ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 305, 16 March 1928, Page 11

ALL SPORTS

A Weekly Budget

Australian cricket query after the “North Island” match: Wliy-kato? * * * C. C. Pyle lias found another sort of Lenglen trail. We ought to be able to Lay odds on at least one man getting away in the New Zealand Olympic team. ★ * * Old man in Melbourne, aged 82, is learning to swim. At his age he ought to be learning to fly. * * * Last year 131 greyhound racing companies, with an aggregate authorised capital of £3,774,250, were floated in the United Kingdom. * * * “Cash and Carry” Pyle, who has

started a so-called marathon race across America, says he will have to collect the runners every evening. Pyling them up, so to speak! Carry on! * * # Once more Vernon Hansford is captaining a Victorian cricket team. This time it is a team touring in West Australia. Other members of the party who are known personally to New Zealanders are A. E. Liddicut. B. A. Onyons,, H. Ironmonger, J. L. Ellis and E. T. Austen. * * * Carlton and His Luck Jim Carlton, Australian amateur sprinter, has had both good and bad luck. On the day when it was announced that he would be sent to the Olympic Games he also learned that he had won a university exhibition which will give him three years of free education at Sydney University. The bad luck is trouble in the muscles of one leg, but it is hoped that treatment will overcome it soon. Efforts are being made to induce the Sydney University authorities to permit Carlton to start his studies after he returns from the Olympic Games. j