NEW ZEALAND "ONE UP"

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 190, 28 August 1937, Page 18

NEW ZEALAND "ONE UP"

ALL BLACKS' RECORD AT ATHLETIC PARK New Zealand is now one up in the results of Test matches against South Africa. Eight games have been played three in 1921, four in-1928, and one in 1937. New Zealand has won tour, South Africa three, and one has been drawn. A coincidence is that when the All Blacks squared the rubber with a victory at Cape Town in 1928, their 13 points were scored in exactly the same way as the 13 were scored- on Saturday. Then Marlc Nicholls kicked two penalty -goals and dropped & goal. On Saturday D. Trevathan matcned the feat. .• In 1928 ,J. P. Swain brought the other three points with a try, and this time it was J. Dick who brought the total to 13. South. Africa in the 1923 ' match scored a converted try. % Thirteen points to five was also the ■ score in the first Test at Dunedin in ; 1921. . The Test matches between Ihe twc ; countries have rcsultcd as follows: —

Rccord at Athlctic Rark New Zealand has never been beaten :'T an international match at Athletic ark. Two matches have been drawn, v. Anglo-Welsh XV, 1908, 3-3, and v Africa, 1921, 0-0. Following is the record of Tests played on the ground: 1896 — v. Queensland, won 9-0. 1901 — v. New South Wales, won 20-3. 1904 — v. British XV, won 9-3. 1908— v. Anglo-Welsh XV, drew, 3-3 1913— v. Australia, won 30-5. 1921 — v. South Africa, drew 0-0. 1923 — v. Ncw South Wales, won 38-11. 1928— v. New South Wales, won 15-12. 1930 — v. Great Britain, won 22-8. 1936— v. Australia, won 11-6. i 1937 — v. South Africa. won 13-7.

Reeovered Altc-r 11 Hours. Twclve hours after he had been knocked out at the Belle Vue Stadium recently in the 13th. round of his fight with Johnny King, the British ban-tam-weight champion, Jackie Brown, returned to consciousncss at his home in Manchester. Women's Test Cricket. Test tours between English and Australian women cricketers will be exchanged about every three years, according to an informal decision reached at a tallc between representatives of the Australian Women's Cricket Council and the Women's Cricket Association of England. * * Von Nida to Tour U.S.A. Norman von Nida, the sensational Australian professional golfer, will tour the United States and Britain at the end of the year. Von Nida intends doing the rounds of the American "winter circuit" i'rom December to May, before crossing to England to prepare for the British Open championship in 1938. 41 Youngest Referee. Mr. L. E. Macassey, who controlled the Wellington and first test match against the Springboks, is the youngest referee yet to officiate in an international match in New Zealand. Educated at the Otago Boys' High School, he is 26 years of age and had to retire as a player early in his career owing to an injury to his knee. • 3* 4- & A Test Match Dream. One of the Springbok forwardss, H. J. Martin, will have cause to remember a dream he had on the night prior to the first, test match against the All Blacks last Saturday. He dreamed that the All Blacks beat the Springboks by 13 points to three, and that Trevathan scored 10 points for the home side. The score was 13 — 7 in the All Blacks' favour, while Trevathan did score 10 points. Sf. ^ 4 Springbok Badge, The Springbok badge, representing the South African antelope, was first adopted as a Rugby insignia in 1903. It became the national badge of South Africa by popular acclamation after the tour of South Africa's first Rugby team in Britain in 1906. It is the badge of honour of the international sportsman,~" and recognised as such. As is the fern leaf of the New Zealander, so is the springbok to South Africa. 4*4 Grose in Form. F. J.' Grose won the 50 miles championship of the Canterbury Amateur Cycling Centre recently for the third successive year. A field of 50 riders i competed in one of the best races yet held. Gross set a New Zealand record for the distance. His time was lh. 55m. 14s., an improvement of 4m. 51s. on the record he set last year. The race was one of the fastest yet held, the cyclists taking full advantage of the good conditions.

Indian Cricket Visit. Mr. F. Tarrant, former Victorian cricketer, and manager of the last Australian team to tour India, hinted at the possibility of a visit from an Indian team to Australia, when speaking at the Old Paradians' luncheon in Melbourne recently. He said that Australians would then find out that Indian cricketers were practically up to' test standard in spite of numerous difficulties, particularly umpiring, that were still prevailing in India. =r- * -> Wholc Team Repoited! Evidently a recent Australian rules football match between Yankalilla and Encounter Bay, in South Australia, was highly ohtertaining. The umpire reported the whole of the Yankalilla team and its olficials, with the exception of Ihe secretaiy and three others. He charged them with having used abusive language on the ground after the match. The Yankalilla men blamed the umpire for allowing the game to get out of hand. He had the last word, however, in reporting them. * + * Maratlion Golf. A marathon golf competition is to be held at Dookie, Victoria, next month. The players will drive off from the first te'e of the Dookie Agricultural College links and hole out on the last green of the course. But they will deviate on the way and during their journey of five miles they will have to negotiate Mount Major, which is 125ft. high. In 1921 a cross-country match was played in England, which should afford a comparison with the forth.coming one at Dookie. A, S. Tun.ar. Macclesfielcl, played from his home to the Cat and Fiddlo Inn, five miles away, in 64 strokes. The route was broken by a rise of about 1000ft. The wagering was six 1.o four against his doinc tbe dLxtanr.e in 170 strokes.

v . ■ N.Z. S.A. 1921 At Dunedin 13 5 At Auckland 5 9 At Wellington . 0 0 1928 At Durban '0 17 At Johannesbui'g 7 6 At Port Elizabeth • 6 11 At Cape Town . 1'3 5 1937 At Wellington 13 ' 7