ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 543, 21 December 1928, Page 10

ALL SPORTS

A WEEKLY BUDGET The cricket Test at Brisbane was played on the Exhibition Grounds. How appropriate! The South African Swimming Union has rejected Arne Borg’s proposals for a tour of South Africa. Mailey, Mailey, Ever so gaily, What does your pencil show? Oh, crack Aussie bats Knocked into cocked hats, And ducks’ eggs all in a row! The golf course at Jinja, where the Prince of Wales played while he was in East Africa, is the only one in the world with a local rule that a ball may be lifted without penalty if it is lying in a hippopotamus footmark. What Mailey really said, when asked about playing in the next Test, was “Nothling doing.” Australia has a grim task in Test cricket. Grim, grimmer, Grimmett? New York was not at all thrilled by the heavy-weight boxing elimination bout in which Paolino Uzcudun won a points decision over Otto von Parat, of Norway. What surely must be the record for tenure of the secretaryship of a cricket club is held by J. Curragh, who has been secretary of the Weedons Cricket Club for 35 years. Edna Davey, of North Sydney, who was one of Australia’s swimming representatives at the Olympic Games, successfully defended, the other day, her title as 880 yards champion of New South Wales. Betty Taw finished second, 45 yards behind Edna Davey, whose time was 12min 54 3-ssec. Association football has made great strides in Germany. . Splendid form was shown by a German team which recently visited London and beat the Isthmian League (an organisation of amateur clubs) by four goals to one. Button’s Leap Helped a little by a wind, a Parramatta High School boy, A. Button, broad-jumped 23ft o£in. at Sydney a few days ago. The junior record for New South Wales is 20ft 6£in., but Button’s performance may not be recognised as a new record because of the wind. One of the greatest crowds in American sporting history watched a football match at Los Angeles between the Notre Dame team and the University of Southern California. After all expenses had been paid, each team received £28,000. * Wef, they need plenty of money to pay the medical and buriel expenses necessitated by the American brand of football. Borg’s Demand When the last mail to hand left Sydney the bargaining for a visit to Australia by Arne Borg, the famous swimmer, was still in progress. Borg was stipulating that the Australians should pay his wife’s expenses as well as his own. Mrs. Borg, of course, would not receive the daily allowance, over and above expenses, which her husband would get. But does Borg need a chaperon?