SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 196, 4 September 1937, Page 18

SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

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Empire maratnon itacc. Scotland is sending Donald Robertson and England B Norris, for the Empire Games marathon race to be held at Sydney next February. Both are great athletes, with many outstanding performances to their credit. * * *. British Rugby Team to Tour. At the end of the next Rugby season in England, a British team will tour South Africa. It will be faced with an imposing task, judging by the way the South Africans are succeeding on their Australian and New Zealand tour. * ¥ Fast All Blacks at Play. In a recent Rugby football match at Timaru between a veterans' team and Waimate, three former All Blacks, G. F. Hart, J. E. Manchester and J. R. Page, took part. Page played a fine game, indicating that he had not lost his skill. * 41 * * Shute's Defeat. . Densmore Shute, after his defeat by Henry Cotton in their recent £500 challenge golf match, was alleged to have said that while the crowd did not applaud his missed shots, which was the burden of Guldahl's complaint, they appeared "resentful" when he made a good one. N.Z. Boxer Dislocates Shoulder. Harry Bates, a New Zealand welterweight boxer, who is sponsored by Ambrose Palmer, had an unfortunate experience when he made his first Australian appearance at Fitzroy. In the second round of his bout with Fred Haran he dislocated his right shoulder and had to seek hospital treatment. * * * Larwood's Career Begins. Soon to be placed in the Notts cricket pavilion, in England, is the following letter, marking the beginning of a famous career. The letter, dated May 31, 1923, reads:— H. Larwood, Esq.: Dear Sir, — We shall be glad if you can make it convenient to attend at the nets here on Monday next, June 4, at 2 p.m., for a trial. ' * * * y" , Unfortunate Hlness on Tour. Frank Burge's return to Australia from New Zealand through not feeling in the best of health, recalls ithe first Wallabies' tour to England in 1908-9. When this Rugby Union team reached Naples the captain, Cecii Murnin, was so ill that he had to leave ship and return to Australia. He took no part in the tour. The team was captained by Dr. H. M. Moran. * * & * d:' » _ h.u. Rugby as a Religion. In the recent Ranfurly Shield game at Dunedin, when Southland lifted the trophy from Otago, 35,000 people attended. On arrival back at thieir home town of Invercargill, the conquerors were given a royal reception. The Ranfurly Shield was hoisted high and the crowds reverently removed their hats. Deeds such as this confirm the impression that Rugby is a religion in, New Zealand. — Sydney Referee. * * Louis Has a "Tin" Cliin. Asked his opinion of Joe Louis after the negro's recent defeat ' of Jim Braddock, Gene Tunney, former world's heavy-weight boxing champion, saitl if Louis was the fighter he should be he would have finished Braddock off in a round or two. Tunney added that Jack Dempsey would have beaten Louis. in less than a round. "Louis has a 'tin' chin and such a fighter is no champion in my books," he concluded. * ■ * * sar Golfers' Insurance. For an annual premium of five shillings, the Victorian Golf Association will soon be able to offer golfers of affiliated clubs an insurance up to* £2500, covering them against accidents on and off the links. Commenting upon this scheme a Sydney writer says: — This is a grand idea and it is only to be hoped. that the association ensures that the policy includes a clause covering injury from flying kitchen utensils resulting from delaying too long at the "nineteenth."

Lack of Hockey Publicity. * In raising "the question of lack of publicity given to hockey, a prominent Christchurch . enthusiast eraphasised the fact that in that city there were more people playing hockey every Saturday than were playing Rugby, and more playing hockey than Soccer and League football combined. There are 1375 players actually taking part every Saturday. " * * * N.Z. and Empire Games. At a recent meeting in Wellington of the New Zealand Olympic Council it was decided that the national sports bodies should make their own arrangements for trainers and masseurs for the New Zealand team at the Empire Games in Sydney; next February. . /"