ALL SORTS OF SPORT

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXI, Issue 2779, 24 November 1931, Page 6

ALL SORTS OF SPORT

PROM THE WORLD'S PLAYING FIELDS. Three of the greatest of New Zealand's athletes of the past decade have 1 married within tho past few weeks. They are Randolph Rose, J. W. Savidan and Stan Lay. Dissatisfaction with the picking of England's team for international Eugby matches last season bore fruit in the election of three new members on the committee- of five this season. "Yes " said the philosophic punter, "wo New Zcalanders are curious people. Although beset by financial troubles, wo go deliberately and seek fresh ones upon the racecourse . . • and find them, too by Heaven!" Opinions formed about the South African cricketers up to the time they left Melbourne for Sydney were that their bowling was better than it was expected to be, but their fielding was not up to anticipations. Effio Hoylc, of Napier, holder of the women's running record for 50yds, is on the tracks again this season in Hawkc's Bay. She has been running since 1926 —an unusually long career for a girl. Twelve century scorers have been made in iirst-class cricket matches in tho four main centres of New Zealand so far this season—seven of them in Christchurch, two in Wellington, one. in Auckland, and one in Dunedin. There should be some great swimming races in Sydney this season between Noel Ryan and "Boy" Charlton if the latter regains his remarkable form of a couple of years back. There is no love lost between these two, and neither is likely to show the other any quarter. Not one try was scored in tho ,S°vith African Rugby team's first match in England, although in it the Springboks beat a Gloucestershire and Somerset team by 14 points to three. The scoring consisted of two goals from the field and two.penalty goals to one penalty goal. F. D. Prentice, who captained the British Rugby team in New Zealand and Australia last year, and who now has retired from the playing-field, has been ejected one of the five selectors of England's teams for international matches this season. But James Baxter, who managed the British team, and who was chairman of the English Selection Committee last season, is not a member of that committee now. When an American athletic team visited New Zealand and Australia in the 1913-14 season, one of the records set up by members of it was a New South Wales polevault' record of lift 6 1 in, established by E. E. Tcmpleton. That held good until a few days ago, when, on tho Sydney Sports Ground E. J. Winter, of the Randwick-Kensington Athletic Club, put another quarter of an inch on to tho record.

Two rather important alterations to the rules of golf, made by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews, have come into force already in England. An altcratiou to rule No. 2S, section l, regarding the removal of impediment on the putting green, is: "Any loose impediment may be removed from the putting green by hand or with the club irrespective of the position of the player's ball." Hitherto a player has been.allowed to remove impediments from the putting green by hand only. The alteration to sections 2 and 3 of the same rule is: "In removing any loose impediment the club must not be laid with more than its own Weight upon the ground, nor must anything be pressed down cither with the club or in any other way.''

Amazing scenes were witnessed at the conclusion of the fight in Paris between Frankie Genaro, the world's flyweight champion, and Valentin Angelmann, a 20-year-old French boxer. The fight, which was billed as for the "world's championship," was over 15 rounds, and at the conclusion the judges awarded the decision to Genaro. Some of the spectators thought the referee wrong and voiced their opinions. This not being sufficient, they showed their disapproval by hurling anything they' could lay their hands on into the ring. The stewards were unable to control the "roughs," and the police were called in and quelled the disturbance, which had lasted about half an hour. The rest of the programme had to be abandoned.