ALL SPORTS—A WEEKLY BUDGET

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 513, 16 November 1928, Page 6

ALL SPORTS —A WEEKLY BUDGET

Walter Lindrum is no babe in the ; nursery—cannons. * * * Melbourne has lost AY. AT. Whyte, amateur mile runner and Australian representative at the Olympic Games, j I He has obtained a position in Sydney. Stalwart New Zealanders Melbourne “Sporting Globe's” row- | ing expert comments on the Wanganui , Union crew’s win at Henley-on-Yarra,: i "In the senior fours the Victorian j ! crews were outclassed by the stalwart New Zealanders, who won with j 1 the greatest of ease. None of the ! Victorians looked like senior crews. So ; long as the Dominion can send across j j crews of the calibre of the Wanganui i I and Waitemata fours, there seems j | little chance of the Stewards’ Clial- j j lenge Cup coming back to Victoria, j ! Victorians would welcome the visit j of a senior eight from New Zealand, j for it is in this race that the chief j strength of Victorian rowing is to be found each Henley.”

A South African paper complains that Rugby football at Newlands is fast developing into “foot.bra.wl.”

Two well-known English were caught raking score ' *?*«* very bad lie! tor e-cardß. A * * * According to the “Pretoria v* Kruger and M. J. van Druten Springbok Rugby forwards eided that the 1928 , e their last in the game. shall Another Record Tho tremendous vogue of Prof sional Soccer football i u Knr , evidenced in the sum paid recentlv V* tho transfer of David Jack, an oub7' right forward, from Bolton WaodZT to Woolwich Arsenal. The price 7* was £IO,OOO, a record; and. a, t will get 10 per cent, of this, the that he hud no more say t n tl 00 than a colt has at the yearling* should not worry him. J„ addition. £ will draw the maximum salary of c a week and bonus money for man*" won, with presents from f erv * admirers of both sexes, ‘subs" fr sporting goods manufactured other oddments of the kind thrown^