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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 45, 22 February 1936, Page 4

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Japanese Skating Star. Eleven year-old Miss Et-suko Inada, of Osaka, is the Japanese figure skating star. In an Olympic Gaines trial held in Japan she scored the highest number of points, 999.8, in the school figure event, and 745.5 in the free figure, a total of 1745.3. . * Ironmonger Retires. H. Ironmonger, Australian veteran left-hand spin bowler, who is now touring with Tarrant’s team in India, intends to retire from the game. With s>on Blackie, who retired at the end of last season at the age of sv. Ironmonger formed the greatest bowling • ombinatiuns in Australian cricket. Thev plaved for the St. Kilda Club in Melbourne, and of course for the X ictorian state side, but their appearances in test cricket were curiously infrequent. The bowling figures for this tamous pair for fct. Kilda, \ ictoria, testa against . .’.ngland are; St. Ki da. Bails. Al. K. W. A\. JKackie . - -’Uli 479 6949 495 14.03 Ironmonger 20,423 sul 6»54 502 lu-4j < \ ictoria. I Biackie .. VWSO 323 159 Ironmonger 19/2’52 586 »599* uL 22.. j Australia. Biacxie .. 1.260 51 444 II 51.7! Ironmonger 2,41*5 1-j5 .11 -1 3o.Jt) Longer Golf Courses. Important and interesting changes are being made at two of Britain s most famous championship golf links— Hoylake and Prestwick. For this \ear’s open championship the course of the Royal Liverpool Club s to be extended to more than 7100 yard-. Hoylake thus will become the longest of all the championship courses, Prince’s, Sandwich, coming next with 6890 yards. From tee to green Hoylake will be 44 miles long, and if to this be added the walks to the new teeing grounds and the deviations made by a player ♦luring his round, he will cover well. o‘c r iixe miles before getting back to the club house. In a championship six round* arc piaved. so that a competitor will more than 30 miles! •‘You’re Out. ’ A peculiar incident occurred in a cricket match at Auckland recently. This was in a special competition tor teams from mercantile firms, each supplying their own umpire. The official who acted for the leading team < a this •m .asion amazed his opponents by the following action:—A bail was played m the direction of square leg. where there was no fieldsman, lhe umpire was standing near the spot, aid he r: n after the ball, picked it up. and threw it in to the wicket. The running batsman was well out of his crease, and the umpire—the man who had al;.o fielded The ball —held up his hand and called • * You 're out!” The astonished victim and h.s team mates subsequently enquired from the umpire the reason for his action, lac official’s rcplv was to th*. effect that he was fielding a* a substitute tor a plaver who had temporarily left the field. Falwaoser in France. A. Falwasser. v. ■•.* useu to pay Rugby for Hawke’s Ba. and lor New Zealand Maori lean.', and wiio has French blood in his veins, is now the star player of the new Bordeaux Rugby League 4,’lub. He played League iootbail for two or three years in the North of England, and then went tu France and was with a number of Irenes clubs before transferring to Bordeaux. Falwasscr, who speaks French fluently, is very popular in France. Recently be • ame to England in search of talent tv reinforce h> club, and returned to Bordeaux with L. Leeton, who used to play Rugby for Au kland. Fa’wasser has an ambition to bring a Maori League tea n to France. End of Britannia. It is being sas-l ;uat ’ue Britannia w,.i never race again, says a writer in 4 ’Blue Peter. ” Old age ?-t last >eem» to have overtaken King George grand old racing yacht. Blow high or blow low. tills season they could do nothing with her. and she ended I er .shortened season without a winning flag—a record unprecedented in all :-er 40-odd years of sport. Recent altera lions seem not lo be to blame, and •'■here the fault Le- is difficult to say. Mr. Nicholson says that the on.v original material left in Britannia is her stem and Mern-post. every other thing in the ship ha-> been renewed .»n<-e or more since she was launched in 151’3. It may- be, then, that finally the 1 e.'S-I’s inherent qualify ha- been evaporated. so to speak, leaving a composite vessel without —shall we sav —her Winging Forwards. •’Before the Al. Biacks arrived there were rumours that they were not going :■» use wing forward? as know in this country. and yet by the end of the tour thev were winging as intensively a« any side against whom tney played, <ates the Rugby writer of the Manchester Guardian in an aril e dea«?ig with the wing-forward. He says rhat winging was never so intensive as at the present-day, and he declares that present day inside backs have a much harder task than the stars of former ears. ‘‘The All Blacks’ defeat at lhe uands of Swansea was in do small measure due to the destructive tactics of L. Long, the home captain, who was helped enormously by the fact that Tindi J, the inside five-eighth, stood too near to the scrum and thus prevented an ease target. Seldom, if ever, did he part with the ball on the move, seldom if ever, did t’aughey receive the ball on the move, and as a result the crash tackling of C. Davey was made all the >itupler and all rhe more effective. The •ame thing, lo a lesser extent, hap pened at Twickenham, where Tindill once again stood too near his forwards. Griffiths, for ail his limitations as an attacking player, at least, stood a fair distance frttm his partner, usual y Hadler, who sent out a long and accurate pas*. Had there been no wing-for-wards these two matches might have ~“ded differently.”