ALL SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 607, 8 March 1929, Page 6

ALL SPORTS

A Weekly Budget

The annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union will be held at Wellington on May 16. The Auckland Primary Schools’ Tennis Association will hold its annual tournament at the Parnell courts to-morrow, and on succeeding Saturdays, play commencing at 9 a.m. Wrestlers for N.Z. A contingent of High-class overseas wrestlers will be seen in action in Auckland next season, as a result of negotiations between the New Zealand Wrestling Association and Australian Stadiums, Ltd. The N.Z.W.A. is at present in a sound financial position, having £lO9 to its credit in the bank. * * * Gerald Patterson, international tennis player, had to stand the racket in a Melbourne court recently. He was fined £5 for driving his motor-car in a dangerous manner. Patterson travelled across an intersection of streets at 38 miles an hour. His excuse was that he was late for a bridge party. Apparently he does not favour a backhand at bridge. Motor-Cycle Speedsters Early this week there arrived from Australia a couple of motor-cycling experts who are to take part in the new dirt-track racing which is being inaugurated at Wellington on Saturday evening. They are G. Clifton and M. Graham, who arrived on the Ulimaroa on Tuesday. According to these riders, dirt-track racing is an art in itself, and consists chiefly in being able to “come off with the least inconvenience.” According to both men the sport provides sufficient thrills to please the most exacting of sensation-mongers. Questioned in regard to what is known as “cornering,” or “broadsiding,” one of them said that when a rider gets accustomed to the sliding, even if a fall is certain, ho usually manages to slow his machine down to not more than ten miles an hour before he falls, thus saving himself from a dangerous spill. Mr. Hornig's Accident Mr. W. llornig, a member of the New Zealand Rugby Union for several years and manager of the All Black team which last year toured South Africa, met with a nasty accident in Wellington last week. He was taking part in an Oriental Football Club picnic in the Hutt Valley, a number of those present deciding to go for a swim. Getting into shallow water he struck his foot against a submerged rock, with the consequence that he broke one of the toes on his right foot. He is now limping around with a stick, but it will be some time before he will be be able to move about freely.

The Oxford and Cambridge Universitv boat-race is to be rowed on March 23. . We shudder to think what would happen if a football referee were to consult the spectators before he gave a decision. Over 1,000 bowlers played in first round of the New South Wales rinks championship. A Presbyterian minister says he thinks that every minister of the church should play tennis. To speed up his service? * * * Association football is coming on well in Austria. Vienna has a team of professionals which beat, by four goals to one. the Berlin side that earlier had defeated the London Football Association’s amateur team. A turkey was the prize for a golf tourney on an English links recently. Some good nib-licks there! *- * * Tommy Loughran When Tommy Loughran. light-heavy-weight champion of the world, stated recently that he considered the heavy-weight brigade easy picking for him, and announced his intention to prove his words, the New York Commission said he was quite eligible to tackle the heavies, but before doing so he must relinquish the title he held and go into the higher class. This annoyed Tommy, and as a leading Chicago promoter has offered to give him the chance to try himself against members of the heavy-weight brigade j he accepted the offer and announced ! his intention to take up his residence J in Chicago. That was as far as j matters had progressed according to j latest files. Andcews For America Private advices to hand state that E. D. Andrews, the well-known New Zealand tennis player who is at present attending Cambridge University, is to be included in the Oxford and Cambridge team to contest the Pren- j tice Cup against Yale and Harvard j in August at the Newport Casino. It I is understood that Andrews will be j taking part in the American inter- | collegiate championships, which start j on June 24, in which case he will not be seen this year at Wimbledon, as that tournament opens on the same day. It is expected that while in the United States he will appear at the Seabright, Newport, Southampton and other well-known American tournaments, while he is also billed to appear at the American championships in September. The indications are that Andrews wall be spending three or four months in the United States, but whether he will be returning to England afterwards or coming back to New Zealand has not yet been mad?* clear.