THE FIELD OF SPORT

Evening Star, Issue 23697, 3 October 1940, Page 3

THE FIELD OF SPORT

TOPICAL NEWS AND NOTES [By Hooker.] One Too Many. An unusual incident occurred in a Rugby match at the Ostend Reserve during the week-end between Ostend and Oneroa. The fact that the home team bad been playing throughout the first spell with 16 men ■was not discovered until This was rectified, but another game will have to be played to decide the district cup winner. Champion as Referee. Joe Louis, world heavy-weight boxing champion, refereed a match recently at Youngstown, Ohio, between two coloured heavy-weights, Eddie Blunt and Jack Trammell. Retains His Interest. .Although he is now in business at Portobdllo, Mr Walter Stiglich retains his interest in boxing affairs, and is still a member of the Otago Boxing Association. During one of the association’s most active periods, Mr Stiglich did outstanding work as treasurer, and he has also acted as manager of the Otago teams at the New Zealand championships on a number of occasions. Queensland Sportsman’s Death. The death occurred last mouth, at Brisbane, of Mr P. C. Sapsford, secretary of the Queensland Bowling Association, who had occupied that position for the record term of 33 years. Mr ,Sapsford, who was 71 years of age, was well known to many New Zealand bowlers, and was a captain of many Queensland interstate sides. In liis younger days lie was a noted cyclist and a Queensland representative Rugby footballer, as well as being a first-class cricketer. Weight-lifting Championships. Wei "lit lifting is becoming recognised not only as an excellent body-building pastime, but as a most enjoyable competitive sport, and national championships arc to bo held at Wanganui at the end of the present month. There are several promising Utters in Otago, and though the sport has sutfored losses through enlistments competition is expected to bo very keen when the provincial title meeting is held on Wednesday, October 9. Prom the form shown in training there may bo several new records on the books after the meeting. Title Offer Refused. The Australian triple boxing champion, Ron. Richards, who decisively defeated Max Raynor in his defence of the heavy-weight championship recently, has refused an offer to meet Ccferino Garcia in a world middleweight title match at Manila. Richards was” offered 33& per cent, and fares for two but declined. He asked for a guarantee of £I,OOO and expenses. Percentage fights have not been successful at Manila. Recently the promoters of the world title bout, between Garcia and Glen Lee (when Garcia won) lost money over the match. On that occasion Jack Dempsey acted as referee, and took the biggest share of the proceeds. Toll of Rugby Players, The war is taking some 101 l of Britain’s lea dill" Rugby players. Prince Obolensky, the English international wing, was killed in a flying accident, and Paul Cooke, the Emd’ish scrum-half, was killed in action m Flanders. D. J. Macrae, the Scottish centre, who toured South Africa with the British team in 1938, is missing—he was in the Royal Armv Medical Corps in Flanders. J. W Irwin; Irish international forward, is a prisoner of war, and R. J. Barr, English full-back, is missing. Now it is learnt that Corporal R. C. Brydon, 24-year-old Scottish international scrum-half, is a prisoner of war in Germany; he was a Territorial in the Lothian and Border Yeomanry. Henry Rcw, the English international forward, who gained 10 caps and was one of the outstanding forwards in British Isles between 1929 and 1931 (ho was in New Zealand with the 1930 British side), is in an English hospital severely wounded. He is a tank officer.

Champion Swimmer in Camp. W. H. Dyson, the national men’s 100yds breast stroke champion, has been training with the Territorials for the last few weeks, and ho entered Burnham Camp at the beginning of this week. Although Dyson is only 20 years of age, he has won most of the' honours offering in breast stroke competition, besides representing his province at water polo for the last three years of its successful defence of the trophy. Twice Dyson was runner-up in the_ national 220yds men’s breast stroke cliainpionsliin. and on one occasion before ho won the 100yds title he was runner-up. He holds national men’s breast stroke records for 100yds, 100 metres, and 400 metres, and, though healen by a touch in the national furlong last season,, also succeeded in lowering the existing record.. , Boxing Revival in Invercargill. Tho Southland Boxing Association, which went out of existence largely as the result of tho misfortune that befell it when part of the staging collapsed at one of its contests, has been revised, and the first match to be staged by the resuscitated association will bo a contest between Vie. Caltaux, of Auckland, and Johnny Hutchison, the American negro.