ALL SPORTS A Weekly Budget

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 357, 18 May 1928, Page 10

ALL SPORTS A Weekly Budget

Genoa! Australia wasn’t there. Australiano nearer the Davis Cup. What Genoa about Patterson, Crawford and Hopman? * * * Wairarapa reckons that by playing Canterbury on July 18 it is taking a short cut to the Ranfurly Shield. Yes, Cook(e) Strait. Macaronied or Mussolinied, the Australian Davis Cup team? * * * A lad named Beecham is fighting in preliminary bouts at the Melbourne Stadium. Worth a guinea a box! The Argentine has a boxer, Victoirs Campolo, 6ft 6in tall and 17st 21b in weight, who says he is ready to meet any other heavy-wenght in the world. Well, the bigger they are the harder they fall. THE WAY OF THE WORLD A phase of human nature is revealed again in some references in English journals to Tom Heeney. When Heeney was unsuccessful in England certain writers there were consistently correct in describing him as a New Zealander. Now that he is to fight Gene Tunney for the world’s championship the same writers are just as consistent in describing him as a “British heavyweight.’* However, Tom himself is determined to keep New Zealand on the boxing map. He says he is going to do his best to “regain the championship for the Empire, particularly New Zealand.” SOCCER EXCITEMENT The Belgians take their Association football rather seriously. Nearly 50,000 watched a match between Belgium and Holland, at Antwerp a few weeks ago. The Belgians won an exciting game by a goal to nil. While the play was in progress the crowd became so excited that it broke barriers and several people had to be taken to hospital with broken arms and legs. PROFITS ON ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIPS At this week’s meeting of the council of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association it was announced that the final Australian and New Zealand amateur athletic championships, held at Wellington in December last, had resulted in a profit of £378 10s, of which sum the Amateur Athletic Union of Australia and New Zealand takes £37 17s, and the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association £340 13s. The receipts totalled £843 14s 6d and the expenditure £456 4s 6d. PRAISE FOR LAMB Cycling enthusiasts will still remember vividly the exhibitions put up iB

his New Zealand tour by R. W. (“Fatty”) Lamb, the Australian amateur champion cyclist, who has since turned professional. Here is what the New Zealand professional champion, Harry Watson, thinks of Lamb: “Opperman follows the motor nicely, but I think ‘Fatty’ Lamb will fully extend him after more experience.” This is high praise indeed, for Hubert Opperman is the idol of the Australian cycling crowds at present, and there were scenes of remarkable enthusiasm when he left Melbourne to join the Tour de France team at Fremantle. He went overland to Fremantle to compete at a meeting at which he won two races and secured a second place.