SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 September 1924, Page 6

SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

HOCKEY.

THE NELSON TOURNAMENT

(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) r , NELSON, Sept. 4. The hockey tournament was continued this afternoon, with the following results:

B Section.—Auckland (2) beat Manawatu (1).

A Section.—Nelson A (4) beat Wellingtpn (2); Wairarapa (2) beat Eastern (nil); Poverty Bay (7) beat Marlborough (nil).

THE DOMINION TOURNEY. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 4. The New Zealand Hockey Association’s shield tournament was continued at Lancaster Park to-day in fine weather. Canterbury A defeated Canterbury B by one goal to nil, and Wellington defeated Auckland by four goals to two. The tournament is to be continued on Saturday.

SWIMMING.

BORG SMASHES A RECORD

3Y CABLE — F&XBB ABBOOIATIOIM—COPYRIGHT LONDON, Sept. 2. At Gothenburg Arne Borg swam 1000 yards in 12min. 16 9-10 sec., a record.

BOXING. PARIS OLYMPIAD. COMPLAINT BY PURDY. {BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 4. “I was absolutely robbed right and left; if I did not win that fight I have never won any other,” says Charlie 1 urdy, the Auckland amateur boxer, who represented New Zealand at the Olympic. Games at Paris, in a letter written just after the contest in which the decision was given against him in favour of his French opponent. The young Aucklander says he had endured a very trying and disappointmg time as regards training and the conditions were impossible. “I was robbed of the fight, which I won from start to finish,” he asserts. “During the first two rounds lie never hit me.” Purdy says there was great resentment when the decision was given against him. What made it more heartbreaking was the fact that he was fighting out of his division as a light-weight and that he wag improperly trained. Purdy says: ‘ ‘There was nobody in niy corner who knew anything about boxing... The referee was a Frenchman, one of the judges was an American, and the other judge was of another nationality. The Yankee-gave me nine points out of ten and said it was'the finest exhibition .of the morning.” Purdy says he will probably fight in Denmark and America.

GOLF. NEW ZEALAND CHAMPIONSHIPS. AUCKLAND, Sept. 4. The New Zealand golf tournament, which includes the open aiid professional championships of New Zealand, will be opened at Middlemore links tomorrow morning, wdien the qualifying rounds of the championships will be played. ihere are seventy-two competitors for the open championship, including- all the most prominent players 'in the Dominion, amateur and nrofessonal. The open championship play- will occupy tomorrow and Saturday, and the .amateur and professional championships will be started on Monday, continuing throughout the week and finishing on Saturday. On Monday there will also be a bogey handicap match, and on Tuesday there will be a stroke Handicap. A nrofessional match will he played on Wednesday and a stroke ■ match for amateurs on Thursday. Friday and Saturday of next week will he devoted to the semifinals and finals of the professional and amateur championships.