ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 501, 2 November 1928, Page 6

ALL SPORTS

A WEEKLY BUDGET For almost the first time since the war a new hockey season in the British | Isles has been started without any i changes in the rules. * * • * | 0». one of the suburban golf courses, the other day, a ball landed in a motorcar. Trying to ensure a long drive? * * * A team representing the All-Eng-land Women’s Hockey Association* was to leave this month for a tour in the United States of America. An English tennis anthem: Yes, sir, that’s my baby (Austin). * * * Golf teaches a man how to help himself, we are told. The game, of course, originated Scotland. A pitcher in a baseball match in Sydney, the other day, tried to give | additional curve to the ball. But when j he gave an extra twist his arm broke. m * Only one man beside the winner finished* in the recent 50-mile track walk at Penrith, New South Wales. This man is R. F. Winstanley, who is 51 years of ago. During the race he drank about eight gallons of milk and ate a huge rice-pudding. * * * Leon Vanderstuyft. noted motorpace cyclist, has broken the previous best record for motor-pace following. He covered 78 miles 18 yards in 60 minutes, beating the record put up b\ J. Brunier, by nearly three miles. Norman Peach was beaten by J. Willard in the semi-finals of the Syd- ! ney metropolitan tennis singles championhip, the scores against him being 3 —6. 6—4, 6—2.

For the first time England has held a women’s amateur sculling championship. It was rowed on the Putney to Mortlake course (four miles and ahalf) and was won by a Putney girl in 26min 52sec. That time cannot be far outside the average for world’s professional races over this course, which have varied from 21min 28see to 2Smin ssec. A member of the House of Commons has been proclaiming that bowls is the finest game in the world. Is this an instance of bias? * * * The All-England Women’s Hockey Association had 300 clubs affiliated to it nine years ago. Now it has over 1,000. Incidentally, it may be noted, this important organisation prefers to be called a women’s association, and not a “ladies’.”

* * * i Golfing Families Taking part in the New Zealand r championship golf tournament at Balmacewan recently were:—J. R. Gallo- , way (Palmerston North) and T. Galloway (Auckland), father and son: L. Ross (Nelson) and J. W. Ross (Wanganui); G. B. Forrest (Timaru) and J. Forrest (Otago), brothers; the brothers Duncan, the brothers Black, and the brothers Wight. * * * Fifty-Mile Walk Record The New South Wales Walking and Field Games Club and the Nepean Athletic Club held conjointly, a few days ago, a 50-mile track walk at Penrith, in an attempt to break the Australian 50-mile record, 9hr 24min 4sec, which was held by J. Lewis, of Victoria. H. W. Barrett put up a new record, 9hr 15min 2sec. He won the race by eight miles. Barratt is a Sydney accountant, 34 years of age. He has been walking for sport since he was a lad, and on several occasions he has competed in the Loudon to Brighton walk. He is a. married man with two children. * * * A Japanese Tennis Star It is considered that quite the best Japanese tennis player who has been seen. in England since Zenzo Shimidzu is Y. Ohta, who recently won the South of England singles championship. Last year this title was won brilliantly by H. W. Austin, a member of the British team now in Auckland. In Austin’s absence, Ohta and C. H. Kingsley contested this year’s final. Ohta kept a wonderful length, and drove with great speed. Kingsley won the first set 6—3, timing his dashes to the net very well and bringing off some beautiful cross-volleys off Ohta’s fiercest drives. But the Japanese was not disconcerted at all. He won the second set fi—l, and the third 6—o. * * * Remaining An Amateur “Bobbie” Pearce, Australian amateur sculling champion, who won the world’s sculling championship at the Olympic Games, was very definite in a statement he made a few days ago.

“I have as much intention of turning professional as I have of jumping over the moon,” he said. “If I am good enough I hope to represent Australia* at the next Olympic Games in 1932.” * * * Blames Greasy Food Like New Zealand’s Kathleen Miller, Edna Davey, Sydney swimmer, says that unsuitable food in Holland was one of the reasons why Australian and New Zealand swimmers could not reproduce their best form at the Olympic Games. On her return to Australia Edna Davey said: “All the food we had in Holland was very greasy, and quite wrong for training. If it’s worth while taking the team from Australia, surely ' it’s worth while taking someone from ' England to supervise and prepare the right food. My weight is about normal, but one of the. girls has put on a stone, and ano’ther two stone in weight.” * * * Bennie Osier's Choice Asked whom he considered to be the best back and the best forward in the All Black team, Bennie Osier said, after the New Zealanders had left South Africa: “Well, that is a most difficult problem. I have seen so little of our visitors. Anyhow, one must remember that at Durban, Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth the Springbok forwards generally held the balance of play. That meant that the visitors’ backs were on the defence. As an attacking force, however, I liked Nicholls first and Lucas next. Of the forwards I confess to a preference-for M. Brownlie, and after him Stewart.” Delightful Rugby After the New Zealand Rugby team left South Africa a Capetown paper made the following comment on the game which the All Blacks had played j with Western Province universities, ! under New Zealand rules:—“lf the match can be taken at its face value the game is certainly a very open one and most attractive from the point of view of the spectators. Incident succeeded incident in bewildering fashion and the pace set was fast and furious-. Play swung from one end of the field to the other in a manner that earned the appreciation of the big crowd. The game -was really a delightful one to watch. The Varsity men adapted themselves to the strange rules in the most creditable way.”