ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 245, 6 January 1928, Page 10

ALL SPORTS

A Weekly Budget

Our flappers’ bathing suits suit most people. Motto of beach pirate: Sheik and ye shall find. Unanswered query: “Who’s this athlete, de Cathlon?” * • * A beach soliloquy: One touch of summer makes the whole world skin. Excessive surfing covers the skin with pimples, says the Australian Health Association. Such a rash statement. Insured Against Rain After insuring against 10 points of rain, Newcastle Jockey Club missed the money by a single point. A case where nine points is not possession. A poem has just been written on greyhound racing. That is the only serious attack on the sport to date. A Rugby Revue Some chorus girls in England have expressed their intention of forming a Rugby football team. Well, there should be some dazzling threequarter backs at any rate. * * * Germany’s Sports Boom There are over a million football players in Germany The Association football test between Germany and Holland at Cologne this season was Witnessed by 57,000 people, but the record for a big game in Germany is held by Berlin, which has touched 60,000.

t That Was All! The decline of wrestling, was being 5 discussed in a club the other day when one of the speakers told this . amusing story of Gotch. the undefeated English champion. One day when Gotcli was working on his farm a hefty E neighbour rode up on his horse and challenged Gotch to an impromptu match. Gotch eyed the fellow, then, i with a sudden dexterous move, he l seized his rival and tossed him over ■ the hedge. His would-be assailant rose and. dusting his clothes, eyed the champion thoughtfully, “Well,” said Gotch amiably, “is there anything else t you want?” “Yes,” replied the other l fellow meekly, “you might chuck over i Any horse, will you?” Where, Oh Where? Neville Cardus writes of H. Larwood and English bowling: “Larwood can be counted, of course, as one of the richest gains to English cricket since the war. Would that Nature had made him taller! With a few ! more inches, he might to-day be the ■ best fast bowler since Tom Richardson. Larwood attacks the stumps and possesses a real breakback. But, let us bear in mind, Australia has smashed the stamina of every fast bowler we ■ have ever sent there. Even Richardson, with his heart of a lion, had his back broken on Australian grounds. The need of English cricket at the present time is a strong, tireless medium-paced bowler who can spin the ball. Is there such a cricketer extant in all the land to-day?”