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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 73, 18 December 1937, Page 17

SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS

Louis en titei Flhns. World heavyweight champion Is to make a film in Hoilywood depicting his iife story, starting when he was a farmhand in the Albama cotton fields. • ' • • • To Coaeh South Africans. American swimming coach, J. W. Harte, has been engaged as municipal instructor in Jphannesburg. Salary £600 a year, pius £10 a month travelling expenses. • ' » • • Braddock Not Finished. Former champion indignantly rerefutes stqry of his retirement. He want? tp fight early in the New Year, and hope? it will be With Tommy Farr. . # • • • "Biidie" Habit. Ten "birdies" and an "eagle" were included in an umazing round of 59, 11 under bogey, by Bill Cox, Wimbledon Park professions . over his own course. Beat his own best of 62. • * • * Australia Hopeful. Pians are afoot to persuade negro Plymp.ic stars— Jesse "Corny" JohnSpn, Ralph Metcalfe, Johnny Wopdruffe and Fhh Edwards— tp compete at ppefessipnal meeiings "down under." p * . * * Park Hines' Retained List. J. A. Brgtt, the OJfford University Rugby captain, wiU he able to call upon nine men who haye appeared agaiiist Cambridge. The number includes Princq pbolensky, English jnternatjpnal in i936. and H. D. Freakes, Who played in trials for England lpst season. ' • * • • Hageh and Kirkwood Beaten. Two South African gplf .professional?, G, Childs and K, de Beer, recently defeated Walter Hagen and J, H. Kirkwood |n a match at Johanne?burg for £100 a side, The xpargin was one up, the Amerieans being unable tq gaugo the pace of the greens. • » # . ♦ Goif Under piffieniHe#, A remarkable last rqund Oi 67, played with an injdred right hand and including only w putts, brought Victory to Arthur Lacey, of Berkshire, at Wentworth, Surrey, in the DunlopMetropplitan 1500 tournament. fjxs other round? were 72, 63 and 70. p, j, Mahon (Dublin) wa? second with 282, and % H. Cotton .(British open champlohl next; 283 ". ' 9 • '9 • •" * Women'# World Tour. Costing each member Of the team more than £100 trayeiling expenses, the All-England . Women'# Hockey Association is planning a world tour ! in 1938, including Australia and New Zealand. The tour wa? originaUy planned to New Zealand only, but now ways and means for its extension are being discussed. Several members of the English and reserv# international teams hav already accepted the invitation, ?o a strong team is certain. It will sail in Aprii, and will spend seven weeks in New Zealand. Girl Athletes Wed. The English Women's Amateur Athletic Association is worried about one aspect of its team's visit to Australia for the Empire Games— an "epidemic of marriage" is sweeping through the ranks of its stars. "Our champion? seem to be in great demand as "brides," the secretary of the association (Mrs. M. Corhell) explained. "Since the Olympic Games six of our leading members have married— Eileen Hiscock, Violet' Olney and-, Edyth Cooke (sprinters), Josephine Matthews , (long jumper), Mary French (cross-country), and Violet Webb (hurdler). "It is almost impossible to keep track of the weddings-.- iFortunately, • many of the athletes continue to run in championship "events after marriage." The ages of the nine women going to Australia range from 17 to 28, and they are all ?ingle, so the association is fearing the worst. * * * « Delajicy's lyndon Debut. All Delaney, the Canadian heavyweight who was recently defeated by Mauri ce Strickland (New Zealand) is 21 years old. He made his English debut in October under the. auSpices of the National Sporting Club, when he defeated Harry Staal, of Holland, the referee intervening in the seventh round, Staal early became little more than a human punching-bag, but he djd his job in thjs direction with remarkable thoroughn^ss, say? The Sporting Lifa. In spite of a eye, sustained in the first round, and innumerable puncheg to head and body, he refused to go dpwn for a count, although his legs from the fifth round onwards, werfe barely able to support him, Delaney was set a tough task, but he came through it with flying colours, although his reputation as a knock-out specialist was not enhanced. • 6 * • Still Fighting Fit. If the average player lost five stone in two years he eertalnly would not feel like any more cricket. But not so the 21-year-old Sid. Blair, of the Melbourne second grade team. His is an amazing case. Not only has he shed 5.2 stone since 1935, but ne is revelJing in his game. He has never been fitter or in higher spirits. Two years ago he weighed 17.10. To-day he weighs 12.8 and is fighting fit. How d'.d he perform the seeming miracle? A qatstion oi great interest i:i this shmming age. Let him reveal the senet in his own words. "I Ji1n!t. do a tlnng — didn't diet, didn't take medicine, and didn't gp in for special exercise. All that flesh just vanished of its cwn accord." Truly an illuminating explanation. The slimmer Sid. piays a much better game of cricket than the rotund Sid. — drives more crisply; spins a better leg-break; a.id is more agile in the outfield.

Bobby Locke's Reooxd, Playing over Bethlehem, OvuHjp Free State, course, A. D. ("Bobby")i Locke won South African golf title with record score of 274, / '• ' • • » France Needs Him. • - Having beaten world and European breast-stroke swimming records, Jao» ques Cartonnet is devoting future energies to long jumping, Has already got near 23ft. • . m m o Robins' Hard Lucb. Middlesex and England captain missed the "double" by one wlcket. Re-checking the season's ayerages showed that he took 99 wicket#, not 97. He scored 1076 runa. » » » * «i Australian Tourists, Sixteen players, same as In 1934, will be picked for the Australian tour in England next summer. Selectors are Don Brqdmsn, E. A. Dwyer and K, Q. E. Johnson. Kent's New Skipper. e It is offlcially confirmed that F. G. H. Chalk will captain Kent next season. In his few appearanqes for the county last summer he made 56Q puns, with an average of 33.73, best innings bqln^ 107 agaipst Middlesex at Ix>rd's. • • • . * Dqnish Swimming Wonder. Hplder of nearly a dozen wprld records, Mi?s Ragnhild Hweger, panish l6-ye'ar:qld swimmer, nddpid the 100 yard? bqicl|strpke tp her .list at $larsiiaii Streef bath# onrSeptember 25, "co.v£ripg:the di?tance ta^l.49 4-5. She also' set new- English #40 yards Jkeestyle record of 5.23. . #- • - • -*• .. m F.A Tour Preoentations. Presentations to officials and members of th§ F.A. party which recently toured Australasia were made pt s dinner ih Londqp. Messrs. Wreford Brown and T. Thome, the joint managers, were given an address on vellum in addition to a gold medal, whili the player? received a gold medal and ari international cap. A • * • • • Ukely to Turn Pro. There are insistent report# In America that Mrs- Helen Will# Idoody, - seven times Wimbledon lawn fennis champion, i# to turn professional within the next few month#. It I# also fireqly stated that Mis» AJiqe Marble, the formet American champion, uhd Frank Parker, who wa? In the American Davis Cup team whieh regaineq the cup, will also make pyofessionai appearances this year. Mrs. Wilk Moody, who won the . Wimbledori singles a? Miss Helen Wills in 1927, 1928 and 1929, and. as Mr#. Wllli Mopdy in 1930, 1932, 1933 and 1935 has not played seripys qompet|tiv singles for more than a season #s ? result of a strained back.. With Mrs Lambert Chambers she holds the' record for the number of Wimbledoi wins, and is probably America's greatest woman player.

Tennii Players in Oommonwealth, Lawn tennis— including those who play on hard courts— numbers about a quarter of the population in Australia. It cannot be far chort of two million players. Numbers who -take part in cricket and kindred games on Saturday are tennis players on Sundays. The average cost for outfit, racquets, clotfiing, balls, court fees, etc., is about £6 a year. Tlius: the spending value of lawn tennis players in the Commonwealth would be over £10,000,000, possibly £12,000,000. ; * * ? . # "Character" In Sport: One of the administrative- pill'ars of Rugby football in- -Wellington, and in his youth an outstanding athlete, Mr. J. M. Millard, principal of the Hutt Valley District High School, is a man who knows his sport. In the course of an address at the .Wellington intercollegiate sports he said he hoped, if they had "character," that many of the lads would remain in afhletics. His allusion was to courage, The courage to persevere — a trait which Ulduckily appears to be all too foreign to many youngsters to-day. There is a marked distinclination to stick at any sport where the path to glory is likely to be lonsr and rockv.