ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 525, 30 November 1928, Page 6

ALL SPORTS

A WEEKLY BUDGET A racehorse has often to be scratched, but the whippet can always scratch himself. » - - The English Football Association team 'which is to visit South Africa next year will play 17 matches, including three Tests. A guarantee of £ 6,800 has been given by the South African Soccer people. According to a Melbourne paper, the boxers who came to New Zealand from Australia in the past season were so pleased with their treatment in the Dominion that they and several other prominent boxers are thinking of coming again next year. * * * British heavy-weight boxer Phil Scott, who has world’s championship aspirations, has been beaten again. A London youth knocked him out in two rounds. Now we must hasten to add that this defeat was suffered by Scott in a draughts match in London—not in a boxing contest. M.C.C.—More Cricket Conquerors, according to British Press opinion on the first Test. * * * This should make the piouths of boxing organisations in New Zealand water. The Amateur Boxing Association of England made a protit of £754 4s 6d from its last championship tournament. The English Rugby Union has decided to erect at the main entrance to the Twickenham ground a gate as a memorial to the great work for the game of the late Sir George Rowland Hill. * * * When Joan Fry, British international lawn tennis player, toured South Africa with an English women’s tennis team in 1926-27 she became engaged to a South African. Now she has announced that the engagement is cancelled. * * * A few weeks ago two cricket teams in Saskatchewan, Canada, tied in a match, with an aggregate score of 135 each. A week later they met again and tied again, 206 each. If at first you don’t succeed, tie, tie, tie again. * * * A Filipino feather-weight boxer named Young Along is on his way to Australia. Let’s hope he is not bumped along too heavily.

A Strong Backbone 11. C. Alloo, a younger brother of A. W. Alloo. the Otago cricket skipper, is in Dunedin again, playing for Otago ■ High School Old Boys. He is in good all - round form, too, making runs and taking wickets in each match. The Old Boys’ backbone of seasoned players, consisting of A. W. Alloo, 11. O. Alloo, G. R. Dickinson and A. Gale, is a strong one, and the new first grade

H. C. Alloo team will be by no means last on the list when the season finishes. • ♦ * An English writer has come to the conclusion that pugilists, as a class, are unsociable. But then their job is to keep others at arm's length. ** • * W. E. Henley, who has been chosen one of New Zealand’s Rhodes Scholars for 1929, played Rugby for Otago Varsity against Canterbury College in Christchurch and Dunedin this year. * # * At one of the big golf courses near London it is usual for week-end players to wait in a queue for up to three hours before they can hit off at the first tee. ♦ * * A London Rugby team which in- / eluded several internationals, one of' whom was W. B. J. Sheehan, of the j Waratahs, crossed to Germany a few = weeks ago, to play the Hanover Rugby [ Club. The Englishmen won by 41 j points to three. A han(d)-over-fist 1 victory. / * * * The Amateur Boxing Association of England has decided that in. future all open competitions, which include championships, shall be decided by bouts of three rounds of throe minutes each, instead of two rounds of three minutes each and r ne of 'our minutes. * * m Under the heading “The Rigours of Rugger," London “Punch" recently republished the following from a Gloucestershire paper: “Dacre, the New Zealand cricketer, who is qualifying for Gloucestershire, has played at right-half and rick back." But the Gloucestershire paper is not the only one to make hay of the facts. Perhaps it was an over-heady draught that made “Punch" confuse Rugger and Soccer. Miss K. Miller In Wellington Miss Kathleen Miller, who has left Dunedin to take up her residence in Wellington with the rest of her family, started serious training before leaving the Southern city. It was noticed that she is swimming higher out of the water than she used to. This is something she learned at thfe Olympic Games, and it should help her to faster times. * * * Enid Wilson, an 18-year-old girl, won the English women’s golf championship, at Walton Heath, a few weeks ago, by beating Dorothy Pearson, a girl in her early twenties, by nine up and eight to play. It was the first time since Joyce Wethered made her astonishing debut at Sberingham in 1920 that the title has gone to a girl in her teens. Enid Wilson was beaten in the final last year. * * * A Warrant For Him While Major Goodsell. Australian sculler who has been in San Francisco for some time, was announcing his intention to become a naturalised citizen of the United States, his wife, in Sydney was taking out a warrant for his arrest for failure to comply with an order for maintenance of her and her three children. Evidently Good sell believes that his wife should row her own skiff. * it ? Fast Women The English record for a 100yds freestyle swim by a woman, 67 l-s*>ec, was smashed in this year’s championships a few weeks ago. Miss E. King, of Edinburgh, won the fastest heat in 66 2-ssec. The final was won by Miss Vera Tanner, of Eastbourne, in 66 1-3 sec. The second girl did 66 4-osec, and Miss King, who finished third, equalled the old record this time.