SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 5 July 1928, Page 3

SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

The late V. T. Trumper had many wonderful batting feats to his credit, and lie frequently made his runs at a fast rate, especially during some of the Australian tours in New Zealand (says an English sporting journal). Playing in a grade match at Sydney in 1907, he indulged in a remarkable display of hitting, and at one period scored 50 runs in five and a. quarter minutes. Off a six-ball over from a bowler named Rose lie scored two fours and four sixes.

- The following note on V. E. Page appeared in a recent Australian tennis publication:—“ V. E. Page, an cx-New Zealander, now playing No. 1 for Tasmania, is a left-hander of great ability. His experience assisted him through some games, but lie lias the necessary stroke equipment to make even the best players go their hardest. Against Jack Crawford, in the singles championship, Page was unlucky not to win at least one set (if not two), for he had Crawford trying his hardest right through. The youngsters in Tasmania are fortunate in having this man to give them practice and advice.”

Football certainly runs in the Holden family (says a Dunedin writer). Holden pere is a prominent member of the Otago Rugby Union, “ Tubby” Holden is the well-known Varsity and Otago representative half who should wear a New Zealand jersey this season; and now reported to be playing well in the 1 Otago Boys’ High School first fifteen is a younger member of the family. Like his famous brother, lie is a half-back, and under Jimmy Duncan’s tutelage he is reported to be showing great promise.

One of the forwards in the New South Wales Rugby team that will visit New Zealand this season probably will be W. Ceratti. -Although he plays for the Y.M.C.A. club in Sydney Rugger, his nickname is “Wild Bill.” This is what a Sydney paper had to say of his play against the Eandwick club: Foremost in the best play of the winning pack was ‘Wild Bill’ Ceratti. This young giant, fast, and heady, too, is the best forward in the game for years. He was in everything, and generally at the head of the play. Two tries were scored through his fast following up and determination to go over the line.”

To the foreigner seeing football for the fh;st time, the game must seem rather a mad spectacle, especially Rugby. The following description of a game of football, written by a Turk, furnishes another interesting contrast to Western outlook: “I was resting on the held of Hassan, where I was aroused by voices. Rising on my elbow, I saw fifteen Englishmen striped like the tiger, and fifteen others that were plain. One young striped man suddenly kicked a huge leather ball into the stomach of a plain man. Then another striped man tried to take it out of the plain man’s stomach, stimulating him to vengeance, for, with the ball under his arm, he rushed at the youth who had injured him. Undismayed by his ferocious aspect, the striped men hurled themselves on the plain man who was carrying the ball until he cried aloud. Seeing the ball rolling past their victim, they let him go. Then a plain man now kicked it into the stomach of a striped man. While he was getting it out I came forward to help him, but his companions, with wild yells, kicked me out of the field. Surely these Giaours have been afflicted by Allah!”