ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 375, 8 June 1928, Page 10

ALL SPORTS

A Weekly Budget

China’s Davis Cup tennis team was smacked to Hong-Kong. "We are petting plenty of pood food here,” writes Harry Watson from Franc© to a friend in Christchurch. "No frogs or snails yet!” Merritt could spin a football with his feet as well as he spins a cricket ball with his fingers! Quoth another. "A urong ’un!” In a women’s international lacrosse match recently Kngland beat Scotland by 17 goals to nil. Fastest forward in the Kngiish liugby League team touring Australia anil New Zealand is said to be Ben Halfpenny. He would be useful on the Auckland trams. A. W. A.loo, Golfer __ A. W. Alloo, well-known Otago cricketer, is one of those versatile chaps * who have a po at most games. He is no mean tennis player, and has even been known to make a good list of bowls. And now he is a golf enthusiast, at which game, if all reports be true, he is shaping well. On Saturday, in the second round of the St. Clair Golf Club’s championship. Arthur Alloo put up a tight against W. Clayton, but went down. 3 and L\ But he did not lose that “why worry" smile of his which followers of cricket know so well.

I An Englishman has won the British j amateur golf championship. Really, i this isn’t done! •

Charles Paddock’s 9isec for 100yds has been recognised as an American | amateur athletic record, but has not i been accepted by the Board of the International Amateur Athletic FederI ation.

Peacock scratched in the second round of the French hard court tennis championships. It’s a wise bird that knows when to scratch and when not to.

Melbourne has a big Alley just now. But it's Tom. not Geoff—a wrestler, not a footballer. What’s more, this Alley is a Mormon. He beat Irishman Patsy McCarthy at the Melbourne Stadium recently.

This week’s most injured man: The golfer, who, on visiting a maiden aunt, was congratulated upon getting the highest score in last Saturday’s competition.

A Great Programme Few people these days realise what a great programme the New Zealand Native Rugby team of ISSB-89 undertook : n its tour of the British Isles. In a conversation, at Lancaster Park last Saturday, with an Irish international who played against the team, it was recalled that the Natives had 74 matches, of which they won 49. drew rive, and lost 20. Most of their matches were played at intervals of only a day and sometimes they played on successive days. In one period of 26 days they had 14 matches. One of the team’s backs, D. R. Gage, played in 68 of the 74 matches.