SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS

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

SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS

Miss Hide's Bright Century. Mis Mollie Hide, the English .woman who made the century before luncheon for Southern Districts against the Australian women cricketers in their British tour on the splendid Hove wicket, is very stylish and fascinating with the bat. Her 145 must have been o'ne of the fastest innings ever played by a woman. Eighteen fours, too! * 4 * Canada's Team. The Canadian team for, the Empire Games next year will leave Vancouver by the Aorangi on December 21. There will be 18 men and six women athletes among the competitors. This means that Canada has a team large enough to adeq.uately represent the country in the athletic ( events. - - - / 4s * 4 Suva Bowling Carnival. C. J. Moon, Mount Eden, who has ' just returned from Fiji, brings interesting news of the Suva bowling carnival. Victoria won both the rinks and the pairs competitions, while Australa won the Pacific Pennant. The singles event, which was the first competition of the carnival was postponed owing to wet weather. When play was resumed, most of the Australian players had left Fiji. The semi-final games were interesting, J. Cornes being drawn against his clubmate, Moon while the Suva representative, Stewart, played von Sturmer, the Palmer* ston North and former Carlton representative. Cornes prevailed ove? Moon by a small margin, wlule Stewart had an easy win against von Sturmer. In the final Stewart outplayed Cornes. ^ 4 4 The Stocking Maker. A man. who went through the Great War without ^receiving a wound and returned to Capetown to lose the sight of both eyes in a blasting accident at the docks, had the contract for the supply of 87 pairs of stockings in green and gold for the Springboks. He is L. F. ("Bill") Horstman, tyhp threads 84 needles hl the .process oi making a single stocking. This sightless man also made 30 pairs of stockings for the junior Springboks whG toured the Argentine, and 36 pairs f oi the South Africans who played againsl the Wallabies, . .. * , * * And The Ball Burst. When W. Massey, the 15-stone North" Shore forward endeavoured to stem a forward breakaway at Eden Park, Auckland, recently, the ball refused to take the strain and burst with a muffled report and a slight swish of escaping air. Massey rushed back with surprising sweep when- several Grammar forwards broke away from the scrum and hurled himself on the ball. The opposing forwards fell or. top of him and when, the sacks-on-the-mill scrum was broken up by th referee the ball was flat on th ground. - The crowd in the main stand was delighted and for several minutea Massey was cheered whenever h« nedred the ball.