SPORT AND SPORTSMEN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17410, 12 December 1924, Page 12

SPORT AND SPORTSMEN.

(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3) J.n England-to date C. Brownlie has scored three tries for the All Blacks, one against North Midlands and two against East Midlands. Another curious point is that Xepia converted five tries against North Midlands and the same number against East Midlands. "Moderation In All Things" writes: —ln last Friday's " Sport and Sportsmen ” there was a note from a correspondent "Go Easy " in which he referred to the danger that young people ran of spoiling themselves as tennis players by too much practice. There is another aspect of this question which I think is of more importance and that is the danger of permanent physical injury by over-indulgence in games and athletics. Everyone recognises that a moderate amount of exercise is not only beneficial but. absolutely essential to good health, but there is always the. danger of young people over-doing things. Boys especially like to show their powers of endurance without thinking that by going on until they are ready to drop thev may be oveistraining some important organ of the body and thus leave effects that may make themselves apparent in after life. For this reason I think schoolboys should not be allowed to take part in rowing races. Race rowing is probably the hardest of all sports and unless a member of a crew wishes to throw the whole crew’ out he must simply keep going no matter if he is absolutely fagged out. No boy. even h he is strong and well-trained, is sufficiently developed to stand up to this and it has always surprised me why the authorities of Wanganui Coliege Christ’s College, Christchurch Boys’ High School and Waitaki Boys High School allow the annual race between crews from these four schools to go on.” It is hard to pick the results of football matches by past performances of the teams. The All Blacks beat < ambridge University by 5 points to nil and Oxford by 33 to 15. yet Oxford downed Cambridge by 11 points to 6. Something the same happened in 190-5. In that year Oxford was regarded as a much stronger team than < ambridge, but whilst the All Blacks romped over Oxford to the tune, of 17 to nil, they beat Cambridge by only 14 to nil. Fortune has been kind so far to University, who, with three wins, are leading by a fair margin in the Auckland senior cricket championship competition, North Shore being the the only other team with championship points to their credit at present. Arthur Mailey writes on the importance of nerve in the cricket field. Just so. Most of our cricketers have plenty. It requires nerve, in the faces of 20.000 spectators, to go on bowling off-theoiy and leg-theory in spite of the fact that the. batsman refuses to whack at it. it also requires nerve not to hit at this sort of bowling. Fortunately most of our cricketers have got enough nerve for this. On many occasions our sporting public has been treated to some magnificent displays of bowling oJf tiie wicket, and imperturbable non-batting batsmen. Some of them have veiled to the bowler to " bowl at the stumps,” and others to the batsmen to " have a cut at ’em, but no—the bowler, feel ing that it was necessary to keep runs down, kept on his off-theory, and the batsman, knowing that if you don't hit a ball you can’t be caught off it, nobly restrained his feelings. Meanwhile the man at the. gates had the nerve to take the money. Sydney ** Sun." "With reference to the aerial Derby held this week in Sydney, a Riccarton correspondent writes stating that had he known in time lie would have encored - Kn Route The Hawk Grev Linnet Aerial Bingen Six ’Cylinder Night Patrol Wild Goose Flight Commander Overhaul Biplane Flying Fox Aerofortis Warplane Flying Alaster Some twelve months ago the possible re-action of Tilden’s damaged finger on his game was being discussed pretty widely. Two of the joints of his middle, finger had to be amputated, and the tear was general that this would destroy the efficacy of his game. I ndeed, for some months ; after the operation Tilden’s game deteriorated. He was actually beaten by players not ranking in America’s first ten. But thereafter came a swift change. His game mounted to heights never achieved before: and folk began to say that the removal of a superfluous finger joint or two appeared to be an advantage in the playing of super-tennis. Anyway, Tilden has no difficultly nowadays in winn ng from anybody. Johnston. Patterson, or Anderson, included. K 1.. Poult-on. tli© Sydney tennis player, who was not. at. al! well during the latter stages of his visit to New Zealand last season, when representing New South Wales, had a bad time on his return to Sydney, but his numerous friends will be pleased to hear that he is at last himself again. He was showing splendid form at the- Strathfield championships, far above what he showed here, and his defeat of E. L. .Tones, 6-4. 6-2, was a fine performance. Poulton is almost sure to he a competitor at the New Zealand championship-; this year, and it is quite on the cards that he will have a mate with him for the doubles.' Aliss Lloyd will also be across to compete at Auckland.