FLASHES FROM FIELDS OF SPORT ABROAD

Taranaki Daily News, 3 June 1935, Page 12

FLASHES FROM FIELDS OF SPORT ABROAD

Set-Back To Professionals. Members Of the committee which selects the British team, for the Ryder Cup match, with .the United States of America, in professional golf, must have had some disturbing thoughts while they were watching a match between professionals and amateurs, at Fulwell, Middlesex, a few weeks ago. The professionals were unable to, . beat the amateurs, although they had a strong team, including C. A. Whitcombe (subsequently winner of the Dunlop tournev), R. A. Whitcombe. Abe Mitchell, A.'H. Padgham, E. W. H. Kenyon S. Easterbrodk and A. H, Lacey. The amateurs won the foursomes by five matches to four, and the professionals won'the singles by eight matches to seven, the whole match thus being halved. There were 18 players on each side in the singles, but three of these games were halved. # , * C. L. Vincent, the left-hand slow bowler who took five wickets for 47 runs against the Marytebone Club the other day, is the oldest member of the South African cricket team which is touring England. But he is only 32.. He has placed in 21 Test matches against England, Australia, and New Zealand. ■* . * * If one more eight had entered there would have been a thousand oarsmen, in addition to the coxswains, in. the annual Head-of-the-River race on the Thames, held recently. The 124 eights started at 10-second intervals, and against time, over the four miles ana a-quarter of the Mortlake-to-Putney course—-the university boat rac6 course reversed. London Rowing Club won the first division again. This was the tenth, annual race. London R.C. nds won it hirie timefe; in 1927 it deadheated with Thames R.C. «• * * Teams which afe being beaten heavily by thfe Indian hockey team now touring New Zealand may find a crumb of consolation in the fact /hat at the Olympic Games oi 1.932, at. Los. Angeles, India beat the United States at hockey by 24 goals to one, * * Irish; Body Suspended. The International Amateur Athletic Federation has suspended the National Athletic'and Cycling Association of Ireland from membership of the federation, and has declared that it is ineligible to take part in any international competition, including . the Olympic Games, ahd to send any athlete to compete abroad or to receive foreign athletes to compete in the Irish Free State. The suspension will cease only When the Irish body gives the federation a written undertaking to abide by a decision of the I.A.A.F. congress that it must confine its activities to the Irish Free State. This action 'of the I.A.A.F. was anticipated as soon as the annual congress of the Irish .association, in February of this year refused, by 27 votes to 24, to accept the federation’s ruling, In March, the Irish association trespassed again on the territory of the Northern Ireland A.A.A., by pr&moting what the former body called an Ulster .Union cross-country championship, at Belfast. Playing lawn tennis in show must be a cheerful business! Some of the competitors at the recent tournament of the Paddington Lawn Tennis Club, London, for which first-clhss Players often enter, played in snow until they could not, See., And some of them, were wearing r shorts. Two women started a singles match at noon and finished it after 5 o’clock; they were interrupted fivd times bv rain, snoiV, and hail. # # * ■ ... Though the longest race possible on the tfack was a sprint of only 70 yards, the first indoor amateur athletic meeting in England, held at Wembley a few weeljs ago', was a, great. success.. Fields of much strength entered fpr the track, and field events for men, and for those for women/ the standard .of compfeti r tion was very gdod, and the spectators were pleased.

In the cricket season now current in England a team of schoolboy cricketers will be sent from Canada to play matches against several of the larger schools in England and also against Oxford University and Cambridge University. * * •* What was expected to be “the” hockey match, of the 1934-35 season was play'ed at Bristol a few weeks ago, when England and Ireland met to decide the international championship, of Great Britain and Ireland. However, jt was a very disappointing game, the Irish side failing to comb up to expectations. England won comfortably, by four goals to none,.and.thus took the championship without having been beaten. It is reported that China will.send.so athletes to the Olympic Games which are to be held in Berlin, next year. ■*. * * J, McLean In Grand Form. J. J. Busson, One of the players who, because 6f previous engagements, scratched on the last day. of the Dunlop professional golf tournament, the progress of which had been c.elayed by bad weather, is the British -match-play champion.-. He won the Nfews of the World” tournament last year, and also the Leeds Challenge Cup. So theie was much merit in a victory which J. McLean, Scottish amateur champion, wpo was one of the British amateur team which visited New Zealand a few

months ago. gained over Busson in a match between amateurs and professionals, at Fulwell, Middlesex, recently. McLean was in grand form, although rain and a cold wind made accurate shots very difficult. The control of his Iron shots was excellent. He beat Busson two up and one to play. in the foursomes McLean . and Hector Thomson, 21-year-old' holder of the Irish opbn championship, neat adc Mitchfell ahd C. A. Whitcbmbe. * * * Some English rowing critics say that tlih bight with which the Ii° n don Row--irig Club won. this year’s Head-of-the-Rivet championship on the Thames . js the best of the club’s many fine eights of recent years. It. is said that the crew gave a perfect exhibition of modern swivel rowing. Its time for the .four Hilps and a-quarter of the upstream course was 19min 41Sec. * * *, . •. The Portuguese take their professional Association football very sen? ously. The Lisbon and Oporto > clubs share the national championship for this year because a play-off between them is considered likely to catise too great a breach of the peace. When they played a drawn game in Lisbon .a few weeks ago free .fights .broke, out, nmong the spectators, and the police had difficulty in restoring Order.ln the interests of public safety the Minister, of the Interior forbade a replay.

Different In Wales. Writing near the end of the football season which epded in Great Britain and Ireland a few weeks ago, a British Rugby critic remarked that Welsh clubs continued to differ from those in England, Scotland, and Ireland about the off-side rule. The fault, he said, was largely with the referees, who still awarded penalties in cases in which play would be allowed to go on elsewhere, but the spectators also were blameworthy. as many of them yelled- themselves hoarse whenever a referee was strong enough to give Wing-forwards the freedom the rule permits. 1 TV # England has again won the women’s hockey championship of Great. Britain and Iceland, a? well as the mens. In their finfil international match of the season the English woffieh beat the Irish team by six goals to two. * * J. McLean, the Scottish champion who was a member of the British amateur golf team which visited Australia and New. Zealand a few months ago, seems to have been playing rather erratically since he returned Home. Sometimes he played brilliantly, sometimes his form was mediocre. So his early defeat in the British amateur championship probably did not cause much surprise. Incidentally, it was remarked of him, lately, that he still has to find the 15yds he is said to need in his drive to make him the finished golfer. * * * The crowd at an ice-hockey match between London Canadians and French Canadians, in • Paris recently, became so incensed by the repeated fouls in the play that it began throwing missiles at the playdrs. However, the police drew , the Jinfc st the throwing of chairs; a min who threw a chair was promptly arrested.

When he returned to England from the West Indies tour of the M C.C. team captained by R. E. S. Wyatt, Kenneth Fames settled down to his duties as a school master. It was reported that he would not play first-class cricket until the school holiday period in August.

That explains why the’ young fast bowler, who played in two Tests agamst the Australians-last year, is not being mentioned in cabled reports of -the Essex county cricket team s matches. Fafnes will' be 24 years old next month. # * * "Golfing tyros,” says a contemporary, "must not become soured by early failure.” In fact, they must not let the iron enter into th& soil.