THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 636, 12 April 1929, Page 6

THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG

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Arne Borg caught a Crabbe at Honolulu. Seventy-four centuries —a record number —have been made in first-class cricket in Australia in the 1928-29 seaAuckland University College’s favourite dance is the Tennesse Trot. Tennis, see! The Welsh Football Association will send a team on tour through Canada from May 24 to July 12. Fay Taylour, famous woman motor-cyclist, is racing in New Zealand. Skirt-track racing! Wanganui is losing, and Wellington is gaining, N. Bowsett, well-known swimmer and Rugby footballer. To-morrow will see a general clean up of many odds and ends of summer sports. A little lesson in Russian—Trotski, Puntski, Brokeski. Johnny Weismuller has got a job as a swimming coach in Japan. One of the new selectors of the New South Wales Rugby League's represenj tative team is W. Kelly, formerly of

Steve Donoghue, famous jockey, who was declared a bankrupt a few months ago, was married again recently. His bride is a Lancashire woman. 33 years of age, with independent means. An Invercargill rifleman named P. Ure top-scored for liis team in the match for the Ladies’ Challenge Shield at Dunedin, his tally being 94. His opponents describe his success as “P-ure luck.” Football practices, in all three codes, will be away in full swing to-morrow. G. S. Cabot, Otago Varsity walker, smiled at one sally from the “benchers” when he was about 70 yards in front of his two opponents in the mile walk at the New Zealand University athletic meeting. Came a voice, in admiration, “The I’m Alone!” It is likely that Fidel la Barba, now on his way back from Australia to the United States of America, will go on to Lngland to fight Teddy Baldock, former champion of Great Britain in the bantam-weight class, in what is to be billed as a world’s championship bout. How ex-champions of nations can fight for a world's championship is a promoter's mystery-

Flinging Cushions Amazing scenes occurred at Twickenham, after Ireland had beaten lingland by one point in the Rugby international. This was Ireland’s first victory at Twickenham. Huge crowds leaped over the barriers. Thousands of the excited spectators were Irish men and women. People in the stands started to fling the cushions on which they had been sitting at the crowds underneath, and a free fight started. It lasted for more than half an hour, and some women were slightly injured. The ground was littered with thousands of torn cushions. Batsmen’s Big Aggregates Six batsmen scored over a thousand runs each in first-class cricket in Australia in the season that is ending there now. ID. G. Bradman, got 1,690 runs at an average of 93.88 an innings; W. R. Hammond 1,553 at 91.35, which average is appreciably below his average for test matches alone; E>. R. Jardine, 1168 at 64.88 an innings; A. F. Ivippax, 1,079 at 63.47; J. Ryder, 1,045 at 69.66; and E. Hendren 1.033 at 64.56 an innings. The highest number in any previous season was four in 1910-11, when a South African team was in Australia. E. Hendren is the only man who has scored over a thousand runs in each q£ three Australian seasons. G. A. Faulkner (South Africa) is the only man apart from Bradman and Hammond to get over 1,500 runs in a season there, his aggregate having been 1,534, and his average 59.00.