SPORTS BREVITIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 577, 1 February 1929, Page 11

SPORTS BREVITIES

The French Lawn Tennis Federation j has refused to permit the professional j player, Kozeluli, to play his proposeu j matches with amateur players. • • 9 3 In the opening rounds of the open golf tournament at San Antonio. Texas, Dudley in the first IS holes had a score of 69. Kirkwood tied for 16th place with 74 Anniversary Regatta The principal results at the Sydney anniversary regatta on Saturday were: j —Senior Fours —Mossman beat Sydney j by a length. Single Sculls—Scott (12 j sec) beat Pearce (scr) by four lengths, j Milson Memorial Yachting Cup—\ anessa beat Rawhiti and Bona. 4= * * Women's Swimming Titles The chief results in the women’s swimming championships at Coogee Aquarium, Sydney, on Saturday were as follow: —200 Metres —Miss Jean Cocks 1. Miss Edna Davey 2, Miss M. Williams (Western Australia) 3 Won bv one and a-half yards. Time, 2 min 45 l-ssec. 100 Metres—-Miss Bonnie Mealing 1, Miss M. Mealing 2. Miss Violet Armstrong 3. Won easily. Time, lmin 23 2-ssec. Swedish Athletic Star G. Rydbeck, who arrived in Wellington toward the end of last summer, has commenced to give ample proof of his ability in field events. He arrived in New Zealand with an established New South Wales and Swedish record, being an ex-decathlon champion of the Australian State and a winner of decathlon events in his native land before coming to the Southern Hemisphere. At the sports meeting on Saturday evening last at Wellington he put up the star performance of the evening by throwing the discus 127 ft 3in, after which he won the hop. step and jump from the scratch mark, covering 44ft 3in. He has been chosen by the Wellington Centre as one of its representatives in the high, long, and hop and step jumps, and in the discus and javelin throwing events. To watch him jump is a real treat. He seems to soar slowly through the air, while there is nothing hurried at any stage of his performance.