Sportsmens Log

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 665, 17 May 1929, Page 6

Sportsmens Log

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Objecting to being called "the m,. pies." Merivale Football Club gave Canterbury Rugby Union's Public' Committee the bird. Twenty American millionaires trav oiled to England in one liner to watc ’ the Grand National tneeplechase. Ooi birds on the wing. • * * The referee of a Rugby match Sn Rangiora used a mouth-organ, for lack of a whistle. Perfect organisation! “The bigger stumps looked lft* mountains,” laughing said -‘PatsyHendrer,. after he had been dismissed for a ■'duck” in his first innings in the new cricket season at Home. Xoticed that A. Ducat, well-known Surrey cricketer, scored 177 runs against Hampshire on the Oval recently. E\ idently he has taken the duck out of Ducat. The referee bf an Australian rules football match in Melbourne recently awarded 158 penalty kicks in the game. Perhaps he used a gramophone. Claude Wilson, who has been twice beaten by Johnnie Leckie, on poin s. is reckoned to be the feather-weight champion of the Southern United States. He is included among the best 10 boxers of his weight in America. Wilson has never been knocked out. and has lost only about seven ov.t of 140 contests.

Hockey Tours The South African Hockey Association has invited the British Hockey Union to send a team to South Africa this year. If that invitation cannot be accepted, Australia and New Zealand will be invited to send a combined team to South Africa in 1931.

I. J. Siedle. who scored 169 runs for the South African cricket team against Leicestershire this week, is also a good Rugby forward. He played for Natal against the All Blacks last year. Siedle is 26 years of age. He is reckoned to be one of the soundest of South Africa's “new” batsmen. Lean Years While some of the bigger clubs in Association football in England are able to offer big sums for high-class players, other clubs are having a bad time. The Blackpool Football Club, which is in the second division, will have to sell all its players unless it receives better support. In eight weeks in which it played four matches at home its net receipts totalled £1.133. whereas its wages bill was over £2OO a week.

On a Famous Green Although the cables have not mentioned it, the lirst match that the South African cricket team of this season played in England was a oneday game, recently with a team of first-class cricketers captained by “Plum” Warner. The game was played on the picturesque village green ot Bearsted, which is some two miles out of Maidstone. This old green, where Royalists and Cromwell ians fought, where the followers of Wat Tyler encamped, is steeped in cricket lore, for it was here, in the Kentish cradle ot cricket, that Alfred Mynn, that genial top-hatted giant, used to play a century ago. Here he played single wicket with Fuller Pilch, his almost equaii famous contemporary. Unlucky Tennis Players

The junior tennis players of minion who assembled, at "Wellington to take part in the championship haracourt tournament this week, arrang* by Mr. W. J. Melody, have had anything but good luck. The tournameu was supposed to open on Tuesday, a most of the players had Monday, so as to be ready to start, but when the time came for ™ assemble at Miramar on Tuesday morning a heavy southerly had startea* making things very unpleasant. £ play eventuated on the rirst day. on the Wednesday a start was made with the preliminaries m the vv Show building, the rain still prevent, ing outside play, even on hyrd cour • The games are now proceeding m u building referred to, and the have the satisfaction —even if tn®*. disappointed about the w ? at 0 f knowing that they are the pioneers o indoor tennis in New Zealand.