ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 553, 4 January 1929, Page 6

ALL SPORTS

A WEEKLY BUDGET Merritt hits a six and s.ts down. The Seats of the Smighty! - Six official watches agreed when W. Hunt, of East Sydney, lowered the Australian half-mile track record in 1.55 4-5 on the Sydney cricket ground a few days ago. “Lockie” Macdonald A couple of points about Lachie Macdonald, which has tripped even N.B.A. officials. Apart from present

ring abbreviations, his name used to be Macdonald. not McDonald, or M'Donald. And Lachie in good broad Scotch is pronounced more like “Lockie” than “Lackie.” Tattooed Greyhounds Tattooing of greyhounds competing at mechanical hare, live hare, and plumpton meetings under the National Coursing Association of New South Wales has teen made compulsory, to check “ringing-in.” The association has obtained an electrical machine that will tattoo dogs at the rate of two a minute. “Winging It” A Rugby germ seems to have winged from New Zealand to Wales. In a recent international trial match at Swansea the packs were too keen to attract the selectors’ eyes to put their backs into honest scrummaging. A critic comments sadly that the much-boomed revival of Welsh Rugby has not arrived yet. In liis “Record of the New Zealand 1928 Olympic Team,” H. Amos, manager of that team, advocates the use of an artificial international language at the meetings of the International Olympic Committee, and the various international athletic federations. Makes one wonder whether or not some of his remarks while he was on tour with the team were only artificial.

In a First Division Soccer match in England a few weeks ago an Exeter City outside left named Death collided with Fulham’s goalkeeper, named Beecham. Beecham suffered concussion, and Death’s ribs were damaged. Beecham only partly dodged Death with the pill that time.

The Tennis Face What do our women tennis players think of this, from the South African -Sporting Journal”? “The lawn tennis face is not purely a thing of the imagination. There are numbers of young girls who start their lawn tennis careers as bonny looking girls, as attractive as one could wish. Yet after a few seasons of tournament play, have become almost inconceivably haggard and worn-looking. Unfortunately it is often the mother of the girl, who is, unconsciously, the driving force behind this deplorable state of affairs.” Faster Soccer An Association football note from an Knglish paper: “The unfortunate incidents at many League Soccer matches this season prove either that the standard of refereeing has fallen off or that the game has grown too fast for on© official to be able to cover the entire held. There appear to be so few good referees—at first glance—that one may say it would be impossible to double the number on the League list. 1 believe, on the contrary, that we can get all the men required, provided they are adequately paid, if they are given a one-man job. All the great players agree that the new offside law speeded up football immensely. That, I think, is the reason for the looser control. The Football Association ought to experiment with a referee in each half at a representative match, as is done in hockey. The official would then always be on the spot to see and immediately check rough play.”