MRS. BOBBIE MILLER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 281, 30 November 1935, Page 4

MRS. BOBBIE MILLER

i EFFORT TO STAGE COME-BACK. : SCHOOL GiKL FOE HER PARTNER. | • Mrs. Bobbie Heine Miller, who a i few years ago was the leading woman ' player in boutli African lawn tennis, I is to make a * ‘come-back” to the game next month. The possibility cf I her visiting the Band in a welcome return to the game, in wihich she has [secured so many triumphs and friends ' was hitherto a matter of speculation. ! Now it is to bo a matter of fact, for ; sire has completed arrangements to j come to the Rand to compete in the i .Southern. Transvaal lawn tennis chami pion&hips next December. I Shy will arrive in Johannesburg on ! December 2 with her two children, and j will be staying with Mrs. J. H. Fitzi gerald, who has been a sort of fairy | godmother to most, of the leading I women players who have,conic to Ellis .' Pork fio:!! other centres. i Mrs. Heine Miller will resume her | old partnership with. Norman larqu-i harson, South Afiiua’s champion. I But here is the biggest surprise of I i all in connection, with h«.*- visit. I’ l | i the women’s doubles Mrs. -Miller will j ' be partnered bv Miss liita McFarlane, j Who is Miss’Rita McFarland This I i is, certainly a question that may well i |bv asked. Rita McFarlane is a 15- ’ J year old Johannesburg schoolgirl. She i i won the under I<s girls’ championship I cf the Southern Transvaal in October. i Shu is ihe luckiest junior player in the Transvaal to be able to make her debut in such an important tournament with the partner that every woman player in the country would , like to have. And it is typical of the sportsmanship of South Africa's great player that she has agreed tu take yart in so important an event as the •Southern Transvaal women’s doubles . with a schoolgirl as her partner. At The Right Time. : Incidentally, Mrs. Bobbie Heine ; ; Miller is coming back 10 competitive I lawn tennis just when she is likely to !be of the greatest service to the i game in that country. i The South African Lawn Tenuis ’ L'nion has issued an invitation to a British women team tc tour that toun- • tr X* j Cf course, it still remains to be seen whether she will prove herself the great force that she vxas in women’s tennis in this country before her temporary retirement from the game. But most enthusiasts consider that with her great genius for the game she will rci establish herself as one of buuth i .Ulka’s outstanding players,

good laws MAKE GOOD BOWLERS • OPEN GO'* IN SOUTH AFRICA. ■ Australian bowlers should congratulate themselves on the splendid and scientific manner in which they are catered for by the laws of the Australian Bowling Council, states the Sydney Referee, and it is to be hoped that no 1.8.8. or any other body will ever ’ be given the power to over-ride us in ( this connection. t I went through the Hensell factory, u states “Boomerang,” at the invitation of “W.D..” last week, and although not amazed at what I saw and heard ’j there, gathered some very interesting matter for readers. It is. indeed, an education, as well as a privilege, but ’ one has to ask questions and force ine formation, often, for AV. D. Hensell’s modesty is well known. ; • I witnessed the actual manufacture | j |of bowls, and noted the continuous ’ j buzz of the many machines used, and j I was informed that the export trade in 1 bowk kept the place at top speed. I 1 During the past three months .1000 sets I had been turned out in this connection. I and it was contemplated that 1000 | 1 would be needed for London, which was J fast adopting the Australian bowl. But one of the most interesting < \ points gleaned from inquiry was the 1 s fact that, in certain parts of the world. : South Africa included, they still have i an ‘‘open go” in respect to what they shall play with, and are not restricted ’ to size for weight, or bound down as | we are. < Of course, it is a very good thing < that we are. If you lived in South I • Africa you could use a 4 7-8 bowl and s ' 31b. Boz. in weight. You could order - almost anything you liked, as long as < ; you kept within a maximum of 31b. Boz, ; and heavyweights are used generally. • There is absolutely no market, and no ’ demand for wooden bowls in South

s a who are hoping that they beat us, t though I’m nc-t one of them. 1 But probably the tourists would re- . turn home happiest if they live down 1 the title “All Blacks,” which they . hate. The description was fastened on a the first New Zealand footballers by e a Daily Mail reporter in 1905. And - I it must be a good one, whatever our i visitors may sav about it, because it li j has stuck. I think their dislike of s it is due to a feeling that, to the uninitated, the words “All Blacks might suggest a team of coloured footi. bailers. But every schc-olboy knows e who and what the All Blacks are. just as well as he knows that Aston V ilia s are in a bad way. e