GENERAL NEWS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20116, 9 December 1939, Page 9

GENERAL NEWS

NO JOB FOR SOCCER STAR MATTHEWS AGAIN TEMPERAMENT DISPLAYED K. F. M. Uttley, captain of the Otago representative cricket team last'season, has left Dunedin to reside in Greymoutli, where he. has taken up a medical appointment. Uttley was awarded the Redpath Cup twe seasons ago. T- * * * The New Zealand Professional Golf Association will hold its annual tournament at the Maranui links on December 22, 23, and 21. This will be the association's fifth tourney, tlie first having been held on the Mutt links in 1930. There were 20 entries on that occasion, but these had increased to 2-1 last year at | Rotorua. A. Murray, Auckland, is the present holder of the title. * * * $ The world's most expensive footballer is out of work. Just over a year ago, when Bryn Jones was transferred from Wolverhampton Wanderers to Arsenal, his value in the soccer market was assessed at £14,000. Now with the war on, Bryn’s 'value appears to have slumped. He 'was unable to find employment of any kind in London. He tried to join the A.R.P., Police War Reserve, and other war-time services. There was no room, so Bryn has returned to Wales. * e * • There is every possibility that a team of Australia’s leading lady tennis players will visit New Zealand to take part in the centennial championships, which are to be held in Wellington in February. Misses Nancy Wynne, Thelma Coyne, May Hardcastle, Dot Stevenson and Mrs. H. Hopman have been mentioned as possible competitors. Miss Hardcastle .von the New Zealand championship last year at Christchurch, during the course of a tour with Miss Thelma Rice. * * * tThe British Empire Games three and six miles track champion, C. H. Matthews, who did not participate in New Zeadand athletics ast season on account of illness, made his first competitive appearance since the 1937-38 season, recently. He ran in a mile scratch race and was content )to use the event as valuable training. He finished second to the New junior half-mile title-holder, D. Shaw, in the very slow time of 4m. 52 3-ss, Matthews moved easily over the distance, and did not exert himself at any stage. S V * After a display of temperament in -lie third set, John Bromwich defeated W. Sidwell in a quarter-final of ihe New South Wales men’s singles championship, states an Australian writer. Bromwich caused a stir when the umpire made an obvious mistake, giving Sidwell a lead of 40-love on his service. Bromwich caught the next ball instead of attempting to hit it and playing erratically, dropped the next two games also, for the set. After the match he said lie meant no reflection on the umpire, and added that he did not throw the set away, as many spectators believed, * * * * One of the most prominent and promising members of the Southland Rugby team which defended the Ranfurly Shield in the past season, was H. Grace, whose play at second five-eights placed him well in the running for a place in the All Black side. Grace is also a fairly useful cricketer and has given valuable service to the Marist club (Invercargill) for some seasons. He was in the process of being decidely useful to it again not long ago, until lie met with a strange accident.' He had bowled only one over when he fell from the sight screen and dislocated his collarbone. But that over was sufficient for ‘any bowler’s day. It yielded him four wickets at a total cost of four runs, and included a “hat trick !”