ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 363, 25 May 1928, Page 10

ALL SPORTS

A Weekly Budget

English County cricket. Count the fours go past! Gene Tunney may have a honeymoon this year. Will it be a Tunney money honeymoon ? The New Zealanders at Lisbon made their opponents look like Portugeese. Ernie Izzard, the English lightweight boxer who beat New Zealander Charlie Purdy, on points, in Sydney, recently, fought a drawn bout with Purdy in January. Two visitors stood in the hall of an hotel at a popular holiday resort. One wore plus-fours, and the other couldn’t play golf, either. The courts at Genoa on which Australia’s Davis Cup tennis team was beaten by Italy consist of hard clay, sprinkled with line sand. They are fast. Unofficially reported that the Canterbury members of the All Black team won a rrarbies tourney on the Euripedes the other day. So they should. They have the biggest Alley. In recent interprovincial Rugby contests for South African schoolboys 75 teams participated, and over 500 games were played. The Argentine Association football team which is to play at the Olympic Games tried its strength against Portugal a few weeks ago in Lisbon. Neither side scored. W: The Scottish Rugby Union refuses to number its players in international matches, because it regards Rugger as “a game and not a spectacle.” Yet it enlarged the Murrayfield ground to accommodate 120,000 spectators! More recruits to the League? says the “Christchurch Sun.” High School Old Boys and Christchurch had 13 aside last Saturday !* Two or three weeks ago the Football Association (England) presented £I,OOO to its secretary, F. J. Wall, on the seventieth anniversary of his birthday. A well-filled Wall-et! Most we can say: The British open golf championship has been won by Americans seven times in the last eight years. One of these Americans, though, is Jack Hutchison, who was born in Scotland. An American writer on suggestions that Tom Heeney has no chance of beating Gene Tunney:—“Of course, Heeney hasn’t a chance of beating Tunney. And Tunney had no chance of beating Dempsey. And Corbett had no chance of beating John L. Sullivan. The best way to go into a fight is without a chance.” An English paper, getting a little mixed, thus reported a recent athletic event: “120yds Hurdles—G. C. Weight-man-Smith (Cambridge) . . . Three years. 15 A university record.” That, of course, would include Leap Year. “Fighting Johnnie” Leckie was too good for Billy Melton, the Australian, in their bout at Wellington last week, and won his twelfth bout in succession, by a knockout in the seventh round. Melton was game as a pebble and put up a good fight—but he was outclassed. “The Jimmy Wilde of New Zealand” is the manner in which secretary George. Aldridge, of the New Zealand Boxing Council, describes Leckie. If the southerner gjoes on as he has started he will soon be in the world’s best featherweight class.

P. H. Francis, English international cross-country runner, who is at present

residing in Gisborne, paid a visit tc Wellington recently. He has not done any running since he came to the Dominion a few months back, but he expects to be getting into form soon, tc take part in some of the big crosscountry events. There is just the chance that he will be seen in action athe coming Dominion cross-country championships to be held at Wanganui