THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1081, 19 September 1930, Page 7

THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG

«*"ed After an absence ot over 18 months from lawn tennis, E. Higgs has returned to the game, and won the singles championship of Herts and West Herts. Higgs was a member of the British lawn tennis temn which visited New Zealand and Australia in the 1928-29 season. * * * A Tate Rumour Rumours that Maurice Tate, famous •Sussex and England cricketer, intended to join a Lancashire Cricket League Ciub, are stated by Tate to be utterly without foundation. Tate says emphatically that he is remaining with Sussex. J. C. Morley, clever Welsh wing three-quarter of the British Rugby team, probably will remain in Australia at the end of the team’s tour. * * * W. M. ("Little Bill”) Johnston, former tennis champion of the world, is reported to be making a good recovery from the lung trouble which has kept him for many months in a hospital near San Francisco. Wakefield Will Referee Although W. W. Wakefield, England’s famous Rugger captain, does not intend to play again, he will act as a referee, and, by reason of his membership of the Rugby Union Committee, w iU continue to take an active part in the administrative side of the game.

Indian Hockey Team The Indian Hockey Association has accepted an invitation to send a team England in 1932. It will be an AllIndia team, not an Indian Army side, hut its programme in England will inmatches with the divisions of the British Army, Navy and Air Force. A match with Germany will also take P‘ a ce in England. • Test Match

Th « match which the British Rugby »am played in Brisbane last Saturay week wag not with Australia, M, O was not a Test match. It was w , an Australian fifteen.” The ™ in which the introductory part ” cabled description of the match received in New Zealand suggested the match was with Australia, it was assumed that the British Jr®* manager had agreed tiiat the 7*“* should be elevated to Test However, references in AustraPapers which arrived a day or i, kter show clearly enough that aim. V ot a Tetit . the original arrange--8 having prevailed. Br »dman Evenings [KfW has it that enthusiastic Ausof i*?, 8 f °uml a most convivial way thR fortunes of Don Artv ” at the bat,in K crease. A " a frl ,u' V appropriate and adequate idio ments would gather round a ■W wlien Hie master was bat•hero For evp ry 10 runs he scored run« a drink, and for each -*0 sc ore J 3 ble round. And the day he • * • A F *mou» All-Rounder *2** in England has suffered a 088 by the suicide of G. A. ie fuJlI*’ 1 *’ *° r (be cricket school which African all-rounder benefit* 0 /* * n London was of great Mayer , n ? an y a promising young '•as Playing days 1‘ aulknei tatunJjl excellent all-rounder. As a strong in defence, very driver on , the le » side, and a powerful the <rn ft , his bowling he exploited 6 °*iy. but with more pace than

B. J. T. Bosanquet, the “patentee” of the googly, and he mixed a deadly fast yorker with the slow balls. Faulkner played for South Africa in 17 Test matches against England, and in eight against Australia. Hjs batting average for 32 innings against England was 30.13, and for 13 innings against Australia it. was 62.53. With the ball in Test matches he took GS English wickets for 21.G4 runs apiece, and 14 Aus- ’ tralian wickets for 50.57 **'ins each. In his first Test, in 1906. took four 1 for 26 in England’s second innings. His •, last Test match was in 1924, in England. Thereafter he settled in England. Faulkner came originally from Transvaal, and was in his 49th year at the time of his death.

Soccer Coach Goes Home Colin Reid, one of the best-known j n sof-cer circles in r\ew z.eat’uat Zealand during the r «as« ol vlsit - H mM.TkM.p the'coaching of sne oV The bj g English, professional teams .. * * Dirt Track R ders Abroad i arlvices received in Well--I’rivate ad. ces i Vew Zealand ington state that went to Kngdirt tra<: k ll< ‘ *• just sen son have ln 'J^een l taring tSo .veil. They have not been lai 11 .s" tll .of-a-mile 0 f-a-mile courses S more di Tu-ult to manoeuvre than the quarter-mile tracks y land. t\alli K jiungliam. both in the first flight in New Zealand, have found the sport very difficult and have not won anything big. Mangham was so unfortunate as to fracture his collarbone as a result of a collision, and has been laid aside for some time. Maugham expects to return for the New Zealand dittut it is not yet known track si ano.., i tends to return to when Kl ' n ?'® T ... 0 Australian speedtil** Dominion. 1 . , cj pprkins. n w Stinewich and e [ Kni ;- sters, '> • *^ u * ,th only moderate haV rUs IS °The latter has been comthe su = .uonths tfountries li«- track racing » very popular.