ALL SPORTS | A Weekly Budget j

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 381, 15 June 1928, Page 10

ALL SPORTS | A Weekly Budget j

All Blacks? Yes, black borders! Wairarapa reckons that Cooke will bo a Roland for Canterbury’s Oliver. * * * There was a little Sheen on the play of the All Black backs against Griqualand West. The Amateur Rowing Association of England has rescinded its decision not to be represented at the Olympic Games. Paolino Uzcudun, Basque heavyweight boxer, is now known as “Upsidedown” Paolino. Potted brawn —All Blacks in their second match at Newlands. * * * Frank Lombardi, a 19-year-old boy, is reported to have run 3 00 yards in 9 3-ssee. Y'es, it was in America. * * * All Black forwards packed four and three against Griqualand West. But they didn't have four aces. Ping-pong is reported to have become quite the rage again in England. Perhaps that’s where England’s heavy-weight boxers have got to. An important aspect of the approaching Tunney-Heeney clash is that it will bo Tunney’s first championship

fight at 15 rounds. ITe won, and has held, the championship in 10-round contests. Auckland’s Rugby prospects are not All Black, but at the same time they are not at all black. Lloyd Hahn, American amateur athlete, well-known in New Zealand, says that after this year’s Olympic Games lie will bang up his ,spiked shoes for good. Hahn is determined to win both the 800 metres and the 1,500 metres at the Games. * * * A forward in a League Rugby match in Sydney a few days ago lashed out with a foot at the ball, which had rolled out of a ruck. It sailed over the crossbar—a field goal for his side! The right name of Kid Socks, English bantam-weight boxer, now in Australia, is Stocking. Somebody cut the top off. Norman Brookes has lost his royal partner. The Duke of York finds now that, because of pressure of official engagements, lie will not bo able to play at Wimbledon. Brookes was to have partnered the Duke in the doubles.

Of a League Rugby match in Sydney Ave are told that “Arthur Oxford’s foot was not working properly Avhen a few goals would have been invaluable.” The Avrong Oxfords, apparently. Maxie Kosenbloom, of New York, was all on the high C’s when Tommy Milligan, Scottish middle-Aveight, biffed him on the solar plexus the other evening. Will Lcckie Be Barbered? Tommy Barber, nuggety Australian, former feather-weight champion of the Commonwealth, is to come over to Dunedin to fight Johnnie Leckie. It was Delilah, wasn’t it, who ended Samson’s career by “bobbing” his hair? We wonder whether this young Australian Barber will overcome our New Zealand boy by some unkind cut or other! If lie does win it is likely to be only by a close shave, anyway.

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