ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 429, 10 August 1928, Page 10

ALL SPORTS

A Weekly Budget

A Bull at a gate? * * * O-limp-ic Games for United States sprinters. * * * The Olympic 800 metres record has been Lowe-red. * * * The British Olympic Games team’s favourite melody—“ Sweet and Lowe.” * * * Gene Tunney finds nobody in the world who can fight him. The big bully! * * * There was a cricket match between two teams of dentists in England recently. Some argument arose about who should draw the stumps. * * * Spencer Stratton, New Zealand motor-cyclist, has been attracting much attention in England by his riding at Stamford Bridge.

In a professional golfers’ tournament at Little Aston, England, recently, in which there were 73 competitors, two players did the fifth hole in one stroke each, on the same day.

Amsterdammed —many hopes. * * * A contemporary says that golf often leads to matrimony. Often, though, it is the other way round. * * * Gene Tunney considers that toboganning is no sport for a gentleman boxer. * * * Auckland Rugby team goes fishing with two Hooks on its threequarter line. * * * In the evergreen words of the amateur reporter, quite a gloom was cast over Gisborne when Tunney torpedoed Heeney. * * * When the hur(d) ley-Burghley’s done, When the battle’s lost and won— Shakespeare was a prophet. * He * Donations for the Timaru-Christ-church cycle road race are so few this year that unless there is improvement in the position at an early date it will be necessary to reduce the prize money considerably, if the race is to be run

at all. The Canterbury cycling centre has no reserve in hand. Clubs will be asked to make a levy of a shilling a member to augment the prize list. * * * A peer without a peer, over the hurdles—Lord Burghley. Digging is said to be the finest of all exercises. Hence the popularity of golf. In the Wellington Town Hall last evening Jack Carroll (lOst 31b), welterweight champion of Australia, defeated Charlie Purdy (9st 121 b), light-weight

champion of Australia and New Zealand, on points after 15 rounds. Purdy appeared out of condition. Carroll was more aggressive. The verdict was popularly received. * * * A Pacific flyer—schoolboy Williams, of Vancouver. « * * Throwing their weight about the hurdles at Amsterdam —Weigh tmanSmith and Burghley. * * * Advices from South Africa this week show definitely that the Springboks are not packing 3—2—3 in *heir scrums, but 3—3—2.

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