Control intends to treat the Australian team for England very handsomely by giving each player £6OO, plus 30s a week, from time of embarking in Australia until return, to cover taxes and other incidentals. together with all hotel and railway expenses.

Two managers will be appointed for t le Australian Rugby League team to visit England shortly—one from New fcouth Wales and one from Queensland. The barrackers aro reported to be busy trying to pick the pair who will be fxvoured.

Star Athletes Invited It is good news to learn that the N.Z.A.A.A. has decided to invite Williams, the 100 and 200 metres Olympic champion, and Edwards, the coloured half-miler, to compete in New Zealand next season. If Edwards is not available, Ball, who was second to Barbutti iii the 400 metres, will be invited—a nice little combination and one that should appeal to the public.

Eighteen-Footers An effort is being made In Sydney to arrange a world’s championship sailing contest for 18ft boats in Port Jackson next yachting season. It is stated that Sir Thomas Lipton, famous for his America Cup efforts, is likely to have an 18ft boat built in England, and sent to Sydney, with a picked crow, for the contest. Boats for the race are being specially built already in South Australia and Victoria. • • # New Zealand Rugby Affairs While the Management Committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union says that it is trying to arrange for the British team of 1930 to play four test matches in this country. English papers state definitely that the 19 matches which l lie team will play in New Zealand will include four tests and a match against the Maoris. There will be eight matches in Australia. The annual statement of accounts of the New Zealand Rugby Union shows that tho South African tour last year caused a loss of £450 7s 7d to the union, the expenses of mobilising the team and fitting it out being £1,756 7s 9d, of which South Africa has returned £SOO and has yet to pay £693 18s 2d. Fitting out the team cost £527 4s lid. • • • Wellington Rugby Tho large new grandstand which is being built at Athletic Park, Wellington, is nearing completion, and already a portion of it is being used each Saturday afternoon for the senior club fixtures. The Rugby Union lias now decided that the official opening shall take place on Friday, June 14. at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when a special function will be held for the purpose. Tho Wellington Rugby Union is a Iso about to celebrate its golden jubilee this year, and with the idea of celebrating the passing years in lilting fashion, a special committee consisting of Messrs. J. Prendeville, A. F. Wiren, A. J. Griffiths and G. W. F. Jackson has been appointed to bring down a report on the matter at an early date.

Line-Out Or Scrum Apparently the captains of many teams below the senior gi*ade in Rugby do not know that when the ball goes legitimately into touch the non-offend-ing side may claim a scrummage instead of a line-out. When, however, the ball is kicked into touch on the full, from outside the kicking side’s twenty-five, a scrum may not be claimed, as the bringing back of the line-out to a spot in line with where tho ball was kicked from is in itself a penalty against the offending team.