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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 100, 30 April 1938, Page 4

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INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS

English Swimmer in N.Z. The English swimming champion, N. Wainwright, who is visiting New Zealand on business, competed at a carnival in Dunedin recently and gave fine exhibitions of middle-distence swimming. He is to appear at a carnival in Auckland on May 3. Ketch cn Route to Auckland. I Private advice received from London states that the 16-ton ketch Lady Diana, owned by Mr. R. Stanley, left Southampton for Auckland on January 2. The vessel is coming via the Panama Canal. Rugby in Queensland. Rugby Union continues to progress in Queensland. This seasons affiliations for the Brisbane premierships are a record. There will be more teams at Warwick and the game has been introduced to Maryborough, a strong League centre not so many years ago. N.Z. Rugby Team. The New Zealand Rugby team whichh is to tour Australia this season will leave Wellington on the Wanganella on July 7, arriving in Sydney on July 11. It is to leave Sydney for Ne\v Zealand on the return trip on August 15. Swimmer's Defiance. Walter Spence, the British Guiana swimmer, who is remaining in Australia by invitation of the Queensland Amateur Swimming Association, sought permission to race in New South Wales, at Murwillumbah's carnival. The association refused permission, but Spence competed. There is much speculation as to what action will be taken against the Empire Games visitor. Schoolboy Rugby Players. Figures which show that 71,863 boyl 10 years and over in schools throughout the Dominion play football wer« made available by Mr. A. G. Maddison, chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Football Council’s committee, to report on football in schools. The figures show that 52,670 boys in primary schools, 2304 in intermediate schools, and 16,889 in post primary schools play Rugby. Title Bout for Baer. Max Baer, who recently caused the biggest boxing upset of the year by outpointing the British heavyweight champion, Tommy Farr, has accepted terms for a world title fight in New York in September. He will meet the winner of the Louis-Schmeling bout Papers for Baer’s fight were drawn up after a conference between A. Hoffman, Baer’s manager, and Mike' Jacobs, Madison Square Garden manager. Detectives to Protect Patrons. Recent outbreaks of prolonged booing that have met referees’ decision* at the National Sporting Club, London, have brought about the unusual decision of the club to engage 20 private detectives to sit with the spectators at future boxing tournaments of the club. The club's officials are not satisfied that the recent hostile demonstrations are organised, but feel that ringside patrons should be protected from hooliganism.

Death of Harrier. Athletes who knew L. Carleton, * member of the Lynndale Harriers' Club, who was killed in an accident on April 17, learned with sorrow of his death, says the New Zealand Herald. Carleton was a member of the champion junior cross-country team last year, while he was also one of the successful team in the ten-men teams’ race. He was considered ona of the most promising junior harried in Auckland. He will be chiefly remembered for his modesty and good sportsmanship. Bradman’s Test Centuries. The Australian cricket captain, D. G. Bradman, has made a century in every test match in which he has played against England on the Melbourne ground. Bradman has played in five tests on that ground, and his centuries arc:—l92B-29: Third test. 112 in the second innings; fifth, 123 lin the first innings. 1932-33: Second I test, 103 not out in the second inI nings. 1936-37: Third test, 270 in the I second innings; fifth test, 167 in the I first innings.

Ered Perry in Trouble

At Miami, Florida, United Statet, recently, Fred Perry struck a little trouble and inconvenience. He was nearly left, behind when he arrived at the airport with Ellsworth Vines and others cn route for Nassau. Bahamas, all •'ecause of an argument with a United States revenue officer. Alisflb leaving the United States must h.r. • paid income tax due or have posted » bond equal to the previous year's payment, and Perry is alleged to have refused lo comply with these regulations. Eventually, when Perry threatened to hoard the machine the airline officials said that they would he forced to refuse his passage. Then Ellsworth Vines solved the problem by guaranteeing Perry's return to the United States and also his income tax. The Unlucky Number. "Thirteen” is supposed to he an unlucky number. What about 19? ask» an Australian writer. Sydney Grammar School some years ago lost the athletic championship of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales after holding it 19 years. Very soon afterwards Melbourne Grammar School won its first Head of the River boat race for 19 years, and now the Melbourne Harriers have won the amateur athletic premiership of Victoria after a lapse of 19 years. It is extaordinary how some numbers attach themselves to certain people or things. It will be remembered howi often W. H. Ponsford made 110 fln Sheffield and test matches— he made that score twice in one game—and how frequently one of the numbers in . the nineties have intervened to stop J a century.