ATT. SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 257, 20 January 1928, Page 10

ATT. SPORTS

Canterbury beat Auckland by 11 runs. A good eleven. At recent sales in England three dogs were sold for 150 guineas each. * * * Tin rats are the latest in the sporting world. We’ll soon be getting down to tin tacks. \-* • • A Milford resident claims that he has never missed the surf one morning, wet or fine, this season. A dip-so-. maniac. To-morrow will be red-leter day for the Akarana Yacht Club. It is their big cup day, and races have been arranged for yachts, launches and outboard motors. An 88,000 crowd witnessed the annual football match between Stanford and California, the two leading University teams on the West Coast of the United States, last month. * * * Breezy A man named Breese knocked up 155 not out in a suburban cricket match last week, and did it rather briskly, too. Will he be decorated with the order of the “Grand Hurricane?” Cycles and Weather It is said that dry weather seasons come in cycles. Whew! the present one must have come in a charabanc. Let us hope for a puncture v and a return to the single-passenger cycle. Champagne and Cycling Opperman’s (the Australian) chance in the 3,000-odd miles race in France should be good, but he will need to avoid a mistake made by two other Australians who had a shot at it. At stopping places they noticed that the French riders were partial to champagne, which seemed to buck them up a lot. So they knocked the heads off a couple of bottles themselves. But they were unused to such fare, and it was not Icing before their legs seemed to go; in short, they would have been better without the stuff. Still, Munro and Kirkham put up a wonderful ride. “Hard-hitting” Purdy Charlie Purdy, a much better lightweight than he is credited with being (says Sydney “Bulletin”), outclassed one of the newly-arrived Filipinos, “Little Cowboy,” and knocked him out in the fifth round of the brown lad’s first fight at the Sydney Stadium. Stepping out of the way of the Filipino’s awkward swing and coming back like a streak of light, the pleasantfaced Aucklander cut the coloured gentleman to pieces. A whizzing whang to the point was the finishing punch. Purdy, who weighed 9st. 91b., 21b. more than the unhappy Filipino, has developed into a really good man.

A Rugby Experiment Italy’s Rugby experiment, which began with two demonstration matches against a French team, at Milan and Boulogne, was in every way successful. One or two foreigners strengthened the Italian team, but the native players had made extraordinary progress in their training and instruction, and though beaten in both matches they were at no point overwhelmed. A federation is being formed, and in Rome, Florence, Turin and other towns pioneers are preparing the way for a Rugby campaign. Some Walker! One Bausori Mukberji, described as the well-known Bengali champion, has arranged a most ambitious walking programme for the ensuing three months, in which he engages to take part in 22 contests at distances from five to 100 miles. Some of these appear to be amateur, others professional, and a committee has been formed to manage affairs on behalf of Mukberji! We hope it keeps fine for him! Jim Carlton Again On the first day of the National Games at Manly Jim Carlton, though just off the Maoriland boat, won the 100 metres on a heavy track in 11s—the performance of a real champion. The remarkable youngster beat Parker, the Queenslander, by inches. Carlton did not start in the 200 metres, which was won by A. Walker (N.S.W.), with Parker again in second place: the time was 22 3-ss. C. S. Stuart (N.S.W.) also just returned from Maoriland, took the SOO metres in the slow time of 2m 6s, but was never pressed. A rail accident prevented the presence of W. M. Whyte and G. R. Hyde, the Victorian cracks. A. J. Watson, the Victorian, won the 110 metres hurdles in 16s, and Victoria scored again when L. B. Mason cleared 6ft. 2in. in the high jump, beating the Australasian champion. E. M. Davidson. C. M. Ebert (N.S.W.) cleared 22ft. in the long jump and also took the hop, step and jump event with 45ft. lin., beating Nick Win- : ter, the Olympic champion, who was , nursing an injured knee, by an inch.— Sydney “Bulletin.”

A Week ly Budget

Punished Enough In the case of the New South Wales Rugby forward, Jack Ford, who was ordered off in the Waratahs’ match against Cardiff, the Welsh Rugby Union has decided to take no further action. It considers that the fact of being ordered off, with the resultant publicity, are sufficient punishment. The decision is a welcome ending to an incident which at one stage threatened to furnish a cause celibre of Rugby owing to the question of jurisdiction involved. Sculling Honours Now that honours for the sculling championship are easy, Goodsell and Barry having won one race each, the thoughts of enthusiasts naturally turn to the arranging of a third match. Goodsell’s backers are willing, and Barry is willing, but the new champion stipulates that the race must take place on the Thames. In this he is following precedent, though there have been departures, notably the Arnst-Barry race on the Zambesi and the late races at Vancouver. According to a Goodsell ■communique, the Australian’s determination to settle down in Vancouver may prevent him from making the long journey to England. A poor excuse, if it was meant for-one. Trickett, Beach, Searle and Stanbury didn’t boggle at going half round the world to chase or defend the title, and transport conditions were not as easy then as now. Stanbury worked his passage over in a steamer’s stokehold. mm* Can Fairgray Do It? One of the most interesting events at the Dominion swimming championships at Dunedin this month will be the contest between L. J. Moorhouse, the Canterbury representative, and L. Fairgray, the Aucklander and present Zealand champion, in the 150yds backstroke championship. With Moorhouse

slicing seconds off Fairgray’s record of lm 56 4-ss, the former’s chances of depriving the Northern swimmer of the title are distinctly promising, and if he reproduces his present form Fairgray will have to take his backwash. The Aucklander was not really pressed when

he won the honour last year, and it is to be expected that he will better his time. On the other hand, Moorhouse is confident that he can even lower his time of 545. If he dan, Fairgray will help him to do it. Moorhouse is as fit as a fiddle, and under present circumstances is the better bet.

KIPLING’S JIBE In a moment of bitterness Kipling dashed off something about “the flanneled fools at the wicket, the muddied oafs at the goal,” but when the “flanneled fools” and the “muddied oafs” stood side by side on the road to Mons, Kipling repented in sackcloth and ashes. And what said bold Henry V. of England when, in answer to his claim on the dukedom of France, the Dauphin sent him a box of tennis balls in mockery? “When we have matched our rackets to these balls, We will, in France, by God’s grace, play a set. Shall strike his father s crown into a hazard.”