SHORT PASSES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18578, 28 September 1928, Page 12

SHORT PASSES.

All you require in order to perform the hat trick are a bowler and three tame rabbits. 58 52 58 It will take a good All Black team to beat the Waratahs next year on their own ground. , , 52 52 52 It is quite on the cards that Bert Cooke may not don a jersey next season, owing to pressure of business, telegraphs the “ Star’s " Wairarapa correspondent. While the Wellington, forwards showed vim and dash last Saturday, the Canterbury men played like a pack of crocked dead-beats. 52 52 SS Two fri.enctty golfing enemies were having a real dyel. It was mostly level pegging all the way round, and they completed the seventeenth all square. Jones, who was desperately keen to win,' hit a high shot to the last hole, and; the ball was carried by the breeze into impossible country, costing him the' match. Walking clubw’ards the unfortunate one £aid, “ I’m so darned disappointed, I’ve a jolly good mind to go home and shoot myself.” “ All right,” said his #friend cheerfully, ‘‘don’t forget to allow for the wind.” 55 52 5i Charles Paddock, the famous American sprinter, the first to be termed “ the fastest human,” has run his last Olympic race, and possibly his last for all time. He paid a High tribute to Percy Williams, the nineteen-year-old Canadian, who won both the 100 metres and the 200 metres Olympic races. “ That boy doesn’t rim—he flies. He’s a thoroughbred and a great competitor.” 52 52 52 One point was made clear in the moving pictures of the Tunney-Heeney championship fight. Tunnp” was never really still, and Heeney 'could never gauge the distance of his punch. Tunney’s feints drew the New Zealander's leads, and his counters jarred the challenger. There’s a lot of wisdom in bouncing if there is intelligence behind it. * With the approaching arrival in New Zealand of the All Blacks, interest in Petone centres on the home-com-ing of Mark Nicholls (says the Wellington “Post”). It will be remembered that when this player returned from the 1924 tour he was tendered a public reception. On this occasion a somewhat similar function will probably take place. The Mayor of Petone has received a telegram from Mr T. M. Wilford. M.P.. suggesting that such a reception should be given, and saying that he would be pleased to attend.

If Lloyd Hahn doesn't change his mind the track will see the last of him at the conclusion of the current season. He stated that after the Olympics,he woujd retire and devote his attention to fanning. “ A coaching post doesn’t interest him” (says a New *York paper). “He believes he could hang on in major track competition another four years, perhaps make another Olympic team, his third, but the Nebraska farms are calling and the lure of scorching the boards, winning races and hanging up world’s records is not what it used to be with Hahn. The thrill has paled somewhat for the Nebraskan after winning thirty-one consecutive races and cornering most of the middle distance championships. A farm or two up near Falls City, Neb., part of his mother’s legacy, will claim his attention after he hangs up his track spikes.

Speedball, a combination of football and basketball, and a game which, athletic authorities predict, may in the near future become the most popular sport in American schools and colleges, is being intensively taught at the Columbia University in New York City (says an American paper'. Men and women physical education directors and coaches from all over the country are attending daily classes of instruction. Speedball is played with eleven men or women on a side. To start it a regulation soccer ball is kicked off. The ball cannot be picked from the ground with the hands, but can only be lifted with the -feet. Once caught in the hands, the basketball feature comes in, for it can be passed from player to player, the skill and rapidity with which they do this carrying the ball rapidly down the field. There is.no “off-side” rule as in football, nor is there a line-up.

The following paragraph from a London paper should keenly' interest tennis enthusiasts in Christchurch:—A wellknown tennis authority remarked that it was time that the racquet ramp ceased. He recenltv handled one that was listed at 60s, and in his opinion its real worth was very small. As he remarked: “It's well varnished—and prettily labelled!” A good racquet is an asset, but not until a player can really use one properly does one get the best out of the best. For average club play two guineas for a racquet is enough to pay. And the makers could put an efficient one on the market at that price.

. 52 52 52 A certain celebrated batsman, just before going to the wicket, persuaded to scribble his autograph in an urchin’s album- Two minutes later this player, for once in his life, collected an inglorious dubk, and on returning to the pavilion he saw the owner of the album hanging across the railings with an expression of deep disgust on his face. But the matter did not end there, for the autograph hunter said, as the batsman passed him, “ Gpt any injarubber, mister,”

If the Canterbury Rugby team is to do any good next year its first need will be a captain of weight, authority and wisdom, a man who will sort out slackness without fear, favour or palaver. 1

Percy Fender is to accompany the English cricket team to Australia. He will not come as a cricketer, as he did with Douglas in 1920-21, but as a war correspondent pure and simple, and on his past form he can be depended upon to supply the war. Indeed, he has already begun it by writing a vitriolic criticism of the team as selected. Fender’s position is peculiar. The best captain in England, and still in the first flight of all-rounders, he has never been considered by the English selectors since he stirred up such a heap of ill-feeling on his only visit to the Commonwealth. The barracking that he and “ Rocklay ” Wilson received at Sydney Cricket Ground in the first test match will never be forgotten by those who heard it; and they brought it all on themselves.

52 22 58 “The only sports body that does not endorse our decisions,” said Mr H. C. Harrison at last night’s meeting of the Canterbury Athlenc Clubs’ Protection

Association, “is the Rugby League, and that is because they found that they had so many defaulters that it did not pay them to join us,”

W hat struck Southland so unexpected! v last Saturday was the obstinate and concerted work of the Otago forwards. They never let up till the final whistle blew, and the score was 32 to 3.

The match for the Walker Cup, played this year at Chicago, re. ulted in a horrible doing for the British team, its only win in eight matches being that Torrance, who beat “Chick” Evans I up. The outstanding performance was Bobby Jones’s defeat of Perkins, this year’s amateur champion of Britain, by 13 up and 12 to play, which recalls the fearful hiding administered to Walter Hagen by Afchie Compston in their match in England some months ago. Great player as Jones is, the feat is an extraordinary one, for Perkins been first in four national championships in Britain during the past t wo years, and second in another; in addition, he has won most of the principal prize events going for amateurs during that period. The old axiom that the only certainty about golf is its uncertainty does not apply in every instance. Jones is certainty itself.

Great cricketers, like prima donnas, find it hard to leave the limelight. An inrtance is the decision of the portly and venerable Warwick Armstrong, now in his forty-ninth year, to turn out in district trinket with the Paddington (New South Wales) Club, of wrhich he has been elected a vice-president. The big fellow has deferred a final decision until he has tested himself at practice.

Cyclist R. W. Lamb, of Victoria, threatens to become.a serious rival to Opperman. He brought off a fine double recently with fastest time, from scratch, in the 105 miles road race from Wonthaggi to Melbourne (shr 29min 34sec) and the 100 miles championship of Victoria (shr 17min 42sec). Since turning professional. Lamb has ridden in four road races and has made fastest time in all of them. X 52 * At Bendigo, Victoria, recently, a truant inspector took proceedings i against thirty boys for “wagging it.” It was disclosed that the unhappy children had been lured from their studies by the specious glitter of the emoluments pertaining to the office of caddy at the local golf links. Worse than that, it was shown that the Education Department had connived at the offence by granting permission for these absences as a “reward”—the excuse is the department's own—for regular attendance. 52 52 52 Can the fielding side appeal against the light if the batsmen take no action ? asks a writer in an English paper. Derbyshire were playing in the Oval, T think it was in 1897, and two batsmen had made a pile of runs. About halfpast five it became gloomy, then worse, but the batsmen did not seem to bother. The Surrey bowlers were dog tired, so the batsmen could pretty well help themselves. Candles were lighted all over the pavilion, but still the match went on until at length the wicketkeeper and the slips complained that they could not see the ball, and the umpires stopped the game. I low desperately Tilden -f ought against C-oebet in the challenge round ot the Davis Cup and how clbse he was to victory is revealed in fulJ accounts which have now reached New Zealand. Tilden, serving, was separated from the first set by a single point. He was 5-2 in the second and went on to lead 5-3 and 40-15. In spite of the loss of the first two sets he renewed his resistance in the third and squared it ! at 4-all with a love game. 52 X 52 When C. C. Dacre, the New Zealand cricketer, came to this country to qualify for Gloucestershire, few cricket followers were aware of his intention to #turh professional, sa3's an English paper. During the present season he has played in two or three games outside the county championship, and appeared for Gloucester against the West Indies as “C. C. Dacre.” And now he is chosen as a member of the Players’ side against the Gentlemen at Bournemouth on September 5. One of the many things that helped in the deterioration of boxing is the "clinch,” says a writer in the Sydney "Referee.” In almost every battle you will see one boxer hanging on while bis opponent, is using both hands. The referee cither orders “break," or goe. between .the lads to insist upon a break. Tf the one eager for fight, is allowed to fight on while his opponent is trying to prevent him by unfair methods, this wrestling will soon be obliterated.

G Nepia, the famous full-back of the 1924 All Black team, again came into prominence ‘by kicking three penalty goals* lor the Maoris against the New South Wales team at Wellington last Saturday. Nepia contracted pneumonia last year and was seriously ill, but he has apparently made a good recovery As he is only 23 years of age he is still likely to play a prominent part in future big Rugby fixtures, providing he takes up the game again in earnest.

Mr G. W. Maddison, of blastings, president of the New Zealand Rugby Union, who accompanied the New South Wales team on their tour of the South Island, made himself very popu lar with our visitors. The members of the team farewelled Mr Maddison on the Thorndon railway station on Monday morning, and gave him a rousing «end-off, there being much cheering and hearty ringing of “For He’s a Tolly Good Fellow.” The Mayor of Hastings is much more than an orna mental figurehead as president of the New Zealand Rugby Union.

The success of the Wellington team on the southern tour has been largely due to the pace of the backs (says a northern paper). In Leys, Mackenzie. Foley, Broderick, Pickering and Mackay the Blacks have a speedy rearguard, who take some catching when they b jit. J. Shearer and B. Wilson are also a couple of very fast-moving forwards. Pace is essential for success at Rugby. When Nicholls, Johnson. Rushbroolc and Kilby return, Welling ton next season should be able to field as good a side as any in the Domin

What a high place Rugby holds In the esteem of the public of this country, and incidentally in what high regard the Maori race is esteemed, was evidenced by the notable gathering that assembled to see a in lington between the Maoris and New South Wales, iiie ouou spectators in-

cluded his Excellency the GovernorGeneral (Sir Charles Fergusson), the Prime Minister (Right Hon j. G Coates), Hon A. D. M’Leod, and Mr G. W. Maddison (president' of the New Zealand Rugby Union). Leading mem bers of the native race were also pre sent in force, including the Hon Sir Maui Pornare, Sir Apirana Ngata, and many of the leading Maori chiefs from both islands.

Auckland Team’s Record. The Auckland team’s record this season does not compare very favourably with that for the previous year. Last season Auckland was the only undefeated province. winning all its 10 matches and scoring 241 points against 33. This season the team played 14 matches, won 9 and lost 5, scoring 261 points against 1.74. Following are details, of the matches played:— V., Waikato (Hamilton), won 30 to 0. V.* Waikato (Auckland), won 23 to 12. V. Thames, won 20 to 6. V. Wairarapa, lost 13 to 14. V. Canterbury, won 12 to 10. V, South Canterbury, won 22 to 14. V. Otago, won 26 to 9. V. Southland, won 44 to 21. V. New South Wales, lost S to 19. V. Wellington, lost 13 to 17. V. North Auckland, won 23 to 22. V. Wanganui, won 16 to 3. V. Hawke’s Bay, lost 8 to 21. V. Taranaki, lost 3 to 6. Besides these games three matches were played while the Auckland team was on tour in the south, with the following results:—V. Bay of Plenty, won, 19-14; v. Northern Wairoa, won, 34-0; v. Thames -Valley, won, 56-S. The team was particularly unfortunate with regard to inquires, the selector. Mr V. R. Meredith, finding difficulty in fielding his best side. “Warm Up.” The track season .will soon be here. It should be a record season, especially if international runners are brought to this country. There is a greater understanding among athletes now than there was two years ago. They understand better the importance of warm*ng the muscles, and one or two have shown us the methods adopted in America and Europe in keeping the muscles warm until it is time to compete. The athlete with warm muscles nas an advantage over the athlete who starts cold. In Europe and America this is done by wearing sweat siYits .or training overalls of wool. It. is a pretty sight to see the various teams—all uniformly clad in overalls of brown, red, blue, or some other colour— going through their warming-up exercises. Olympic Reflections. A London writer, reviewing the pro minence of England’s representatives in the running events at the Olympic Games, says:— The idea has been exploded , that a man, to excel in competition with other athletes of the world, must engage in intensive, rigorous and almost Spartan training.

It has been proved by such men as Lowe, Burghley, London, and Rangeley, four of those who brought much honour to the Old Country, that a man need not become an athletic “machine” over a long period of months to -hold his own with the rest of the world. During his training Lord Burghley had to undertake the duties associated with his military career; Lowe has

worked hard in “chambers,” and the others had carried on their ordinary avocations of life.

Their great rivals from America, on the other hand, have undergone an intensive, rather terrible period of concentration. Their lives have been devoted solely to the attainment of superb physical fitness. They have been the slaves of a numerous band of trainers, whose laws as to actual living, breathing, and eating may be compared with those of the Medes and Persians.

And the natural-living members of the British Empire have, at last, proved their superiors in events in which for many, many years they held the belief that they could not be defeated.

The British method is the best of all in the production of Olympic winners. By encouragement, frequent friendly rivalry one among the other, and a desire to excel, they reach a stage where, without undue optimism, they ire led to believe they have a real chance of distinction.

And this is all they require, for a British athlete with confidence in him’.elf—as Abrahams, Liddell, Lowe, and Burghley have had in the last four years—is a rather obstinate individual to overcome.

Charlie Paddock, one of the greatest of Olympic sprinters, has said recently: ‘The Britisher who believes he can win invariably does so”—and Paddock is correct.

Rapid Scoring In English Cricket.

There was rapid scoring on September 17 in the match between Lancashire and The Rest at the Oval. At one stage Hendren and Ames put on 179 in 65 minutes, three consecutive overs yielding 64 runs. Hendren and Ames hit Iddon for 22 in one over. Hendren got 17 off M Donald, and then the pair scored 25 off Iddon again.

Thus burst embraced four sixers by Hendren off Iddon. After passing the century, Hendren scored 45 from 11 balls, and 72 from 22 ballp, while he scored. 79 in 25 minutes. ,

Ames hit two sixers, each landing in the pavilion. In one over from Iddon, Hendren scored 6,6, 4,4, 2, while in another Hendren and Ames scored 6,6, 2,1, 4, 6.

M’Donald’s average was two for JB3. The Rest declared at nine for 603. The chief-scorers were: Hendren, 174; Hobbs, 150; Sutcliffe, 139; and Ames, 56 not out. Sutcliffe’s score brought his total for the season to 3000.

Lancashire made 296 and 216 (ETyldesley 63, Freeman four'for 75), and were beaten by an innings and 91 runs. “What will Australia think when the news of the doings at the Oval is blazoned in the streets of Sydney and Melbourne?” asked the London “Evening News.” “This team has been regarded as a dour, steady going lot, but if it goes, on like this we can foresee 150 runs an hour being made in test matches.”

It was certainly vivid batting. Chapman realised that Lancashire were well beaten, and obviously gave orders to hit or get out.

“Itr seems as if it’s a tactical error to ‘blazon’ details of the o\’al match on the streets of Sydney and Melbourne,” says the cricket expert of the ‘Daily News.”

i “I think it were better for Australia’s peace of mind if she were spared intimate details of the last match of the season. Not only did it do much to reassert the powers of Hobbs, Sutcliffe, and Hendren, but Ames showed . that our tail will be strong. “Certainly M'Donald was far below form, but the batting revealed Lancashire’s bowling in a sorry light.”

How Cricketers Train. With the opening of the cricket season only a month away, and the arrival of the English team not much further off, some of our test cricketers are already preparing themselves (says a writer in the Melbourne “Herald"). W. H. Ponsford, for example, is busy getting rid of j6omc superfluous weight by taking hot sea baths, massage and plenty of exercise. Some cricketers have been keeping their eve in with a little practice on hard wickets. W. M. Woodfull is one of these. We can expect, therefore, that at least two of our champion batsmen will be ready to meet the bowling, and will not have to play themselves into form. Cricket is one of the few games for which players do not, as a rule, indulge in any serious training. Beyond leading a reasonably quiet life, cricketers do nothing else to keep fit. Their lot in life is distinct from that of devotees to other sports. Footballers train consistently under the eye of a trainer who will stand no nonsense. Jockeys, cyclists, tennis players, runners, swimmers, boxers, wrestlers, are all more or less slaves to their particular sport. Perhaps the highly trained cricketer will turn up some day. Then perhaps the side that makes a mere 1000 will have to follow on. Opperman, the champion cyclist, is a tremendous trainer. He is alwavs at it, with few brief spells. He rides over the tracks he has to cover, diets, does gymnastics and/ massages. Opperman’s diet is mostly fruit and vegetables, with little meat. He goes on the principle that the human body is an engine which must have the right kind of fueL Yet, curiously enough, other vigorous trainers would scoff at Opperman's diet and v plump for lenty of red steak and eggs. Tennis olayers have to train in order to be able to last out a gruelling fiveset match. Norman Brookes and Anthony Wilding, at the time when they were keeping the Davis Cup securely in Australia, had a regular programme lefore matches. Thev ran a little, played tennis-most of the day, and used a light diet which, curiously enough, included a little ale. Wilding, in his book, said that Brookes was a very hard man to train. Tony himself always went on the court in the pink of condition. Henri Cochet, a world tennis champion, trains elaborately. He lives quietly, sleeps eight or nine hours, has a mixed diet of meat and fruit, of which he eats sparingly, does not moke, but drinks tea and coffee, and has a little wine with bjs dinner at night. On the court he is tireless. 58 58 58 “Representing as it does all branches of sport,” says the annual report of the Canterbury Athletic Clubs’ Protection Association, “the committee, on behalf of the. association, expresses its regret that the Summer-time Bill was not . re-enacted for a further term.”

nmn< ,T )i>miuiiuiuu!.'tn!!MimiimuvuiDiii]iiiiniauiuiiiiiummonuiiunnn)Ui “ Damn Preferable to Ugly Language,” Says Vicar to Referees.

LONDON, September 16. “ ‘Damn’ is not swearing,” said Canon Ellis Gowing. Vicar of St Mary’s, Southend, in an address to a local Referees’ Association. He added that “damn” was a man’s word. It was useless to be saying “Tut! Tut!” as the late President Wilson advocated, and be thinking “damn.” “It is wrong for men to use hideous language because they had been kicked in. the shins, but you can’t expect them to smile. A good healthy ‘damn’ relieves the feelings,” he said. “Of course a parson might be expected to say ‘bother.’ but no reasonable person expects an East End boy to say !bother.* “When I was a curate I tried to persuade East End boys to give up ugly swearing, and advised them to say ‘damn’ instead.” The parishioners reported him to the Bishop, he said, but it was all nonsense as he had only advised them how to swear decently. “*Twas An Irish Picnic,” At one time in America the authorities decided that boxing be made an offence against the law. Quite a number of well-known identities were arrested for being concerned in a £ight that was brought off in a semi-private manner. During its progress the police arrived and arrested the principals and officials, not bothering about the handful of spectators who had paid liberally for the privilege of being present. Upon their appearing before the Court the following morning, the following dialogue took place:— Magistrate (to the first accused): “ What is your name?” “ Thomas M’Grath.” “ Where do you come from?” “ Ireland.” The same question, on being put to the others, received the same James Kelly, from Ireland; Pat Mather), from Ireland; Mike Sharkey, from Ireland; so on, all being from the “Quid .he Magistrate, an Irishman, quite ignoring the evidence of the police officers, dismissed the case with the remark:— “ Shure, this was not a fight, but an , Irish picnic.”

J “Push Bike” Record. An astonishing record has been set up by the “push bike” cyclists in the test fleet at Fort Dunlop, Birmingham, in England. During the last twelve months, for five days a week, they actually pedalled between 96 and 95 miles a day in all weathers, each driver averaging 19.213 miles throughout the year. The total mileage covered by the entire fleet of sixteen cars, three motor lorries, five motor-cycles, and two “push bikes” was 835,648. The longest runs done by car in one day were the 425 miles from Dieppe to Bordeaux, and the 415 miles from Glasgow to Birmingham and London, while a motor lorry put up the excellent performance of 323 miles from Birmingham to Weymouth and back. 58 58 X Exhausted Cycle Riders. So exhausted were some of the competitors in the Cycle road race from Hamilton to Auckland on Saturday that they fell from their machines to the mud at the Showgrounds, where the finish was staged. Torrential rain and a biting wind resulted in gruelling conditions over the full stage of the long journey, and a number of the 38 competitors retired from the contest. In some parts the road was very rough and treacherous, and punctures and other mishaps caused numerous halts. With one or two exceptions, all the riders to finish were so stiff that they could barely hobble to the dressing sheds.. It was one of the severest tCsts in the -history of local cycling enthusiasts. One competitor, R. Barrv aged 18, collapsed and rolled down a bank near Mercer- Forttmate.lv he was found by a passing motorist and taken into the township, where he was unconscious for two hours. Cricketers’ Grace. Cricket is regarded by some enthusiasts as almost a religion, and there is no doubt that if the game is played in the proper spirit character must be developed At a recent notable gathering in England, when the Lord Mayor of London (Sir G. Rowland Blades) gave a banquet in the Mansion House “in honour of cricket,” grace was said by Canon W: P. Bealey in the following terms:—“For good fare, for good fellowship, for good team work, and for all th<j,t cricket has done to teach the world to ‘play the game,’ give thanks to God. Is it not good enough to be placed m every future anthology of the game ? Has Dr Sinclair nothin" to say re garding the effect of the interference with club football by interprovincial and overseas tours? (asks a Dunedin Rugby writer). For instance, does he think it is in the interests of good football that Otago should only play fifteen club matches this year, and on the other hand eight interprovincial matches? Then we also had two other outside matches in Dunedin New South Wales v. New Zealand and the Pavne Shield match. We had therefore, in all fifteen club matches in Dunedin and ten outside matches at Carisbrook, when, in the latter case, all the other footballers could look on

N-Z. Oarsmen to Compete. The Wanganui Union crew, holders of the New Zealand championship, will leave for Sydney on October 12 en route to Melbourne to compete at Henley-on-Yarra, the big regatta to be held by the Melbourne Rowing Club on October 27. During the last week or so, the Ligh* Blues have been putting in some solid work on the river under the watchful eye of Harold Sharpe as coach (says a Wanganui correspondent). Healey and his men have been swinging along well, and from the way they are shaping it is safe to say that they will be in good fettle by the day of the regatta. A. K. Jackson, of the Union club who is the Dominion champion sculler, has been in training for some time with a view to making the trip over with the champion fours if the necessary funds are available. H. R. Pearce, the Olympic champion, does not intend to compete at Henley-on-Yarra, but will be a competitor at the inter-State championship regatta to be held on the Parramatta in December. Information has been received that the New South Wales Rowing Association intends inviting Jackson over to complete at this regatta, at which he would have the chance of meeting Pearce. In the event of Jackson not getting away with the crew next month, every effort should be made to send him to Sydney to meet Pearce in December. 58 58 58 Old-time Rugby. A correspondent writes asking for the names of the players who represented Wellington against the New Zealand Native team of 1888-89. The match was one of a series played in New Zealand on the Native team’s return from its tour of the British Isles, and it was staged at Newtown Park on August 20, 1889, the Native team winning by 4 points to 1. In those days one point only was given for a try (unconverted), the Maoris registering four tries (scored by Wynyard, Elliott, Madigan and Gage) and Wellington one try (scored by Nicholls). All the scoring was done in the first spell. The Wellington team which played that day was as follows: Full-back, Collins; three-quarters, Sim, Ross, Thomson; halves, Galloway, Nicholls, Moorhouse; forwards, Cockroft, Moore, Bridson. Astill, Reich, Stuart, M’ln tyre, and Caulton. L. Dixon had been selected as full-back and Collins as a three-quarter, but the former was unable to play, and Collins went to full-back, Ross filling the vacancy in the three-quarter line. Johnson, a forward, was also unable to play, and his place was taken by Bridson. « 58 Italian Boxing Champions. When we think of fighting men, we think of Americans or Britons, seldom boxers of Continental origin. Yet great strides have been made on the Continent in the fighting line, and in America boxers of Continental descent outnumber others at and near the top of the tree. Of these, boxers of Italian descent hold the lead easily. They hold four out of eight standard world’s championships, and are claiming a fifth. The Mussolinis of Maul are Samuel Lazzaro, who fights under the name of Joe Dundee, welter-weight champion; Angelo Geraci, whose ring name is Bushy Graham, bantam champion; Tony Canzomeri, feather-weight title holder; Sammy Mandell, lightweight king ; and Frankie Genaro, who is the National Boxing Association’s choice as fly-weight champion! Los Angeles claims Newsboy Brown for this title, while the New York State Commission name Corporal Jzzy Schwarz.

Is it a Record? To show the heavy season some of the Dunedin footballers have gone through it may be recorded that M’Clymont, the University wing three-quar-ter, played in fifteen club games, six times for his province, three times for New Zealand (selected as emergency only for the first test), once for the South Island, once for the Payne Shield, and once against Canterbury College in the annual match between the two universities. Then again he will play for his club at Invercargill to-morrow in the Deacon Shield match. M’Clymont. has therefore actually plaved or been picked to play in twentyseven matches this season, and if he goes to Southland on Saturday the total will have been increased to, twenty-eight! Sonntag has played in fifteen club games and eight representative matches this season, or twenty-three in all. Some of the other Otago players hav» also had a heavy season.