SPORTS GATHERINGS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 299, 12 August 1932, Page 2

SPORTS GATHERINGS

THE PLAYING FIELDS. NOTES FROM HERE ANL THERE. Family Record. Iln defeating Mrs. M. E. H. Ridgway at Koyon'gan recently in the most thrilling match ever seen in South 1 Australian women's golf, Miss Katherine Rymill, who is only 19 years old, added a crowning achi'evement to the remarkable record of her family in South Australian golf. Her feat gains for brother and sister dual golf titles in this State, as W. S. Rymill (23) defeated Ross Sawers in the final of the men's State championship at Seaton the week previous. Mrs. Herbert Rymill, their mother, back in 1913, won the same championship which her daughter captured. Trained at Sea. J. W. Savidan was the only athletic member of the New Zealand Olympic team who did any running on board ship during the voyage to San Francisco. The others found the deck too trying on their legs, and all their training comprised physical jerks and a good deal of fast walking to keep their legs in good condition. Miss Kench did most of her training with the athletes. Foubister did most of his work on the x'ollers and some rid'ing on deck when the weather suited. J. McDonald, one of the rowers, trained the team to do the Maori haka, and they are all excellent at it.

Tall Cricketer. Kenneth Farnes, the Essex amateur who has been awarded a place in England's Test criclcet trial, stands 6ft 4in in his socks. Farnes is a right hand fast-medium bowler of distinct promise. His batting, too, has recently shown an improvement without his losing any of his skill with the ball. As a freshman, Farnes gained his blue for Cambridge last year, but he did not enjoy much suceess against Oxford then. He was unable to'play against the New Zealand crieket team for either Essex or Cambridge, but he has been of much assistance in other games to ; both the county and his university. j A Record? : No less than ten players in the | various Wairarapa Rugby Union ; matches played last Saturday after- I noon were ordered off. In the senior j game, Dalefield versus Old Boys, play j became very willing. A Dalefield | player was ordered off, but the refe- ; ree later allowed him to return. Three Masterton and two Red Star players I were ordex*ed off in "the third grade fixture played at Rugby Park. In a fourth grade . match between Red Star and Masterton, played at Memorial Paxii, one Red Star and a Maste- I ton player were ordered off, while the referee in the Greytown versus Carterton fourth grade match, played at Carterton, ordered two players off. Death on Field. The sudden death of M. Lacroix, a Belgian football referee, at Brest, while oificiating at a football match between two Brittany teams, has had an unusual sequel. Ths window contends that her husband's death wras | due to the intense cold, and is demand- j ing that the football league to which the teams belong shall pay her damages. The league refused to pay all the expenses, including the cost of transporting the remains of M. Lacroix, to his home. The widow is to take the case to court. Remarkable Swimmer. Czecho-Slovakia has unearthed a remarkable 400 metres swimmer in R. Getrauer, who, at Prague, in a 83 1-3-metre pool, caused a stir by defeating Oliver Halassy, the oiXjelegged Hungarian and champion of Europe, in a 400-meti'e event in 5min 2 3-5sec. How good the time is may be gauged from the fact that Alberto Zorilla beat Chaxdton in the 1928 Olympic 440-metre race in 5nxin 1 3-5sec., an Olympic record. Plucky Player. Footballer's pluclc. Australian Rugby Union forward Bill Cerutti has it. There was a long pex-iod in the final Test match against the All Blacks when the sturdy front-rahher appeared to be lost. -~e wasn't, but his memox-y was. Bill lost interest in the game early in the paece when a terrific kick on the head laid him out. Twice after that the forward was carried to the side line for repairs, but he can't remember a thing about it. Ruefully rubbing an egg-sized lump on the back of his head after the game he admitted that when he was first hurt New Zealand had five points on the board. When he recovered his senses the tourists' score had mounted to 16. And yet Cerutti was in the thick of everything, nreanwhile! Motor-cycling Accident. In the Senior Tourist Trophy race in the Isle of Man, the New Zealand ridex1, H. W. Tolley, rnet with a serious accident. Tolley hit Laurel Bank on his third lap. The only damage at the time seemed a badly sprained ankle, and he was assisted on to his machine and pushed off, but at the pits he collapsed and was rushed to hospital. When his crash helmet'was removed blood came from his ears, but it was fortunately a bad graze and not concussion.