MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 3 December 1927, Page 8

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

I hate to thmK that anglers and golfers are the only sportsmen who are entitled to pitch wonderful talcs some true, some not true, but all alledgedly true. However ’ here is an amazing snooker story, and, strange to say, claimed to be absolutely true. Tom Newman, the world’s snooker champion, was playing a fellow profesional, Joe Davis, a game of snook er, in which Davis received two funks on. Davis started by taking five reds and accompanying colours. Then New man visited the table and cleared it with a mn-vello'-s unfinished break og 96. V | a 1 | d this to a friend he called ii a cu.se of hardship, because there were not any more balls for Newman fb play.

“I always remember the match where we met the King,” said M. L. Page the other evening, "for it reminds me what a great *ellow Lowry was. Of course we wore all mighty nervous, and once we had been intro duced, we just stood around trying to think of something to say. Tom saved the situation by going casually up to the King and inquiring, ‘Excuse me, sir but can you give us a tip for the Derby?’ The King enjoyed the joko as much as we did. 'I think so,’ he said. ‘So-and-so probably will win, but I wouldn't take any notice of my tips.' ''

at the top of it, talking to a newfound friend, when suddenly the ball came his way. He came tearing down the bill like a puffing-riilly. caught the ball, and went dashing on for miles, unable to stop.”

‘‘One day we were in a hotel bar, having drinks all round when Bill saw a little girl behind the counter who hadn’t had anything at all. He went over to her and asked. ‘Kitty, would you like a drink!’ ‘Oh, yes.’ she said. ‘l’d like one from you Mr Cunningham. ‘ Then, ’ said Bill ‘ you - d belter go and have a drink of water!’ But she got her revenge a bit later on.” One of W. E. Merrit’s prize jokes of the English tour.

• * » The Welsh Rugby Union has a queer sense of the fitness of things. When Tommy Vile, who was the referee with the British Rugby team which visited Argentine recently, returned to the land of the leoks the other day, the Welsh Rugby Union promptly haled him before it. and demanded to know why he had referoeil a match on a Sunday. It might bo all right in Argentine , but it wasn’t done in Wales, and Vile was still a member of the W.B.U. When the last mails left, the case of the unrepentant Vile was still sub judico

Where will it end? Recently Grace White a 13-year-old Yorkshire girl, skipped 1722 hops, without a rest, in response to a challenge. Not to be outdone. Kittv McHale, of the same age, eclipsed her record with 3028 hops. But this was not the last word. Grace has now established her superiority again with 3678 hops in 3060 seconds. Mere man is becoming interested, and a blind boy named Joseph Wilson, had done 3632 hops when the school bell rang.