SUNDRY SPORTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 33, 7 February 1913, Page 3

SUNDRY SPORTS.

TENNIS. WILDING AND THE DAVIS CUP. Sydney, February 5. The Tennis Association has-'not received a reply as to whether Wilding will play in the Davis Cup. The Eng- , lish weekly, The Field, state® that : Wilding is arranging to participate. ! A surprise was sprung on the rnein- | bers of the British team at the fure- ; well smoke concert tendered to them in Melbourne, when they were presented with four solid silver kangaroos, mounted on pedestals l of Australian blackwood. The presentation was ; made by Mr O’Hara Wood on behalf of 250 Victorian players who had ®ub- j | scribed to the gift. It was, he said, i I a voluntary offering by a number of | ! appreciative supporters in Victoria to j the four keen and victorious players of j a clean game. FOOTBALL. ; THE THREE RUGBY GIANTS. Perth, February 6. Mr Hill, secretary of the New South Wales Rugby Union, has returned 1 from England and America. He con-j I skier® that there is little to choose | j between the South Africans,) Austin- j j liaus, and New Zealander® in their football. He attributes the victors of the South Africans oyer Wales to splendid goal-kicking rather than marked superiority. The groundplay of the amateur game in England was never of so high a standard and there have never been bigger attendances, which were the results of the j visits of the ‘colo’hialis. SWIMMING. | TH E AMATEUR ( HAMPIONSHI PS. i Wanganui, February 5. The New Zealand amateur championships were continued this evening | in fine weather. There was another I large attendance of the public. The! following are the results of the chain- j pion events; 220yds Breast Stroke Championship. Atkinson won in fine style by about 26 yards from Neal. Time, 3min 6sec. Atkinson beating his own world’s record by five and two-fifth seconds. 880yds Championship. Champion finished well, and won by about nine yards, with Seymour some fifteen yard® away third. Time, 12min 15sec., beating the record by 2 l-ssec. 12min 23 l-ssec was Welson’s time, while Seymour covered the journey in 12min j 30 4-osec, The finishers all beat the; standard time.