ALL SPORTS A Weekly Budget

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 31, 29 April 1927, Page 6

ALL SPORTS A Weekly Budget

Auckland League “All Blacks” v. Auckland to-morrow. * * * Dominion soccer delegates in conference at Wellington. * * * This last bout of weather has caused surfers to throw in the towel. * * * Australasia Waterloo Cup, premier event of dogdom, will be held at Christchurch this year. * * * There is some talk of getting Tex Rickard to go over to China to put the different bouts on a professional basis. * * * SUN’S Football Competition Watch for THE SUN’S great football competition. A £lO prize will be offered each week. Coupon and conditions will appear in to-morrow’s issue. * * * It is suggested in the annual report of the New Zealand Rugby Union that the Maori team which recently toured Britain and France should be sent on a “missionary” tour among the minor unions this year. Shades of Samuel Marsdenl * * * Big Rugby Year Ahead With 138 teams in all grades to cater for, the Auckland Rugby Union will want every available ground and referee when all the grades are going next week. Looks like being a Rugby boom year. * * * Cricketer - Footballers There are no All Blacks in the New Zealand cricket team, but either Charlie Oliver, who is depicted here, or Merritt may later claim that distinction. Mark Nicholl? and T. E. Nicholl.*are two wellknown footballers who have performed well between the wickets, and Mill, as a cricketer, was in a Poverty Bay team which won the Hawke Cup. * * There’s Money In It When Joe Kirkwood, the Australian golfer, toured New Zealand a few years ago, he had a remarkable number of trick shots and sleight-of-hand in his repertoire. Joe is now turning his little bag of tricks into good hard cash in Uncle Sam’s currency—he draws £4OO a week on Keith’s vaudeville circuit in the United States for a special act. * * * Versatile All Black Jimmy Mill, who was married at Easter, intends henceforth to remain on his father’s farm at Tolaga Bay, and .the Hawke’s Bay team will probably’ know him no more. Mill was educated at Napier Boys’ High Schol and Nelson College. As a boxer, tennis player, cricketer, and fives expert, he was naturally gifted with wonderful neatness and precision, and the quickness born of a nimble brain and alert eye characterised everything he did on the playing field^ Taranaki’s Advance Taranaki will be a hard-hitter next time the dairy province goes for the Ranfurly Shield—that is, if last year’s form is any criterion. The Taranaki team last year put up some great performances, and the backs played like clockwork behind /the forwards, who fired their attacks with plenty of sting. Many of the old brigade have dropped out of Taranaki football, but Brown and Johnstone, two fairly recent All Blacks, are celebrities still on the job. * * * The Old Brigade The absence of West, Fogarty, Kissick and others known to Rugby fame, removes from the roll of Taranaki’s Rugby players a number of wellknown stars. West, when last seen by the writer, was toiling on a backblocks farm in his home province. He suffered severe damage on the All Black tour of 1924-25, but was always such a durable citizen that his return to the limelight at any time would not be surprising. * * * In His Bath Tub! One of the world’s greatest swimmers drowned in his bath? Not quite, but very near it. After his great swim in the Catalina Channel, Norman Ross thought to' thaw himself out with a hot bath before going to bed. Dog-tired as he was, Ross dozed off, and when his trainer, attracted to the bathroom by gurgling noises from within, entered the room, he discovered the giant swimmer with his head under water rapidly passing out of the picture.

THE SUN’S big- football competition will start in to-morrow night’s issue, a £lO prize being offered each week. * * * Lasting 30 days or more, a gigantic race meeting will start at Reno, U.S.A., toward the end of June. By the time it’s all over, some of the punters won’t even have a shirt to back their fancy with. Table Tennis The annual meeting of the Auckland Table Tennis Association will be held at the Y.W.C.A. on Monday night. A handicap tournament will be held in conjunction with the meeting, and will be continued on the next evening, if necessary. Entries must be forwarded to the secretary, Miss J. E. Ramsay, by noon on Saturday. * * * McKnight Follows Purdy Another Auckland boxer has been smitten by the wanderlust, and is off to seek his fortune in other lands. It is none other than Nelson McKnight, the Cambridge welter-weight, who packed his bag last week and set off for Sydney, where he will join up with Charlie Purdy and Pat Connors, the former’s indefatigable trainer. Apart from possessing a useful pair of hands in the ring, McKnight can handle a set of plumbing tools just as readily as he can a pair of boxing gloves, and between the two the popular Aucklander should find no great difficulty in keeping things going across the Tasman until he feels like returning to the land of the Maori. * * * Too Big a Hurdle Lachie McDonald evened things up on Harry Casey at Westport the other night, when he secured an unassailI able points decision after 15 rounds of heavy slogging, which gladdened the hearts of the Coasters. Casey was handicapped by an injured hand, an old injury cracking up midway through the bout, but up to that stage McDonald was well ahead. The plucky Bananalander gave away 151 b weight was 10.6—which shows what a solid customer Harry is in any company. “Jammy” Collects his Mail Salvino Jamito is a much travelled young man, and he knows his way about. Behold then, the popular little coloured fighter walking out of the Auckland G.P.O. one day this week, 1 with a perspiring young man in hot j pursuit. Said p.y.m. overtook Jamito in Queen Street, and shot out his hand. “Jammy” replied with a straight right, and But it wasn't a fight at all. Jammy simply collected the mail for which he had got tired of waiting, and with a sunny smile of thanks to the postal Mercury, ambled off up the street with Stan Wells. * * * Elvy For Manawatu Manawatu Rugby will start off the season well by the acquisition of W. Elvy, the mercurial Canterbury threequarter, who has been transferred to Foxton. Elvy, a great-hearted little sportsman, is a railway servant, an All Black, a crack boxer, and an allround good fellow. To see him hopping nimbly down the touchline is to realise the supreme possibilities of the elusive winger’s art. Canterbury’s loss is Manawatu’s gain. * * * Canterbury’s Rugby Strength Canterbury will next season be without Oliver, another fine threequarter, but happily the Southerners have plenty of backs to call upon, while the Red and Blacks have had two notable accessions to their ranks in “Son” j White and G. Alley, two All Black forwards from Southland. The Plains province has been consistently unlucky in its Ranfurly Shield efforts, as the following results show: —1923, lost, 9-8; 1925, lost, 22-18; 1926, lost, 17-15. Hendry Goes Into Business That much travelled cricketer, H. L. Hendry, is to settle down in business life in Melbourne. On his return to Victoria after the New Zealand tour, Hendry severed his connection with the Melbourne Cricket Club to take over a department in a well-known Melbourne firm The appointment, it is stated, will not inteiVfere with his cricket. Although he was unable to reach the Dominion in time to play in Auckland on the Melbourne Club’s recent tour, Hendry joined up with his comrades later on the trip. Besides being a tower of strength to the visitors, “Stork,” as he is known to his friends, was the life and soul of the the party. On the tour of Maoriland “Stork’s” long suit was billiard bowls, a game at which the lofty Victorian was never tired of exercising his skill.