SPORTS JOTTINGS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 9 April 1927, Page 5

SPORTS JOTTINGS.

The Hawke’s Bay Rugby .Union has resolved to apply to have the North v. South Island match played this year at Napier.

A schoolboy named George Kojac, aged 17 years, at Chicago, defeated the champion swimmer Weismuller, in a 150 yards breaststroke race, the time beiug 2min. 19 l-ssec —a world’s record.

It is expected that the handicaps for the United Friendly Societies’ Easter Sports meeting on Easter Saturday v. ill be published in Monday’s Advertiser.

Trout fishing in the Waihao River is stiil very keen. A local angle,, Mr J. Mines successfully landed on the devon three sporting trout weighing respectively 71bs, and -IJ. lbs and 2 pounds. Usually at this time of the season good catches are rather rare.

Miso Pattison and Airs Gale quite outplayed the Waimate pair in the ladiu.-: doubles of the North Otago v. Otago tennis match at Dunedin on Saturday. Miss Pattison went tc i lie net and enjoyed herself and '.he Misses Manchester were unable *o iob well enough to break down the: game.

L. 11. Wynyard, well-known n. Auckland racing circles, was dis-

qualified for six months by the Auckland District Committee tor attending a race meeting while a disqualified person, and also lined x 5, and for corrupt practices was disqualified for three years.

In the ladies’ singles of the Noun Otago v. Otagc tennis match ;.t Dunedin on Saturday, Aliss D. Man Chester had a very hard game with Miss White, winning 9 —B. 'll’e match lasted twice as long as the •ingles on the adjoining courts. Long rallies were the feature throughout. Had the Waimate player given of her usual tennis would have won more easily. She was not as enterprising as she cm le.

The annual meeting of the Waimate Rugby Sub-Union will be held in the board-room, Albion Buildings, on Monday, April 11, at 6 p.m.

Efforts are being made by 4 he Auckland Acclimatisation Society to procure a number of new game birds, the list including snipe from Shanghai woodcock from Greet*,, Partridge from Hungary and gre i plover from New South Wales. T?.» society s revenue last year amount d (states the “Star”) to £3907, end 1100 pheasants were purchased for liberation.

At a meeting of the Australiai Olympic Federation it was deeded t< provide each State with a sum noexceeding £lOO for coaching. Candi dates were selected to represent Au» tralia in the Olympic Games ai Amsterdam in 1928. It was also decide, to approach the International Olympu Council with a request that the game be held in Australia in 1936.

The Waimate Tennis Club mare than held their own in the Norlii Otago tennis competitions this 3i.a•cn. The Waimate A. team won their section by a narrow margin from Oamaru, which is a meritorious performance, in face of the fact that the Oamaru team possesses i o fewer than five North Otago reprsentatives. The Waimate R, *ea.n also put up a good ] crformaiice, and were close runners-up to Awamoa.

At a meeting of the Oamaiu Jockey Club the question or holdin - the one-day meeting on June 25, to complete the dates the Club has Applied for, was discussed. It was decided to ask the Dunedin Jockey Club for permission to race at Wingatui because the local corns, would be undergoing alteration-: end in the event of a favourable reply. to submit the suggestion to race there to a general meeting of members. A statement of receipts and expenditure in connection with the autumn meeting disclosed a d< ficit of £376.