SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 83, 31 December 1937, Page 12

SCRAP BOOK JOTTINGS

INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS Bowlers "Go Through." Always "go" with your effort, when it is anything but a dead draw shot. So many players jerk^ and no player can jerk two alike, Besides, jerking is foreign -to the good delivery. That elasticity, bounding Basque sort of activity; that live-for-ever sort of feeling cannot be acquired if you don't "let yourself go," at delivery point. Girl's 210 Not Out. Miss Joan Martin, a South Australian inter-State girl ericketer, scored 210 not out in a recent matqh in Adelaide, eclipsing . the previous best on record by the Victorian Miss Dorothy Haggis, 204 not out. Miss Martin compiled her record' scor# In 180 minutes and hit 37 fours and one six. Her innings was chanceless. Double centuries are rare in women's cricket and Miss Patricia Holmes* a member of the- Australian side, distinguished herself in England when she made 200 retired in a representative match against the West of England at Basingstoke. r '* ' ** ^ » ' Gun Club Champion. Constable J. McMullan, of Morrinsville, who won the Morrinsville Gun .Club's championship for 1937, has been competing in gun club shoots for 30 years. This was the ninth club championship he has won, his list of successes including championships of the Wanganui, Taupo, Kaikohe, Whangarei, Dargaville and Otane clubs. „ Mr. McMullan has also competed with success in numerous handicap shoots in the North Island and in Canterbury, and recalls that one holiday spent in the South Island, when several big shoots were being held, gave him a profit that would be equivalent to a year's pay for many people. American Golf Driving. Jimmy Thomson, holder of the American record for the longest competitive golf drive, has found it. im1 possible so far to defeat Sam Snead, American Ryder Cup player, in a driving competition. In the Professional Golfers' Association contest Snead's distances were 302yds., 304 yds., 313 yds. 17in. Thomson's hits were 276yds. and 294yds., the third being off the fairway. At Toronto Snead recorded 279yds., 302yds., 323 yds. Thomson's first was out of bounds, and his second and third under 360yds, Against a fcead wind at Cleveland the respective distances Were:— Snead, 261yds., 278yds., 285 yds. Thomson: 261yds., 262yds., 268 yds. Queensland Cycling Champ. The Queensland cycling .champion over five miles, J. Middleton, who arrived in New Zealand on December 20 to compete against Ncw Zealand yiders at professional meetings, is a son of Alf Middleton, who won the Austral wheel race in 4899 and contested the final five times. Middleton was an all-round cyclist if ever there . was one, winning races from one mile to 100 miles on machines rangihg from a "penny-farthing" to the modern cycle. He was a former holder of the world's record for the quertermile from a flying start in 25sec., a time which was reduced to 23sec. by the present Australian sprint champion, J. Fitzgerald, now also yisiting New Zealand. Slow Bowlers* DueL Not the least interesting feature of the "Sheffield Shield games which are now in progress in Australia will be the duel between tearo-mates Grimmett and Ward, contenders for a place in the side for England, comments A. G. Moyes fci Ihe Sydney ' Sunday Sun. It is scarqely likely that both win gp but one of them almost certainly will do so. Figures show the wonderful part slow bowlers have played in- Tests in England in the post-war years. Omltting FleetwoodSmith, who is of a type apart, these two are the only outstanding slow bowlers in the land and it is perhaps a pity that they are in the one State. It may be claimed, of course, that they have to bowl at the same batsmen but it does not always work out that way. • N.S.W. Tennis Coach in N.Z. The official coach to the New South Wales Lawn Tennis Association for the past 15 years, Mr. G. P. Lane, arrived in Auckland recently on a short holiday trip. Mr. Lane is due back in Australia toward the end of January, but is willing to give lessons to Auckr land players who so desire during his stay. One of Australia's outstanding lady players,* Miss Thelma Coyne, was a pupil of his, and he also coached A, C. Stedman for a period when he was in Australia, and the Auckland • player, J, W. Gunn, Apart from his work. in connection with the New South Wales Association, he does intensive eoaehing in Sydney secondar y * schools. Mr. Lane's father, a wellknown French jockey, rode the winner in the Grand Prix of Paris in record time, hnd a brother, F. Lane, rpde April the Fifth to victory in the English Derby in 1932. International Soccer. . England retained its r'eputation for not having been beaten by a Continental team on its own soccer grounds, when Czechoslovakia was defeated. It was a close call, however, the score being 5 to 4 and the game a thriliing one. The English team was completely disorganised by injuries to six players, five of whom were unable to play in the club games on the following Saturday. Matthews, the English forward, was the outstanding player and if ever a man won a match for his country he did. England led 4 to 2 at half-time, but the Czechoslovakians made a brilliant rally to draw level with six minutes to go, Then Matthews, who had changed, in consequence of the reshuffling of injured players, from outside right to inside, scored the winning goal, his third of the game. Played on a wet ground the visitors' form was impressive aivi critics slated that they would always be sure of a wejceme in England.