ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 97, 15 July 1927, Page 10

ALL SPORTS

A Weekly Budget

Fourth and last Soccer test at Carlaw Park next Saturday. * * • Both Charlie Purdy and Reg. Trowern are booked for fights in Australia to-morrow night. The Australasian cross-country championships will be run at Adelaide on August 6. World’s Boxing Title Jack Dempsey and Jack Sharkey are to fight next Thursday to decide the finalist to meet Gene Tunney for the world’s championship in September. The Czecho-Slovakian Soccer team is taking back with it from Australia two wallabies for presentation to the President of the Czech Republic. Just as well the Aussies didn’t think of kangaroos. £SOO To Nothing A North Island racing man. who either knew very little about cricket, or else was keen to help in the erection of the monster stand at Athletic Park, Wellington, offered to give £ 500 for that object, if the New Zealand cricketers won a match in England. Having lost, he has paid up like a sportsman. A Potty Game It must have been a curious fancy some years ago that led one G. Hubbard to see how many skittle-pins he could stick up and knock down in an hour—l,4lo was the number—somewhere in South Kensington; but it was not less a futile fancy than the sport known as “potty-gathering.” It was all that! A man undertook to run and pick up in a certain time 40, 50, or 100 stones —or potties—placed 100yds. apart, and it is surprising to know what distances had to be run. In picking up 100 stones, bringing each one back separately to the starting mark, a man had to run more than five miles and a-half. Baseballer’s £14,000 a Year One of these days they will be making “Babe” Ruth President of the United States. The famous baseballer has just signed a contract with the New York Americans for a three years’ engagement at £14,000 a year. Mr. Calvin Coolidge only gets five thousand dollars more than that, his salary being £15,000 a year. “Not Enough Devil” Pungent comment by an English boxing writer: “That the lowly place occupied by our men in the lists of the world’s best boxers is due not so much to their want of skill as to the lack of a rugged fighting spirit and too great a desire to preserve their good looks is a fairly general opinion among oldtimers. There is, in truth, too much pretty sparring and not enough devil and virility in present-day boxing. There is too much “refainement,” as my friend, Bohun Lynch, the boxing writer and noi-elist. calls it. It is not necessary to be a ‘tough’ to become a boxer of the Jim Driscoll or Joe Bowker standard, but it is necessary that a fighter should think less about preserving the contour of his nose and ears than about winning the fight.” * * * Dempsey The Fighter A typically Yankee pen picture of the ex-world’s champion. Jack Dempsey’s, fighting heart —and why: “In the first place, let’s take a look at them two babies up there in the ring tonight. That background stuff’ll explain what I’m chirpin’. Jack Dempsey has got the fightingest heart of any pug that ever lived. He’s got that rare thing—the real love of fighting. Moreover. he’s a product of the underworld. Maybe that don’t mean much to you, but I’ll tell you what it does mean. To get by in the underworld —the world of gamblers, liopheads. wineos. burglars, dips, ex-convicts, stick-ups, women-beaters. white-slavers, snowbirds, crooks of all sorts—a man's gotta be tough. He can’t have no principles or conscience. He can’t have none of them sucker traits that sets the other world apart from the underworld. He’s got to be rough and tough, ready to go—and able to go. He’s gotta be full of mayhem for any bird who crosses him, whether it’s a copper, a squealer, or some dude tryin* to steal his bread or monkey with his graft; and he must be a winner. He mustn’t lose. If a wolf loses, the pack’s the first to turn round on him and eat him up. It’s the way in the underworld.”

M. A. Noble, the great Australia* ternational cricketer, has SSt*® !c----his brass plate as a dentist started in business in Sytacv ** manufacturers’ agent. * ** a ; « « m Baseball looks like really on in London. The Sunday aft—i? s games at Stamford Bridge are T" x ' ing good crowds, who show aim™ much enthusiasm as the *■ any of the big grounds in the Stai. Takes a Fall A 1 Karasiek. the Russian wr..., collapsed after a Turkish hath * ’ lowed by a cold shower, in Meibom* ~ i

“THE GOACM wind up the Soccer season two village teams—very hot rivals—played a final and decidino match. The innkeeper of one vil. lage having made a few bets on hi t side promised a gallon of beer to the team for every goal scored The owner of a pub in the other village, hearing of this inducement, offered a similar bait to his team. In due course the match was alayed and resulted in a draw, 31—31.

* * * * * * * * *****fiWflg the other day, and was removed to hospital. Although his condition nex. morning was reported to be much im. proved, the doctors declare Ih£t th, wrestler’s health calls for very careM treatment. A Trophy Wanted There is no shield or trophy of an? sort attached to the teams’ title in th? New Zealand cross-country championship, although individual members of the winning team receive a medal each. It was suggested at the dinner givei after the big race last Saturday tha; a challenge trophy would help th? sport along. It is a good idea. Tht only trouble is to find a donor. Some Walk! One De Roux and his wife, who are Walking round the world pushing their belongings in a wheelbarrow, have already worn out seven pairs of boots, 22 pairs of half-soles, and two score pairs of heels. They will do better when they get on our Auckland roads, that is if the wheelbarrow doesn't get bogged down in the King Coun* tr *- Biff! Fists flew in two exciting interlude in an Australian Rules match between Eastern Suburbs and Newtown at the Erskinsville Oval, Sydney, and at on. stage 10 players were fighting hammer and tongs. Just before the end of tie first quarter an Eastern Suburbs player struck a Newtown man, and immediately there was a tense scene in from of the pavilion. Five players from each side joined in the melee, but the cen-

tral umpire interfered. The bumliM and hustling, however, continued nth throughout the game, and in «« “ quarter, with only a minute to R . - Newtown player, who was nve .< behind an Eastern Suburbs man, « was running with the ball, was ch? 1 * by an opponent. The two forgot.the game and fought fiercely until tral umpire separated them. .' was ordered off!