Referee Suspended:

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19314, 15 October 1932, Page 14

Referee Suspended:

As a sequel to the defeat of Primo Camera by the Polish-American Stanley Poreda, the referee has been indefinitely suspended by the New Jersey Boxing Commission for giving what Commissioner Keenan described as an “unpardonable decision,” and the worst he had ever seen. The referee declared that Poreda had won the fight on points, but most of the reporters at the ringside gave Camera eight of the 10 rounds and Poreda only two. Free Hitting: A brilliant display of hitting was given in a League cricket match in Yorkshire recently, by J. M. Hutchinson, a 35-year-old professional who was with Derbyshire until the end of last year, when, as he had failed for two seasons in succession, he was not reengaged by the county. In the League match referred to, the team for which Hutchinson plays had scored 109 for six wickets. Then Hutchinson scored 118 not out in about 100 minutes, hitting three sixes and 15 fours. His partner in a prolific stand was, apparently, one Ailetson, a son of the E. Ailetson, who in 1911 scored 189 in 90 minutes for Notts against Sussex. Young Ailetson hit five fours in scoring 26, but in that time Hutchinson had scored 70. Out of the Oval: There are records and records even in cricket, and it is quite easy to love the game even while yawning over the dreary news that someone has scored one more “century” than someone else, says a writer In an English paper. One of the memorable records is recalled in an obituary notice of William Henry Game, an Oxford and Surrey cricketer who died the other day. Game played for Surrey against that remarkable Australian eleven of 1878, and made 10 runs in his two innings. Yet these 10 runs Included one imperishable feat. In his second innings he hit a ball from P. R. Spofforth clean out of the Oval. Here was a momentary affair, a single hit and yet one which passed at once in to the history of the game. By itself it was a great thing to have hit a ball clean out of the Oval, and that fact alone adds lustre to our thought of the ground. But to have hit a ball from Spofforth out of the Oval was a unique achievement. This puts the batsman on a pinnacle, and sets us thinking across the years of Spofforth and all that he stood for in cricket. And if Game had never done anything else (and among other things he made the first century hit for Oxford against Cambridge) that one hit puts him for ever in the cricket Valhalla.