SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 7, 23 January 1937, Page 14

SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS

The last match in which G, O. Allen played prior to the Brisbane Test waa against New South Wales. In it he made a "pair" (0 and 0) and got four wiokets for 114 runs. In the Test he scored 35 and 68, and eaptured. 8 for 107. Jack Fingieton's century at Brisbane also fpllowed two "ducks" in the Testg of 1932-33. These little factg show that, in cricket, you cannot keep a good man down, "Guts" is a very valuable commodity in games as well as war, ^ ^ 4s Borotra Reijounus, Jean Borotra once more heads the ofiicial French ranking list, after an absence pf some years, This fact must go deeper than a desire to honour the "Bounding Basque," and it seems tluu the ex-Qhampion is again sniffing the air of battle for the Davis Cup, In spite of his 38 years, his form has declined .very little, and his stepping down was more out of consideration for the younger men than anything else. Another interesting point in the new list is the promotion of Destremeau from No, 5 to joint position at first place. Andre Merlin, who nearly gained the Davis Cup for Francq in 1933, is ranked higher than previously, Marcei Bernard loses ground, probably due to his sometimes briiliant, but often erratic, piay, He i§ one of the best doubles men in the country, and may partner Borotra. •i1 4s t Church and Bowls. She knew: They were "playing riddles" during the hoHdays, ana someone asked: "What is the difference between church and the bowis club?" Nobody had the remotest idea, until Sister Susie ventured; "One's a place where you never find father, and the other's a place where they never miss him " Which was a sad Christmas box for poor father, a e 4s Dempsey Livet Qn, Some of Jack Dempsey's . fighting ability will live on in the career of his protege, Ken Overlin, now on his way to Europe, to "hallenge the French holder of the world's middleweight title, Marcei Thil. Overlin learnt hi?, fighting in the American Navy, and for the last year, he has been under the direction of Dempsey, who has great faith in the boy. As a preliminary, Overlin must meet Edouard Tenet, a young French coveter of the tifle. The winner meets Thil. Thil would dislike fighting Tenet for the ehampionship, as the two are the closest of friends, and daily companions. He has helped the younger man in training, and has everi arranged some of the boy's matches. The general opinion here is that the French champion has reached the veteran class, and that the first good man he comes up against will beat him. The situation is rather unfortunate from the point of view of Jock McAvoy, who has just thrown out a challenge to Thil for a title bout, and it looks very much as if an American, comparatively unknown in this country, wili walk in and take one of the only two titles that Europe can boast about * * ♦ Perry's Way* Before Fred perry attained the highest rank in lawn tennis, he was the world's table tennis champion, Now a youngster who may be his successor is working ajong the same Hnes, Eric Filby, regarded by Perry as the most promising young tennis player in England, is playing in a table tennis match against the Hungarians, Barna, Szabados, and Bellak. The other members of the English team are Maurice Bergl, reckoned one of the best in this country, and Marshall, a- United States international living here. The game next week should give us some idea as to whether FHby is anything like Perry at the indoor sport. The match will be played at the Streatham Ice Rink, where a board floor wiU be frozen into the ice of the rink. Ball-boys on skates will chase the ball if it goes off the wood on to the ice. Table tennis enthusiasts are clamoring for a hq ji buUt speciaUy for their sport. So many games here are played on frozen surfaces, that it seems a good idea to get away from them for a while. + + * On the Wings of Rumour. Rumour flew- round the Melbourne Cricket Ground very gaUy on New Year's Day that the attendance exceeded 100,000. One man had "got it offlcially" (so the story went), The figures graduaUy increased, until it was about 105,000. The Melbourne C.C. treasurer is Mr; C. Wl Simmonds, who used to play cricket in Sydney with Paddington. He had a tolerably busy time getting the returns compUed. When these went up finally, he found they were under 80,000. "Not too bad," said Mr. Hugh Trumble, when these were being handed along. Far more money is taken at one day— and that not a Saturday— than used to be taken at the full match when Stoddart's two great teams were playing in the nineties. ; And that, too, when the rival teams were more powerful and spectacular in their cricket. And yet . you will hear some amiable men say that "Cricket is going to the dogs." *■ 4 * Golf Pro's Pay. Henry Cotton, who spent three years as golf professional at the Belgium Club, at Waterloo, is now retained by the Ashbridge Club, 30 miles from London. He is in receipt of a higher salary than any- other Bntish professional. It is stated to be £1000 a year. rIn addition, he will make considerably more through his shop and coaching. Already he has planned to establish a school on an extensive scale. In a large wired-in area he intends to erect a series of open-fronted houses from which his pupils may make their practice shots while protected from the weather. No golfer has ever studied the theory Jf the game more diligently than -otton, and h:> ha -3 the reputation of 3eing a fir:l .I.-.ys l_?.cher. j

Sun-Bathing Dangers. The fact that a number of sufferers from infantile paralysis in Dunedin has been adults, and that several have died, will undoubtedly be accepted by swimming enthusiasts, who invariably delight in iengthy sun-bathing, as a warning to do little of it meanwhile. Indeed, it is not generally realised by competitive swimmers that sqn-bath-ing, except in moderation, has a harmful effect upon form. The practice is conedmned by expert coaehes abrogd, and their attjtude is supported by the experience of ehampions, who, "after a period in the hot sunshine, have found themselves affected by lassitude and in no mood for hard swimming. 4& 41 4& Tilden to Retire? William T, Tilden, perhape Ihe greatest tennis player ever, and now a touring professional player, recently announced in Shanghai that he intends to retire. However, no date was fixed. * * * Aid to Swimming. Aware of the value pf motion pictures as an aid to instruction in swimming, the council of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Associatior. recently instructed its honorary see» retary to obtain prices for 16 films oi contests at the Olympic Games in Berlin last August, An exqellent -story 1$ told eoncern« ing the former South Australian cricketer, H. C. Nitschke, one of the most prominent Australian players oi a few seasons ago, A pressman ap* proached Nitschke an^ asked him how he spelt his name. "You don't speli it," replied Nitschke. "You gneeze it." + * * Eight ofl Qne Stroke. Eight runs were scored ofl one stroke by a South Australian batsman in a recent junior representative game against Victoria. The batsman pulled a ball to square-leg, and the fifth run was being started when one of the fieldsmen kicked the ball to the boundary. The umpire interviewec] the fieldsman and then awarded a further four runs to the batsman. •Cricket Relics, A stuffed sparrow and a cricket ball have been added to the collection of cricket trophies and relics that adorn the Long Room in the pavilion at Lord's. The ball, bowled by Jehangir Khan, the Cambridge University and India all-rounder, to T. NPearce. of Essex. killed the bird in its fiight during the match between M.C.C. and Cambridge at Lord's last July. * * * Football Setting, The Swedish State Football Betting Company expected a profit oi 5,500,000 kroner (just under £300,000 at par) on the working of the year ending June 1. This estimate is based on the returns for 42 weeks of football. During the spring and summer Swedish matches are listed on the coupons, but during the winter British matches figure. Threepence io the standard stake, and winners may net as much as £4000. Coupon betting in Sweden is a State monppoly and profits are devoted chiefly to the furtherance of sport, such as the laying out of playihg fields and the building of indoor athletic halls. ♦ * * Benny Lynch Defeats MilUgan. Benny Lynch (Scotland), fiyweighl champion of the world, beat Phil Milligan (Oldham), Northern %champion. in the seventh round at Befie Vue (England), -the referee stopping thc fight on accoutn of Milligan having sustained a badly damaged nose anc! mouth. Lynch had at no time shaped like a champion, particularly in thc fourth, when Milligan caused him considerable anxiety by taking all thc Scot sent over, and scoring himselX with punches just a trifle wide o;\ their objective. Lynch later exploitecl left upper-cuts with effect, varying it to head and body, and Milligan" appeared to have no effective counter for this punch. * * * Four-day Tests In 1938. The British Board of Control c" Test matches at Home, at their recen meeting at Lord's deferred the ap pointment of a selection sub-com mittee to choose teams to represer.' * England in 1937 to a later meeting, t( take place in the spring. The Board decided that, subject to the concurrence of Australia, the Test matehe with Australia in 1938 shall, as i) 1934, be of four days' duration, witl the proviso that the last match shai be played to a finish if neither sic, has won two matches, or if the rr sults be even. 41 4s 4s. Test Profits. Net distributable profit from l AU-India Tegt matches and the Trl match in 1936 amounted to £4665 8d. First-class countries each reeei-. £147 6s 4d, and the second-class coui tries £27 8s lOd each. Those clul on whose grounds the match wer played each receive an additional £4"; 0s 3d. 4s 4s 4s Caraociola's Record. Rudolph Caracciola, driving t' new 12-cylinder Mercedes-Benz on ti Frankfort "Autobahn," has estai lished another world's record. E covered 10 miles from a flying-start r an average speed of 207.20 m.p.h. Prr vious best was 178.02 m.p.h. by HaS'tuck (Auto-Union). * 4» * Cambridge Athletes Win. Cambridge unexpectedly beat O; ford, by six events to five, in the ir ter-Varsity Freshmen's contest r Oxford recently. On the form thei representatives had displayed earlir this season, the Dark Blues wer much fancied to win again, but in th flat events they failed to com# up i expectations. The issue depended c the last event of the afternoon. Tiwas the quarter ;nile race in \vh' Et. A. Palmer ' '■*?) ,"aircl r!e." . , ' . . . • ' 51sec. '