Flashes From Fields of Sport Abroad

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1934, Page 11

Flashes From Fields of Sport Abroad

The Latter-Day Bradman.

An extract from Neville Carduss comment on D. G. Bradman s batting for 271 not out on the second day of the Test cricket match at Leeds, in the inning? in which Bradman carried on, on the third day, to a score of 304: He played closer to the ball than any other batsman since Ranji, and he made his strokes later than'.any other batsman since Ranji. His remarkable eye and wrists enabled him to force the perfectlength ball off his pads; he never lunged forward at Verity: never was the light of speculation in his eyes. He is Bradman again plus his own relish of his incomparable gifts.’ ’ . . i -.''. * . * .. * Kirkwood’s “Lost” Cup.

Ji H. Kirkwood won the- Canadian open golf championship last year, but he»was not presented with the Rivermead Cup, which goes with the title. The secretary of the Royal Canadian Golf Association, when preparing for

this year's championship, wrote to Kirkwood asking him to ( return the trophy, and the golfer politely replied that he would be glad to do so but for the fact that it had never been in his possession. After* a long search the Canadian authorities discovered the cup lying in bond at a Customs office. . * * •» The committee of the Lancashire County Cricket Club voted, a few weeks ago, that' 100 guineas should be presented to E. Tyldesley in recognition of his achievement of scoring a hundred centuries in first-class cricket, ‘' . . .Hr * * Trade Union For Boxers. .The low'wages commonly earned by bpxers in the lower categories in Great Britain formed the principal subject of discussion at a provisional committee meeting held in London recently with the object of organising a national union of. boxers. It was . stated that although the minimum rate laid down by the British Boxing Board of Control was £1 boxers frequently were paid only a few shillings. Jimmy Wilde was elected chairman of the committee, whose aim, it'was stated, was to assist and not m hinder the ..work of the 8.8.8. C.” Wilde said after the meeting: "We are out to raise the standards of our badly underpaid boxers,- and to raise the standards of boxing. One of our first tasks will be to decide on a minimum rate, .and, what is more important. to see that the ‘boys’ get it. w * * An important step in the establishment of the Rugby League game in France was taken recently, when the basis of a national professional competition with 14 teams in if was laid dowp.