ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 115, 5 August 1927, Page 10

ALL SPORTS

A Weekly Budget

Sharkey was knocked skite high. • • • A proposal to amalgamate the Frothblowers and the Rechabites has fallen through. ♦ • * A sheep was reported recently to have swallowed a golf-ball. That explains a lot of cutlets. * * * Tall Scoring In a recent Association football match at ExhalJ, near Nuneaton, England, one side beat another by 18 goals to 1. One player kicked 13 goals, which surely must be a record in the Soccer code. * • * A remarkable picture of a woman tennis player was seen in a journal the other day. It shows the player with both feet on the ground I Only Wants 100 “Bill” Williamson, manager of the New Zealand hockey team in Australia, is an optimist. He said that he won’t be satisfied with the side unless it scores 100 goals on the tour. This means an average of over nine goals a match. That’s all! * * * An English newspaper, talking of A. W. Ross, fullback for the New South Wales Rugby team to tour England,

says that he was at the top of his form in 1895, when he played against the All Blacks. Must be something in this monkey-gland business! * * * Wanted, a Mussolini Discussing boxing in the Canterbury capital, the Christchurch “Sun” says: “What the Christchurch Sports Club wants is somebody of the Mussolini type.” Here’s a job for Stan Dean. * * * Wrestlers For Wellington An endeavour is being made to popularise wrestling in Wellington. A bout lias been arranged for August 22 between Ern Anderson and Joe Dufty, who wrestled here a few months ago. Anderson’s heavyweight title will be at stake. * * * “Mixing the Breed” “The trouble with English boxers is that the English marry the English, whereas in America different nationalities inter-marry, resulting in strength and stamina as with racehorses and bulldogs.” Thus Mickey Walker, U.S.A., world’s middleweight boxing champion, who defeated Milligan (Britain) a few weeks ago. * * * Canterbury’s Cricket Coach Taking a leaf out of Auckland’s book, Canterbury has appointed J. Newman, the Hampshire professional, as cricket coach for next season. If Newman proves satisfactory, he will get a four-

years’ engagement. Newman, who is 39 years of age, scored a thousand runs and took a hundred wickets in county cricket last year.

A Veteran Cyclist Phil O’Shea, famous veteran of New Zealand cycle tracks, will not compete in this year’s Timaru-Christchurch

road race. “Not on your life,” said O’Shea when he was asked about it the other day. “I’ve had a ride in one or two road races lately, but that was just for fun. It’s not worth while for me to train, as I would have to do now for the race. O’Shea, who raced with success at Bland-

ford Park last year, is now nearly 39 years of age, and has won the famous classic of New Zealand cycledom often enough to lose the thrill of achievement of more youthful riders. O’Shea, however, intends to continue to ride in track races next season, so it is possible Auckland followers of the wheeled sport may see him in action at Blandford Park this summer. “Going To The Dogs” LONDON, July 21. In the mechanical coursing at the White City, the dogs provided plenty of comedy. In the first race, which the Prince of Wales and Prince George witnessed, in the presence of 60,000 spectators, the hare was too fast, and the dogs never sighted it. In the second event, a hurdle race, the dogs sat and played on the track, but later the Princes jumped to their feet in their excitement. It was thrilling sport, they declared, and they were coming again. * * * Olympic Games Germany will be represented at the Olympic Games next 3 r ear for the first time since the war, and is reported to be getting together 400 men to cover all listed events. Britain expects to have 260 (including 100 for athletics). Other countries, as follows, aim at having large nominations: Italy 200, Finland 150, Brazil 150, Belgium 100, and Hungary 80. United States, of course, will be fully represented, and her numbers will be well over 300. * * * Hubert Ashton Married Hubert Ashton, Essex and Cambridge cricketer, has married Miss Dorothy Gaitskell, of Burma. The Ashton brotherhood, consisting of Hubert, Claude and Gilbert, have obtained many athletic honours. All three obtained blues at Cambridge for cricket, Association football and hockey, and they all play for Essex at cricket whenever they can. In 1921, Hubert scored a century against the Australians for Cambridge, and later in the season hit 75 against Gregory and Macdonald for Archie Maclaren’s team that inflicted the first defeat on Warwick Armstrong and his men.

Weight and Golf Bobby Jones, the world’s greatest golfer, weighs 12st. 121 b. Golf plays havoc with his weight, which he loses with incredible speed in big contests. In the last American Amateur Championship he dropped 181 b. in a week and on another occasion he dropped 121 b. in the three days the championship was in progress. * * * No Income Tax on Cricket Benefits The case of a cricket professional and a benefit match was argued with stately dignity in the House of Lords recently. The Lords reversed the finding of the Court of Appeal that a cricketer was liable for income tax on the proceeds of a benefit match, holding that they were in the nature of a personal gift or a testimonial, and not to be regarded as income. The cricketer was James Seymour, of Kent, who received £939 from a recent benefit. * * * Remodelling Golf Courses Dr. McKenzie, the well-known golf architect, on his tour through Australia and New Zealand, remodelled nineteen courses in Australia and several in New Zealand and California. Ho states that the geenral construction of Australian courses was too cramped and did not afford sufficient scope for the enterprising player. The fairways were too narrow, which cramped the style of players anxious to reach a high standard in the game. He made drastic alterations on every course he visited, and has as far as possible brought them up to the standard of English courses and therefore afforded scope to the match players to further improve their games. Women’s Cricket Although gaining little publicity, the Woman’s Cricket Association in England is steadily developing the game among girls, and this year many matches have been played. Formed in October, 1926, the association now lias over 300 playing members, and a Malvern Cricket Week for girls will begin on August 29 and conclude on September 3. The teams will stay at the Malvern Girls’ College, and the matches will be played on the college ground and the two grounds at Colwall. Many girls’ schools are now playing cricket matches regularly, and the association hopes to see a number of clubs formed in the near future. The last few years the standard of plav has greatly improved, and there are now several quite good women cricketers.

A CORRECTION

A N inappropriate Heading to an A article in Wednesday’s issue dealing with barracking at football matches in Auckland gave an altogether different meaning to what was intended. It was not barracking as a whole that was condemned, but unpleasant demonstrations against players and referees by a few irresponsibles in the crowd. Barracking has become part and parcel of modern sport, and little objection can be taken to it, except (as in cases previously quoted) where it exceeds the bounds of fairness and good taste. J. M. McK.