SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 78, 2 April 1938, Page 4

SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS Negro Featherweight Boxer. Henry Armstrong, the brilliant American negro leather-weight boxing ' i champion, has agreed to visit Austra- : lia lor a title light with Claude Var- ,' ner. He has demanded £2OOO guaran- , i tee with expenses for himself, mana, j ger and trainer. | Swimmer Falls HI. i The champion sprint swimmer ot .'New Zealand, P. Hanan, who returneiC. Ho Auckland from Sydney after having^ 1 j competed at tha British Empire Games, became ill the day after his return. i lie subsequently underwent an operation lor acute appendicitis. His pro- | gross i.s good. It is unlikely that he jwill swim again for the greater pail ■ of a year. ' Leto Leaves for U.S.A. I Jimmy Leto, American welterweight, i with his manager. Lou Viscusi, left I Australia for the U.S.A, on April 1 Leto turned down an offer to light I Bill Pluto, and declined other induccments to remain in Australia. So, latter two trips to Australia, he de- | parts without a win. Pluto, who boxI ed with Leto in Melbourne, was eager ; to light the American on a winnoi ' take ail percentage.

Von Nida Makes Amends. | Following his failure in the Manly | (Sydney) professional puise, Norman | von Nida, open golf champion of | Queensland and of the Federal Capital Territory, atoned by taking the I Dee Why purse, in the process breakl ing the course record. Von Nida’s I three under par, and three strokes under Lou Keily’s previous recora, won by four strokes from W. Bolger, former Australian open champion. Bolger played steadily for his 71, but fell away at the finish. Von Nida also took the Concord purse with 70, 71— 141, by a stroke from W. Bolger. Louis and Schnieling. » Mike Jacobs has signed up Max Schmcling and world heavyweight champion, Joe Louis, for the title at Madison Square Garden, New York, on June 22. Jacobs is said to have wired Schmcling to the effect that he (Schmcling) must be in the States at least forty days before the bout to gel into the best possible physical condition. Probably the promoter thinks the quicker he can get Schmeling in America the less chance the Prussian has of becoming implicated in a war * - if one should break out. Should Schmcling not be in America forty days before the fight his place will be taken by Max Baer, recent winner over Tommy Farr.

Australian Golf Champion. It seems quite likely that the Australian amateur golf champion, Harry Williams, wnl not. lut a ball this season, says an Australian writer. From his club, Victoria, comes the announcement that he will not be playing senior pennant, and all the indications seem to be that he will not seek champion* sh.p hoiiuui. . If such is the case, golf will lo*e a lut of interest this season. I’rankiy there i.s no other outstanding personality on Victorian courses at the moment, no one whose sparkling golf will send spectators scurrying up th« fairway in hundreds in his wake. Don Bradman’s Batting. Don Bradman continues the role of riotous rungetter. He ha s piled up close upon 1500 runs in the seasons first-class matches—the ninth 1000 m succession. Ihe centuries number seven, two in one match against Queensland. In eighteen innings ho lias been not out. twice and scored 1437 * xiins ai 89.81 an innings. With tha, exception of his first season (1927-BiWP Buunnan s aggregates and us lollow, reveal somthing colossal and iar in advance of anything done by any other past or present batsman. The figure* are:-169u at 93.88; 1586 at 113.25; 1 122 at. 79.00; 1403 at 116.93; 1171 at 61.63; 1191 at 132,44; 1173 at 110.33; 1552 at 86.22; and 1137 at 89.81. Wellington’s Rugby "Gates.” 'I he balance-sheet of the | ton Rugby Union tor the 1937 season I reveals t hat ,;ate money at the two matches in which the Springboks took part al Athletic Park amounted ta ji12,<)02 Ils fid. Much of that amount ■ 'yeni to the New Zealand Rugby J nion, which controlled the tour o£ ’the Springboks. The gate money at (the New Zealand trials totalled £2331 ] i's sd, making a total lor the Spring* bok matches and trials of £14,394 7s : 2d. Amounts totalling £4205 7s 9d 'were paid out lor the New Zealand ’ union, and £6659 10s 6d to the New, j Zealand union, leaving a sum of £3529 ■Ns lid for the Wellington union. Gala ( receipts from dub and representative I matches were less than those in the previous season, but season tickb*» which carried the privilege of prefw'* /enlial booking for the trials and th* • South African matches, show 4 mai’kcd advance.