SPORTING NOTIONS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 35, 4 November 1937, Page 14

SPORTING NOTIONS

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No Australian Rugby Tour Next Year DECISION QUESTIONED

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- The New Zealand Rugby Council and the executive "at tlieir last combined meeting discussed many things, among them being the question of selection c.' future All Black sides. They also appointed various sub-committees to inquire into various aspects of Rugby and its administratlon. .Finally they . threw a 1 mb by deciding ap-' parently, that there will be no New Zealand tour to Australia in 1938 as agreed at the conference in England in 1935. The great majority of the gentlemen elected to the various committeea of inquiry are either on- the council, the executive or the selection committee and to the * observer it would appear that the committees are appointed to judge thernselves. It will be surprising if the findings of these gentlemen will give very great satisf action to followers of the game, and it would have been more satisfying if the various committees had been recruited altogether outside- of the Ney Zealand Rugby Union. Provincial Rughy Union executive# are in closer touch with the game than the New Zealand Rughy Union, and for •more than one year past, there has been keen. criticism of the New Zealand • Rugby Union» emanating from the provinces. No matter what. the, findings may be of the various sub-committees appointed, the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union will have the final say and the meeting next April will be a very interestingvone4 That a. responsible body such as the New Zealand Rugby, Union should so blithely scrap an agreement with our neighbours across the Tasman to visit them next winter is really aStounding. No matter what our views may be on the question. of .overseas touxs, and the gemeral one is that .they come too often, a promise is a promise and it should be honoured. . In all probability the annual meeting will dceide that the tour must tak# place. ( Cricket "Finds."Mrs E. W. Tindill, wife o£ thf wicketkeeper in the New Zealand cricket team now in Australia en rcyta for home, has returned to New Zeai* land on the Orion. Mrs Tindill, commenting on the players, said that the finds ,of the tour were Donnelly, the. ■ Taranaki ' youth, and Cowie and Wallace, of Auckland. Cowie, ifc appears, made pace off the pitch of the ball and he bowled as fast at the end of the day as he did at the commencement^ There will be interest in Gowie's performances in Australia. Melbourne Cup Sidelights. Most radio sets were turned on last Tuesday evening to listen to the des* cription of the race for the Melbourn# Cu'p, and there was c.onsolation foT th« narrow defeat of the New Zealand hctse Willi# Win in the fact that tho . traincr and rider of The Trump are New Zealand born. It is not generally known that high hopes were entertained of this yearis victor winning Hhej Melbourne Cup as a three-year-qld, but hc went amiss. Stan Reid, the trainer, was born in Carterton- and i's a-young-er brother of Sid, who trains here at present, but he is no relation to the rider of the "winner, Ashley Reed, also a New Zealander and a brother to Royj and Con, who both. lost their lives aa the result of race accidents. Mr Darey Eccles, the ownor, is one of Melbourne'a biggest bettors. It is reported that he, won £20,000 when The Trump won the Caulfield Cup, and he some time ago coupled The Trump and Wotan for £25,000 in the two cups' double. Mr Eccles has not been always a fortunate owner, for in 1922 The Cypher owned by him and bred in Hawke's Bay, if memory serves me correetly, was beated by King Ingoda by half a aeck in' the Melbourne Cup," and Mr Eccles missed a fortune of £25,000 in betsrf In 3932 Peter Pan in the Cup of thatj year just caugbt Yarramb^ on the post, Yarramba was owned by Mr Eccles and bang went wagers worth £20,000. i Bradman's Objective. Don Bradrran does not hold all tkei Australian batting reijord's, but therq is one that is still ahead of liiui and he is koen to possess it. Clem HUI, great youth. Australian lcft-hander,-scored 17,221 in first-elass cricket. Thafi record h; s stood for years, but thoi famous Don is after it kot foot. Tx date he has scored 16,585 runs or jusfi 637 behind Clem Hill. Possibly he wil| have claimed this record by tho timej Christmas .rrives. Hill had 417 innings to'amass his huge total whereaq Bradman.nas hal only 204. Sarron's Earnings. Pete Sarron, who lost his world boxing title to Henry Armstrong last week, received as solace the tidy sum^ of £5000.s Pete during tlie last 12 montha has earned £12,5CL0, of which amount £5000 lvas forthcoming for t- o fights m South Afriea. It is said that Sarron has been a very tlirifty yout.i and is' a very wealthy young man at th# present time. Wrestling Guarantee. It is reported that- the Auckland Wrestling Association has (ffered A guarantee of £1500 to Earl McCready" for a match with Lofty Plomfield that is scheduled *o take place in Auckland (open air) on November 13. It is * huge sum, and one wonders how much! will be left for Lofty to handle. Mo« Cready was unbeaten during his visit to Australia.