SPORT AND SPORTSMEN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18149, 7 May 1927, Page 2

SPORT AND SPORTSMEN.

miiiuimiiiimiiiimiiiimimmimiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiniiimiHiHbiiM The Rev Matene, a member of the | Maori Rugby team which recently 1 visited France and England, while 1 playing for Tangowahine against | Pukehuia on Saturday last, received a | nasty kick over the eye and had to | retire from the game, says the “ Star’s ” ! Auckland correspondent. J Mr T. C. Webb, solicitor, of ville, who is well known in Rugby ball circles as an ex-player referee, is leaving to reside in land 1 A^ Rtigbv^B : : M■ • 1 0~-V X* > t. a - r ■ •' < > K • ‘i' scld* players had an opportrNMPflßPif^viieked for the Otago team, as the olisThnce, nearly eighty miles, was usually too far for selectors to make the journey. The new union controls a large area of country and at the present time has five senior teams in its town competition, as well as a country committee which controls the game in the back country. Besides the senior teams, there are two other grades, in each of which there are several teams entered for the present season. Golfing history relates the stories of many strange wagers in golf matches. Before the days of the modern professional school amateurs played golf for the club wines and food, and even for clothing for the clubs’ servant;:. In modern matches among professionals Ihe stakes usually take the form cf' big money prizes or purses subscribed by interested parties. Never has there been a competition for a professional appointment, however, and this is the prize offered to the winner of a competition to be held by the Benton Park Club. Northumberland. Dick May is shortly leaving for America, and the club is finding it difficult to make its "final selection of his successor.

Mr John Farrell, the well-known touring manager for J. C. Williamson companies, has a son at King's College. Auckland. The lad holds the 50yds. swimming record of the school—2Bsec. coldest man at Lake Ellesmere was a well-known local police was unfortunate enough to his mai mai after givthe fine ever. to trip 1 the cold waters of the after his .-plarii. the ofrithat practically ail his cloth■topping, and. to make matters lv ’ s waders were filled with it- was . early in the morning he took his header into the |Rter. and it was not until 4.30 p.m. Fthafc he was able to get a change of I clothing. The hours betwixt and between were spent in waiting and shaking. The officer told his story to-day with a smile. He said he felt cold—mighty cold—and reckoned he was the coldest man at the lake, but he got a great deal of amusement by listening to the growls and grumbles of sportsmen there who were cold without having fallen into the water. A German correspondent, writing in a London paper, refers to the progress that Germany has made in athletics. He looks for results, not next year, but five years hence. “The year 1928,” he writes, “will be the overture, but in 1932 Germany will begin to play some part in the Olympic opera. Peltzer, Corts, and Kornig will be curtain-rais- :: 3 k Australia will take a large part in British golf this season. Two of the most brilliant young amateurs. Len Nettlefold, national amateur champion, and Geoffrey Grimwade, former Melbourne Grammar School boy and junior member of the Metropolitan Club, will participate in the amateur championship at St Andrews. In the women’s championship Australia will be well represented, as Miss Gladys Hay and Miss L.W ray (N.S.W.) both former national women champions, will be competing.