FRIENDS ON FIELD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 236, 5 October 1928, Page 7

FRIENDS ON FIELD.

All Black Vice-Captain Has No Bone To Pick. AGREED TO DIFFER. (Received 1 p.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Speaking at the welcome to the New South Wales Rugby team, just returned from New Zealand, Mark Nicholls, the only All Black present, took opportunity to deny reports of dissensions among members of the team during the South African tour. 'He particularly refuted the suggestion that the captain and himself had been at loggerheads. "Brownlie and I are great friends," he said. "We differed in opinions regarding football matters at times, but these werp brushed aside on the field, where the team always played in a wholehearted desire to further the fame of New Zealand." Nicholls gave it as his opinion that as a result of the tour New Zealand football authorities would be convinced that the day of the wing-forward was over.

BRITISH LADIES' GOLF.

1927 CHAMPION DOWN.

(Australian Press Assn.—United Service.)

(Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, October 4. In the native ladies' golf championship quarter-final, Miss Molly Gourlay beat the holder, Mrs. Guedalla, 5 and 4. In the semi-final, the ex-girl champion, Miss Enid Wilson and Miss Gourlay meet; the other finalist is Miss D. Pearson.

ENGLAND'S ELEVEN.

THE CEYLON MATCH. (United Service.) (Received 11 a.m.) COLOMBO, October 4. The English cricketers are expected here early on Saturday. Toone wirelessed "all well." Sutcliffe, Mead, Tate, Hendren, Tyldesley and Freeman have been omitted from the Ceylon match on Saturday. Hobbs will be playing, at the special request of the Ceylon authorities.

WORLD TENNIS LADDER.

AS PLACED IN FRANCE. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 9 a.m.) PARIS, October 4. M. Gillou, captain of the French Davis Cup team, ranks the -first ten internationals as follows:—Cochet, Lacoste. Tilden, Hunter, Borotra, Lott, Hennessy, Austin, de Morpurgo, Crawford. M. Gillon explains that for the final place he prefers Crawford to the veteran Hawkes, whom Wallis Myers favoured in an almost identical list.

TENNIS IN U.S.A.

(Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 9 a.m.) LOS ANGELES, October 4. In the Pacific south-west tennis tournament Cochet beat Held (Los Angeles), 6—4, 6—l. Cochet and Doeg ' beat Laird and Mac Arthur (Los Angeles), 6—o, 6—3. Tibdall and Ribins (Los Angeles) beat Landry and Boussus, 7 —9, 7—5, 6—3.

N.Z. BOWLERS.

(Received 11.30 a.m.) SUVA, this day. Fiji bowlers defeated the New Zealand players, who are passengers by the Niagara, by three matches to one. Uren 12, beat Needham 9; Perks 21, beat Horton 6; Butler U, beat Sole 10; Grant 16, beat Millett 4—aggregates 48 to 41.

RUGBY IN ENGLAND.

(Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) < Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, October 4. In a Rugby county championship match Warwickshire defeated Leicestershire by 24 to 5 at Coventry.