SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 43, 6 March 1937, Page 14

SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

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Cost oi Olympio Games. Gerffiany spent £4,165,000* at current rates, oh the 1936 Olympid Games, £3,356,800 being on building and donstruction generally, now placed at the service of German youth and to be used chiefly fof tfaiiiing sports instructors, # ^ $ McLean Quiet. JOck McLean, who has embraeed profesSionalisin ahd begins his duties at BUdhanan Castle ClUb at Dtymen. StiriingShire, 6n March 1, will be compelled to play only a modest part iii competitions for the next five years. The rules of the Professionai Golfers' Association will prevent him from taking part in most bf the big tournaments. * $ $ Derbykhir© Recruif. Derbyshire, English county cricket champions, have added Glifford Gladwin, a 20-year-old all-rounder from Clapwell Colliety, to their nursery staff. Gladwin, who is OVer six feet tall, bowls right. arm niedium fast, and is a good batsman. He is a Soii ti a former Derbyshire player who assisted the county as a fast medium bowler in 1914 and 1919. * * $ The American Henley. F6r the first time ih its 32-year histbry, the annual American Henley regatta will be taken from the Schuylkill River ih 1937, Says the NeW Yotk Times. It has been seheduled for Saturday, May 15 — two weeks earlier than usual — on Lake Carnegie, Princeton llniversity. The ehairman of the Americari Rowing Association (Mr. J. A. Brown) declared "the condition of the Schuylkill is SUch* with the present condition ti ihe mud there, that we did not deem it wise to schedule the Henley in Philadelphia. » . . For several years it has been necessary ttf stage the events in heats on the Schuylkill and there was much criticism. "As long as the present mud Condition prevails, the regatta probably will be held elsewhere."

'Keeper as Bowler. As a slow bowler, Leslie Ames, the English wicket-keeper, achieves success in Australia, which does not come his way in England. His three wickets for nine runs in 4.3 overs at Canberra brought his bowling figures for the tour to 8.59 in matches at Ipswich, Launceston, Geelong and Canberra. In the last four seasons in England in which Ames has taken a spell from wicket-keeping to toss up a few overs for Kent, he has failed to take a wicket, and 95 runs have been hit off his bowling. The most notable case of a wicketkeeper leaving his job behind the stumps to bowl was in a Test in Englanw in 1884, when the whole English eleven bowled in Australia's innings of 551. The 'keeper, Alfred Lyttelton, took 4.19 in 12 overs of under-arms. Another Test 'keeper for England, W. Storer, occasionally took off the pads to try his hand, and his Test bowling figures were two wickets for 108. ' » * 41 41 Artists and Sportsman. Fred Cady, popular coach and manager of the American world swimming champion, Jack Medica, in his tour of Australia, has shown marked interest in horses and horse racing since he arrived in Australia, writes a Sydney journalist. When I asked him if he had the winner of the Oakleigh" Plate, Fred said, "I can paint 'em — but I can't pick 'em." World famous as a swimming and diving coach, Fred Cady is also an artist and sculptor, specialising in portraits of horses and dogs. He studied at the American Academy of Fine Arts, but says he went from the sublime to the ridiculous 30 years ago when he became interested in athletics and coaching. Now his art work is just a hobby. He has done several bronzes, the last just before his departure for Australia, which will be given as a trophy to the outstanding swimmer in the inter-Col-legiate Association this year. Fred, whosr father was also an artist, has no difficulty in obtaining the best physocial types as models for his work — his pupils are only too willing to sit for him. One of his methods of coaching is to sketch the faults of his swimming and diving pupils on a chart. In addition, he sketches the correct methods and the charts are then studied carefully by the pupil, so that Fred's artistic ability has not , been lost entirely in his work as aj professionai coach.

■ • Cotton'B PapiL Harry Beiitlejr, English ahiatiUr golf champion, was the first pUpll of Henry Cotton at Ashbridge, Hefts, England, on January 4, wheii the former open champion began life pjPdfessional dUties to thi club. & 4 * A. F. Wensley. ^ A JF. Wensley, the Sussex all^&id cricketer, who was not re-engaged by the coUttty fot thi comiiig seasOft, has been apgbitited pfofissidnal to ihe West of Scotland Gfickit ClUb/ at Glasgow. Wehsliy wai Coach i & the Auckland Cricket Association ih the 1931-32 and 1932-33 Seasons. — * ^ 4s Hagen ahd Kirkwood. Joe Kirkwood ahd Wdlter Zfagen, two" of the most famous golfers in the world, arrived in AUcklahd by the Monterey last week. Owing to the American shipping striki their Dominion toUr has had to be cuHlilid and the players will leavi Wellihgton for Auckland on March 9. Thiy are at present touring the Dominiem * * * Boys» GOlf Tltle. For the 17th English Boys' Ama* teur Golf ChampiOnship, Which fccgins at the Bruhtsfield Society's cdurse, near Edinburgh* on August 24, #ntraiits must be under 18 years Oh August 28, thi dajr the champiOfiship finishes, and no boy who haS iVii: been employed in any golf pfefessional's shop can eiitir. + * New Captain of Golf. N. S. Mitchell-Innes, One of thi English cricketers who tOured Niw Zealand ift 1935 ,1s Captain of thi Oxford University golf team, and Ui its last engagement with Worplesddh hi won both foursomes and sifiglig. In the Singles he overwhelmed a scfatch player by 5 and 4, and, except for eiii loose iron shot which disappeared Into the jungle, he played SOiiiid aftd cap* able golf, averaging fours. & * * Harold Mlidge. Harold Mudge, the young New SOiith Wales Spin bowler, who is to joih Sir Juiien Cahn's team at Colombo this month, will afterward go to England and qualify for Leicestershire. On the return of Sir JUlien's party MudgO will take up hiS resideiice in Leicester, where he is to live for at least three years. Mudge dome into the limelight when playing against M.C.C. at Sydney he took six wickets in the first ihnifigs foi 42 rUiis. 4& 4t 4s McCormick Very Fast. E. L. McCormick is a faster bowler at his top than any of the Englishmen, states a Sydney cricket writer. But his top is not his average pace; he does fiot keep it going as well as the English three. Catching is not a strong point with McCormick. He missed two sitters in the Adelaide Test, the first so expensive that it might have cost Australia the match. At practice he made catches perfectly. In the match he grabbed the ball imperfectly and put it on the grass. & 4l 4s Crawford's Futttre. J. H. Crawford, Australian tennis champion, has followed the lead of his old rival, F. J. Perry, by making his future secure. With this dlfference. Crawford has taken an appointment with a sports store in Sydney which will not affect his amateur status, nor prevent him continuing his Davis Cup adventures for Australia. The firm he has joined .has undertaken fo grant- him leave for overseas trips whenever necessary. Incidehtally this is the same firm which employi the Australian cricketer Alan Kippa* 41 4s 4s The Blood of Oldfield. - ' The wolves of cricket are erying fo the blood of Bert Oldfield as ^ickei keeper in the cricket Tests, says 1 Sydney writer. They disdovered nc. flaws in his keeping. But they do not see many runs in his bat — 6, 10, 1, 1, 27 not out, 7, 5, and 1 in Ihe Tests. Three. of these were played on tricky wickets. In Melbourne they fancy B. A. Barnett, in Brisbane D. Tallon, and in Adelaide C. W. Walker, for the position. Meanwhile the selectors have taken a different view. Oldfield has not been burdened by wicketkeeping luck in the Tests. He is still Australia's star 'keeper. 41 $ 4& Methods of Idfesaving May Change. It is expected that an outcome of the visit by the Australian surf lifesavers will be discussion by the New Zealand Surf Iife-saving Association on the question #of replacing its methods of giving resuscitation, organising teams, and paying out and hauling in the line with the methods employed in Australia. So' far as resuscitation is concerned, Mr. J. Cameron, manager of the Australian team, has suggested that a co#ference should be arranged of the ifiedical advisers to the Australian and New Zealand Associations with the object of adopting one method or the other as the standard. 44 41 4s Jim Ferrier's Ranklng. T. Suffern Tailer, writing in the American Golfer, ranks Jim Ferrier, of Australia, the eighth best amateur in the world. His 11st is as follows: 1, Johnny Fischer, 2, Johnny Goodman; 3, Jock McLean; 4, Scotty Campbell; 5, Hector Thomson; 6, George Voigt; 7, George Dunlap; 8, Jim Ferrier; 9, Reynolds Smith; 10, Ray, Billows. Concerning Ferrier, he says: "Jim Ferrier, Australia's finest golfer, competed in the British amateur for the first time this year, and proved himself worthy of ranking in the first 10 by Teaching the final. He won many other Important tvents this summer In England, and we should very much like to see him in action on these shores. He Is a big, hard-hitting golfer, with an awkward style, but a fine. touch that is close to it;:" '19 greens."