Flashes From Fields Of Sport Abroad

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 286, 28 July 1932, Page 2

Flashes From Fields Of Sport Abroad

S. J. McCabe, the young Austl-alian Eleven player who is a member of Arthur Mailey's touring ericket tcam in Canada, liit so hard in his innings against the Cowichan Club at Vancoqver that he brolte a woman's leg. The woroan was a playcr's wife who fried to save her child from being hit by the ball. x x x Doust's Tribute To Vines. The opinion of Stanley Doust, endorsed by other British writers on lawn tennis, that Ellsworth Vines, America's champion, who had spch an easy win over H. W. Austin in the final of the singles at Wimbledon, a £e\v days ago, is the greatest player in the history of lawn tennis, is peculiarly interesting. Doust, an Australian who has lived in England for many" years, was a fine player in his day, contemporaneous with A. F. Wilding, Norma n Brookes.

Maurice McLoughlin, and many other great players, and he has seen all the great players of later days. So he knows his subject. Moreover, Doust is npt given to fulsome adulatioh, and with his experience, and especialiy his first-hand knowledge of great players whose court speed and skill were so notable, his opinion must carry great weight. It is clear that the 21-year-old Vines is more adaptable than some critics thought earlier, and that he has greatly improved his play on grass, becoining a wonderful player on botli hard court s and grass. It is to be noted, too, that Vines had the harder sicle of the draw at Wimbledon than Austin had. xxx A famous English swimmcr of over a quarter of a century ago died in Manchester recently. He was J? H. Tyers. who had won English swimming championships at all distances, and who held the 100 yards and 220 vai'ds titles for six successive years, from 1892. Tyers was 55 years of age at the time of his death. xxx Eleven Wickets In An Innings. The feat of taking all 10 wickets in an innings in cricket is rare enough, but that of taking 11 wickets in an innings? The annual match betweeu George Wat son's College, Edinburgh, and the Wat sonians (former pupils of the college i is a 12-a-side game. In this year's match, playcd a few vvceks ago, J K. Lanrence, a leg-break bowler with an occasional googly, who left the college only last year, took the 11 wickets in the college's first innings, at a cost of 52 runs. As the college has 32 cricket teams playing every Saturday, it should i be able to field quite a fair first eleven ; | so Laurence's was quite a commendable performance. * * * "No matter where 1 have been or what I have seen, this was the liardest and toughest game of football in my memory," writes Claude Corhett, in the Sydney "Sun," about the secon-1 League Rugby Test between England and Australia, played in Brisbane and won by Australia by 15 points to six. "There were periods when it was so fierce that it did not seem possihle for flesh and blood to stand up to it — and in cases it didn't."

In two different B grade hockey matches in Sydney, a few days ago, two players performed the remarkable. feat of scoring nine goals eacli. * * "X* There was an unfortunate tcrmination to a brilliant century which A. Melville, Oxford University's cricket captain, made against the Free Foresters — a first-class team— a few weeks ago. When he had scored 113 runs Melville collided, in going for a short run, with his partner at the time, P. G. van der Bijl, a South African who is a very tall and big man of some prowess as a heqvyweight boxer. Melville's collarbone was fractured. xxx The international Rugby Board. From requests for information on the point which have reached us, it seems that there is some little confusion among Rugby football entlinsiasts in the Dominion about the constitution of the International Rugby Board, and especialiy about the position of France in relation thereto. The board is international only in name. It consists of 10 members, four of which are appointed hy the Rugby Union of England and two each by the Rugby unions of Scotland, Ireland and Wales. The fact that France is debarred, for the time being, from matches with the British and Irish unions does not affect the position, for France has never had a representative on this board. England has four representatives, instead of two, because the unions of South Africa, New Zealand, and New South Waies are affiliated with the Rugby Union of England and are represented on the English Union's General Committee. But not one of the three representatives of the overseas unions on that committee is a member of the International Board. The chairman of the board, who has a casting vote, is appointed at each meeting, in regular rotation from the different unions, in the order of seniority indicated above. Herman Brix, of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, is reported to have broken the world's record for putting the 161b shot, at an interclub meet in California. Brix tossed the shot 52ft 8 5-8in, and if the throw was quite in order that will replace the old record, which was 52ft 7§in, established by E. Hirschfield. of Germany, in 1928. Occasionally in the past couple of seasons F. J. Durston, tall Middlesex professional cricketer, who was once an English "hope" as a fast-medium bowler, and who has played for England, bowled at no more than medium pace. But with the current season Durston has definitely changed his style of bowling. He realised that his power as a fastish bowler was waning, and so he cultivated the art of bowling slowmedium off-spinners of good length, chiefly from round the wicket. It is with such bowling that he has been making good "bags" this year. xxx A Teirais Family. Mrs Randolph Lycett and H. W. Austin, who were beaten by C. E. Malfroy and Mary Heeley in the second round of the mixed doubles at Wimbledon, are sister and brother. hnt this tournament at Wimbledon was the first tournament in which tliey had ever played together. Mrs Lycett was Joan Austin hefore she married RandoJph Lycett. who played for Australia in Davis Cuj) tennis hefore the war and for Great Britain after the war. Randolph Lycett has been a doubles champion at Wimbledon, and. with Elizaheth Ryan, a mixed doubles champion. but his wife has never won a cliampionship there, although s.he reached the final of the women's doubles in 1923. x » Jean Taris, famous Frenc'i swimmer, has broken yet another world's record. At Cannes, recently, he swam 80') metres, frce stvle. in 10.15. The old record was 10.19, set up by J. Jarvis at Paris in 1930. xxx "The German, Max Schmcling, was robbed of the title by honest incompetence, by prejudice, or something else more sinister," says the "Cliicago Tribune," in its rcport of the SharkeySchmeling fight. this extract having been cahled to Australia. The "Tribune" also declares that Sharkev. rcalising he was beaten, fought th.e last round with reckless dcsperation.

A Polish girl, named Weiss, recently brolte the world's discus-throwing re'cord for women tvi'ice in two days. On the first day she broke her own world's record of 39.76 metres by throwing the discus 40.345 metres, and on the next day she made a throw of 40.39 metres. x x x P. G. H. Fender, the deposed captain of the Surrey cricket eleven, is now playing chiefly in club cricket in London, with an occasional appearance in Surrey's second eleven, in the minor county competition. ■3£ %r *57 Ihe referee of a hockey mateh in Sydney recently got into a curious dilemma. When he tried to blow for some flagrant off-side play, he put the wliistle into his mouth in such a way that a vacuum formed inside the whistlc and he had to seek assistance ip detaching the wliistle from his tongue. That's a danger that some referees could well hear in mind I xxx ^ Rugby Union Represemiation. Now that the question of New Zealand's Rugby relation ship with England is again under discussion, it is well that the exact extent of the Dominion's voice in Imperial control of the game be realised. No union outside Great Britain and Ireland has any part in the International Rugby Board. The unions of New Zealand, New South Wales, and South Africa have one representative each on the committee of the Rugby Union of England. New Zealand's representation is on that committee equal to that of an English county, or of the Royal Navy, or the Army, or the Royal Air Force, or of Oxford University or Cambridge. The "alfairs of the Rugby Union of England are managed by a president, two vicepresidents, the existing past presidents (now 10 in number), an hon. treasurer, and 32 committeemen, the representatives of the three Dominions unions named being among the 32 ordinary members of the committee. So New Zealand has just the same representation on the English Union as, say, Northumherland — and that is one fortysixth part of tha whole. Put it in another way: There are on the English Union's Committee, with the officerg, 43 British representatives against the three representatives of Dominions unions. x x x Betty Nuthall. famous English lawn tennis player, celehrated her twentyfirst birthday a few weeks ago. It Was quite a good celebration, too, for on that day she received £100 from her mother, in fulfilment of a promise that she would be given that sum- if shp did not smoke before she was 21 years of age. x x x Ralph Metcalfe, negro sprinter, of Marquette University, U.S.A., was thned to run 220 yards in 0.20 2-5 at an athletic contest hetween several universities, in Chicago, a few weeks ago. The accepted world's record for the distance is 0.20 3-5, put up by Roland Locke CU.S.A.) in 1926. X X X "There seeins to be an enormous number of birds about to-day," said the* Saturday afternoon golfer to his caddie. "Yessir," replicd the boy wearily. "1 expec' they're follering us to pick up Ihe worms." ■Jr ^ ^ Because of Jack of funds, South Africa has decided to send only nine competitors to the Olympic Games at Los Angeles. # vc* Ihe final matdh for the Herefordshire Senior Cup, in Association football, took seven hours and 40 minutes of strenuous football without a decision being reached. It was played four times, with extra time, to a draw on each occasion. Then the battle was abandoned, and the two clubs concerned will hold the trophy jointly. ■?r *5c* 4f Lord Burghley has been appointed captain of the English athletic teams in this year's international matches and I of the British athletic team at the | Olympic Games. xxx Dissent from the oflicial verdict, combined with knowledge of the fact that Jnck Sharkcy stood high in favour with the "nabohs" o'f boxing in New York, bas caused that American heavyweight's fight with Schmeling last week to he surrour.ded by an unplegsant aroma. Sharkey-Schmeling,%jn-dced 1