SPORT IN BRITAIN

Chronicle (Levin), 3 September 1949, Page 5

SPORT IN BRITAIN

f N 7. P A

. — Rp.ii.t.p.r

Woodcock Advised To Give Up Boxing

novvrioht)

Beceived Eridav S.50 p.m. LONDON, Sept, 2. .Taek Solomons, the British boxing1 promoter, estimates that the caneella- . tiou of the Woodcock-Savold fight at White City has cost him at least £14, 000. Two tnousand of this goes to Savold in setllement of the daniago. clausi in the contract. In addition Solomonhad to bear tlie expenses of roturning I about £20,000 alreadv paid for seats, had to pav compensation to the stadium proprietors, and of course pav the ex penses of the double Atlantic erossing for Savold and his party. Solomons would not discloso wliat lit paid for the nine months' option upoi Savold 's services but it is confinnc that the American will not be ahlto fight without his permission foi timi period. This disposes of suggest ions tlm Savold will fight Ezzard Charles for tlu world chanipiouship bcl'ore he meol Woodcock. Woodcock 's disappearance followin his accident and the events leading iq to the cancellation of his fight with Sa vold have again brought the Britis champion under the lire of tlie boxiiu wnters. While admitting Woodcock ha. every justifieation for not lighting i he is unfit several of them suggest lu would be well advised to retire altogether. ' Beports from Ameriea state that BolFalkenburg who won the Wimbledon singles championship the year befori last, has decided to retire from tennis It is now disclosed that Falkenburg has been suffering for some time from thy roid trouble whieh makes its difticult for him to conserve his strength. This, • it is considered, explains to some exten; the unorthodox rests he fook by lying flat on the court at Wimbledon. Falkenburg now proposes to follow the example of another former American Wimbledon champion, Elsworth Vines, and take up golf. Bert Cook, the former New Zealand Rugby union plaver now playing fuilback for Leeds Rugby League Club, equalled the club's goalkicking recoi-i this week when he kicked 12 goals at Jleadingley plaving against York. Cook made a major contribution to the Leeds score of (13 points to 3. The Leeds goalkicking record was establislied in 1892 by J. II. Potter, and stood until 1939 when it was equalled by Ernest Pollard. Cricket statistieians have pointe l out that this year's joint eouuty cricket champions, Middlesex and Yorkshire, stand extraordinarly close in the reconK Middlesex scored 11,770. runand Yorkshire 11,111. Middlesex had 1.1,614 runs scored against them and Yorkshire had 10,91(5. The only side to beat both joint champions was Surrev. Kramer's Tennis "Circus" Jac-k Kramer's tennis "circus," which has travelled more than 15,000 miles and played in 25 different cities since last spring, broke up this week". eud-after a farewell performance ai Wombley. The circus originally consisted of Ivramer, Dinny 1'ails, Panclm Segura and Bob'bv Riggs, but itiggs withdrew in June and was replaced by Donald Budge, In the course of theii tour these professionals played before more than 120,000 paying1 customers. Kichard Ault, of the Fnited States. equalled the world record of 52.2 seeonds for the 440 yards hurdles in the international athletics contest at Bislet Stadium, Gslo. on Tuesday. Ault ran on to complete the distance aftor winning the 400 rnetres hurdles in a new traek record time of 5-1 7-10 secunds. His figures equalled the time set up by the American R. Cochrane in 1942. Competitors from Norwav, Sweden, Finland, Britain and the C n i t evd States took part in the meeting.