SPORT and SPORTSMEN

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17345, 18 July 1924, Page 3

SPORT and SPORTSMEN

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"ONLOOKER"

NEWS , GOSSIP AND COMMENT

The spelling has been .altered. Now it’s Charltwon. Chinese u Soccer ” team v. Wellington to-morrow. Out of thirty tries scored by the 1924 All Blacks in Sydney, only ten were converted. Tf Nejua does not givo up speculating, we shall have to speak to the Key J . J. North about him. Old Boys have a mortgage on the Canterbury Rugby competition. British 'League team, arrives in Now Zealand on Tuesday. Raujiteinh.jj attacks England’** cricket standard, but his criticism of the two-eyed stance won’t hold water. The date of the New Zealand crosscountry athletic championship ha 3 been fixed ior August 16. Linwood felt pained and shocked when North Canterbury put it across. \rt Aucklander has discovered that the Maoris i>layed bowls with stone 9 »>t Taurauga in the old cannibal days. Mas the kitty a skull ? Athletic contest Britain v. America to-morrow. Forritt rims for the Empire. Auckland’s Rugby team to play the Alt Blacks on July 23 includes K. 11werson as first five-eighths, and L. M’Lean as wing three-quarter. M’Lean was full-back for New Zealand, in the ihird test last year. Private accounts received from Sydney say that fl. G. Munro, formerly of Canterbury College, is a te Hooker of Hookers,” and that the other Ail Blacks regard him as a wizard. H. M. Abrahams, Britain’s champion Olympic sprinter, has come to tho front in sensational fashion. At tho English championships last year lie won tho broad jump, but never thought enough of himself even to start in the 100 yards. Murchison, who helped the United States team at Olympia to shatter records in the 400 metres relay, has been on the track for twelve years. In 1921 and 1922, though, lie was under a cloud. If ever there was a Christchurch High School wing three-quarter who promised to go straight from seniors to New' Zealand's rep. side, it was C. 1”. Low. But lately he has been cuu- >. is tent only for off-colour. Petono, in Wellington, continue their match-winning way, and bid fair this season to place their twelfth championship win to their credit. If thejdo so they will be level with their great rivals, Poneke, who have already a dozen victories on the slate. Two of the selectors of tho Canterbury Rugby team. Messrs W. A. Brake and 11. E. Davis, will go to Ashburton io-morrow to watch the AshburtonHuru nui sub-union match. They’re keen on getting tall, last forwards particularly', if any' are offering. Australian, tennis players J. Willard and J. M. Bayley, besides doing extraordinarily well at Wimbledon, cleaned up ” many' noted men in the singles at Olympia, including Halat (Belgium), Raymond (South Africa), Raclie (Denmark) and Shilut (Finland) It was recalled when New Plymouth High School retained the Moascar Cup the other day that, when it was first won in Egypt, G. Carter, R. N. Snow, IT. J. Ward, R. G. Burgess and T. W. Gleeson, of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles, were on the victorious New Zealand side. The New Zealand pack that helped materially to defeat the New South Wales <>n Wednesday averaged I3st 6lb a man. They were quite a hefty lot, and from the cabled accounts of tho play they wore altogether t m :• od for the light blues’ vanguard. Tho 2 3 2 scrum once again held its own. Taranaki, having succeeded in getting Brown into the All Blacks, are experimenting with other schoolboy champions. Against Wellington they had Jeffries as half and Alexander a.-> live-eighths, both New Plymouth High School hoys. The idea proved an unqualified success. Wellington were threshed. C. G. Porter, tho hero of the «Sydney trip, has been a footballer sineje ho could walk. He learned at the South Wellington School, and went on steadily representing in turn Wellington ( >JJege, College Old Boys, Horowhenua, Wellington (under twenty-one team;, Athletic seniors. Wellington province North Island and then New Zealand. • Ex-Christchurch ” writes to tho •‘Otago Daily Times,” complaining of distorted criticism in connection with < .'au ter bury football made in that, paper. Ho says that tho C.R.F.U. has nothing to learn from ex-Dunedinifce ” iu cho management of the game. Nov v beaten New - Wal . bj ich a big margin of points as they did on W ednesday. The previous record in this connection was put up m the second test match in Christchurch last year, when New Zealand won by a margin of twenty-eight points, the final score being thirty-four in six. Only once before have the All Blacks scored as many as thirty-eight points against the New South Welsh-i'-eu. 'That it as in tho third te c t last year. when New Zealand wo n by thirty-eight points to eleven.

r Dailey demonstrates. Let tho Canterbury selectors learn - something from the sharp first test lesson taught tho All Black selectors: Put sturdy defensive backs in your 1 rearguard. 3 *** Anyway, a man who is game to tackle is game for anything else. • That is why Svens on lias proved his worth. 3 Saturday’s hockey surprise was the draw by St Albans with the leaders 7 | Selvryn A. j Sam Friekleton. one of Canterbury’s j best “ Soccer ” players, has been transferred to Napier. Hats off to the legless shooting champion of Bisley, Lieutenant Sutherland, ‘ of the Black Watch. i * * A very short term with I. H. Brown , as full-back was enough for Christchurch last Saturday. . “ Good-bye,” says Nurmi, the Finn, to his fellow-competitors in o race, 41 I’ll tell them you’re coming.” Auckland’s Rugby 44 heads,” helped bv Ifwerson, plan to spring a surprise oil the All Blacks next Wednesday. R. Sinclair, a boy, ou tho wing for , North Canterbury last Saturday, scored two dashing tries against Linwood, and threatens to do bigger things. I Borotra. the* French tennis crack has now decided to include New Zea land in *bi:s southern trip next sum - - mer. The men’s five-a-side hockey tourney I is set down for August 23 and the schoolboys’ “ sometime.” It is hard to understand the sometime. In view of the coming soccer match v between Canterbury and tlie Chinese Universities, on

August 30, a number of Canterbury players are now undergoing training under Mr Chris. Head. An old professional f o o bballer, Mr Head is well qualified to undertake the duties of trainer. Ct was a proof of his ability to turn out a fit team when Canterbury defeated the Australian representatives when they toured New Zealand. Among the Olympic -.whnmers Johnny Weissmuller might have been tipped to be the winner in the matter of name. But what about the Greek competitor, Bassilopoulous. Ask your friends to proqpjunce it quickly and then decide. ‘■'That chap talks a lot about bis golf. What does ho go round in ':** ‘*’Oh. about 120 on the links in the sun, and 70 in the shade of the clubhouse. 7 ’ Mf J. \\ . Xorric who is to succeed ,Mi B. S. Doan. -manager of the All *lslacks, in Wellington, is lay - a eoinJcidence al’s<? a. Rugby enthusiast and administrator. He held last year the position of chairman of the Hawke's nay Rugby UnioA, and was re-elected this year. 4 of the magnificent spectacles at ihe

• stadium in Park ; this week wbt realised tliou the Olympic Games ir ancient days were more splendid ; c setting than those oi to-day. The “K 7 3ii n as in m ?: them had a -00 yd straightway undei a beautiful colonnade, supported by mnrble columns. I Of Ai lie Borg, the swimmer, the' [say: •• As soon as his arms enter th< wrier they start their pull- The put |s positive at all times, and its scop is but half an arm length, instead o the long straight-aim sweep of Lh> ; average American champion swim If 1' H. ldllis had forgotten a boat Rtl i tin \[ ■ ; ■ i . • ■ dington in the la.-, , League championship match last Saiur day. i si’iis startling news of tlic stale oi . ... Zeala ' i GOUT ; she London “Observer'* of May 18 i Looking at the headings, a New" Zea | lander must wonder why it-is he- has I not heard of the dreadful state of afl fairs depicted in them. The iV.m /.ealan Itu by < i Mali’s 1 j Abandon tlio Game.- Serious (‘ir-avn n i —Prestige and Person alii v. Effect oi Ail Black Tour/’ These lines intro cl* . 1 C’orii which deals with the circumstances o j tho suspension and subsequent breakn.. j away of tho Marist Club in Christ j church. Tho writer Apparently ox- [ pec ted events which have not yet. happened. while the headline writer wenl one further and came to the eonelusior I that Rugby was oil its Inst- legs in ill if : country. The Ail Blacks should stir--1 lish read vev " who maj have come to the con- ' elusion that the New Zealanders arc going to be an easy thing.

All Blacks call for Merrie England on Tuesday week. August .16 is the date for the Eea£uc match Britain v. Canterbury iu-Christ-church . South Auckland failed, after an u)> hill game, to take the Brown “Soccer’ J Shield from Auckland. Though hurt in a match last Satur- ' day. All Black Robilliard did not suffer any serious injury. J. Steel, the All Black, was publicly far ewe lied at Grey mouth on Wednesday, at a, smb'ke concert, ’when he was presented with a gold chain. l.inwood’a tennis team ought to 'win the senior club competition. They vo 11 borrowed }i Goss to “held” Denton. Nut yet decided whether New Zen land will play England’s Rugby fifteen at Twickenham or in the stadium at Wembley. I*. Storey, ex-All Black. Las been left out of the South Canterbury repicsentative team to play Oamaru t-o morrow. Sr-enroos won the Marathon this year, but ho was not previously looke< : upon as Finland’s main hope. The firststring was V/. Kyronen. an ex-baker. howov< hougl lirty-six years of age, ambled in six. minutes ahead. “Boy’’ Cliarlton is seventeen years of age, 6ft in height and weighs l*2st 91b. Bis sensational swimming victory over Arno Borg 'at the Olympic Games makes him a world figure and when he gets back to Australia the v harves will be crowded w ith tens s of thousands wishing to do him ; honour. Selwyn hockey player, will not be available for the senior representatives in the tournament. Morris’s ability as a centre-half makes him invaluable tc any learn, and the continued successes j of the Selywn Club are largely due to his brilliant play.

j -5 T. Burrows, the Varsity forward, I'x-t'Htly underwent an operation for appendicitis, lias made a. good ieooTery, but ■ ; i : i ;ij c<»u tho jersey m/ain ibis season. T. Gonna a Queensland League player, is be raided ns being the bo n thrce oiiarter back of the veer. Eu-daml ov ..vUoiralia. , \.l . tlio Maori full-back, did no! i impress the .Sydney crowd. Tho SydUvy ‘ >un says lie lielded the hai’ well, but didn’t .do much with ic except kick This was surprising. seeing that he is fast and athletically built. Vt the end, looking buck o ror tlio . _ game, and survey- > " in-' rhe play, tm<> could not hdn feeling disappointed with him. His j kicking was not as good as Notliiing's. • and whereas JNothling in variably ran { across the field, Nepia didn’t run a . ail. He should cultivate the habit of racing up to his three-quarters and setting them in action. It is a comparativoly -nodera development, but the INV v Zealanders must have seen enough of it to have realised its value Judging n uri . irs irom the i r: .? . ' :: • camp it * 1 • wild <. l in Aiq ‘ ust when Luis l ; ’irjx> and Hurry "WilH’ ; Bght for the right- to be Jack Dempsey’s | r.ex.t opponent. ! Ike Robin, the 17 stone Hawke's Bav Maori, is still New Zealand’s champion wrestler, Joe Duffy, whom, he threw the other night, comes from Hamilton “ l*ab : ‘ llendrcn who made J 32 for : England in the third cricket test j against South Africa this week, seems • to be coming back to form. In the 11120-21 reason, while touring Australia he knocked together 1178 runs in .*2O innings. All tho South African cricketers now j in Engknd who were not 100 young took part in the Great W a**, while D Nourse saw service in tho Matabelo campaign. Pegler holds the Distinguished Service Order, which he gained with the Rifie Brigade at Ypres. Hands was awarded the Military Cross while serving with the artillery. The gate of 30,000 at the Rugby tests in Sydney is a fine indication of tho way in which Rugby is making its way back into favour in Australia. A few years back it was impossible to got more tkggi 5000 to 10,000 people out to see even tie most importer. jS-ugby match;, supporters 'of the professional code were confident *V t Rguby was in a -fair way to vanish altogether from Australian playing fields. Now the boot's cm the other

Tile • i . nn. tb.-' other side all went to .England: 22 to 3. o to 3 and 21 to 11. For a sharp nippj half-back. Me rival© could do a whole lot worse than stick to J. M’Cabe. If, A . Midi '. • . - ■ - is given a civic reception in Grey mouth. lluling by an experienced Rugby referee:—‘“As soon as the ball ,is hooked, the wing-forward must com© buck with it: otherwise he is offside arid a penalty must be given against Liin. ’’ Golfers will bo' giad to know that tee is derived from an old Icelandic v/erd which meant ‘to point out. 15 ‘‘J inkier than ever. That’s what Lancaster Park enthusiasts say of W, A. Ford. Increasing years have but made him sturdier and harder to topple over, and experien.ee has redoubled his craft. He *>'3it] rers tkr<! ugh. openings thus another man would not dream ol : . England has won the first three cricket tests against the South Africans on the present tour. 'The fourth begins oil -July 2d. Last Saturday was tno ** Twelfth of July.'’ The occasion was too muen ior the Marists League team. J\ Kirby, the Christchurch club eaptain, is likely to be called by the selectors. The row which led to the disqualification of Snowy Thompson, Australia’s rough-rider, at the Wembley Rodeo, again hammers home the old truthprint tho rules before the light. Sailormcn at Port Chalmers up til' last week used the local recreation ground for a quiet game of football or* Sundays. Now the jiolic© have stepped in. A. Brown, Lin wood's full-back, owing to an injury, is not 'likely to piav mrain t his> season.

' ‘ Scrum’ 7 Evans, one oi : Cairter- | bury’a many top-notch full-backs of | past years, turned out in an office match this week. His kicking foot 5 was ii'-rt r in better order. j An ■ ir.j ampimis, in- . • ■' 'V< Ed are lik« ly be ■ on English Park ■• ** > \il 111a< h< id | 9 to 3, drew with Otago at Southland. 10 all. beat Canterbury til to 3 and lost i<• AV-diington 0-3. Jovial, eigbteen-stone Warwick Armstrong went Home on business recently. but the cal! of the bat came io him and the cables re cord that ho hit up I93in a club lnaicii. - ....• ting four ior 21. More power ti> his elbow! livo Christchurch League players, K. n. lilli i. 1.. Petersen, T. Gilroy and G. Fitzgerald, of Marists, and \Y. Stewart. of Hornby, have been chosen to g<» to Auckland i'or u. trial in connection with the League match New Zealand v. England, on August 2.

A WORLD BEATER

The prize-fighter was on trial for manslaughter. Ho stood in the dock glaring impartially at the judge and jury. “ Does the prisoner challenge any member of the jury?” asked his la>rdship. A gleam of delight glowed in the prisoner's eyes as lie fixed Iris gaze on the diminutive foreman. '“Yus, me Lord," he replied with alacrity, •‘ I'll take oti that little bloke" at. the end, for;.a start." 4A* Kggby Union's ot?er of u rifty--s£ty With the Hotkey i,6Epc:«.c;on on'the 4ay of the tock«y tourpaspexit final and the junior Rugby representative match is regarded by hockey enthusiasts as another example of the j Rugbv Union's and decent • Uvairneui.

■ I Purdy, the New Zealand boxer, got i j the worst end of the stick from a } French judge at Olympia. j Of thirty-four* matches between New South Wales and New Zealand, New Zealand has won twenty-five, and. one has been drawn. ‘‘ln the mass, the players fought .land kicked each other.’’—The third League test, Australia r. Britain, t should have been stopped by the police. Varsity were expected at one* stage to disturb the Rugby aspirations of leading senior clubs, .but .they fellawav ■ from lack of dash and staying power. | The match for the Payne Trophy ' ■• 111 be played at Dunedin on August 30. It looks as if Old Boys will Iho team from this city. j Colin Deans, who was five-eighths ' for Canterbury in the* Springboks* i match, is playing for Hurunui tomorrow as wing-forward. So is Y. I IT. Robinson, as centre, and 33- Dicd- ! rich as five-eighths. The cable messages did not state . that Weissmuller winked' at Charlton after the finish of the heat of the Ah') mot-res championship at the Olympic Games. Probably Arne Borg’s fate has put winking at Charlton out of fashion. The ladies’ six-a-side hockey tourney last Saturday was one of the most successful ever held. Rakaia are to be congratulated on their success in reaching the final. Should they stick, together the Sheffield ladies’ team will be a solid proposition next season. j it is high time that the players in the •Men’s Hockey Association gave better support to the committee. The lack of interest shown in the tournament and jumble sale in aid thereof reflects little credit upon the exponents of the stick game. The first matcli of the Canterbury Rugby representatives this season is that against- Otago at Dunedin on August 9. Followers of the game will remember how last year against Otagr \V. A. Ford snatched victory for Canterbury right on the call of time. j Sixteen and thirteen out of a possible thirty have been the attendances at the training nights for the hockey representative team. That shows? little courtesy to the Trainer 3nd less the selector. The latter should adhere to his decision and drop all v/ho do not attend unless they provide reasonable excuses. New Zealand’s Rugby selectors of last year, Messrs Drake, Stuart and Griffiths, were thrown overboard this season, primarily because they offended Hawke’s Boy by discarding Mill and Gemmed after the first test against New South Wales at Dunedin in 1923. It looks as if they were right after ail. On Monday night the Canterbury ' Referees’ Association sore holding a function to say au revoiy to Mr S. F. Wilson, who io going Home with the All Black team as New Zealand’s representative at the Imperial Rugby Conference. On the following evening the Canterbury Rugby Union arc holding a similar functionWhile Charlton was settling the, pretentions of Arne Borg, Frank Beau repairs was putting the seal on the arpirations of the r.< xt best of them Beaurepaire, it is recalled, first swam in Olympic contests when they werej last held in Paris, a span that goes back lo Charlton’s swaddling clothes Saj Even in i h _• brilliance <>i’ Charlton’;-. glory. .Beaurepaire*s star must vet shine firmly. hie is one of the world’s . great athletic vronders. The .-Christchurch v. Old Boys match v.;’i probably be . .played to-morrow v.x-ek. On form this season Old Boys l should go out favourites. Old Boys j ■ will possibly be without the services • of S. Xt. Carle ton, who is at present j | away from Christchurch. Even so • I they hope to field a strong back side | What happened to G. Herd? Thatj is what his friends in Christchurch arc asking just now. The cables i s a ted that he could do no better than I | 3n>.in 9sec in the 200 metres breast- • stroke swimming heat. In Christ--1 church m a tidal in which he had no : assistance from other competitors Lo : registered Smin 2»oc. Evidently the in Chris t- | church boy. =Vj More material Jot* argument- in f l -S.A. A year or so ago there was i no doubt that Helen "Wainwright was ;> better swimmer than Gertrude ! E-derle. Before the Games started it v. as absurd to suggest that Gertrude j was not a whole lot oetter than Helen, | and (of course) sheer heresy to sag- fc gest tiiat the pair wore not the best [ two in the world. Neither could win l the 400 metres event, however, and : Helen beat Berirudc for second place It was a topsy turvy position altogether. The prominent swimming of Miss 0 { • orzh in the heats of the ladies’ j • f BO metres event at th o Olympic I Games indicates that this swimmer l

must ha\ ' - . improve- * ment in the past season. A year ago -he was not among; ihe probables when winner:-: were consid .?.ed, and she had barely been heard ol in the more important English championships. Miss Molesworth is an Eastbourne girl, still m her teens. Her moat notable perform an e© last year was in. the 100 yards ladies’ championship of the M inlands, decided at Birmingham, ivhen {-he swam second to Miss Constance- M. Jeans, who won in 68 4-s sec. Never before in hr- i swimming career has G with a Shand failed to finish in u race. And every Neiv Zealander who has followed her career* knows what gruelling races she has fought out and with what indomitable pluck she lias fought them. The one fact of which all can rest assured is that it was something other than a lack <>f willingness to light that caused the New Zealander to give up at 800 metres in iho 400 metres Olympic swimmihg championship. It’s bad luck lor New Zealand, and very hard for Miss Shand. »n Sydney a year ago slie won quite easily over a quarter mile course in ‘finin Bsec. With a world's championship offering there must have been something radically wrong for her to be so far out in a race that was won in 6min 2sec. As tlio result ol L. Blown playing for City, Auckland’s lending League club, instead ot for Newton, there is a fierce controversy up north. Brown has now produced- what lio calls a, trump card : { August 20, 1923. To AVho.'p It May Concern. - This is to state that L. Brown, of j the Newton Rangers League Foot- 1 ball Club, is clear of liability of S nature from bis club and * and is entitled to olay League football under the juriscretjpp of the Rugby League in England or elsewhere. For the New Zealand Rugby League. (Sign-d) IV. O. r \I?T; \W Sec.