ALL SPORTS—A WEEKLY BUDGET

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 459, 14 September 1928, Page 10

ALL SPORTS —A WEEKLY BUDGET

Many Rugby players have taken ill lately—with “potmaine” poisoning. * * * Waratahs Have Towers of strength in their backs. Trans-Tasman flyers—the Waratah backs. * * * Barber shaved Leckie in Invercargill last week. The crowd “cut up rough.” * * * Advice to golfers: Don’t lift your elbow until you are back in the clubhouse.

A cablegram from London says that, for the first time in his career, F. E. Woolley, famous Kent cricketer, has scored 3,000 runs in a season. Southern boxing fans claim that the referee’s decision against Johnny Leckie was Barber-ous. Rosenblum scored two fine tries for the Waratahs against New Zealand. He rose and bloomed! When Tom Heeney entered the ring for his fight with Gene Tunney he wore a Maori dog-skirt cloak. A Christchurch man who was at the ring-

"side heard an American explain, to a friend that it was a “Kia Ora skin coat.” Was he merely prophetic?

From what they described as a “wonderful tour,” the members of the Australian Soccer team returned from the East Indies* recently. The team played 23 games, winning 17 T losing two and drawing four. The standard of the play in the East Indies was good individually, but there was little combined football. The refereeing was not good. On one occasion the Australians had to play immediately after a sea voyage with 2,400 pigs as company—they lost that game.