ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 589, 15 February 1929, Page 13

ALL SPORTS

A WEEKLY BUDGET Muriwai Motor Sports, March 9. The younger the better —Jackson (19), Bradman (20), A’Beckett (21). Leckie-Hatton fight at Auckland Town Hall next Monday night week, February 25. The fifth and last cricket test of the 1928-29 series will be played at Melbourne, starting March 8. A Russian singer relates that once she received a dozen eggs in lieu of a bouquet. If that idea spreads to cricket it will be rather hard on some of our cricketers. A French Rugby player had both his shoulders dislocated in a recent match. Robbing him of his powers of speech? N.Z.A.A.A. track and field championships at Wellington on March 22 and 23. * * * Borg for Auckland—famous Swede will give exhibition at Tepid Baths on March 11. There has been trouble with sections of the crowds at recent Association football matches in England. The Arsenal Club has decided to eject spectators who resort to objectionable barracking. By taking eight wickets for 126 at Adelaide, J. C. White joins eight others who have taken eight wickets in a test match innings. Arthur Mailey holds the record —nine wickets for 121 at Melbourne in 1920-21. * * * Surf-bathers at Milford complain that the odds on their not being pulled up for having insufficient costume are necks to nothing. * * * The attendance at the Sydney Cricket Ground on the last clay of the recent Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and Victoria was only 250. The people who did not hold tickets paid a total of £2 9s 3d. A Jackeon, but no “Stonewall” Jackson. The National Sporting Club, London, has gained a great deal in popularity since it started to admit the general public to fights. Reserved seats cost 8s 6d and 5s 9d, including tax. Women are not admitted, though, to the fights in general. * * # There is something to be said for J. R. Devereux’s suggestion that Lily Copplestone would have done better in Cook Strait on a vegetarian and fruit diet. Training on currents is obviously the thing. * * * W. Cameron, Dominion’s champion

sprint swimmer, will make liis first, appearance in Auckland at the TV aitemata Club’s carnival on Tuesday. While Jack Mills was piling up his brilliant 158 at Eden Park last Saturday. Roger Blunt was knocking the bowling about in Dunedin for what the “Otago Times” refers to as "probably his best innings in Dunedin.” He made 150 out of Carisbrook’s 368 for eight wickets against Albion. Jack Dunning, erstwhile Auckland representative, who is now a master at one ot Dunedin’s secondary schools, did not manage to get going, an lbw decision settling him early. Bolam, the Canterbury swimmer who entered for the Annette Kellerman Cup last week, was steered a very erratic course by his pilots during the second mile. So much was RixTrott, the short-distance crack, off the course when he brought his dinghy up to the concrete pier off Point Jerningham that he roused the ire of some of the officials in the tug TJta which was waiting for the competitors to pass.