ALL SPORTS A Weekly Budget

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 387, 22 June 1928, Page 10

ALL SPORTS A Weekly Budget

“Thustle?” Getting in Dutch? Many wrestlers from overseas are in Australia now. View to mat. Tom Heeney has a sparring partner named Mercurio. Does he hope to be made as fast as quicksilver? “Finlayson incident closed.” says the Transvaal Rugby Union. Yes, closed fist! A famous boxer declares that he fights best on a full meal. Evidently he believes in having his blow-out first. C. G. Macartney, Australia's greatest batsman of recent y r ears, is at present in England with his wife on a holiday trip. Probably Macartney* will be seen playing on English soil once more in a holiday match or two. “Sixty is the age for golf,” says a British writer. M’m! It does take a long time to learn the language! Apologies for absence—those which I. Finlayson wrote to Geer and the Transvaal Rugby Union. “Business before matrimony,* say’s Gene Tunney, apropos of the fact that he will fight Tom Heeney before he weds. One ring at a time! Though Johannesburg is a gold-min-ing centre, the All Blacks found there some dirt that was not payable. Transvaal had a Botha in its forwards. All Blacks certainly found them to be a Bothasome lot. International sports—Tom Heeney and his Anglo-American Board of Managers! Professional golfers will be disappointed to hear that the New Zealand Golf Council decided recently that it was unable to recommend the sending of four professional players to the Australian open championship in September. What about a pineapple-throwing contest at Honolulu’s projected “Olympic Games?” * * # An anachronism in the All Black side is that its defence improves with DalTliis week’s fairy tale: There was •_>nce a golfer who, missing a 12-inch putt, said. “Bother the beastly thing!” The Tour de France, in which Canterbury’s J-T--rry Watson is engaged as a' member of the Australasian team,

was to start on Sunday last and finish on July 15. The cyclists have to ride 3.338 miles in 22 stages. An English sporting writer complains that hunting in the Old Country is not what it was. But one would expect a falling-off. An Australian is the new captain of the Oxford University Boat Club. G. H. Morphett (Geelong and Brasenose) having been elected to that position recently. “They’ve got the stuff in them, and they’ll show it yet,” is a facet of “Sam” Wilson’s optimistic view of the All Blacks’ chances in the Test matches in South Africa.

In the Dark! What is wrong with NelaonJ'f' Knight? That Question is e**"*". the minds of many followers of wain New Zealand. -McKnight s form r _ is not as good as it was before M . to America, although lie did quite there. _ —