PARAGRAPHS FROM SPORTS WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1935, Page 9

PARAGRAPHS FROM SPORTS WORLD

Tire New Plymouth Golf Club’s-an-nual tournament at Waiwakaiho at Easter usually comes a little early in the season for the country players. This year, however, Easter coming late in April, these players will have had ample opportunity of obtaining the necessary practice, and the standard of play is likely to ,show an all-round improvement.

The experience he has obtained by competing in the New Plymouth Amateur Athletic Club events lias worked a big improvement in the High School runner Felix Ulenberg, He is striding out in good style, having lost that suspicion of plodding along that characterised his earlier efforts. Big things are expected of this boy next season. Absolutely unpaced he recently broke 16 minutes for three miles, and there are not many school boys who have ever equalled that. Wait and See, winner of the. Shaw Handicap at Ohinemuri, is an Australian mare. She was imported from Australia in 1932 by her present owner, Mr. C. E. Robertson, and is a four-year-old Sy Rosewing (son of Sunstar) from Lin-

lass, by Linacre from Lfle Less, by Marco. She is a sister .to Whittingham, who did such good service for George Price at Melbourne this month. This was the seventh success of Wait and See. Andrew “Boy” Charlton will > definitely not be seeking representative honours for the Olympic Games at Berlin next year. He is not going into retirement, however. He hopes to gain selection, in the Australian surf team of 26 men which it is proposed to send to Eng- • land next year on a tour of surf lifesaving instruction. George Canaway, senior belt champion of Australian surf teams, has a method of training which brings out every hit of a man’s courage and stamina. With his arms resting upon a heavy, square piece of board he kicks his way over eight laps <440 yards) of the Manly baths daily, rests for a short while, then gets back into the water with a surf belt around his chest and a long piece of lifeline attached to He gets three or four boys to hold-eta to the . line about four yards behind him and " « swims, towing their full weight, over ‘ another quarter of a mile.