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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 26, 23 October 1937, Page 17

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INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS L * . ...

The Dreaded "Duck." With the dreaded duck, W. A. (Bxll) Brown, Australian Test and Shield batsman, began the season dismally with Queensland Colts, of which he is captain. The next Saturday he made 17, That day Stan McCabe, in Sydney, rattled up 124 !n 93 minutes. His time is probably fiatterlng, for Sydney Club grounds are on the small side. Swhttitler Turits Professional, Misis Eita Mastenbrock, the famo'us Dutch swimmer, who won the 100 and 400 metres free-style eveftts in the Oiympic Games at Berlin last year, and who is the world record hOlder for the 100 and 400 metres backstroke is to turn professional. She is to become' swimming inStructreSs at a swimming school near Amsterdam, to teach the young something of her wisardry. According to the rules of the Dutch Federatioti, she' automatiCaily lOses her Status as an»amateur. Holland will thus iose her most famous of fflany famous women swimifters. • ; Ambrose Palmer. * AftibroSe PalmCr, ' fgtxred iight-heaVy and heavyweight champion of Australia, recently denied a report that American . boxing j>romoterst were sounding him coheerniftg the * possibility Of a trip to the States. Palmer said that no offer from America had reached him recently, Although he ;has beeft out of the boxing ring for neariy two years, Palmer wouid not admit that his retireftient decxsiott Was irrevoeable. At present he ha4 no ifttentioii of returniftg, Palmer ceiebrated his 26th, birthday on september 19. During the season just ciosed he played football With the Footscray senior League team. Budge and Mako, The ftews that Donald Budge and Gene Mako, Wimbledon champions, Will be conling to AUstralia is hearteiilttg, says the Sydney Referee. PosSibiy Frank Patker, another ranked American, will also make the trip. The Americans leave Los Aftgeles on November 10, and will arrive in sydney on November 29. They will stay in Austraiia till February 4. The fact that the visitors will make only four appearances does not come as a shock GOftsideriiig the amount of tennis they have had within the last eight months. After a very strenous European tour they haVe just eompleted the American ftatioftal championships. The Americans will appear in the Australian championshipis, Victorian champioftshipS, and two internationa! matches.

Tenttls Romances. GUpid is scoring many love sets in the tenftis world these days, Abroad, Miss D. Round, the eXisting World's champion, has recently married and, as Mrs, Little, leadS the list of Women's rankingSi The voiatile Chileaii star, SCftorita Lizana, Wouid also be married by ftoW— if She had. , her Way-— but parerttai ittsistence has resuited ift her and her finance, Mr. Roftald Ellis, postpoiiirig the happy event till next year. in Sydney Miss RCfte Ghaimers was recently married, aftd is now Mrs. L. Menzies. Miss Peg Menzies, who for many years has been Ofte of the New South Wales leading lady players, is the latest to join the band of newlyweds, and is noW Mrs. R, Walton. The latest romantic news is the engagement of the chafming MisS, Edna McColl, to Mr. D. Baih, Of Melbourile. MiSs McColl has figured prominently in many tournaments, and plays an attractive dashihg game. Hearty congratulations and best wishes to all these people.

All-round Athlete. H.' G. Owen-Smith, whqpe name is frequently mentioned in" cricketing cable messages, is considered the greatest all-rounder Seen in England so far this century.' Owen-Smith is a SoUth African liv'lttg In England. He was respOnsible for one of the best bdwling feats Of the season, beSides finishing with a splendid bowling and batting average. Against Surrey his figures for the first mnings were five for 52, but he had one amazing spell, When he took the five wickets With 11 balls without a run being hit off him. The chief factor in his success was the great pace at Which his leg breaks came off the pitch. Apart from his cricket, at whien he has represented South Africa, Middlesex, Oxford University and the Gentlemen, he has captained England at Rugby, was goal-keeper for the English Hospital Soccer cup-ties, has boxed for Oxford against Cambridge, plays golf and hockey — and — works hard at St.i Mary's Hospital.

LJES.W. Bute. " The new rule regarding l«g-before m .cricket Is fto longer an expOnmMit. It'is now embodied in the rules of the game and aff*cts all grades of eriqket in'New Zealaftd and elsewhert, ^ Speedway Rider Weds, The Australi&n speedway eydist, van Praag, married at the Hendon registry Offlce recefttly, Gweft Hipkixxs, 25, a Clapham dtessmaker. They left last week for Austraiia Off * tfteir hbneymodft. The Empire Eights. . .With England, Caftada, New Eealand and Austraiia competiftg in the eights at the Empire GameVit should be ohe of the maift sportin^ events, says a Sydftey rowing critic. UnfortUnately it is set dowh for A Wednesday afternoon For a Purse ©f £1060. Henry Cotton, British open golf chfimpion, has been invited to go to the Uixited States to play Ralph Guldahl, the United States open championr for a purse of £1000, put up by a Texas millionaire. Cottbft may go if the stake is increased td £5000, Victorian High Jump Record. The couricil of the Victorian Amp. teur Athletic Association has decided to grant the applicatidft of J, B. MetCalfe for recogflition as a Victorian record of his high jump of 6ft 5 11-16 inches, made at the Victeriaft Centenary International Challenge meefc ©n the Melbourne Cricket GfOuftd on January 26, 1935. . 1 Girl Swimmer of 17. * , - " England has developed A mkgniflcent swimmer in 17-year-old Margaret Jeffrey, of Croydon, who has, within a few months, jumped itttd World as a middle-distance performers If she visits Austraiia for the Empire Gaftie? in February, Miss Jeffrey will provc a wonderfui attraetion in her struggle with thfe Western Australian stars, Dorothy Green and Evelyn -De Laqy, in the -440 yaf ds title eveflt. Hammer Throw Records; All hammer-throwing records wsre broken by Dr. P. O'Callaghcn, the Irish Oiympic representative at the Cork County Championships in Ireland last August. He threw the 161b. hammer 196ft., WhiCh is 6ft. 5iin. better than the World record made by F Ryan, of the United States, ift 191§. N.Z. Golf Shield at BurhilL Playing brilliantly in a rainstorm, G. H. Coley, with f ounds of 77 and 72, recently won the Burhill Golf Glub's

anftual competition m Englaftd fdr the NOW * Zealand Shield, preSefttbd in memory of the time speht there by New Zealand tTOOps. during the War. J. W. Dodd, 151, and E, W: Garter, lSl, tied for second place, Empire Games Diving. Mr. J. S. W, JEve, Jionorary Qfg&inting secretary of the Empire Games, 1938, has announced that the newlyamended regulations of the International Diving Committae, which are to operate as' from january 1, 1938; will apply to the diviftg competitio&S at the British Empire Gaftie's ift Sydney in February. Galleries af Golf. a Galleries at golf matches usually retard rather than assiSt piayerS. However, responding at the presentatiOn after winning one Of the five Open championships he has coliected, Ivo Whitton said: "I eommiserate with tlie professional who was beaten Jby ine by a stroke. He had no gallery. There were hundreds in mine and at each green they were a perfect wind-screeft, making putting comparatively easy. I have no doubt that if he' had had the gallery and I hadn't, the result wouid have been different," Grafton School Soccer. A splendid record in soccer fodtbaff was secured by the Graftdft. School during the season just ended. The school's senior team won the Victoria Park group championship and the Auckland knock-out championship. The junior te. n had even greatCr success. In addition to winning both the Victoria Park and Auckland groUp championships, it Was successful in the Victoria Park and Auckland knockout coittpetitions. The school was also honoured by having four of its pupils chosen for the Auckland primary schools' soccet representative team. Jarvis for Royal Air Force. Mr J. H. Jarvis, of Auckland, formerly of Dunedin, has received advice from the headquarters of the New Zealand Air Force that h: secotid son, Sidney, has been accepted for a short service commission in the Royal Air Force, subject to the consent of -his parents. This has been cabled. Sidney Jarvis is well known in swimming circles. He holds - the New Zealand records for 50 yards, 100. yards and 220 yards junior free styie' events, aftd two years ago he won the 100 yardS, 220 yards and 440 yards New Zealand intermediate championships at -Hamilton. Japanese Athletes. Owlng to the hostilities between Ghina and Japan it was unlikdly that the two brilliant Japanese athletes, Kenshi Togami, jumper, and- Kohei Murakoso, distanct runner, wouid be heard of on the athletic field again, stated Mr. H. L. Towers, president of the Auckland Amateur Athletic Centre, at the annual meeting of the centre. Mr. Towers said that Togami was now in the Japanese Army and might not be heard of for two years. Murakoso, although he said that he was going to throw away his shoes after his New Zealand tour, ran 10,000 metres in 30min. 39 4-5sec., the hcet time for that distance registered last year, shortly after his return to Japan, added Mr Towers, but he, tou, was likely to be lost to athletics in the struggle now being .waged? • -