SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 61, 4 December 1937, Page 17

SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

• • 1 ■ "■ INTERESTING NEWiS ITE9B - World's Sculling Titi#. ' R. Pearce has offered the sculling champion, E. Paddon, a sac« for the world's sculling title and J500 a-side with return fare to Toronto and back. The event would take placo during the National Exhibition at Toronto next year. Paddon is considering the matter. * ' +' Hungari&n Olympiaxu. Hungary is showing its gratltude tc the 10 Hungarians who won Olympic championships last year by erecting a huge sports hall to oommemorate their deeds. i^is hall will seat 8000, and will be used for cycling, boxing, wrestling, and basketbalh Ali profits will be devoted to further of sport in Hungary. * * * ' Squash Bacquets. Lawn tennis players art not alone in their aptitude to succeed at squash racquets. This popular indoor game has claimed adherents from practically every branch of sport iii Melbo.urne in the lastf yea*. ; BeVerai of Australia's Test cricketers- adqpted Jit as a means of training during the winter months. Fleetwood-Shiith, • ■ McCormack and Barnett were three of the keenest players. " ♦ * ♦ Crawford's Doubles Win. Jack Crawford's recent win ln the New South Wales doubles tennis championship was his 10th success in that event. Crawford first won ihe title With Hopman in. 1926 and again in 1929, 1930, and -1931. He won with C. E. Sproule in 1932 and for the last five years with McGrath. Crawford also has seven New South Wales singles championships to his name. and three combined doubles titles. * * + five Slxes Hit. _ Five sixes were hit in an hour by Wallace and Vivian in iheir thfidwicket partnershi, ? 114 for New Zealand against Victoria. Three of them were hit off Fleetwood-Smith, the test slow bowler, whose four overs before liinch cost 52 runs. The batting was described as the most carefree exhibition of stroke plfty seen on the Melbourne ground for yeais. The scorerr Mr. D. H. Fox, whose- experience goes back 60 years, said that he cpuld not recall another instance of five sixes in one partnership on the ground. * * ♦ A Great Victorian. Mr. Jack Worrall, who dled in Australia recently, > was * life: meihber of the Australian- -National* -Football Council, the Victorian; Football League, and- the Fitzroy :F.C; He was one of the best. all-round footballers of his day, and played for both Fitzroy and Carlton. He coached Carlton to three successive pennants. He ohce.had the record for the highest score ever made in Victoria, viz., 417 not out, for Carlton v» Uriiversity, in 1895-6. As cricketer, footballer, coach, and journalist, Mr. Worrall left his mark on .Victorian sport. - ■j* '-2 * ♦ Fromlsing Girl Swimmer. A young Auckland swimmer Who may eventually be a senior champion is Miss R. Stacpole, of the Parnell Club. She is 15 years of age and a first-year intermediate, and recently won a 66 2-3yas, open backstroke handicap in 55s, a performance of no little merit. Besides being a good backstroke swimmer, she is a fairly skilful freestylist, her stroke bearing a striking resemblance to that of the great Otago swimmer, Miss I. Purdie. The reason is that Miss Stacpole is coached by Mrs. Raper, who was Miss Purdie's coach when residing in Dunedin prior to her marriage * * * Football Klcldng Contest. The recent international football kicking contest between ^he Carlton Australian Rules team in" Victoria and the Stanford University team in the United States resulted in a win for Carlton. An Australian rules ball and an American ball were used by both teams. The kicks registered by members of both teams with the Australian and American ball respectively were: — Drop-kick: E. Huxtable (Carlton), 67yds., 65yds.; G. Hamilton (Stanford), 59yds., 55yds. Punt: H. Vallence (Carlton), 69yds., 69yds.; G. Hamilton (Stanford), 53yds., 58yds. Carlton did not take part in the place kick in which W. Paulinan, of Stanford, registered 58yds. and 56yds. * * * N.Z. at N.S. Wales Shoottng. One of the most popular wins at the next annual matehes of the National Rifle Association of New South Wales would be the success of the New Zealand team in the Empire Trophy match, says a writer in a Melbourne paper. The Dominion has put up a good fight on more than one occasion. Its great effort at Williamstown in 1921 at 1000 yards is still remembered as orte of the epics of team shooting in Australia. ' The method adopted to pick the quick wind changes at extreme range was unique, but certainly most effective . The New Zealand team to compete on the Anzae range in February will be a very solid combination, and it would not surprise me to see it carry off the yaluable trojihy. * * * Hassett's Test Chances. Those who saw the Closing stages of the Victoria v. New Zealand game were impressed by Lindsay Hassett's batting, says the Sydney Referee.. His 127 not out was a mixture' of defence and offence on a wicket which had favoured the ball during most of the game. He went well down the wicket to the slower bowling of Vivian and Moloney, and was not afr&id to lift the ball. He batted 3 hours 22 minutes, and hit one 6 and eight 4's. His moderate pace was partly due to mecurate bowling and good field placlng. Hassett's batting was much above that of any other in the match — he'« jreli in the running for England. I