THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG.

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 619, 22 March 1929, Page 7

THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG.

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Jack Hobbs is 47 years or age. j Soccer season in New South j Wales started last Saturday. I Johnny Leckie fights Billy Grime at Sydney on Easter Saturday. Gar Wood holds present world’s speed-boat record—92 miles an j hour. * Annual Meetings: Rugby Union, : Monday night; A.F.A. and hockey, ' Tuesday; Rugby League, April 4. In senior inter-club tennis at Christchurch, W. Goss, now 62, got through with only one defeat. International sports carnival will j celebrate opening of Sydney Harbour j ! Bridge in 1931. John Pesek, Polish wrestler, has been engaged for a season’s wrestling in Australia at a fee of £IO,OOO Rather neat extract from the Sugi gestion Book at a certain golf club. **l j suggest that the management expect I too great a mileage out of the roller ! towel in the dressing-room.”

Mangere Bowling Tournament j The final game in the Mangere Bowling Club’s tournament resulted as follows: J. Ivennedy-Ross, Green, Cowell, Vella (Onehunga). 21. v. Buckton. O’Loughlin, Rawnsley, Willcox (Papatoetoe), 18 £1.250 for Dog A 15-months-old wire fox terrier dog. winner of five English Kennel Club ; challenge certificates, was sold recently for £1,250 —a world’s record for i “foxies.” Public Service Bowling The semi-final of the Public Serv ice bowling tournament which was to have been played yesterday has been postponed. probably till next Wednesday, owing to a bereavement in the family' j of one of the^ players.

Describing the fourth test at Adelaide, an American paper says: “A tremendous ovation greeted Hammond when he came back to the club house and turned in a scorecard whic h showed nine fours and six threes.” —He was certainly finding the green with his driver.

Nurmi Beater. Paavo Nurmi suffered his first setback in his American indoor racing campaign at Madison Square Garden last month, when he was beaten by Ray Conger over a mile, run in 4.17 2-5. What Do You Know About That! Maurice Tate admitted in Melbourne last week that he was considering “the acceptance of a certain offer" to coach in New Zealand next season. Puzzle—find the New Zealand Association that will admit making the offer. * * * ! A Cricket Giant George Bonnor, the biggest man and j the biggest hitter who ever played in test cricket, stood 6ft 6in in height. He • once broke the grandstand clock on the Melbourne ground with a tremendous hit from the centre of the field. One Up On Bogey A New “World's Champion" America has .iust decided one of its t extraordinary “world’s championships.” . Blair Numamaker becomes champion ! horseshoe pitcher of the universe by , virtue of finishing a round-robin tournament with a total of 14 victories and j one defeat. That “round-robin” touch : is a new one on us, but we presume it is something like the bowling tournament where everybody plays everybody j else, and the “two-lifer” wins, or some- j thing. * * * I American Tennis Rankings For the ninth year in succession, W. T. Tilden, recently restored to the good graces of the U.S.L.T.A., has been ranked as America’s premier player. F. T. Hunter, whom Maorilander Andrews sensationally defeated last year, is ranked second, and George M. Lott third —the first three places being exexactly the same as last year. Miss Helen Wills heads the women’s list, while Miss Helen Jacobs has dispossessed Mrs. Mallory of second place. The Auckland Rugby League paid j out £517 2s 6d in accident and sick j pay to players last season.

Dunedin, too, has caught the dirttrack motor-racing craze. A crowd of j 6,000 canny Scots cheerfully paid their j “bawbee’ at the last meeting. Not Going South The usual crop of rumoured Rugby changes is going the rounds. There was talk in Christchurch last week of A. Berridge going south this year. The popular Ponsonby five-eighth says it is the first he has heard of it. ♦ »n * The number of junior players registered with the various League Rugby clubs in Auckland last year totalled 1613—an increase of 613 over the previous season. The gate takings in the five cricekt Tests in Australia amounetd to over £70.000. There are now 2,167 clubs in the English Football Association. In addition there are 228 leagues and affiliated associations. All-Rounders; Not Specialists “The more games we play, the more we become sportsmen, and that is I about as good a title as we can wish |

in these days.”—Lord Byng, Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police, at the opening of a new Rugby football pavilion at the Police Sports Ground last month. Prize money and sweepstakes paid out for dog racing at Wembley in 1928 amounted to £40,000. Over 1,400,000 people witnessed the racing during the year. Unlucky Sutcliffe There was no more disappointed man in Melbourne when the fifth Test started than Herbert Sutcliffe, who

was unable to play owing to an injured shoulder. P r eviously, he had an unbroken sequence of 27 appearances for England in Test matches against Australia, South Africa and West Indies. “I would like to have been there with old Jack,” said the great Yorksliireman before the

match, ‘‘especially as we both seemed

to be picking up our best form again.” Since 1924, Sutcliffe has been a partner in the Old Firm, which has always come to light in England’s hour of need.