SPORTS JOTTINGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 139, 13 June 1936, Page 4

SPORTS JOTTINGS

ITEMS FROM THE SCRAP-BOOK ACTIVITY HERE AND THERE Big Offer to Baer. Max Baur, former world heavyweight champion, has been offered £6900 with privilege of 30 per cent, of gate receipts to fight Leroy Haines, the negro who recently beat Primo Camera. 4- 4Billy Petrolle Retires. Billy Petrolle, one-time “Fargo express.” has given up boxing to run an iron foundary at Duluth (Minnesota). He fought several terrific fights with Kid Berg, who was once in world championship class. Richardson Sees Mistake. Mr. A. \V. Richardson, the Derbyshire cricket captain ,at the annual meeting of the county club, confessed that he was wrong a year ago in condemning the new lbw rule. Jt had certainly made the game more interesting to spectators. d- 4 1 4 s Holtzer Preferred to Tarelton. Nel Tarleton, British featherweight champion, creeps into tenth place in the 9st. division, according to the American ranking, in which Maurice Holtzer, holder of the French title, is fourth. Holtzer was recently beaten nt the Albert Hall, London, by Corbett. Southern Area champion. Negro Stops CamerA. The come-back bubble that Primo Camera was inflating towards titlechallenging size is shattered. Leroy Haynes, a brawny negro battler from the Pacific Coast, with explosives in cither hand—particularly the rightblocked the former heavy-weight champion’s return effort in three battering rounds before 10,000 fans at the Arena in Philadelphia recently. The gate receipts were estimated at 16,000 dollars. The negro jolted Primo with two crashing right hooks in the first frame, tumbled him to the canvas twice in the second, and then finished him in the third, when the ponderous one, unable to take any more of the beating he was getting, turned his back and quit in his own corner. It was one of the year’s surprising victories. Haynes’ triumph was more convincing in that although he weighed only 197A1b. to Camera’s 2651 b., he stopped the Italian in half the number of rounds it took Joe Louis and in slightly more than a Quarter of the time it. took Max Baer. 4; dl Too Much Tennis. A proposal to limit the number of events in whicJi junior [flayers may enter in tournaments is believed to have the approval uf the Lawn Tennis Association of Victoria. In Australia many of the most promising youngsters in the game are capable uf reaching finals and even winning senior open events, and as there are usually junior, intermediate, ami senior events on the programme for each tournament there is a great, temptation to these youngsters to play in too many events. This was demonstrated at a recent tourna meat in Melbourne, when some of the young players, taking part in several finals on the last day, showed obvious signs of physical and nervous exhaustion, some of the girls having to receive medical attention after their matches. Most young Australian players of outstanding ability arc employed in the sports goods business and arc able to get as much practice as they want. Too much match play, however, is held to be a definite menace to their progress in the game, and it is likely that in future they will be allowed tu participate in a maximum of three events at any one tournament. g-. c 41 Batting and Bowling Records. An interesting new feature of .“Wis den’s Cricketers’ Almanack,” the 193 G issue of which has just reached New Zealand, is an honours list of batsmen who have scored 15,000 or more runs and bowlers who have taken 1500 or more wickets in first-class cricket. The table shows that J. B. Hobbs and W. G. Grace, with 61,221 and 54,8'J6 runs respectively, have been the most prolific run-getters. They are followed by three batsmen who are still taking an active part in the game, F. E. Woolley (54,202), C. I’. Mead (53,870), and E. I’. Hendren (53,129). Wilfred Rhodes has the greatest number of wickets, 4187, but it is not inconceivable that A. P. Freeman, next cn the list with 3665, might exceed this record, for at the age of 46 the wonderful little Kent slow bowler is still taking 200 wickets a year. C. W. L. Parker, the Gloucester veteran, who retired at the end of last season, is Uiird, with 3278 wickets. Special features of this year’s “Wisden’b” include an article by Mr. R. V. Ryder, secretary to the Warwickshire Cuunty Cricket Club for 40 years, and “Twenty five Years of Triumph,” the full statistics of J. B. Hobbs’ career on the cricket field. First-class cricket in all parts of the world is treated with its usual detail.