AIL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 489, 19 October 1928, Page 6

AIL SPORTS

A WEEKLY BUDGET Football ‘knockouts” to-morrow — about time football took the count, too! 'Dance for the All Blacks.” Springbok hops? Bowlers are talking again about getting in the ditch. But it has nothing to do with the Froth-blowers’ chorus. Johnny Leckie was married last week. That boy simply can’t keep out of “scrap.” Gene Tunney threatened to smash cameras if photographs were taken of his departure from Nice and his wedding in Rome. He wanted these affairs to be strictly in camera. “It is surprising how many novelists are keen on yachting.” says an overseas contemporary. But many of them are used to sailing close to the wind. A new stadium at West Ham. for Greyhound-racing and motor-cycle racing on a dirt track, is the largest of its kind in England. It accommodates over 100,000 spectators. Australian paper’s sarcastic reference to the English cricket team’s voyage to Australia: ’ Old age is creeping upon us.” A record that can never be beaten was made in the Olympic Games at Amsterdam, but it will not appear in the official list of records. One competitor in the diving events failed to score a single point. -Each of the six judges put a liaught against his name. A large crowd farewelled Gene Tunney when he left Nice for Rome, recently. Unkind people said it was really Nice without him. Hubert Opperman, famous Australian cyclist, is one of the biggest draws in France at present, said Harry Watson, on his return from France. Opperman is very popular as a motorpace rider, and has many engagements all over Europe. He rode a great race in the Paris six-day fixture.

Johnny Risko, Cleveland (U.S.A.), heavyweight, who recently beat George Godfrey, negro giant, in a 10-round bout, at New York, and a few weeks later beat Johnny Squires, of South Africa, in another 10 rounder is a baker by trade. He finds that there is more “dough” to be made in the ring. Although Gene Tunney has retired from the ring he is still shadow-sparring with photographThere is a, proposal to form a Women’s Walking Club. Cars travel so far these days that a girl has to get into training. Judging by the. luggage they brought with them from South Africa the All Blacks really learned a lot about packing. “Some occupations are more cheerful than others,” says a lecturer. Does a cricket umpire’s job grade at zero? During the Tour de France, the Australasian team, which included H. G. Watson, now returned to Christchurch, averaged 3 8 miles an hour, which was wonderfully good going for a team that was unfamiliar with French conditions and was not acclimatised. The riders themeslves were surprised at the average. I Reports from Sydney show that “wrestling” there is getting rougher and rougher. There are two main points distinguishing the wrestling season from the boxing season. Wrestling is not allowed in boxing, and boxers Avho hit below the belt are disqualified. Rough Soccer A sensation has been caused in Association football in England by an announcement that the Aston Villa Club has placed Frank Moss, a former international player, on the transfer list. This is believed to have been done in consequence of the rough play in a match against Manchester United, when one player had a leg broken and others suffered minor injuries. Moss and a Manchester man were ordered off the field. Carleton’s Thirteens There was a peculiar sequence of the number 13 surrounding Sid. Carleton and the All Blacks. In the trial game, at Dunedin, he stepped on to the field with number 13. He received the telegram notifying him of his selection on Friday, the 13th of the month; he sailed on Friday, May 13; played in 13 games; and broke down only in scoring, getting three points—ten short.