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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 458, 20 May 1932, Page 11

A. Loss to Merivale. A. O’Connor, the nuggety and elusive Merivale half-baclc, will play his last

game for that club to-morrow. On Wednesday he leaves for Waiau to take up a position, and in future he will play in the country. O'Connor has been a prolific pointgetter for Merivale since he joined the Rugby ranks after leaving the League code. He plays the game of a typical League half-back, and on that account

is liable to go too far on his own or get dumped before he can let the ball away. His brilliant solo efforts on the Lancaster Park Oval will be remembered, however, for time and time again he has brought the crowd to their feet with swift dashes through the opposition. Merivale will be hard put to it to find a substitute as capable and as quick to seize an opening as O’Connor. Referee’s Dying Hope. Mr B. J. Angle, a noted English sportsman and boxing referee, died last month. At the funeral, Mr Jeffrey Farnol, the novelist, revealed that Mr Angle’s last words were: I hope I don’t meet any of the men whom I have disqualified.” Waratah Cracks. New South Wales is again strong in Rugby this season, and will keep the All Blacks busy. Many names well known to New Zealanders appear in the list of players chosen to make a trip to Quenesland this month: — Full-back, Ross

(E.S.); three-quar-ters, Grace (E.S.), Kennedy (Uni.), White (Rand.), Towers (Rand.), Barker (Drum.) : halves, Miller (E.S.), Malcolm (Manly), captain. M Shane (Uni.) ; forwards, Blair (W.S.), Morton (Uni.), Cerutti (Drum.), Bland (Manly), Storey (W.S.). vice-captain.

Judd (St George), Loudon (Manly), Palfreyman (Rand.), Martel (E.S.). C. 11. Towers, who has scored some fine tries at Lancaster Park, selected himself. So did Ross, Sid Malcolm and White. He Feels Stale. Frank Wykoff, undefeated in American sprint races last season and holder of the world’s record of 9 2-ssec for 100 yards, would like to hang up his spiked shoes and quit running. lie’s tired of the sport. In conversation with an .American writer, Wykoff said: “I don’t know what’s wrong with me. When I’m in a race, I feel all right. I don’t mind running at all. But that day-after-day training grind has got me down. I’d like to quit.’* Wykoff has been running for seven years and he’s been a champion for six years. For two years he has been America’s best man over the 100yds course. Every time he goes to the post he has to win. He can’t afford to lose. He’s the «&ampion. He's full of grief because the fans think he has slipped if he doesn’t keep on breaking records. K X S Dacre to Return. C. C. Dacre, former New Zealand representative cricketer and Gloucester professional, in a letter to a friend

in Auckland, states that he has definitely decided to return to the Dominion at the end of the present season in England. Dacre states that he will be leaving for, New Zealand on September 7, and will arrive early in October. The North Shore Club’s supporters will be de-,

lighted to learn that Dacre also expressed the desire to play for his old club during the coming season in Auckland^ A Sensational Finish.

With only twenty seconds left in a fifteen-round contest, Jack Peterson, a handsome nineteen-yera-old Welsh heavyweight, knocked out the experienced heavyweight boxer Charlie Smith. Peterson, who so resembles the Franch fighter Georges Carpentier that he might be a younger brother, had his beauty considerably marred. An eye was closed, his mouth swollen and bleeding from Smith’s incessant left jabs. It was not until the latter staees that the lad was allowed to employ his “ dynamite ” right. In the final round, when the odds were 100 to 1 against him. he flung the whole of his 12st 121 b behind a right-hand punch, which crashed down the defence of his opponent and earned him the most sensational victory seen in Great Britain for vears. « « A Tuning Up. Everyone will be pleased that, thanks to the enterprise of the Hutt Club, the New Zealand golf team is to have a good tuning up on the Hutt links on May 29. They will be pitted against a team comprising T. H. Horton. A. D. S. Duncan. J. H. Drake. D. O. Whyte and D. C. Collins. It only shows how strong golf in the Dominion is when players such a* these are not in the New Zealand team. It can be taken for granted that the Hutt links will be crowded on May 29 to see the New Zealand team thoroughly tried out. The match is just the very thing to stiffen up their nerves for the serious match play they will have to engage upon in Sydney next month, Recognised All Round.—After the good purchases you made at Minsons sale last year, it is hoped that you will find it worth while to go round and see the present reductions. 6X