SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 246, 16 October 1937, Page 4

SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

. INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS Swimmers May Tour N.Z. \ After the British Empire Games ill Sydney next February a team 01 Canadian swimmers may tour Nevil Zealand. The council of the New Zea. land Amateur Swimming Association is at present endeavouring to aiM n ,r a a visit by the Canadian compet>Bs.° Australian Cricket Tour of N.Z. If conditions are acceptable, Aus, tralia will send a cricket team to touM New Zealand in February and Marell of 1940. That information will be con. veyed to the New Zealand Cricket Council as a result of a recent decision by the Australian Board of Control. The board also decided that the 1938 Australian team would nof return from England via New Zea< land. 4 4 4 Manly Golf Championship. In de feating Eric Apperly by 7 up and 6 to play in a semi-final of the Manly Golf Club’s championship, Jj nl Ferrier played very soundly over the first round, when he had a7l par being 72. Ferrier, who has already won the Australian championship and that at The Lakes, will meet Harry Hattersley in the final at Manly when Hattersley returns from New Zealand *44 Comment on 11. Cotton. George Trevor ,one of America's most famous golf critics, writes as follows regarding Henry CotttonAßßs is probably the least popular p Sessional ever to win a championship. His British colleagues respect h : j prowess and admire his suporb golfbut they don’t like him. He hag alienated them by deliberately cultivating an aloof har.ds-cff pose. He doesn’t want associates to call him bw his first name. He walks on high! Olympus, scorning the common herd " * 4 4 Football Kicking Test. In connection with the fastball kicking test inaugurated between Australian rules players and th« bumford University team in th. P I U te ?. ® tatcs ’ the Melbourne men held their, trial recently. The eondiP rovida f° r kicks with the two different types of ball in use in the respective countries. The best dron-kwk was 64 yards with each ball b/ E Huxtable, the Carlton Club’s halfback H. Vallence, the same chib’s I centre-forward, punted both bails' < alliance of 69 yards. * 4 4 81 and Still Playing. A Queensland couple, Mr. Mrs. Oliver Radcliffe, of GracevilSTi Brisbane suburb, go off at least twice a week each to their bowls ard croquet and both are 81 years of age and have four great-grandchil-dren. Formerly an inspector of schools, Mr. Radcliffe declares that there is no retiring age in sport and that a man should have a sport or a hobby, get out in the sunshine with pleasant companions, and go on living happily and healthfully. Mr,-. Radcliffe is an A grade croquet player with the Graceville Club and she took part in the recent Queensland championships.

Athletic Trial is Welcome. The decision of the ..New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association tc stage a national athletic trial meeting in Wellington on December 11 will be welcome news to those with Empire Games aspirations. Athlete* now have something definite to train for. The association’s decision was not surprising, in spite of the fact that previously it had decided not : hold a national trial. It was impend live in fairness to every athlete that a national selective test be held ana apparently the majority of the members of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association realised this when a special meeting was called to reconsider the whole position.

Wallis Myers Not Official. The time has come when the tennis world can no longer accept the rankings of Wallis Myers as anything like official, says a Melbourne writer. As an expression of personal opinion they must be respected. As a true ranking list of relative world standards and strength they miss the mark and have done so for many >ears past. The Victorian critic was referring to the omission of the two Australians, V. B. McGrath and J. Bromwich, from Myers’ world ranking list which was in the following order of merit:—J. D. Budge, G. von Cramm, H. Henkel, H. W. Austin, R. L. Riggs, B. M. Grant, J. Crawford, R. Menzel, F. A. Parker, C. E. Hare.

Some Big Sporting Crowds. A crowd of 88,540 people packed into the Melbourne Cricket Ground to see Geelong win the Victorian Australian rules football premiership from Collingwood. All Australian attendance records for a sporting gathering, other than a Melbourne or Sydney Cup, were broken. The gate was £5960 8s 9d. The previous record was 87,798 and gate £7405 at the third day of the third cricket Test match, Australia v. England, on the same ground last summer. Tnc Melbourne Cup of 1936 was witnessed by 97,000 people, believed to be the greatest attendance for any sporting event in Australia. Had the Melbourne Cricket Ground been capable ot accommodating another 10,000, the Melbourne Cup day record may have gone by the board. Thousands of latecomers were disappointed.