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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 22, 10 February 1937, Page 10

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INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS

U.S.A. Golfers for Japan. An invitation has been aceepted by the Professional Golfers' Association of the United States to send a sixman team to tour Japan in the 1937 season. The Americans were hosts to a Japanese team twq seasons back. * 41 4* A 66 For Jim Ferrier. Playing on his home course 'at Manly, New South Wales, Jim Ferrier, the well-known Australian 'amateur gplfer, registered another of his remarkable scores. He completed a round in 66, this being six "strokes under the par for the course. The only bad hole he played was the second, where he was on the edge of the green in two and then took three more shots to hole out, par being four. M.C.C. Mauager, Captain R. Howard, manager of the English cricket team now in Australia, was appointed in March, 1932, secretary to the Lancashire County Club in succession to the late Mr. Harry Rylance. There were 800 appiicants. When statiqn at Fulwood barracks in 1922, Captain Howard played five times for Lancashire and scored 134 runs for an average of 44.66, his highest innings being 88 not out against Worcestershire. He was connected with a firm of athletic outfitters. 4s 41 4s Two Rugbyites. Two men prominent in Rugby circles were in Auckland during the last week of January. They were Messrs, J. G. Guthrie, of Sydney, and J. T. Wyiie, pf Caiifornia. The former is an old Glebe Club player in Sydney and is well-known to New Zealanders who visited Australia over a quarter of a century ago. Mr. Wylie, a former Auckland representative, toursd Caiifornia with the New Zealand team in 1913, He subsequentiy returned there and is now acting as coach at Stamford Universlty, * * 4* Helen Jacob*. Miss Helen Jacobs, Amerlca's leading woman tennis player and 1936 Wimbledon champion, denies the recent reports that she is to be married soon. "All this talk of my engagement to Herschel V. Johnson, first secretary of the American Embassy in London, is silly. He and I are great friends, but that is all there Is in it. Eventually, I suppose, I will get married to somebody," said Miss Jacobs, "but right now there is some fox hunting, a novel I wish to finish and some sort of training in preparation for 1937 Wimbledon, where I hope to retain my title." 4* 41 Preparing for Springboks. V. Richards, who played half-baek and five-eighths in the Australian Rugby team, which toured New Zealand last season, states that there are a few players already indulging in hght training in preparation for the visit of the Springboks. Cyril Towers has started and is keener than ever this year. Richards says Towers looks better and healthier than' for years past, and he will be hard to keep out of the Australian team, The letter mentions that J, Miller, who will be a member of the Australian surf team visiting New Zealand, is a first grade footballer and a good one at that *b ib sb Golfers* Greeting*. Mr. S. Morpeth, formerly of Auckland and winner of the New Zealand open and amateur championships, now secretary of the Australian Golt Union, received the following cabled greetings from Sir John Simon (captain) and Henry .Gullen (secretary) of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews: — "Please convey to golfers of Australia our best wishes at this season, and an assurance of our good will and interest in the progress of golf in Australia." From Jack McLean, winner of the Melbourne Centenary amateur and run-ner-up in the 1936 American amateur;—' "Season's greetings to all my golfing friends in Australia." * * Cricketers Return. J. Scaife and E. Bromley, the Victorian cricketers who went to India to fulfil a two months' engagement with the Maharajab of Patiala, returned tp Melbourne last week, looking fit and well. While in India they took part in a number of games, and saw much interesting cricket. They were grteatly surprised at the tremendous interest taken in the game there. The Indian youngsters have taken to the game enthusiastiaclly, and were to be seen playing all over the country wherever there was a block aof vacant land. They stated Indian cricketers were anxious to send a team to Australia in the near future, 4* * * Iron Shots in Golf. Discussing iron play in golf, Abe Mitchell said; — "In iron play one must have not only control by the wrlst movement, but direetion also. Now to get direetion one must have an upright swing and not go grass mowing round the feet in the backswing. A erieketer with a high delivery can usually bowl straight, the round-arm bowler usually cannot, and the reason is obvious. In iron play, therefore, the liip line should be more open than usual, so that the back swing must be upright and the through movement after impact unimpeded. In fact, the player gets his left hip out of the way at the outset and is facing square to the hole at the conclusion of the shot. The triumvirate taught us this for 30 years; their iron shot was invariably on the pin, and they took up sueh a stance that they could always see what they were doing — what they were driving at, one might say. There was no swinging round a projecting left hip —they hit dcwn ari im the line o" flight." ' i

Sturt Cricket Club. The Sturt Cricket Club in Adel&ide recently held a big reunion. Thi* flub elaims the distinetipn of laeing the only one in Australia to have had in its ranks three Australian test *§aptains— Joe Darlipg, Clom Hill .and Victor T. Richardson, 4; 4b 4* Davis Cup Dates. Great Britain has fixed the dates for the 1937 Davis Cup competition as follows European zone: The ffirst round to be completed before May 4; the second before May 16; the third before June 3; the fourth before June 17; and the final to be played before July 12. The lnterzone final will be played at Wimbledon on July 17, 19 and 2Q. . The chailenge round on July- 24, 26 and 27 will also be played at Wimbledon, *b «b Cricket Strategy. a J. Hardstaff (father of the Test player in Australia, where the former also played five internationals for A. O. Jones' team in 1907-08) had a qurious apd lucky experience when playing for Notts against Derbyshire in 1905. When he had made 36 Hardstaff fell down between, the Wickets while making a run. The ball *ras returned to Olliverre, the wiclfetkeeper, who watched the batsman ris- J ing and then removed the bails with his left hand. Hardstaff noticed that Oiiiverre had the ball ih his right hand and, quietly walking to the crease, asked the umpire, "How's that?" The umpire, grasping the situation, gave Hardstaff not out. / Afferwards he ran his score tO 92, * * 4b Jack Biackham's Wish, ......There had been.„ a dinner„ party, among those present being Jack^T Biackham, the prince of ' wicketkeepers;; ;B;illy Trumble, a fln# allrounder; Hughie Trumble, the great bowler; ;and; Clem HUI. the famous left-hander. The question arose which was the best team that ever |eft Australia. There is a eonsensu* of opinion that the three best were Murdoch's 1882 team, and Darling's 1899 and 1002 combination*. Jack Biackham would not commlt hlmself, but S he said: "As a believer in an afterlife I trust that every member of eyery team that left Australia will 1 meet in heaven, and nothjng would give me greater joy than the 1882 team to meet all-eomers in an eliminating series of contests." Whether it was to be a sticky or good wicket, or whether there would be any covering, was left to the imagination. That side beat England in the famous .game at the Oval by seven runs, F. R. Spofforth (seven for 44) and H. F. Boyle (three for 19) turning England out fcw 77 In the final innings. - * 4» di Crlcketers as Critic*. In the Sports Edition of January 2 the following appeared in Introduction to a short article under thf cap- y tion of "The Press Box Eleyen": — "When Australia'* batsmen were hup-ying the Test match to a close at Brisbane all out 58 ln the second innings), Don Bradman, it is rumoured, cast envious eyes towarcs the Press box. Take a glance at the imposing list of former Test men who occupied it and imagine them as a team in their palmy day's; J. B. Hobbs, A, E. R. Gilligan, C. B. Fry, M. A. Noble, C. G. Macartney, W. M. Woodfull, W, H. Ponsford, A. A. Mailey, V. Yt Richardson and H. L. Hendry."This reqalls a similar notice afterf the Adelaide Test of 1932-33:-— "An interesting feature of ihe Test match in Adelaide was the sight of so many international players in the Press seats. P. G. H. Fender represented England;; M. A. Noble, W. W. Armstrong and Clem Hill were old Australian captains; Jack, .Worrall was an old Victorian captain;; ;C. G. Macartney and Arthur Mailey «&re members of the last Australian team to visit England, while W. H. Ponsford and Victor Richardson have represented Australia in this series. What an asset any one of the veterans would have been to Australia in the present series. It was interesting to watch them playing the part of critic as they had so- splendidly hqlped Australia in the field, They suffered every time Australia failed, and they could not refrain from saying, 'It was not so in our day.' With them now the pen is mightier thaa the bat." + 4s ♦ Hobbs Prophetic. The success of the English 1. bowlers, W. Voce and G. O. B» AiJei. in the Tests recalls o prophecy c. Jack Hobbs in the Weekly Dispatcii in June, 1928, before A. P. F. Chapman's side left England. He wrote then:— "There is a tendency to under-rate the fast bowlers' chances on Australian wiekets. Attempts are constantly made to prove that they cannot succed on sueh perfect wiekets. It is only partly true. Jack Gregory and Albert Cotter did well enough on Australian pitches, and Frank Foster was a great success. People usually call Foster a fast medium, but I always believed him to be as fast from -,the pitch as any bowler I have seen. In Australia his pace was his great asset. There is no reason why Harold Harwood, if he is sparingly used, on account of hi§ physique, should not be one of the most useful members of the next team." Hobbs disputes the prevalent opinion that England lacks quick rungetters. He says that he frequentiy sees references to Victor Trumper's pace, and adds: "We saw little of it in Australia in 1911. He was sober and sedate during that tour, Perhap England's attack, which included Sidney Barnes and Foster, and wa equal to the best England ever ha in Australia, was partly responsible." Hobbs must have felt even mor pleased with this prophecy after ti sensational bo Y"r oi Larwood ar Voce with Cr. R. . ; "n?'s tepr1 j