Our Sports Summary

New Zealand Tablet, 1 December 1921, Page 31

Our Sports Summary

AUCKLAND. Playing in the secondary schools' competition, Sacred Heart College gained another victory in the second grade by. defeating Grammar School. Sacred Heart College batting first made 119; Stone played a masterly innings for 63 not out, R. O'Connor got 24, and Kalaugher 10. Grammar School's reply was weak, for they got only 56. For Sacred Heart College the bowling was done by O'Regan (3 for 17), McMahon (2 for 17), and Kalaugher (3 for 21). The college senior team playing in the # Auckland Association second grade matches are now engaged in a match with the Ponsonby club. Ponsonby compiled 146. Bowling for Sacred Heart College, Kalaugher got six wickets for 41, Griffin (3 for 17), and McMahon (1 for 5). The opening batsmen of the college team made a good Lander scouring 41 and McMahon 45, both being run out. R. O'Connor and W. Kalaugher (both not out) are 21 and 11 respectively. The college boys have lost two wickets for 132. The match was to be continued last Saturday. i INVERCARGILL. On Saturday last the cricket matches played by the Marist teams proved quite an interesting series. The school juniors played their last game, and after a great struggle were beaten by 18 runs. The school fared better in the senior grade for after disposing of the South batsmen for 32 runs the Brothers' boys went to the wickets and played a solid innings for 138 runs; Hallamore (80), Ward (22), Henley (13), being the prominent scorers.- The Marist bowling was deadly. Hallamore mowed down six wickets for 15 runs and Gillespie took four for. 17. The Marist Old Boys concluded their first match, and were beaten by I.C.C. on the first innings by 63 runs. The new club showed great keeness in the field, and its bowling was solid, but its players will require considerable batting practice to stand up to the attack of the more experienced players of the older clubs. The second grade were defeated by High School Old Boys B. Batting first Marist made 39 and High School replied with 83. Marist declared their second innings at 95 for six wickets down. High School declared at 54 for three wickets, thus securing an easy win. The thirds again won, this time defeating High School by 26 on the first innings. Pasco (26), Lenihan (15), Hallamore (14). Hallamore again proved himself as a bowler, taking 14 for 45 in the two innings. DUNEDIN. A boxing tournament under the auspices of the Otago Boxing Association, in connection with the Christian Brothers' School, was held in the Early Settlers' Hall last Monday evening. Mr. J. Kilmartin acted as referee, Messrs. Stewart and Campbell were the judges, and Mr. J. Isaacs timekeeper. The bouts were of three two-minute rounds. The hall was crowded with spectators. Mr. T. Gillies, chairman of the Otago Boxing Association, opened the tournament with a brief speech. He said that it must be very pleasing to the management to see such a large number present. Before the last bout Rev. Brother Bowler said that he would like to thank the Otago Boxing Association for the assistance it had always given them, the officials, and Les Murray, who had come forward' quite spontaneously and offered to provide an exhibition bout. He would also like to congratulate Mr. Goodman, the teacher of the boys, on the, fine exhibition they had given that evening. The medal for the most scientific exhibition of boxing was awarded by Mr. Kilmartin to Hayes. Light-weights (semi-final)—A. Lister \eat J. Churstain. A nice clean exhibition of boxing was witnessed, the men trying to score points, by cleverness, without introducing too much of the fighting, element. Lister was the heavier of the two, and held the advantage right throughout. —Lister beat McCormack. Paper-weights (semi-

final) —J. Hayes beat T. Cummins; J. Conley beat D. Paterson. Final—Hayes beat Conley. The spectators witnessed a pleasing exhibition of two-hand-ed boxing. There was not much to choose between the two boys. Fly-weights (semi-final) —J. Paterson beat "W. McElevy; J. O'Connor beat C. Campbell. O'Connor did most of the leading, and won comfortably. Final —O'Connor beat Paterson. Bantams (semi-final)B. Carter beat N. Watersten; F. Columb beat P. Butler. Final Carter beat' Columb. Feather-weights (final)—McCarten beat Sheehan. Exhibition bout— Murray, the New Zealand champion light-weight, gave a fine exhibition of boxing, his opponents being T. Harris and A. Goodman. Four rounds were fought, each of two minutes, Harris and Goodman taking two rounds apiece.

THE SUN BATH. '■' It is almost impossible to over-estimate the value of the sun bath to athletes. The sun bath is no new idea; it is as old as athletics. It formed an important part in the training of the ancient Greek and Roman athletes, and we are told that the gladiators in the old Roman Circus were tanned from basking in the sun. They were trained in regular schools (ludi), by masters called Lanistae; the whole establishment was called a family (familia). According to ancient writers it was no uncommon sight to witness 10,000 pupils from these schools lying naked beneath the fierce glare of the noonday sun. At intervals they would rise and exercise themselves, after which they would return to their sand-bed for further attention from "old Jamaica." Sun bathing was usually indulged in on the sea beaches and old chroniclers tell us that the athletes would lave their bodies in the water and knead their muscles to the bone. The extraordinary feats of endurance, skill, and agility of which those hardy old Romans were capable have directed the attention of modern athletes to the process of training adopted by the sportsmen of an infant world. The result is that the great performers on the running track appear with skins of the color of a ripe apricot. They have come to recognise what medical men have long recognised: that the sun not only gives out heat but also supplies strength to the body. Medical men order their patients into the sun during the period of convalescence and this is a reason why not only athletes but everybody should take a little of this wholesome and inexpensive tonic. Runners, themselves, always recognise the fact that they will do faster work on a warm day than on a cold one. It is also understood that a sprinter will put up faster times in Australia and South Africa than in England or New Zealand. McManus used to say that he was three yards better over a hundred in Australia than in New Zealand and "Darky" Morris, even when in the North Island of New Zealand, used to sigh for the hot sun of Australia under which "it was easy to keep fit." What a difference there is in the appearance of the man who trains in the open air, who exposes his body to the sun and wind, and_that of the man who never takes his clothes off except to go to bed! The former is bronzed and toughened and protected against those little indispositions which make a person feel off-color and disin* clined for strenuous exercise, while the latter is pastyskinned, fearful of cold, and unequal to the physical strain ho could easily endure if his habits were cast in healthier way!,.