ALL SPORTS A Weekly Budget

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 21, 16 April 1927, Page 11

ALL SPORTS A Weekly Budget

Purdy sail. r^ u gjjy “breeze” in Waikato. All Black Johnson joins College c F \\\ averaged 192.50 in •Cliff” Porter is doubtful starter for South African Rugby tour. Knee trouble again. * Short distance fights under acid test in ~nd. What about 12 rounds next time? * 0 * The English Rugby Union is sending a team to the Argentine next June on a ‘ missionary” tour. If Purdy is still abroad next October his New Zealand light-weight title becomes forfeit. Let them light for it next time! # m * Varsity Athletic Championships Big day promised at Auckland Domain on Monday. New Zealand University amateur athletic championships will be decided. A doctor says that an athlete who can give up smoking can give up anything—except talking about it! Over 500 players took part in the opening practices of League Rugby in Sydney. * * * Noted English Rugby critic “generously” gives New Zealand two men in world Rugby team past and present, viz.. M. Brownlie and C. Seeling. South Africa got none Paddock Again Chart!# Paddock is set on getting pother trip to the Olympic Games. A or two ago the Californian flier turned in another 9 3-5 hundred. ♦ * * Harry Casey’s points victory over Lachie McDonald on the West Coast lust week suggests interesting possibilities in the depleted ranks of New Zealand pugilism. Oh! Girls. Evidently women’s hockey in Auckland is not exactly a parlour game. The annual report of A.L.H.A. has the following reference to last year’s play: it is the first season in which the Referees’ Association had to bring before the notice of some players the need for less rough play, a most regrettable complaint. * * * Tate in Form Of the 34 matches played by the Ii.C.C. team which toured India under the captaincy of Arthur Gilligan this year, 23 were unfinished and the remaining 11 were won by the Englishmen. Sarulham scored eight centuries oa the tour and Tate took 128 wickets it a cost of 13.36 per wicket—the highest of wickets and the best average on the side. Tate also •cored three centuries. m m m “Religious” Footballers It was a first-of-season football practice. The day was warm and the language warmer. To the little of spectators leaning over the fence, »uch choice expressions as “Lor’ blime,” "Stone the crows,” etc., came floating through the air. One bye•tander remarked to another that the bailers seemed fond of calling on the Deity. “Yes,” was the reply, “but, J see, these are religious young coves. They plays in a church competition.” Match Them Again! Giving away a stone in weight, Hurry Casey, the rugged Queensland boxer, defeated Lachie AlcDonulu, New ivaland champion, on points at WestJort last week. It was a rattling good Ifiht, but the decision in favour of Casey left the house sharply divided in opinions. Casey weighed in at l-'-tf and .McDonald at 11.6. It looks as if there might be something doing for toe enterprising association that suc***eds in matching this pair again. Wide’s Inferiority Complex of these champion athletes get tntertaining spasms at times. Edwin "fde, the distance runner, lias b;en talking about what he will do the next time he meets Nurmi. “I have lost my inferiority complex,” the Swede gratuitously declares in a recent interMew, “and I can beat Nurmi any time ive meet. Next summer I plan to meet \} m over niile route in Stockholm. •Maybe the world’s record will fall that afternoon.” Maybe it will and maybe u won’t, but there is a gentleman named PelUer who might like to talk business with Monsieur Wide when he las finished making Nurmi look like a second -rater. Badeley’s Reappearance v \.i. adeley "ill be the only seasoned aek in the Grammar Old Boys’ ranks "nil his return to Auckland Rugby will welcome because of the assistance ana? ®* ve to his younger colleagues, ria. so on acc ount of the sparkle and i Ve r^ ess which Badeley has infused arwui P* ay * n the past. During his on 11 Way from the game Badeley put „ f lot of weight, but his figure has wirk r f£. aine d the neat proportions dro whlc h Auckland Rugby followers m more familiar. Soccer’# Quick Start ihese Soccer men are early birds. •j_ r *®tch ur ch, club competitions are land in tuil swing, while in Auck- » round ball will be first off r * C amon S the winter sports, club | starting next Saturday. s**li 5 ** lin S it Greatest’Ever* t>rtT th f r witl > many others. I retard i i. Se ®**ng as the greatest forv “v. 1 have ever seen, and M. Browncame on enormously during the Sir.. A Bla °k tour, is his legitimate as as New Zealand is I d ' ~ F - J Seilicks. in London “Porting and Dramatic News.” or ® Tours ke was a pessimist wiio said sPorn bodies the world over had Zea’a in any case, New i »Sain £, lißht in thr throes of it Mil t\n* T 10 Lominion cricket team | Ihen n i° ut * n England next month; to a,, * *V ort order will follow visits : b> ; an XZ University t«a>» ‘ the Dominion hockey thi rr# L an< \ a n AIl-Maoriland League to South w e , Xt year ,he AU Blacks go j to i nd a team of athletes “ e o‘ympie Clames. U B To You. Girls!” * knd y L t f', e “hnual report of the AuckLadies Hockey Association; — It

is hoped that efforts will be made this coming year to try and secure the New Zealand Tournament for Auckland. It has been said that if Auckland should apply for the tournament, the application would be readily granted. We have the grounds and many facilities other centres who have held successful tournaments lack: it really rests with the players themselves to do the rest.” mm* Auckland Bowlers To Confer After Easter Auckland will be visited by a group of prominent South Auckland bowlers, with a view to drawing up conditions of play for an annual contest between the two centres. Mr. J. W. Hardley, president of the New Zealand Bowling Association, has donated a silver shield for competition. It is too late in the season for the competition to be played this year, but it is hoped that in future it will be on the permanent list of fixtures in the Auckland province. Such a contest as this should assist most mutually to cement the bonds of good fellowship between the two centres. * m m All Black to Wed Jimmy Mill, the All Black half, is to be married on Monday. The wedding will have quite a football flavour, as the best man and groomsman will be two of his comrades of the historic 1924 tour, N.P. McGregor and lan Harvey. Not many Rugby fans are perhaps aware that the quiet-spoken Hawke’s Bay player is one of the greatest humorists in the game. He proved a real “take-down” on the All Blacks’ tour of Britain, and those who made the trip to Sydney with Ted McKenzie’s side last year tell some entertaining stories of the irrepressible “Jimmy” and his much-appreciated efforts to enliven the dullness of travel. * * * History Recalled Mr. V. R. Meredith, sole selector for the Auckland Rugby representatives, believes that Vic Badeley was the best threequarter New Zealand has had in recent years, and that K. Ifwersen was a model team player. He recalls an incident of 1923, when Auckland met Taranaki. With Ifwersen outside him Cooke, at first five-eighth, had failed to shine, but when the positions were transposed the rearguard developed sparkling movements. From that day Cooke rose to heights of genius, but it was Ifwersen and Badeley who first showed him the way.