ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 263, 27 January 1928, Page 10

ALL SPORTS

A Weekly Budget

1928 reads like Ponsford’s latest score. • * * Popular song: “Drink to me only with the flies.” Ponsford’s favourite confectionery: Hundreds and thousands. What about a tin pedestrian for motorists? it * * Many men have their morning nip wet or fine. A A * Looks is if Australian Jim Carlton’s crack performances will send him to the Olympic Games. Home, James! New Year honours have been announced. Ponsford has inadvertently been omitted. a * A A well-known doctor attributes the health of our girls to the few clothes they wear. We’d like to see them even healthier. Phil Scott found a lot of things wrong with the United States: first and foremost being the fact that the Yanks did not go in for feather beds. Smith, Jones and Brown The visiting golfers at present in New Zealand have certainly some good old English names. There are two Smiths, a Brown and a Jones. Ice Hockey A demonstration of ice hockey, one of the most thrilling and dangerous games there are, was recently played in London. It is practically Canada’s national game, and seemed to appeal to London crowds. Prince Wins The Prince of Wales won a mounted paperehase of three and a-half miles at Melton Mowbray the other day. The 'chase was organised by the Prince himself. He arranged it for friends who are unable to hunt as usual owing to the restrictions imposed as a result of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak. Will He Fight! Tfie Greymouth Boxing Association wants to know if Harry Casey will fight in Greymouth. Will a duck swim? The middleweight champion of New Zealand would like to meet Eddie Parker for the heavyweight title. Since returning to New Zealand Edward seems

to have been emulating the modest violet. A World Beater? From the way Clarence Crabbe won the American National mile swim at Honolulu, he wil surely be U.S.A. first choice for the Olympic 1,500 metres. ITis time, 31min 52 l-ssec. closely approaches in merit that in which Boy Charlton beat Arne Borg in the Paris 1,500. “Buster” Crabbe is a rapidly improving youth of 18, Hawaiian born and bred, and it will need a world beater to catch this Crabbe next August, “Yank” v. Austrian Johnny Risko, one of the four boxers who will meet to decide who is to have the next attempt to dethrone Gene Tunney, champion heavyweight of the world, is an Austrian. He turns the scale at 13st 61b. Although he has been 10 rounds with Jack Sharkey, 12 with Gene Tunney, and 10 each with. Young Stribling, Jack Delaney, Mik€: McTigue, Tommy Loughran and Harrj Persson (all \)f which contests he lost) Chuck Wiggins was the only man tc knock him out. Like Heeney, he car. evidently take punishment. Can One Believe It! The incredible has happened. Theer is a world’s champion heavyweight who actualy wants to fight, and is not satisfied with his opportunities It is reported that Gene Tunney is endeavouring to show his teeth to Tex Rickard, insisting he will fight twice this year, while Tex is counting on him only for defending the championship in September. AAA “Snappy” Football? A remarkable scoring performance was made by Norwich, an English Association football team playing in a league match against Poole. The Norwich forwards collected thre goals in four minutes. Straight Talk Were the late Billy Jordan alive today, he would announce in accordance with the 19th amendment, which prohibits two men from doing all the fighting: “Gentlemen, this will be q, 20round contest, fought according to the Marquis of Melee rules with nothing barred but wrist watches. May the best man take ekre of the widows and orphans—let ’er go ?”