ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 55, 27 May 1927, Page 6

ALL SPORTS

A Weekly Budget

South Africa is sending a Soccer team to England next year. * * * Widespread dissatisfaction with control of New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. * * * New Zealand cricketers meet Sussex (E. H. Bowley’s county), at Hove tomorrow. * * * Front-rankers who block ball going in scrum are still a nuisance in League football. Aucklander Reg Trowern has been matched against Billy Chambers at Leichardt Stadium, New South Wales, on June 3. * * * Judged by recent “carpetings,” Auckland has a fine lot of footbrawlers. * * * Frank Glasgow, of 1905 All Black fame, is the new president of the KingCountry Rugby Union. * * * Shades of Deerfoot Jose Torres, American Indian, ran 51 miles in 6hr 46min 41sec at Kansas City last month—a “dinkum” world’s record. * * * The Swedish Government has granted 350,000 kroner, about £IB,OOO, toward Sweden’s participation in next year’s Olympic Games. * * * Where Firpo Comes From The heat of the sun is blamed for the temper of spectators of an Argentine cup-tie, whose riotous conduct is described as having put British cuptie scenes in the shade. The obvious remedy is to put Argentine cup-tie spectators in the shade.—London “Punch.” * * * A Rugby Kaleidoscope The man who was struck pink has nothing on the Harlequins Rugby Club in England. Its jerseys are in small squares of light blue, chocolate, French grey, magenta, light grsen and black. * * * When the Cows Come In The Wairapara Hockey Association has sent in a challenge to the New Zealand Hockey Association for the Nordon Cup, competed for by the minor associations. The cup is held at present by the Wairoa Association. The Wairarapa authorities want the match to be played off before the cows come into milk, as most of the players are farmers. This means that the game will be played late in July. * sje * Athletes to Tour The Council of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association has adopted a suggestion sent to it by the Canterbury centre, and has decided to ask the Australian Amateur? Athletic Association to forward a list of the names of athletes who would be prepared to do a short tour of New Zealand after the Australasian championships. The Canterbury suggestion was that a tour be arranged of athletes accompanied by a cyclist. With the aid of the publicity that will be given to the visitors by their competition in the big championships, a tour should be a big success. * * * Oldfield’s Tourists On the way to Singapore, the Australian cricket team, which W. A. Oldfield is taking to the Malay States, dropped in at Darwin, and played a game against the “locals.” The tourists won handsomely. Darwin, batting 15 men, made 52, and Oldfield’s side 262 (Bardley 56, Woodful 30, Andrews 29, Macartney 27, Mayne 22 and Oldfield 21). Macartney took six wickets and Everett four. Darwin batted 15 and fielded 11, which the Australian Board of Control on a point of law, has determined to be incorrect.

“The Glass of Fashion . . . ’ Willie Shortlands, the sturdy little Maori halfback, who is ‘looked on as Jimmy Mill’s successor in Hawke’s Bay, has blossomed out in Napier as a model of fashion. He arrived at the football ground the other Saturday, set off in Oxford bags, double-breasted coat, spats even!—and crowning glory, a pair of liorn-rimmed spectacles! * * * That Smaller Ball The London “Daily Mail” says of the dominance of batsmen in England: “Remembering that the smaller ball was intended to assist the bowler, it is ironical that 39 centuries have been compiled in six days this season. The recent billiard-table wickets are partly responsible, but the older critics say the real reason is the dearth of bowlers.” The older critics are right.

Is It Sport? A Sydney “Bulletin” paragraph hits out against coursing:—“The hare is only a moderately fast animal. The greyhound is probably the fleetest thing that runs. From a still start these rangy fliers can get over two furlongs inside 20 seconds. Thus the ‘sport’ of coursing is a deadly game for the hare. She has to watch two pursuers, each of them faster and each as merciless as the strike of a snake. Let her work her lightning-flicker shift (her only defence) a fleeting instant too soon and she is snapped “on the cross.” That same instant too late, and her epitaph appears on a menu-card. She never has time to think. Should the melee of a turn mean that the best thing to do next is to dash back between two snapping rows of dentistry, ‘puss’ is already through; this happened at Liverpool, New South Wales, a week or two ago. Sooner or later the unfortunate trapped animal is dragged down and slaughtered. If this were in the interests of tucker it would be a cruel way of obtaining it. As a means of enriching bookmakers, it is just a relic of barbarism.”

New Zealand Hockey Tourney The New Zealand University hockey tourney will be held in Christchurch on June 2, 3 and 4. Teams will come from Auckland, Wellington and Otago. The New Zealand University hockey representative team will play Canterbury on June 4. If the New Zealand University authorities want a good man to do the selecting of their team to play the province, they need look no further than George Strack, of Christ’s College, who is an ex-Wellington and North Island representative. He was a great centre when Wellington was a power in the hockey world.

A NEW JACK JOHNSON!

Jack Johnson, the former world’s heavy-weight champion, is now a promoter in Chicago, and his protege is Jack Mengan, of Des Moines, lowa.

Mengan, who is only 18, was formerly a farmer. He is to fight under the name of Jack Johnson, and the old champion regards his protege as a real heavy-weight hope.

Mr. A. J. Parker, the well-known Auckland bowler, who has for some years past taken a private party of r Auckland bowlers to Australia foro the winter season, is contemplating taking a rink team to Canada. As we have not heard much of bowling in that far-away sister Dominion, this trip will present wide interest and even curiosity of the conditions under which the game is played there. Mr. Parker is to be congratulated on the enthusiasm to the game which justifies his taking such a trip.