SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 77, 17 April 1937, Page 14

SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS

British in Tour de France. ^ For the first time since 1903, a British team will compete in the Tour de. France cycle race from June 30 to July 25. Hubert Qpperman, qf Austraiia, who will be the. leader, and three others, will comprise the. team, N.Z. Rugbyite at Home. * * * According to the writer of the Hugby notes for the London Evening News, Mr. M,' McG. CQoper, New Zealand Rhodes Scholar and captain of the Oxford Bugby Football Glub, is havtog his last season to English footbeR, "There have been few more popular captains at Oxford than 'Mac,' who, is a profound. student of the game," says. "this writer, * * * Gaufhey Undergoee Operation. T. H. C. Caughey, Auckland and New Zealand Rugby flve-eighths and centre-threequarter, recently underwent an operation for appendicitis, but is now quite fit again. He is looking forward keenly to the visit of the Sprlngboks, and* although he may pay a business visit to America, he will be back to Auckland to ample time to get into form to meet the South Africans, * Ftghts on Ogara. A Johannesburg message announcing thqt Andy Martin (actually he is an Italian called Magri) had started fraining to flght Petey Sarron, the world feather-weight champion, added that Martin said: "I won't give my Cigars. IVe been smoking them for 15 years, to training and out, and they do me good. I'll go ahead with my training, but I'll keep smoking my qight cigars a day.— Cape Argus. * + * King Plays Table Tennis. Immediately after lunch, six afternoons a week, the brisk tap-tap Qf a ping-pong ball is heard to the heart of Buckingbam Palace. Players are to a little room which is. one of three or foqr constituting the King's personai quarters — it is usually a small annexe to his private sittin groom. And pne of the players is the King who has just' taken up the pasfime of table tennis again. He used to play years ago, and he is now becoming one of its keenest devotees. He finds it a first-class, handy method of getting a daily half-hour or so of excrcise. His qpponent Is usually one of his personai secretarles or an equerry. Sets played are not pat-ball affairs, but fast, lively games. The King has a quick, sure eye. He delights to getting the utfnost out of each game, He does not aiways wto, but most of the ganxes are; very near thtogs. He has perfected a shot of his own, which, played with qut-of-the-ordinary judgement and titning is declared hy thosq who have been his opponents' to be unplayable, d * ♦ English Oricket Decisions, Crieket Test team seleotors P, F, Warner (bhairman), t, a, Higson and P. Perrin were reappointed to serve for one year at a meeting of * the Tests board of control at Lord's on March 46. The year's appoinfment means that their duties do not extend to the next ser|es of Tests with Aiis* trafia in Hngland, Adtolssion charges to the Tests against New Zealand ip the comtog season wiii be 2s, Worwickshire's resolutio^ to the hdvigoiy county cricket committee was adopted. It invites the M.C.C. tp appoint a commission to undertake a thorough investigation of the problems at preisent facing first-class count|es. * It was agreed to try the experiment of leavipg to players aetually on the field "the qnus of deciding if weather and light* are fifc for play. The instruetion for trial to 1§37 and 1938 is: ''A batsman at the wicketj and the captain of the flelding side shall consult as to the fitness of weather and light for play, and if they are unable to agree the ques? tiqn shall be determined by the umpires, "Should. play be susp.ended and thq eonditions improve, the unipires shal|, without Wfdting fpr iiistructions, call upon the Rlayerg to resum? the game," Counties are to discipurage unnecessqry pp doqbtfuj appeqls against the light by their captains, & * * Saved His Stable. The fictiqnal horse that unexpec= tedly won a raee and saved the old homestead has little on Fqgarty, four-year-old in the stables qf N®il BYens, Vaneouver-, B.C„ §pprtsm§p, "Patricia Ridgeway recently won a $3Q0 judg^ ment agatost Evans in a breaeh of prpmise sqit. Tp cfillept she attached hig hqrses and they were to be sqid. Fpgarty had already been entered, howeyer,- in the eigKth race at gppta Anita Park. Purse for the winner was £200, Tfie sheriff's qffipe perjpitted Fogarty to run. In ihe last fling at Fortune, Evans put £60 an Fpgarty 's nose. Yes, gold old Fogarty won, paying 4 to 1. When time for the sale arrived, Evans smilingly handed ever. £300 and kept his horses.—' Vaneouver Sun. A A Rugby Ghqmpions. The claim, facetiously made, that. Coromandel was the champion Rugby teqm qf the world |n 1899 is cqqntered by Mr. W. McGregor, qf Grey Lynn, whq wps prorpinently associated with the Thames football in ihe 'ftipeties. In 4897 the Aucklqpd representative tearq defeafed New Zeqlapd when tbe Dorriiniop team returned from Australia, and Thames defeated Aqcklapd, Thames alsp defeated Auckland in the two following seasons- Mr. McGregor Said that in the 1899 season Coromandel defeated Thames, and then Thames defeated the Auckland proyincial team. .Coromandel were then defeated by an Auckland B team. That year the Auckland - representative team went on a tour of the South, and as proof qf the strength of Thames football at that tirne Mr, McGregor said that there were 1Q noo m it.

By Degrees. The man who takes Bradman'a wieket gets no more credit than for bowfing a tail-ender. Therefore^ why not one point for the bowler dismissing batsmen with average to prqceding season of under 20; two pototft for wicket o£ batsman with average of 20 to 40; three points for over 4ft? — Letter to the Daily Mail. * * # RebuOd Lord's. There is not the least doubt our Test criqket grounds—LorA's* Oval, Trent Bridge, Old1 Trafford and Heqd- ~ ingley— are inadequate, and may prove dangerous when the AustraHans are here to 1938. There is talk of rebuilding Lord's on a grand seale, probably the most that will materlalis* will be a nsw stand on the slte of the venerable (and smelly) tavern. Which would certaihly tend to reduce barracking on Saturday afternoons.— Daily Sketch. * ^ ♦ To Prevent Poaching. Tp, prevent clubs "poaching" play^ ers from other clubs to the Illawarra district, New South Wales, the Illawarra Rugby League has amended its nfies regarding residential qualifications to provide that players must reside six months in an area before being eligible to take the field for the Ipqal team. This does not' apply to players entering the district frorii the metropolitah district or other groups, or to players who notified too league seqretary of their intentlon to play wifh another club prior to the adoption of the new rule. + ♦ * Australian Women Crieketers. : The Australian women's cricket team has left Melbourne for England. The Australians played the first match of their tour when they met a Vietorian side to e one-day game at ihe st, Kiida Cricket Ground. The match was drawn. Australia scored 197, end victoria lost nine wickets for 122 runs. Pat Holmes, the youngeet of the New South Wales representatives in the Australian team, gave a gopd display in making 49, the hlghest scpre of the day. * A * Australia's Davis Cup Team., The Australia Davis Cup teqm Which played exhlbition matOhffl to Auckland last month and which will shortiy meet America to an elimlnation contest, is the 13th. which has gone abroad in quest of the trophy since Australia and New Zealand combined lost it at Auckland on December 30 and 31, 1920, and Janqary 1, 4^4. It Is to be hoped that it will nq| meet with the misfortunes whieh * doaged thq Australian Rugby team on its tonr tbrqugh the Dominion "last winter. Th|s was the 13th- Austrqlian side to visit New Zealand. • * % * Big Cycling Event. ~ A cycling event which ip creating much interest in Auckland " is the Olympic mqssed start road race schedules for Cqronation Day over a 35-jnile course, extending from Birkenhead Whqrf to Point Chevalier. If the entry should warrant it, the field will be divided into two or more grades. All the cyeling centres through the Dominion will decicje geverql races of fhis deseriptio.n te «pcourage ridejs, imprpve thq general standard of racing, and to assist ' the selectors to toci? efiortg te chqose a strong team of rqad riders for the gr|tish Hmplli G^gpes a| ffafajgjg ipi February. * + f Army v. Navy. In a hard-taekling, bustiing match, tlie Army beat the Royal Navy at Twjekenhom im menlh by 44 piints to fhree, preventing the senior service frojn drawing level in the serles, and making its total wins 14 against 12. It was not a runaway vietory, for the Navy were the liyelier side, b«l tosre was a better timing, rhytfim ai|d agcuracy^among the Army's halves and three-quarters whieh tQld J|\ the long run. The ropk-like defencq qf tfie Nayy held until the lqst. few minutes, when the side had played itself out, and then the Army piled on two more tries. * * N.Z. Cricketers in England. In comme.nti.ng on prospects for the New Zealand cricket team to England, varieus writers have assumed thatV In cpses of emergency, Dempster ahd James cqqid be called to fill i |ab» Bqt they are overlooking the x-ules governing county cricket in the Old Country. Rule 2 stp|es that? "A criqketer may not, play for more than one pounty within the calehdqr year. A British Dominipn or State shall not the purpese of this rule be r$gdrded as a poppty." Thp penalty' fpr gfggch Of tlfis pule is dijqudUfilqtioh 'foi w'q years. The M.C.C. added the elause relat|ng to a British Dbmiftion ' or State in 1908, after Tarrgpt. the Australian, who was then playing fpr Middlesex, hqd visited Austrplia du?xng the English winter and plgyed for Victqria- both in Sheffield Bhield matches pnd ggemit tho M.c,c, toui^ ing team. The case of Ccnstanrine is nof a precedept, ps the Wgst Inffian is not a county player, qnd thergfpre does not come under the M,C.C& ruling. Of cqurse, Mer-rit and Blunt could turp out for New Zealand on oocaslcm prqyided they gqiped the cqnsent oi their employers. F, T. Bftdcqgk, fop many years ceach for Otago, has ahs noppced that his club, Werneth, at Qldham, will release him if his sera vices are reqpffied at any tixne by New Zealand, These three men, Merritt, Blunt and Badeock are not a&ected by county cricket rules. It would be mere satisfactqry, however, if the neeessity did not arise for calling on players resident in England.