SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 67, 11 December 1937, Page 17

SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

INTERESTING NEWS iTEMS . The Hawke Cup. This season's first game against Manawatu for the Hawke Cup is to be played at Christmas, the New Zealand Cricket Council having allotted this challenge to Taranaki. The South Auckland Association is to play for the tfophy at the end of March, 1938, after otheif challenges by Nelson, Rangitikel and Poverty Bay have been decided. Glldo Beaten on Point«. Young Gildo, the Filipino featherweight boxer, was soundly beaten on points in a recent match with Mickey Miller in Melbourne. A critic says Gildo lacked fire and forcefulness, He displayed agility and cleverness, but there was no edge to his speed and no flerceness to his attack. On the other hand Miller maintained a varied two-handed aggressivnfiesa, Morpeth as Golf Manager. Sloan Morpeth received shoals of congratulations upon his selection as manager of the AUStralian golf team to visit1 Britain, says a Sydney writer, He is very popular and deservedly so. He will do very well in the job. At the Commonwealth Club, where he is manager, his business acumen is fully recognised, and he is one of the highest paid golf managers in the State, Tribute to Cowie. According to M. L. Page, captaih of the New Zealand cricket team, some good judges said that J. Cowie Was the best fast-rnedium bowler to visit England since the war. It was a great performance for him to return with the scalps of the four best batsmen in the world — W. R. Hammond, J. Hardstaff, D. G. Bradman and S» J. McCabe. W. M, Wallace and M. P. Donnelly had been great successes and there were probably not two better players at their age in the world.; Knocked Down Four Times. Cyril Pluto, the Australian boxer, who met with much success in New Zealand last year, achieved a record in London boxing circles by being knocked down 17 times in the first three rounds of his flght against Jack Powell, of Sheffield. In the foUfth he was knocked out. Pluto disappoirited many who felt he would, at least, defeat second-raters, in English boxing circles. In his dressing room after the flght he said, "I can onlyi remember going into the ring, but it seenas I've been in a fight." Bugby League at Home. .All is not. well with the . Rugby League game in England, says a. Sydney writer. Some clubs are carrying on the right traditions. They are •turning on football ' that - pleases ev.eryone, including players, clubs and public. Others are not doing so. in the Australian matches, the destructive tactics have been too prominent, in spite of complaints and criticism. The English Rugby League has already issued two appeals to clubs, players and referees to make thc game better for all concerned. In some clubs the appeals have falleh on deaf ears. It means that the English Rugby League is weak in not seeing that its game is played properly. No wonder complaints have been heard ficm Australians. Australian Tennis Courts Praised. At the conclusion of the "workout," as the American tennis players (Budge and Mako) term it, in Sydney on November 30, both players quite voluntarily stated that the courts were "swell." They were equally as good as the Wimbledon centre court, which is high praise indeed. Budge said that he was greatly relieved to find that his recent motor accident in lAmerica had not affected his play. Prior to the work-out he was rather worried that the strained sinews and bruised ribs he had sustained may have come against him as soon as he started strenuous play. An amazing feature about Budge is that he useS 15ioz racquets, as compared with the average player's racquet, which fweighs about 14oz. Budge further [stated that he was very pleased to visit Australia to play In the various States, »and see if his form out here would vary as much as he had been led to believe by Australian players and other leading stars who had played In Australia. Budge said that he was out to disprove this.

Incoming Batsmen. In view of an incident which oceurred in Auckland and which might be repeated here, it should be pointed out that the New Zealand Cricket* Council has givan the following ruling, which is novy in force: — "That an incoming batsman not at the crease within two minutes of the fall of the iast wicket shall, without an appeal, forfeit his wicket, unless both Umpires sliall otherwise direCt."