ATHLETIC TEAM FOR N.Z. CHAMPIONSHIPS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19013, 7 March 1930, Page 4

ATHLETIC TEAM FOR N.Z. CHAMPIONSHIPS.

CANTERBURY MEN ARE SELECTED FOR WANGANUI The following athletic team has been selected to represent Canterbury at the New Zealand championships:— M. Leadbetter (Varsity), 100yds, 220yds and relay. R. Cordery JCA.A.C.), 100yds, 220yds and relay. N. J. Suckling (CA.A.C.), 440yds, 880yds and relay. J. G. Barnes (CA.A.C.), one mile, three miles. J. W. Batstone (C.A.A.C.), pole vault. R. H. Neville (Sumner), high jump, long jump, hop, step and jump. F. J. Grose, half-mile, one mile, three miles cycling. T» O’Brien (Papanui), half-mile, one mile, three miles cycling. Miss E. Martyn (Papanui), 100yds ladies. G. E. Nicoll (CA.A.C.), 440yds, 880yds. O. C. Harley (Varsity), 440yds, 440yds hurdles, 880yds. P. Ensor (C.A.A.C.), long jump. Speaking at the meeting of the centre last evening, the chairman (Mr R. Beattie) said the cost of sending a team of twelve competitors to the championships was about £65 10s. The centre had £SO in a fund for the purpose and the Varsity Club had donated £5. The secretarj’- (Mr G. L. Austin) said that it would cost £8 10s for each competitor. It was resolved that each representative should contribute £2 towards the cost. The Papanui delegate said that his club would give £8 10s towards the fund. Mr A. E. Purse said that all clubs should contribute to the cost of sending the team away. He did not think that the competitors ought to be asked to contribute £2. The motion was put to the meeting and carried. Mr M. Leadbetter asked if M’Gregor had been overlooked. In his opinion he was a good hurdler. The chairman said that he would be considered. Mr Leadbetter said that if the Varsity Club or M’Gregor could find £5, he would be a valuable acquisition to the team. It was decided that, subject to satisfactory arrangements being made, M’Gregor and a third cyclist be included in the team. It -was decided to thank Mr F. Grose for donating two trophy orders valued at £2 5s and the Varsity and Papanui Clubs for their donations. Mr G. L. Austin was appointed manager of the team. It was reported that Misses Nelligan, Callinan and Boyd would be going to Wanganui and would be available to represent the province. Tuffy Griffith isn't much past twenty-one. He is three years younger than Jeffries and Dempsey were when they took over the title. He is one of the best of the championship prospects, a rough and ready young battler who has been improving steadily (says a New York sports writer). But he isn't ready for Jack Sharkey yet. Sharkey has it on him in weight, speed, skill and punching power. He has it on him in experience and ring generalship. Sharkey has been around- too long for a young fellow of twenty-one or twenty-two, who has done well and

come far, but who still has some distance left before he is set for a volley at the main crown. Experience counts more than a mere trifle in this trade. It is often pointed out that Jeffries, after eleven fights, beat Fitzsimmons, but Jeffries was thirteen years younger and Jeffries had a weight advantage of thirty or forty pounds. This combination can cover up a number of deficits in other departments.

sms®®®®® SUSS®® SEES® HI Status of Emton. “ Much ado about nothing. The Sydney people are making a mountain out of a molehill.’” This is how Mr Hugh R. Weir, honorary general secretary of the \ ictorian Amateur Athletic Association expressed himself when asked what he had to say about the report that Ger hardt Emtom (Dr Peltzer's protege) had forfeited his amateur status because it was alleged that he ran under an assumed name—Emton irtstead of Obermuller. Mr Weir stated that he was quite convinced regarding the credentials of Emton. Before Dr Peltzer came to Australia he wrote saying that his sports pupil’s name was Gerhard t Obermuller-Emton, and that for sporting purposes the shorter name Emton was adopted and approved by the German authorities. It was pointed out that competing under an assumed name rendered Emton liable, under the international rules, to disqualification. In reply, Mr Weir stated that the position had been grossly exaggerated by the Sydney people. Emton was a member of the Stettin Athletic Club, and it was for the German Amateur Athletic Association—not the Amateur Athletic Union of Australia—to take any action. His own impression was that a terrible lot of “ noise ” had been made, that a sensation was being created over nothing. After all, the idea of the international rule was to prevent runners to disguise their whereabouts, competing under fictitious names. Emton was a junior runner who competed from scratch, along with other competitors in Australia, so that he was not placed at any advantage over his rivals. Questioned about the matter. Dr

Busing, the German Consul-General for Australia—his headquarters are at Sydney—stated that he was aware j that Emton's name was Obermuller, I which, however, was considered too long for sporting purposes. Teaching Bowlers. Seeing that the game of cricket has been introduced into New Zealand, one wonders if eminent exponents of it will revive a method of teaching the young idea how to bowl, common enough during last century. W. G. Grace, a rather gruff old exponent, nevertheless saw the necessity of bringing the young uns on. Present writer remembers seeing the giant on a celebrated school ground, the centre of a little mob of lads. W.G. stuck a single wicket in the ground with a sovereign on top and stood defending it. The lad who bowled him got the sov. By an extraordinary coincidence Gilbert Jessop, who neither at school nor during his adult career was ever a great bowler, was the first lad to try. bert took a terrific run (he always dr-5 everything at the gallop) and knocked the great one’s wicket flying first pop. Grace was immensely pleased. He reached for little Gilbert, laid his enormous, hairy hand on the lad’s shoulder and said, “ You’ll be a great bowler seme day.” Gilbert never was. That afternoon W.G. was willing to spend any number of sovereigns, but the one Gilbert won was the only one he was called upon to lose.