SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 13, 30 January 1937, Page 15

SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

interesting news items

British Swim Record. Miss Mastenbroek, the Dutch holder of two Olympic Games Championships, broke the British record for the 500 yards freestyle by 22 2-5sec. at Liverpool on December 7, her time being 6min. 21 l-5see. The previous record was held by Miss M. J. Cooper, now Mrs. Babcock. ijS & & Club's Huge Losses. Leeds United report a loss of £5130 for the year ended July 31 last. This is largely accounted for by the difference between transfer fees paid and received. The sum of £9481 was paid for players, while receipts from other clubs were £5445, One item of expenditure which showed a big increase was training expenses, which are set down at £1130, as compared with £268 the previous year. Higher wages amounted to £14,546, as against £13,680, but on the other hand the gross gate receipts inereased from £26,220 in 1935 to £29,951. A signk ficant feature is that the club paid £4580 in entertainment tax, practiqally all the loss shown. * 4* * Steve Fairbaim's Tongue. Here is a story told by London St&r of the magical effect of Steve Fairbaim's tongue: A certain eoxswain who came under the lash for the first time, all unprepared, was so badly shaken that he piled his craft on the bank where it sustained grievous damage. Further eloquence by the old Australian flnished the cox altogether and he was never seen on the river again; but it was just as well, for he was E. T. Killick, who later rose to fame as a cricketer, 'Had Killick been able to devote his whole summers to Cricket, there would have been no worry about an opening partner for Sutcliffe," says the Londoner. $ * * Gordon Richards. Once again Gordon Richards has flnished the English season ahead of all others so far as the number of winners ridden is concerned, although he has not succeeded in topping the 200-niark, as he did in all three previous years. This time Richards rode 177 winners, 159 seconds, and 109 thirds, compared with the 108 winners ridden by his most formidable competitor, the North Country jockey, William Nevett, and the 104 ridden by J. Sirett. In fairness to the others however, it must he said that Gordon had many more rides, his total mounts being exactly 1000, to 566 of Nevett, and 736 of Sirett.