ALL SPORTS A Weekly Budget

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 April 1927, Page 12

ALL SPORTS A Weekly Budget

Maori footballer, Haupapa, expected to play for Ponsonby this season. Dominion wrestling championship at Auckland Town Hall on Tuesday night. New Zealand Hockey Association has received an invitation to send a team to the Olympic games next year. Has Not Retired Yet All Black Cooke has not retired yet at any rate. He played in a benefit match at Wellington last week. * * * Eight soccer cup ties in England on a recent Saturday drew 325,000 spectators, who paid £23,765 for admission.

League Team May Tour Advice has been received in Sydney to the effect that there is every prospect of an English League team visiting Australia and New Zealand next year.

Wants To Go Back It is understood that when R. A. Rose went Home last year, the trip cost him several hundred pounds of his own money. Rose wants to go back again to show them that his European form running was all wrong. Judging by the way he has been cracking records lately, the Wairarapa man may get his chance next year at the Olympic games. Why Make a Fuss? “Your committee would strongly urge that a pressing invitation be sent to the International Board to allow a British team to tour New Zealand and Australia in 1929,” says the annual report of the New Zealand Rugby Union. Such a proposal looks very much like inviting a rebuff. If Britain wants to send a team to the Antipodes well and good, but worded as it is, the proposed invitation may easily make New Zealand look a little foolish. * * * “Arms Like Trees” Among the Otago University athletes in Auckland over Easter was D. Lindsay, a swarthy youth of astonishing size. “His arms are like trees,” observed an onlooker, when Lindsay was causally tossing a 161 b. shot about the Domain. And if his arms are like trees then his massive calves defy the production of a simile. In spite of his size the young man displays agility on the Rugby field, and as Otago University’s fullback is said to be quite the equal of his All Black predecessor, D. R. L. Stephenson.

Played 30 Out of 34 Games The young man who is looking out on to this page is J. Herring, Athletic Club and New Zealand League representative, who has figured in a lot of

arguments of late. It is all about the question of who played the most matches on the League team’s tour of England. A glance at the records shows that Herring gets the honour 34 games played in the Old Country. It is not a bad record

for a forward, and a front row man at that. There is a similarity in the fact that Bill Irvine, the rugged All Black hooker, played in 27 out of 30 matches on the New Zealand Rugby Union tour of Britain and England in 1924.

The first big Rugby game this year is the annual Hawke’s Bay-Wairarapa match on June 3.

A lecturer said the other day that girls were not good gamblers. Nevertheless they seem to enjoy having a little on. A total of £60,000 was taken at the five cricket tests in England last year. The counties and clubs divided £30,000 between them. * * * Helen Wills, the tennis star, draws cartoons and writes verse. Suzanne Lenglen is evidently determined not to be left out of the picture—she has written a book. Former Champion

The benevolent features behind these horn rims belong to C. S. Thomas, a Christchurch solicitor, and for long one of the finest quarter-milers in New Zealand. Running for Canterbury College, he collected the varsity championship for the 440yds. in 1911, but it was not the university tournament that brought

him to Auckland last week. Before the war “Charlie” Thomas wore the New Zealand colours at an Empire athletic meeting at the Crystal Palace, and now he is the legal guide and counsellor of those who shape the destinies of Canterbury athletics. Broadcasting and “Gates” The Auckland Rugby Union has decided to allow the broadcasting of football matches from Eden Park. But in Sydney, sporting club secretaries are complaining that wireless sets are affecting their attendances. A new golf club is projected, the entrance fee to which will be £SOO and the annual subscription £IOO. It is believed that whenever a member accomplishes a hole in one he will toss his caddie a couple of Rolls-Royces. Worker’s Failure R. V. de R. Worker was one of last cricket season’s surprise failures. If he had maintained the form which got him into the New Zealand team the summer before he would have been certain of a trip to England. But he failed completely, and could do nothing right. Worker, who is a master at Napier Boys’ High School, is not a polished' batsman, but he is a sportsman to the core.

Rugby and League “All Black” V. A. Carroll, out for life from both Rugby and League, according to the edicts of the controlling bodies, will now have to find some other pastime to give him the excitement he craves. A Manawatu and New Zealand Rugby representative, Carroll was a useful hooker, but in the Manawatu district was regarded as a stormy petrel. The writer’s personal acquaintance with the fiery-headed forward goes back eight years. A genial fellow off the field, Carroll was a terror on it, and opposition front-rankers were liable to have a hectic time.