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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 246, 17 October 1936, Page 4

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Max Schnicling’s Record. Max Schmeling has knocked out 34 men of the 61 he has met —a tine record for a heavyweight. His victims | include Johnny Risko, Young Strib- j ling, Mickey Walker and Joe Louis. | * * Future of Donald Budge. Budge at 21 has far greater immediate claims to the world championship than Quist, who is two years his senior and who has failed to take a set from him in their three important meetings. Budge may be destined to win the Davis Cup for America. —Mary Hopman in a recent tennis ranking article. A.P.F. Chapman Not Retiring. A. P. F. Chapman has not resigned | the Kent captaincy. Interviewed at I Dover, where he was leading his ; county against Worcester, Mr. Chap- I man said: “There is no truth m the rumour that I am resigning the Kent captaincy at the end of the season. I As far as 1 know 1 shall captain Kent, j next year, when I am free to play. ’ | Scottish Speed Race. Scottish Sporting C.C. is to run another speed hill climb at Kinneil Estate. Bo'ness (Scotland) on Saturday, December 26. Since the last hili climb improvements have been made to the course, and conditions are better all round. The autumn trial of the S.S.C.C. was scheduled for September 19. but owing to the proximity of the dates this event has been changed to the second Saturday in Oc- I tober. 4 4> Scottish Boys Win. Scotland won the fourteenth boys amateur international golf match at Birkdale, Southport (Eng.), defeating England by eight games to three, with one halved. The foursomes went to Scotland by three to one, and they won the singles by five to two. with one halved. On the series. Scotland have now won nine contests and England four, with one tie. 4 4 4 Springbok Rugby Managership. i ■ Following is the complete list of nominations submitted to the South African Rugby Board for the managership of the Springbok team which is goinsj to New Zealand next year. F. Burmeister (Western Province), A. p. Dav (Griqualand West). Alex de Vililer’s (Western Province), D. W. Magennis (Transvaal), Theo Pienaar (Western Province). J. J- Strasheim (Transvaal). P. van Golfer Sam King. , Sam King, 25-year-old assistant at | Knole Park, Sevenoaks (Eng.) won I the 36 holes southern professional I golf tournament at Old Ford Manor, Barnet, recently, with rounds of 68 and 71. Except for the Kent championship, which he now holds, this was Kent's first success in a senior competition. He was former bolder of the assistants' championship and | runner-up this year. King won by i three shots from Alfred Padghan. I ISundridge Park), open champion. I (who had two rounds of 71. , Ezar Beats Padham. Alfred Padgham. open champion, was I beaten three and two by Joe Ezar. I bf America, in a recent 36-holes return i •■hallenge match for £lOO a side at ’ feelsdon Park. Some time ago Padg- [ ham beat Ezar heavily under similar i conditions on the same course. Padgziam was four up with eight holes | played, and was till four ahead at the' tenth. Ezar then finished the ■ “ound in four under fours to turn a i big deficit into a lead of one hole, ; His figures from I he eleventh onwards were 3. 3. 4. -1. 3. 4. 3. 4. Ezar won , the first two holes of the second j round to be three up and was out tn ; P 4 to the champion's 35. Padham was j still two down at the fifteenth, ana he end came at the next hole, which i’zar won iii three. ❖ 4 Mis Alice Bridges and Thomas Cur- . fan, Olympic athletes, declared to an | Interviewer on August 29 that Mrs. ! Eleanor Holm Jarrett ‘got what she deserved” when she was dropped | from the Olympic swimming team for I “drinking and late hours.” Miss Bridges. 20-year-old swim- j Jr.er, who was placed third in the , Olympic backstroke, said fellow ath- ‘ fetes regretted Mrs. Jarrett’s ousting :■ because she was so valuable to the j United States team, “but to tell you the truth. I think she deserved what j Fhe got.” Thomas Curran, of Philadelphia. | University of Pennsylvania. 1933 oars- ! hian. who competed in the pair-with-’oxswain race, declared “most every- I body” on the liner that took the ath- I *etes to Europe considered Mrs. Jar- I Lett’s behaviour justified dropping her I for the sake of discipline and the ' morale of the team. English Player for Springboks. I An English Rugby International 's to play in South African Rugby foot- I hail. He is John McDonald Hodgson, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and London, who toured under Douglas Prentice with the British team in Australia in 1930, gained his first England “cap 1 in his own country against the Springboks al Twickenham in 1932. and subsequently played against Wales, Ireland and Scotland on six occasions, besides taking part in numerous England trials. He is to take an appointment in Johannesburg, and sailed from England in August. ; A product of Rugby School. Jack Hodgson is a flank forward, well over six feet and weighs nearly sixteen stone. He was a half-back at school, became a second-row forward when going into club Rugby with Northern, the leading club in the North East of j England, and played there for North- ( umberland in county championship footbalL

| Otago’s Shield Players. I Twenty-four players were called on by the Otago selectors in the eight : Ranfurly Shield matches this year. I Taylor, the full-back, Black, Parkhill, I Trevathan and Niven played in all i games. 4 + 4 "Cheaper Cricket." Surrey County Club recently introduced cheaper cricket after 4 o’clock. Kent followed suit with the sixpenny "gate'’ after 4 o’clock. Next season Kent will extend this principle. Admission to all the “weeks’’ will ba graduated:-—ls 6d from 11.30 to 1.30; Is from 1.30; and sixpence after 4 o'clock. 4 4- + I New Forwards for Auckland. | Auckland Rugby next season will be strengthened by the presence of two I forwards, Hull, of Wellington, and j Foreman, of Dunedin. Both players, who have worn the Wellington and I Otago jerseys respectively during the i season just closed, have been transferred to Auckland. ; Indian Cricket Team's Loss. When the Indian cricket team left for home the treasurer, Mr. S. M. Hadi, estimated that when their accounts are made up it is likely that there will be a loss of nearly £lOOO. He attributes this to the bad weather. C. S. Nayudu, a younger brother of C. K. Nayudu, will stay in England to study law. Jahangir Khan and Dilawar Hussain remain at Cambridge. 4 4 + i Glenn Cunningham's Record. Glenn Cunningham, the U.S.A. Olympic runner, established a new world's record for the SOO metres at the three days’ athletic meeting in Stockholm recently. His time was Imin. 49.75ec. Powell, of England, was second. Towns, U.S.A., won the 110 metres hurdles in 14.25ec., and Draper. U.S.A., won the 200 metres Hat race in 21.1 sec. + * 4 ! Otago Winger for Wellington. ! J. M. Watt, the Otago and New [Zealand Rugby wing three-quarter, will be in Wellington next season. He will be stationed at Wellington Hospital, where he will complete his degree in medicine. Watt, who is fast developing into one of the best wingers since the war, is almost certain to have at least another year in Rugby, especially in view of the visit of tire Springboks. His presence in Wellington football should be of marked benefit to the game. + + + ! Stableford Golf. I The Stableford form of golf comI petition has become popular all over I Australia, but many clubs have ap I plied their own conditions as to the form of arriving at a total. Point scoring, however, is uniform —one for doing a hole in one stroke over par, I two for a par, three for a birdie, and four for an eagle. The procedure | then varies. To the points so gained, t some clubs add the players' full han- | dicap, others three-quarters, and I others half. I British Dog Breaks Record. 1 Top of the Carlow Road, Britain's I recently-imported Irish dog. won The ! Laurels at Wimbledon in 28.395ec., rei cord time for the race. He thus gave [ trainer Sydney Orton his third victory iin the classic. Orton’s previous win- [ ners were Kilbrean Boy and Brilliant I Bob, the previous record holders. The Derby winner. Fine Jubilee, who had been beaten by the Irish dog in the ' semi-final, started an odds-on favour- [ ite, while 5 to 2 was obtainable about Top of the Carlow Road. 4 4 4 1 Retriever of Cricket Bails. I Memories of the good old days when I the cry of "lost ball" added a certain I number of runs to the batsman's score are recalled by an excerpt from I the annual report of a cricket association on the west coast of the South I Island. This recorded a vote Of thanks to the local bloodhound, pre- | sumably a terrier, for Its success in I recovering lost bails from the rubbish | flump adjacent to the cricket ground. . This is an animal that would be an | asset to some golf clubs, where work would be more plentiful, especially | when the tyros start knocking the ' pills around', at times with reckless i abandon. In some of these cases it is 1 asking too much of human beings to I keep their eye or, the ball. I Boy Averaged 1005. All Wales—and many cricket fans I throughout the United Kingdom—are | interested in the 15-year-old Welsh ! boy. Watkin Emlyn Thomas, whose I prowess with the bat has brought him I into the limelight, according to LonIdon News of the World. In eight in- | nings he made scores of 55. 98, 138, 120, 235, 105, 86 and 168 without losI ing his wicket. Then he went out to bat for Glamorgan Colts against the English Public Schools, and was bowled for a duck! We thus get the following average:—lnnings, 9; not out. 8: aggregate, 1005; average, 1005. Thomas plays for St. Mellon’s ' Juniors, and works on Werngethin Farm, owned by his grandfather. 4 + + Tennis Pro. Troupe. Now that the United States lawn tennis championships are over, the stormy petrel of professional tennis in America, Mr. Bill O’Brien, has jumped to the forefront with the statement that he is organising a giant tour of professional players and will bring them to Europe (says the London Daily Mail). He says if he could get Perry to join the troupe he would come straight to England. That is not the end of Mr. O’Brien's hopes for the professional season, however. He is trying to persuade a new star to join his troupe. The new star is none Either than “Bit4ey” Grant, the piiminutive American who proved so popular ox er in England during ' Wimbledon.