ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 507, 9 November 1928, Page 6

ALL SPORTS

A WEEKLY BUDGET Music at the races—flats and sharps? * * * The star ol: the British tennis team is a very fine player, but he is not unduly Austintatious. Did Tennyson write those words, -Break! Break! Break!” after seeing a big billiards match. * * * “A. Hack, the young South Australian wicketkeeper, shaped well. He was slow but solid, and scored 43 in 112 minutes” (against M.C.C.). Apparently a good, reliable Hack. * * * “Jimmy” Carlton, Australian sprinter, was taken ill after the Olympic Games, and had to be left behind in a London nursing home when the other members of the team left England to return to the Commonwealth. * * * Another false start in a horse race; this time at Gisborne. “Whoa” to the jockeys is woe to the punters. It is a great pity that both D. Reese and J. S. Barrett retired from the Management Committee of the New Zealand Cricket Council together. Their combined knowledge and experience of the administration of cricket in the Dominion will be for a long i time very difficult to replace. Incidentally “Steve” Barrett will be missed also because of his wit. * * * A syndicate with a capital of £ 5,000 has been formed in England to back Phil Scott against any other heavyweight boxer in the world. Philled with, hopes? Dr. J. C. Gregory is captain of the British touring tennis team. A medical adviser? * * * A competitor in the Welsh amateur native golf championship did the fourteenth hole, a distance of 242 yards, in one stroke. * * * The French Amateur Athletic Association recently suspended temporarily, Sera Martin, and J. Ladoumegue, who represented France at the Olympic Games, for failing to compete at a sports meeting for which they had entered.

At the end of the eighth round the badly-bruised boxer told his second that he could go on no longer. The second objected. “But,” pleaded the boxer, “I can hardly see ’im.” “Never mind,” said the second, “ ’it ’im from memory.” * * * Worcester Wants Sauce The Worcestershire County Cricket Club did not win a single county match in the past English season. Attempts are being made to strengthen the bowling for next season. Looks as if some sauce will have to be imported to Worcester! * * * Canterbury will be fortunate this season in securing the services of James Meikle, as a water-polo player. Meiklo is a well-known Auckland swimmer. After giving up competitive swimming he devoted himself to water polo, in which game he was one of the leading lights. He is a regular visitor from Kirwee, where he is living, to the Christchurch Municipal Baths, and is getting into trim for the coming season. The club which secures him as a member is going to have a big asset. • * * “Dacre batted with great freedom, and was very unfortunate not to obtain a century,” says London “Sporting Life,” commenting on C. C. Dacre’s second-innings knock for 91 for Players in their Bournemouth match with Gentlemen. Dacre hit 18 fours. In the first innings he had scored 16. With Dave Lindsay and Kathleen Millar resident in Wellington, it will be apparent that Canterbury and Auckland, the two leading swimming centres, will have. to produce something above the average to hold off Wellington’s challenge for the Yaldhurst Shield at the New Zealand Swimming Championships, to be held in the capital city in January. * * * A British cycling record that had stood for 14 years—it was one 6f the “odd” records—was broken a few weeks ago at Herne Hill. J. E. Sibbit (Manchester Wheelers)) and E. H. Chambers (Brighton Stanley Cycling Club), who represented Great Britain in tandem cycle events at the Olympic Games, rode three-quarters of a mile on a tandem, from a standing start, in 1.20 4-5. The old record was 1.21 3-5. Earlier in the afternoon they had equalled the record, 23 2-5, for a quar-ter-mile from a flying start. * * * Rugby Under Arc Light The Rugby football which is played in Canada generally is of the United States type, which is very different from real Rugby. Some true Rugby enthusiasts—including one or two from New Zealand—recently arranged an exhibition match at Toronto. But it was played in the evening, under arc lights, and the players had very little practice. So there was not as much precision in the play as was desirable in an exhibition game. Still, Canadian papers, admitted that it was a real game, and much faster than its Canadian and United States brethren.