Miscellaneous

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 10 December 1927, Page 8

Miscellaneous

"Mid-Off”

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PARS ABOUT ALL SPORTS

CRITICS IN MERRY MOOD

“Don’t give yourself hares.’’ says the Terrier to the Greyhound.

Figures don’t lie. especially when they are encased in one-piece bathing suits.

An Australian champion racing greyhound is owned bv a barber.— He gives it plentv of hare-restorer. I suppose.

The modern husband is one who comes home from golf and gets angry because his wife is not home from bridge.

“England looks like becoming the greatest gambling country in the world,” says a critic. The marriage rate is evidently increasing. It has been suggested in England that horse-racing at night should be started.—l’ve found that most punters over here have been in the dark for a long time now.

In connection with the report that after five years’ retirement Harry Lauder has again taken up golf, an English paper denies the rumour that he has found his lost golf ball. * » • A swarm of bees held up a bovs’ cricket match at Christchurch for about five minutes last Saturday afternoon. The boys were stumped until the bees decided to move on.

Great interest will centre in the Rugby match between the Waratalis and Scotland, to be plaved at Murrayfield Ground, Edinburgh, next Saturday. It is about the finest Rugby football ground in Great Britain

Golf is said to have had a marked effect in promoting early rising during the past winter. At the height of the season a golfer has to be up at sunrise to be down at the office in time to leave.

When a man steps to the first tee he sheds his social importance, his financial rating and all prestige he may have acquired in minor activities. He mav l>e a power in the world of thought but a ioke to nis caddie. He is what his score card shows him to be, no matter how many zig-zavs he has on his sweater or how large may be the chequered squares on his imported hose.

For a player to be ordered off the field is not unusual, but for both a player and a linesman to receive marching orders is decidedly uncommon. However, this occurred in a recent Soccer match at Shildon. England. A centre-half was sent off lor an infringement, and when disagreement arose between the referee and a linesman regarding another decision the linesman was also ordered off-

In commenting, on Monday, on a first-oracle cricketer’s batting, the Christchurch “Sun” described him as a fireworks manufacturer. On tlie following mail he received a nnoket through the post which contained an anonymous gift of a packet ot crackers! Perhaps it was just as well that the cricket writer in hitting on a descriptive phrase, had not said that his bat was loaded with dynamite 1 » • •

France is out in search of Rugby records. Ten players were sent off the field by the referee at a recent Rugby match between two teams at Perpignan in the South of France. Local rivalry usually keen-edged on its own account, had been sharpened at Perpignan bv differences between the two clubs. A suggestion was made before the match that it should be played away from the town, as it was known that rival supporters were looking forward to a battle rather than to a match. They evidently got what thev were looking for.

A proud green committee chairman has annoyed his very good friend by showing him the splendid greens, and explained the method of topdressing. etc-, then took him into the clubhouse exhausted

The friend carefully dusted off a big leather chair in the lounge before sitting down.

“1 say,” said he. “You seem to run strong to this top-dressing stuff out at this club.”

Some people will steal anything. The professional sports authority lost 10 iron stakes on the afternoon of the day that they were nut down at English Park Stadium. The other day. as the trainer of a Canterbury amateur athletic team was driving to Lancaster Park. Christchurch, his eves opened so wide in astonishment that he almost strained his eyebrows. Past him went a motorist, who had one of the centre’s hurdles tied on to a side of his car. “Charlie” turned back and chased that motorist untile he caught him. Then he found that the man was simply taking th*' hurdle away to get a pattern from which to make new hurdles!