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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 37, 27 February 1937, Page 14

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His Eyesight. i The conversation turned to a msitoh i|i Transvaal where Bolaskas (the I Springbok bowler), bowled particular? ly wril. The talk became rather techriical for one girl member of a party ip the pavillipn at a recent match and she wanted to know just whqt "Bally" did, "He took three ' for two," she WaS told. "Why doesn't he have his eyesigbt tested," was her innocent query.— Qape Times, 4, # # N,Z. Athletic Selectors, In response tq the NeW Zealand Amateur Athletic Council's request for nominations from the Auckland Centre for selectors to choose the New Zealand team to compete at Sydney, the centre nominated Mr. A, Moon, of Auckland, as the North Island seleotor and Mr, B. Mackernan, of Dunedin, as South Island selector, ♦ ; + * Faying Back, A. J, Clark, of High Wycombe, vet? eran president of ihe Thames Angling Association, set free 2000 young fish (rqach, perch, tench and earp) in the Rivev Wye, at High Wycombe in a spot where as a boy of 10 he threw •his first line 60 years ago. "I want the present generation to have the same opportunlties for fishing that I had,'' said Mr, CJark. — Dail^ Mail. $ * One Player to Another. Interest in the test match was extraordinairy, and all records for Adelaide were bpoken. The organisation wai excellent in every way. Signs of good-iellowship are always a pleasure in big cricket, reports a Sydney journalist, After the match finished, I noticed Robins hand over to Bradman one of the stumps which he had secured; if was definitely a gesture of good? will* as the palr are great friends. timpHie Borvriqk ajso collected one in ihe scramble, and he handed it to Fleetwood-Smith,

Did Don Go "Wrong" End? Spoptihg Llfe (London) of January 6 comments thus on fhe record Test partnerahip for rixth wicket in Australia by Bradman and Fingleton: — "There was oomedy in thl& dour struggle. Bradman and Fingleton played their partnership between showers. Onoe a dfrizzle started the players towards ths pavUkm. It stopped before they get there, and the umpirea ordered them back. "After another stoppage, Allen prepared to bowl. Bradman reaninded him that Voce had not finished the over, and then, to cojnplete the oomedy, took his stand at the wrong wicket." One wonders whether the estute Don wqnt to the wrong end Toy accident? * * * Good Player-Maaager. When selected in the 1932 team, Cliff sprotile eonsidered himself very fortunate, beeause a month before the selection he was not mentioned as a possibility. Then he 'defeated Harada and Nunoi, of the visiting Japanese team. "Looks like my last trip," said riiff, but he was wrong, for when the position as manager of last year's team was causing anxiefty his fellow selectors asked him to fill the breaoh. When it became known this year that Sproule was again available, liis selection- appeared a foregone conclusion once the necessary arrangements with his banking employers were made. He filled the position of player-manager very satisfactorhy last year. * * * Suzanne Gets Damages. Saies of the "Suzanne Lenglen" tennis racquet were the sUbject of dispute in the Paris Courts last month. When Mlle. Lenglen became a professional player her manager signed a contract, both in his and her name, with a company, by which a tennis racquet corresponding .exactly tc Mlle.s Lengleii's design was to be marketed. She took action against the company for refusing to submit to her a statement of accounts. The Court decided that the accounts were to be submitted to Mlle. Lenglen, and awarded her 8000 francs — about £75— as provisional commission on the sale of the racquet.

Doesn't. Like U.S. Raring, Racing in the United States Is graft from start to finish. The .* conditions under which the sport is conducted on - some of the dirt traeks is appalling, if all I hear and read is correct.— £.arr; Lynx in The People. + * * Goal for Golfers; Durban's new mUnicipal golf course was to be opened officially- on Fqbruary 6. There are 22 by-Iaws dealing with the course, and it is advisable for players to read them, as the penalty for infringing them in each case is imprisonment with or- withbut harr labour ' for not more than fhr; months or a fine of hot more than — Cape Argus. 4^ * Z Mhcartney a Bowler. Another famous Australian cricketer has come into bowls, He is C. G. Macartney, the New South Wales former all-rounder, who has joined the Chatswood Bowling Club in Sydney as • v full member. Charlie is thus following in the footsteps of Australian internationals like W. L, Murdoch George Alexander, Frank E. Allen, W . H, Cooper, T, W. Garrett,. Kennv Burn, Clem Hiil,. Ernie Jones, George Gyifffin, Harry Moses, S. M. J. Woodt J. V. Saunders, Harry Donnan, Vir Riohardson and Stan McCabe, all c wljom were keen ori bowls. * * * Japan in Davis Cup, Japan definitely will become a Davis Cup threat this year, according to . Ellsworth Vines, whq recently completed a playing tour of that country. "Jiro Yamagshi is the best over here by far," Vines ' wrote to a friend. "Don't be surprised if he ranks well within the world's first 10 hext year. His style is reininiscent of . Buqny Austin's, and is almost flawless, H#ll he a real threat in Davis Cup play." Fred Ferry considers that this year's Cup play will be a four-cornered "dog" fight among Australiaq, England, Germany, and the United States. — Vancortrver Sun. * * * Bradman's Superstitionk Bradman, having lost the toss at Brisbane, discarded the "lucky" fourpenny piece he used there and tossqd with a fiorin afterwards. Sportsmen are a superstitious race. There is one member of the Charlton team ' In England who will find all sorts of odd things to do at the last minute in order that he shall he last on the field from the dressing room. Jqckie Carr, tl\e. old Newcastle United back, could never pass a hairpin iii the street. On the morning of a Cup final at the Crystal Palace his team mates bought packets of hairpins and strewd them ori the pavemenf as they walked. Cqrr retur-ned tq the hotel with a pocketful. * * * Australia and Springboks. Writing to a friend in Auckland, Syd. Malcolm, former captain of the Wallabies and Waratahs, says footballers are already getting busy in Sydney in preparation for the visit of the Springboks, They are optimistlc . regarding their chances against the touring side, especially as coachingconferences are. likely tq bring 'good and lasting results. Malcom adds that J, McShane, who went to Oxford as a Rhodes Schoiar and. played for three years for the university as half-baek, is back again and should fill this pori? tion for New South Wales and Australia. ♦ * * "Amateur"? Golfers. - The following paragraph from the Sydney Referee will be of interest to New Zealand golfers:— The attention of the New Zealand Golf Council was recently drawn to a statement that some of the leading Dominion amateurs were in the habit of accepting presents of golf balls from agents. The council discussed the matter and re- • solved that It should be poifited out to the beneficiaries that acceptance was contrary to the spirit of the deflnition of the amateur golfer. It was further resolved to tell them that not more than two balls (bona flde samples) should be accepted by an amateur from any agent or dealer, and then purely for the purpose of testing them., Wouldn't it make you laugh? * * & North Auckland's Loss. The North Auckland .ffistrict has lost the services of a prominerit allround sportsman in G. D. Lawrie who, after teaching in the Whangarei dis- , trict for several years, has been transferred to Te Awamutu. Lawrie has represented North Auckland, at cricket and South Auckland and North Auckland at Rugby football. He played his last. game for Old Boys' ^ cricket team in Whangarei last Saturday and was undefeated for 53 | when stumps were drawn. Lawrie originally came from the Waikato ' district, and he toured on two occa- ; sions with Auckland cricket colts' ' teams organised by Mr. E. C. Beale. | He is a fine forcing bat and an exeel- " lent fieldsman. ,4? 41 ^ ■ Japanese Badge. I Within a few hours of their landing ' in Auckland the two Japanese ath- ' letes, K. Murakoso and K. Togani, presented Mr. H. L. Towers, president of the Auckland Amateur Athletic Centre, with the badge of member1 ship of the most exclusive athletic club in Japan, the Nippon Rikujok- . ' yogi Renmei (Amateur Athletic Asso- ■ ciation of Japan. The badge is in the. i form of a small white flag at the mast head, with a red circle in the ■ upper right-hand corner and the let- , ters N.R.R. along the bottom. The; {. Auckland centre passed a vote ot' thanks to the athletes for the honour, done tq their president and the c«ntre.