SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 208, 18 September 1937, Page 18

SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS Cotton Puttiiig Well. Henry Cotton, the world's champion golfer is a better putter than formerly. In explanation he says : "I used to think too much about how I ' was standing and how I was - hitting the ball. Now I am just trying to hit the ball toward the hole, thinking only of the strength and the direetion." ^ * 41 Record, Higli Jump. Records are creeping up in all branches of athletics. The latest is the clearing of 6ft. lOin. by M. Walker, the American athlete, who created a new world's high jump record at Stockholm recently. It was a long while before any human being- cleared 6ft. in a high jump. Now they are within measurable distance of 7ft. * ❖ * Products of Carnoustie. ^ The Carnoustie Golf Club in Scotland has given many great players to the game. Perhaps tiwo of the best known are McDonald Smith, who went to the United States before he was 20, and.Htewart Maiden, who helped to teach Bobby Jones the rudiments of the game in his early days. Maiden went from Carnoustie to Bobby Jones' club, Atalanta, Georgia, before the war, , . Globe-trotter and Cricketer. Essex cricket enthusiasts will be interested to hear that Roy Sheffield, globe-trotter and former county' wicketlceeper, is returning tcf his home country next year, says an English writer. I understand, however, that he is not likely to return to Essex and county cricket. Sheffield was in Australia during the last M.C.C. tour, ^pri is now in New Zealanct * Although he is only 30, Sheffield would, it is said, like to become a first-class umpire.

* =? . Five Best Rugby Players. In making the selection of the flve outstanding Rugby Union footballers of the yeqr in Australia, a Sydney writer took into consideration the following conditions:— National and State representation, form against the Springboks, courage, all-round ability in the* player's special position on the field, teamwork, unselfishness and knowledge of the game. His choice" was as follows: — K, Windon, T. Pauling, J. McShane, A. Hodgson, and RRankin, all of New South Wales. s ^ * * 'i -■ Strong Tennis Pair Beaten. The 1937 undefeated record of the Wimbledon champions, Donald Budge and Gene Mako, has been broken. The Californians had played . through* Wimbledon, the Davis Cup, and' several tournaments without losing a match, but they failed in their effort to retain their American doubles title last month. Their conquerors in the final were Gottfried von Cramm and Henner Henkel, the German Davis Cup players, who had pressed them so closely at Wimbledon and in the interzone final of the Davis Cup. The Germans, who are going to Australia after the American singles championship, won 6 — 4, 7 — 5, 6 — 4. 44 44 * English Soccer Team* After a most successful tour of New Zealand and Australia, th*e English amateur Soccer players are now nearing home again. They wound up with. a 6 — 1 win over Western Australia just before they sailed, R. J. Matthews scoring four times and Lewis and Thornton once each. Three. thousand spectators paid £200 to see the game. In all, they played 19 matches and lost only twice — two tests in Australia. They- won all nine matches in New Zealand. Their goal aggregate was 132 for and 26 against. Ten of the goals scored against them came in the three tests. Matthews was the side's top scorer with 45 goals — 20 in Australia and 25 in New Zealand. . * * * ' Scots' Amateur Champion. Hamilton Mclnallyy a stockily-built 25-year-old coal miner, won the Scottish amateur golf championship at Barassie recently. He beat Graham Patrick, 30-year-old son of a millowner in Alva, by 6 and 5 in the 36holes final. In the crowd of about 1000 was almost the entire male population of the little hamlet of 40 houses from whi'ct Mclnally hails, and they cheered most of the miner's shots. Mclnally worked all night prior to winning his fifrL-round game. "He went off duty at six o'cldck in the morning at a local colliery and appeared on the first tee four hours later. 4- 41 $ 1940 Olympic Games. Although the Japanese Government has practically decided to cancel the arrangements already made to hold the 1940 Olympic Games in Tokio, formal announcement will not be made perhaps for some time. The chairman of the Olympic Committee, Count Soejima, mct in confcrence Ihe Premier, Princo KOnoye, and the Minister of Education, Mr. Yasui, last month, The Government, he was told, was willing to eonUmie giving financial assistance to the Olympic Committee, pending its final decision. No formal cancellatio". of the Games will be announced until Count Soejima has been consulted. 41 41 4Wizard of League Cricket. L. Constantine has once again pruved himself the wizard of the Lancashire League cricket world. Playing at Blackburn, Nelson had lost five wickets for 65 against East Lancashire, and the West Indies professional had 21 to his credit. Then his bat began to flash and he rattled up 192 not out in eyclonic fashion, smashing the Lancashire League record made by C. G. Llewellyn, the Accrington professional, against Bacup in 1913, and also easily beating his own batting record. He gave the crowd thrill after thrill, several strokes sailing well out of the ground. In one over he hit 26 off W. E. -Tcrritt, the foimer New Zealander and East Lancashire professional : 6, 4, 4, 6, 6. Even Merritt joir.ed in the apnlau.se at this hurricane hitting.