ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 345, 4 May 1928, Page 10

ALL SPORTS

A Weekly Budget

Heeney is to meet Tunney. Is Heeney good?

A coloured French boxer named You You, is now appearing in Paris. We hop© that excited fight fans don’t add an epithet to his name when he loses.

Beer was not forbidden to the Cambridge rowing eight which recently beat Oxford, but it had to be a special brew. Must have had a kick in it!

Girls as caddies are beginning to appear on many American golf courses, but it is doubtful if the feminine bag toters will ever approach in numbers those of the British and French links.

In a chariot race in Melbourne two teams collided, and one driver was thrown out and injured. Ben Hur-led!

Two boxers named Ash and Socks are among the entrants for a tournament which is to decide the professional bantam-weight championship of England. The question is: Will Ash give him Socks, or will Socks take the Ashes?

\ cynic who saw a girls’ hockey match the other day says that modern girls may have their little weaknesses but they are not effeminate.

An exchange contends that the reason why so many Scotsmen are good golfers is that each of them always keeps his eye on the ball.

The prize essay at a Victorian school, on the subject "How to get in the Australian Eleven,” consisted of 20 lines. An Australian writer suggests that an essay on how to get out of it would take 20 pages.

Dempster for Australia There are persistent rumours in Wellington that C. S. Dempster, New Zealand national cricketer, Wellington

r e p r e s e ntative, and Institute’s star batsman, will go to Australia in the very near future to take up his permanent residence there (says Sun’s Wellington correspondent). It is reported that he has received a very good offer from a leading Sydney business firm to join its staff, and

the inducement f sufficiently allur-

sumcientiy allurmg to make the change worth while, bhould Dempster decide to cross the Tasman Sea, it will be a serious loss * Zealand cricket, as he is one of the finest batsmen the Doimnion has ever produced, and such players come to the fore only once in a long period of years. Were he in Australia, however, it is more than probable that his game would improve to such an extent that it would not be long before he would be included in a State sid~ and from there it is only a short journey for real ability to enter an Australian eleven.