SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1297, 4 March 1915, Page 33

SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

The Hawera Golf Greens will open the season a month earlier this year. • • • • A handsome golf cup has been presented to the New Plymouth Club. » ♦ * • In spite of the millions under arms, they still are racing in Russia. * * * • Fullers’ new picture theatre at Palmerston North, it is stated, will cost £6500. Municipal golf links have been opened at Invercargill. - ♦ * * Commander H. E. Grace, son of Dr. W. G. Grace, of cricket fame has been promoted. * * The Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association intends holding its annual tournament as usual at Easter. ■r i • Six hundred l ead of Texan mustangs were being landed every week at La Pallice, France, recently. The Athletic Sports Rifle Club Sydney, has a membership of over 400. * * * * It is stated the well-known cricketer R. H. Spooner, recently wounded, is doing well. * * * * The Christchurch golfers have sent the sum of £3O to Eng’and to buy tobacco for the men in the trenches. - • •- • The Christchurch Bowling Centre netted a profit of £3O 2s. 3d. from the recent South Island tournament. •a : i : The Wellington Lawn Tenn-'s Association has applied for the next meeting to be held at Wellington. * * * * IKarori Golf Club, Wellington, report a successful season and a small balance in hand. « * ♦ • Jack Donaldson, the Victorian sprinter, and Applegarth, of England, have been matched to run 220 yards at Manchester in April. sjs * * * Mr Les’ie R. P. Smith, a former New Zealand artist, well-known in Dunedin, is now with the Stranger Legion at the front. * * * P. Hannan, who is to race against Wili am Webb for the New Zealand rowing championship, is framing on the Wairau River, Marlborough. # It is suggested that there shall be legislaive prohibition of the export of mares from England for a lengthy period after the Avar is over, to enable British breeding to be developed to the old strength. * * * * Arthur Adams’ three Australian nlays are an attempt, says the London Thunderer, to deal with Australian manners and conditions from an Australian standpoint, and deserve success.

Mr. E. Prendergast, reporter, Invercargill, joins the “Waikato Times.’’ The Athletic Football C.ub made him a presentation. « Colonel Yamashita, who was buyinghorses in Australia for the Military School in Tokio, left for Japan by the Nikko Maru. :Js j|- : 1 : The gross receipts of the Freddie Welsh-Joe Shugrue bout were 11,994 dols., of winch Welsh drew £B4O and the young American £360. At the Dunedin Amateur Athletic Championships a broad jump made by Austin _s said to have been unequalled during the past 24 years. Captain R. O. Schwarz, the most famous of the googly bowlers, is on service in South Africa. He was reported wounded, but is now recovered. J. C. Parke, the noted player, who came through New Zealand with the Davis Cup team, is a lieutenant in the 6ih Battalion Leinster Regiment. Dick Arnst has contracted to shew his supporters his old sculling powers shortly. He has gone in for heavy training dur.ng the last three months. The Chris.church Bowling Centre has decided, on the recommendation of the Executive, to adopt last year’s tournament programme in its entirety. Lieutenant Hammond, who flew over Auckland and round the Exhibition tewers, is now with the British aviation corp in the fighting line. ♦ ♦ » Margaret Anglin, an Australian critic states to be the most convincing actress that has ever trod the Australian boards. ♦ * Captain the Hon. H. L. Bruce, who fell leading the gallant charge at Ypres, married Miss Cam T.e Clifford, famous as “The Gibson Girl.” sj: * ❖ Captain Henderson, of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who was killed in action in November, was one of the strongest golfers in the army. :|: * :1: Madame Blanche Marchesi is hard at, work for the French soldiers. Her mother made the famous Marchesi school of song, of which Melba is the most finished production. George Titheradge is appealing to the Australian public to support the Actors’ Association in its efforts for the stranded mummers of Australia. Last year the appeal brought in a thousand pounds. A polo match between Paeroa and Ranglora. Canterbury, resulted in favour of the South Canterburyites by 8 goals io nil. The teams were: — Pareora: A. S. Elworthy (captain), H. Elworthy, M. Anderson, H. Orbell. Rangiora: J. McDonald, H. Ensor (captain), S. Townend, J. McCracken.

Mr. F. W. G. McLeod, the adjudicator of the Auckland band contest, is bandmaster of the Ipswich Vice-Regal Band, Queensland, and an old Timaruvian. * * * * The Dunedin amateur athletic delegate to the Anglican Club, Mr. L. E. Barrett, has resigned to go to the front. The Otago Centre wished him God-speed. Lord Winborne, who has been appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, is the man who took a polo team to the States in pursuit of the Polo Cup and returned with it, triumphant. The Miramar Golf Club declared the season closed with a surplus of two hundred pounds after all expenses and depreciation had been taken into account. * * * « Sixteen rinks from Wellington and suburbs played the parent Club on the latter’s green. The Wellington Club has won for ten years, and this year won again with 133 points. >:> * * * Mr J. W. H. Scotland accompanied by Mr H. Morris, of the mechanical staff of the Dominion have left for England to join the Royal Flying Ccrps. Mr. Stuart Reid, whose artistic work was well known in the Duned n papers, has been promoted sergeant in a Scottish cavalry regiment raised by Lord Tullibard’ne, 500 strong. # * * Bowl’ng tourists can now enjoy a friendly game under the shadow of the snow-capped Alps. A three rink green has been laid down at Genorchy, at the head of Lake Wakatipu. * # * ❖ Miss Fanny Brough was loved and is mourned in London. She was president of the Theatrical Ladies’ Guild, which provides clothing and money for needy actresses. jji 5|S English billiards have become very popular in America since the InmanHoppe matches were played. It is said that in some cities the game has become a craze. ❖ * * * Miss Frances Ross, well-known in the old days when Bland Holt delighted the melodramatic heait, was in charge of the Allies’ stall at the carnival arranged by the Sydney Actors’ Association. :i: s',: * * Canterbury athletes are appealing for funds to erect a memorial stone over the grave of the late W. F. Simpson, one of the whitest hearts and finest athletes that ever breasted a tape. The Theatrical Union of Sydney is in the act of falling out with the powers that be. They ask unionists not to patronise the theatres of a certain firm, which claims it smashed the union of playing folk in New Zealand. # # The New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association has been thanked by the New South Wales Association for its efforts in connection with the American athletes’ visit to the Dominion last year.

Bowls are not alone confined to the middle-aged, stay-at-home heads of households. Some Thespians love the rolling bowl, and Messrs. Mannering, Titchener, Keats and Graystone, of the “Court Cards,” comprise a very fair rink. * * * ?: George Reid, politician, knight, golden-voiced orator, and after-dinner wit—George Reid, the well beloved — has been painted by Lambert, Australia’s ablest portrait painter.. The picture was returned to the artist because it did not make the well-known figure young and sylph-like. * * * « Sir Edward Grey was not at the Fore gn Office when the United States note anent the seizure of American shipping arrived. He was engaged in week-end fishing. Evidently John Bull has his troubles well in hand. But the American papers were astonished and amused. "I* ’j' Sji Lovers of the drama will rejoice to hear that “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” that brilliant comedy of Oscar Wilde’s most brilliant period, is likely to be p esented in New Zealand by Harry P immer, supported by Winter Hall and an able company. * * * ♦ The game spirit and the spirit of the football field exists in the English at the fiercest and bloodiest moments. “Go it, East Lancs,” “On the ball, Warwicks,” are their cries. Even their officers sometimes fall unconsciously into the language of the sports field. “Now, boys, play to the whistle,” has become a common formula for requesting close attention to orders.