SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 107, 22 May 1937, Page 17

SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

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i Sohmeling Haa His Say. "I'm wiiiing to beiT my laist doiiar that my fight with BraddOck takos place oh Jufte 3 exactly as scheduled, boyedtt ot no boycott," said Max Schmelihg to the Bress Association before leaving in the Queen Mary for Europe. • ' • * * * Irish Boxer. Jim Warnock, the Irish fiywelght chainpion and World title cohtender, defeated Pierre Louis, France, over 12 rounds in Belfast recently. Louis was recently beaten ln Paris by Peter Kane, the rislng British flyweight, in seven rounds. * 4 # Docks, S.A. Golfer. A. D. ("Bobbie") LOcke, playing a bWliiant all-round game, recently won the South African amateur golf championship, defeating Clarence E. Olander, the holder, by 4 and 3 in the finah LOcke, who was one up at the end of the first 18 holes, had rounds of 74 and 69. :: :: :t Wales Champiolis at Soccer. By beating Ireland at WiWA/iam, Wales, having already overcome Scotland and England, carried off the international soccer championship and also the Jubilee Trophy, awarded for the first time last year. The last time a country won all three international matchefc was in 1931-32, when England triumphed. 44 $ 4> Mnorl Player for Auckland. An acquisitiott to Auckland Rugby Will be C. McKinley, a M&ori cehtre or wing-threequarter, from Poverty Bay. He played an outstanding game for the New Zealand Maorl team agaihst ihe Australihn fiftteen at Palmerston North last Season, dispiaying fine speai; determination 'aha 'handling ability. McKinley has jdined the North Shore Club.

A Whlstle on the Side Line. During the course of a recent soccer match in Cardiff a man among the crowd frequently blew ,a whistle. This caused players in the respective teams to hesitate. The referee held up the game and addressed a section of the crowd from which the whistting came. Jeers greeted his appeal. The referee summoned the aid of a policeman. The whistler was not heard again. * ^ 4^ Noted German Wrestler. Edmund Kraener, German heavyweight wrestler, recently arrived in Australia from India in search of matches. He began wrestling at the age of 14 and won the German amateur championship six years later. He represented-' his country at the Olympic Games at Amsterdam' in 1928 and at Los Angeles in 1932. He was third and sCcond in the respective centres. * 4s 4s • Permanent "Golf Widow." Mrs. Walter Hagen, wife of the famous United States golfer, telling the Judge that her husband's profession had mdde her "a permanent golf widow," was granted a divorce at Newark last month. Mrs. Hagen failed in her claim for alimony. She said her husband earned £10,000 a year. Walter. Hagen did not contest the divorce proceedings. The Hagens were married in 1923 and separated in 1927.

rBig Athletlo Meet .fat LonSony .. All the worlds' athletic *tara( SM^ to • be invited to compete in 4 sports meeting to be held pt Whlte 'City, London, on August Bank ' Holiday AuguSt 2) Under the cohtfdl dl the AA.A. ThiS' is the outcome of an agreement reached by A.A.A. offldals and Brlgadier-Ceheral A. C. Critchlty, representing White City.- •' ' " ♦ 4 . * • Declined Soccer Invitation. The British Football Assriclatlon turned dOwil an offer frdirt the Federation Internationale de Football Association to senri a team to eompece for the World's .Cup competition Ir. 1938. The ihvitation was made in ?. letter from the secretary of the Federatioft, stating that the competition proper would take place in Ffancc frorn juhe 4 till JUhe 18, 19§8. ♦ # * * Cycliiig Record. • Jeff Schefens, Belgiatt holder ©J the world's professional sprlnt championship, equalled W. J. Bailey's 26-year-old cycling record of 24 4-5sec. for the quartef-mile flyihg Start at the Southern Counties; Cyclihg Union meeting at Herqe Hill, London, recently. Scherens, Alberfc Richter. German champion, and Louis Gerardin, French title-holder— three of the world's finesfc professipnal sprinters— ihet in a match of three events.- - * » . *•-/ No Numbers ort Players. . v .. The failure of the Ponsonby SenloT Rugby team to field its players "with the numbers printed ' on the official programme was the subject of much adverse criticism at "Sturges Parlc, Otahuhu, recently. Only thrCe bore corresponding numbers. While- thie practice is at all times exasperating to spectators, it is especially so on a subdrban ground "when two city* teams are piayihg, and the majority of the onloOkerg are not familiar with the players. , . > ♦ •' ♦ " Braddock to Vtolt Ireland. James BraddOck, the World's heavyweight boxing champion, will visii Ireland after his fight for the title in June, according to a letter received from him by Mr. James Boiger, an hotel proprietor in Tullamore, who is a personal friend of Braddock. Braddock discusses his coming figlit, anc" * Mr. Boiger states: "Jimmy does noi know whom he wili have to meet. Whether it be Louis or Schmeiirtg, he does not care, as he is as flt as a fiddle and is confident of retalning his • crown. - ' * $ - - * , [ j. Boxer's Brate Deod, - Alex Alston, Preston, cohqueror oi Johnny King, British, bantam champion, rescued a woman froih drowning in the Ribble recently. While training for his fight With johc Cusick, he Was sprinting aiong thc riverside at Avenham Park, along with Gerald Dimmock, an amateur boxer, when something was seen to move in the water. It turned out to be a woman ai>d Alston jumped ln Chd brought an uncbnScious figure td the side. / ' ■ * .* * * * I Paddon's Novel Outrigger. - The race for the Australian . ing title between Alf Burns and Evans * Paddon, which takes place at Woodburn on June 19, is creating interest ln sculling clrcles. Both men- arc training hard, and each ahticipates i close race. tGus Green is working or a new outrigger for Paddort, It if being built ort English moulds, and if different from' anythlng in Australia. G. Cook, the well-known metropolitan sculler, is acting as pflcemaker for young Paddon. Arrangements have not yet been completed for a .pacemaker for Burns. * ^ 4: League Player's Death. The death of A. H. Tavendale,- full back for the Waimairi (Christchurch". Rugby League team, in a mbtor-cyclc accident, removes a promising younj player who gave indications of rea talent. His death was all the morr tragic because at the time he was or his way home from the hospital, where his brother, E. davendale, onc of the forwards, had been admittec. with injurie's- received in the LinwoodWaimairi match that afternoon. * 4 * * McCoy for New Plymouth. Auckland cricket will suffer a los through the transfer pf A. W. McCo^ the Parnell and Auckland representi tive, to the New Plymouth branch c the National Bank of New Zealan: McCoy has been one of the province elading cricketers for a number ( i years and he has secured represent? tive honours on several occasions. H was a member of the combined Auck land- Wellington side which played th visiting M.C.C. eleven at Eden Par. last April. McCoy is a dashing ba when in form, but his greatest asset is his slow bowling, which lir.s provecl the downfall of many good batsmen. * 4 44 * Worthington Back to Form. Although S. Worthington, solid' built all-round cricketer, could nc strike his English batting form on tht recent test tour of Australia, he recaptured it for Derbyshire, his county with a century— only five days aftei he and the rest of the team hac stepped ashore from the Queen Mary. Worthington's batting average in England last season — when he gained the honour of being one of "Wisden's five cricketers of the year" — was 42; for the Australian tour it was only 21.52. In Australia "Worthington sihiply could not get going, although he seemed to possess excellent defenco and a wide range of strokes. He could not get the pace of the wickets, and was almost invariably streaky early. ispecially when the tension was high,