ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 322, 5 April 1928, Page 6

ALL SPORTS

A Weekly Budget

Nark Nicholls? * » * When New Zealand is mentioned it | SMBifl to be the Inter-gnash-ional Rugby Board! * * * Though it had two Stiles, the Can- j ierbury rowing eight showed the other } crews at Wellington the way to go ! home, # New Zealand Nicholl-slated backs. I » * * Malcolm Leadbetter ran 75yds in 7 3-ssec the other day. Getting his name in sprint all right! * * * Although cricket has officially fin- j fshed in Auckland this season, there is a big list of holiday fixtures during Easter. - 1 * * * The greatest support for the New 1 Zealand Olympic Games fund has j come, so far, from Rugby football. j 1 =* * Phil O’Shea and Jack Henderson, the j J two crack Christchurch wheelmen j : who competed at the big cash meet- j 1 ing staged on the Domain last Satur- ! t day, will be seen in action again, at . 1 3?e Aroha on Easter Monday, |J

——mmmm wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwm* I Peeved ? | A writer in an American paper re- : fers to Maoriland’s idol. Tom Heeney, as a "squat, corrugated-ribbed, grani ite- jawed, super-courageous slugger, who could not hit a bam door if it happened to be swinging. This i particular American writer seems to I be rather peeved that Heeney upset i his confident predictions that Delaney i would win. . . . Under Evens Tom Miles, professional sprint champion of the world, was clocked at 12 | 2-ssec in a semi-final of the Colac Gift j (130yds) in Victoria recently. _• As he j started from the 2yd mark, that run j was inside even time. Miles broke in | the final, and voluntarily went back lto the lyd mark. This time, against ! a strong wind, he won in 12 4-ssec. One of Five The Selection Committee in the All Blacks’ tour of South Africa will consist of the captain, the vice-captain, the manager, and two players to be elected by the team. Looks as if the manager won’t have much chance of Horni(n)o m too much,