ALL SPORTS!

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 465, 21 September 1928, Page 10

ALL SPORTS!

A Weekly Budget

A Heeney-moon at Gisborne. * * «s A man named Butter won four events at a sports meeting in England recently. It should be easy for him to run in hot weather. A 16-year-old American boxer at the Olympic Games burst into tears when the verdict was given against him. A kid-blub boxer? What’s the matter with the Tasman? It’s plane sailing. * * * Wrigley “Marathon” swim could not be completed because of the coldness of the water. The swimmers could not even raise a wriggle. “Campaign for the destruction of eels to be considered by the Acclimatisation Society.” It’s easy! Just put an M in front of the eels. Up to the end of July old-timer S. F. Barnes had taken, this season, 102 wickets for 638 runs in Central Lancashire League cricket.

It is stated that Hubert Opperman, the Australian all-round cycling champion and captain of the Australasian team in the Tour de France, is returning to the Commonwealth in order to organise an Australian team to take back to the Continent.

P. F. Warner, famous English cricketer. is the only man who has ever been elected a member of the M.C.C. while still a schoolboy. A mistake must have been made at Lords, for the rule is that no schoolboy may be elected a member of the club. Warner was proposed in 18S9. and elected in 1892. * * * Mead’s Batting Perhaps this is the reason why he was picked for the English cricket team to tour Australia. “The Cricketer” last month said of Philip Mead, great Hampshire left-hander: “Mead has never played better than he is playing at the present moment, and has never, we think, hit the ball harder. The slowness of Mead is largely a matter of legend. His methods do not, as Frank Woolley’s do, take hold of the imagination of the onlooker, but he is deceptively quick on his feet—quick enough to make the fieldsmen on the leg-side, at any rate, painfully aware of the inadequacy of their reach. Many people think Mead’s scoring strokes easy to block—so they would be with a field of 16 men.”

Under Which Sport? “He pulled his opponent’s hair, bit, and punched, but with occasional heavy punches Thye showed the Texan that he was the superior hitter.” That is an extract from a report of neither a football match nor a Bridge, party. It is just from a description of a wrestling match between Ted Thye and Hugh Nichols in Sydney a few days ago.

Killed by a Hare! A hare killed two greyhounds at

Birmingham recently. It happened on a dog-raeing track. The two dogs fell at the first hurdle. Struggling up, they got their bearings mixed and started running the reverse way of the course. Very soon, therefore, they met the “tin hare.” Although the hare was going about 45 miles an hour, the dogs attacked it at once, head on. The force of the impact was terrific, and the dogs were injured so much that they had to be destroj’ed.

Six Bats At the meeting of the Xorth Shore Cricket Club last night offers of bats for encouraging play were frequent. The president, Dr. Bennett, gave one for the most consistent attender at practice: the Napier bat goes to most improved player; the Vercoe bat to the most successful bowler, Mr. Howden offered a bat for the senior and fourt team’s bowler, and Mr. G. Jackson for the senior and third best batting average, while Mr. A. Woolley will provide a bat for the best fieldsman in the seniors. * * * Cricket at the Shore Some concern was expressed at the meeting of the Xorth Shore Cricket Club last evening lest the rumour that it was intended to have fewer Shore

team matches at Devonport should turn out to be well founded. The Shore Club maintains four wickets for the Association at its own expense, and it has been found that taking the team away from home lessens interest so much that it would become impossible to keep up the nine teams that the club enters. Moreover, as the gates show, the collections, which run *up to £ 6 or £ 7 when Devonport is at home, fall to 10s when a stranger team uses the grounds, a serious factor in providing the means of maintaining the grounds.