SPORTS JOTTINGS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 661, 13 May 1929, Page 13

SPORTS JOTTINGS

In the second round of the Davis Cup contest at Warsaw Britain defeated Poland. * » * Owing to rain on Saturday Tattersal's races and all sports in Sydney except football were postponed. In the British League football championship final on Saturday Huddersfield beat Leeds by 2 points to 0, at Halifax. In an Association football, match on Saturday .at Brussels, before 33,000 spectators, .England defeated Belgium by five goals to one. * c * Against the South African cricketers at Lords, Middlesex, in the first innings, made 132 (Haig 28). Morkel took seven for 61. South Africa had made 166 for five wickets when stumps were drawn. In a thrilling last-minute sprint the Victorian crew defeated the New South Wales crew by a foot in the women’s four-oar championship of Australia. The Western Australian team was third, three lengths away. The weather was cold and the water choppy. * s* * Rugby Problems The New Zealand Rugby Union at. its annual meeting will have a busy time, judging by the diversity of subjects which are to come up for consideration. At this week’s meeting of the management committee, held in Wellington, letters the Otago and Taranaki Rugby Unions, asking for permission for the referee to put the ball in the scrum in club matches controlled by the respective unions, were referred to the annual meeting. The chairman, Mr. S. S. Dean, said he did not favour the granting of any more dispensations. The English Rugbv Union’s handbook fo.r August. 1927. clearly laid down that the referee should only put the ball into the scrum on very special occasions, and this had been found to be quite workable in New Zealand.

Wellington Soccer’s Loss I Tlie Wellington Football Association J has received something of a setback 1' as the result of the resignation of Mr- W. Duncan, -who has been chairman of the management committee for a great number of years. As member. treasurer and chairman, be has occupied a seat on the management committee for 20 years. In referring to the resignation which lie had placed before the committee this week in writing, Mr. Duncan said that unforeseen circumstances had arisen which compelled his retirement from active participation in the work of the committee, and after so many years’ service in the administration of the game he foupd it hard to make a break. General regrets have been expressed at the loss the Soccer code has sustained by his resignation, which is to become effective immediately.