THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG.

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 803, 25 October 1929, Page 14

THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG.

Australian women’s high jump record now is sft 01 in, that height having been cleared by Rose Winter in Sydney recently. A climbing Rose! It is reckoned that the team which the Sydenham Cricket Club has in Canterbury’s first-grade competition at present is the youngest first-grade club team in New Zealand. A bowler named J. Betts took five wickets for 30 runs in Sydney firstgrade cricket recently. A good name for a pitch-and-toss game! Crash! Twenty cyclists came down in one heap at Stony Bridge, between Camperdown and Colac, in the Warrnam-bool-Melbourne cycling road race. About 50 were going at a very fast pace in one bunch when the crash came. Keith Foster, winner of last year’s Colac-Melbourne race, was injured and had to be taken to hospital, but the others remounted and continued. Hits over the boundary now count eight instead of six in New South Wales grade cricket. With the eight-ball over, and a “possible" of 64 runs to an over, it looks as if some of the bowlers’ analyses will be sadly creased.

Wrestler Stunned In a wrestling contest at Gunnedah, New South Wales, a ffew days ago, one of the men, leading on points at the time, was brought down so heavily on his head, by a leg-trip, that he was stunned and could not continue. We also have seen some wrestlers stunned, though not i»i the ring, and others who ought to be stunned. With scores of 3 61, 99 and 67 in successive innings in first-grade cricket in Sydney, Archie Jackson evidently is determined to have plenty of match practice before the Australian eleven goes to England next year. Germany is making a big effort to take an important place among the Rugby-playing countries of the world. Macartney’s Brilliance It was with brilliant batting that C. G. Macartney scored, in 86 minutes, his 112 runs for Gordon against Manly, in Sydney first-grade cricket on Saturday week, October 5. On the following Monday (Eight-Hour Day), when grade cricket was also played. Macartney got 81 against Northern District. As he had scored 57 when he had to retire with an injured leg last Saturday. it is clear that Macartney is going to have a fine season, bar accidents. Profound remark, apropos a j cycling incident, by a delegate to i the North Canterbury Centre of the New Zealand Athletic and ; Cycling Union: “We cannot afford to push the riders off the road.” Trouble is that some cyclists reckon they own the road. Worsen are doing a lot of throwing the jack at the opening of bowling clubs for the new season. There are many women, though, who do not have to go to a bowling green to pitch the jack. Invitation to Tilden If W. T. Tilden’s theatrical engagements permit the famous lawn tennis player to visit Australia, in response to G. L. Patterson’s personal invitation. ho probably will take with him Wilbur Coen, the young American who has been prominent in “big” tennis during the past year. Patterson himself will get into serious training as soon as Tilden says he can make the trip. There are six left-handed batsmen in the Sydenham Cricket Club’s firstgrade team. With New Zealand’s most famous left-handed batsman, Dan Reese, coaching them on Monday evenings, they should not be left at the nets. Cricketers came out of their shell last Saturday—but many were ducks. Only One More to Beat Young “Buster” Olds, aged 16. is making the name of New Zealand known in California. This youthful swimming champion has beaten the best the Pacific Coast can produce. I with the solitary exception of Austin Clapp, an American .Olympic, repre- } sentative, and it is the genera.lly-ex-i pressed opinion of the critics that it | is a matter of only a year or two beI fore Clapp himself will have to lower | ns colours to the young New Zealander.