THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 701, 28 June 1929, Page 7

THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG

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"ROUSEABOUT"

Jack Dempsel will return to the boxing ring—if he gets a mililon dollars for doing it. Like a good antique, he seems to grow more valuable with age. A contemporary asks, “What is the best method of judging the weight of a fish?” By the scales, of course. * * ❖ R. PI. Bettington, well-known Australian cricketer, and his brother, B. C. J. Bettington, have won the foursomes golf championship of New South Wales. * * * J. Fitzpatrick, the star forward in the Australian hockey team which will tour New Zealand in July and August, is considered by competent Sydney critics to be the best forward that Austranian hockey has produced. Johnny Weismuller, the famous American swimmer who recently abandoned his status as an amateur, is reported now to be taking up flying as a profession. A flying fish? “Cook beat Risko on a foul.” Sounds like a culinary operation. Women tennis players at Nice have taken to wearing trousers when they are playing. A nice sort of thing! * * * Now that Sir Thomas Lipton’s challenge for the America Cup has been accepted, we shall hear more about the cultivation of friendliness between Great Britain and America, by means of sport. Hands across the teas! “Hop Harry” Stone, old man of the boxing ring, was awarded a draw with Carl Salm. of Germany, in a 15-round bout at Melbourne. It was a poor affair, but neither boxer was worse than the other. Melbourne people say that they do not want any more “Stone Age” boxing. Australian Test cricketers are to receive an additional bonus of £lO a match, making £4O a match, plus 30s a day allowance, plus firstclass travelling expenses. Seems that they are bonus-to-goodness amateurs! Convenient Twin Brother Twin brothers sometimes form a convenient combination, especially when they are boxers in the same class. Instance, the Webber twins. At Oamaru last week Billy Webber won the

featherweight division, and then, when twin brother was unable to continue (after winning the first round), he took on the light-weight finalist. He was, however, disqualified for hitting low. Rumour has it that twin Billy substituted once before without being detected by those “not in the know.” All Black Had the Wind Up Jim Burrows, who recounted his experiences in South Africa to the Canterbury Referees’ .Association recently, seems to have experienced his most trying time on the tour at a wedding. He was the only white man at a Zulu wedding, and he said that he “had the wind up” all the time. The natives were drinking, and he had heard that a wedding is seldom solemnised without one or two deaths occurring also. The trouble, it appears, is that part of the ceremony is a procession, in which, the relatives march in order of precedence. It is not difficult to sort out the most important of them at the head of the procession, but at about the middle of it there is always trouble. The oldest member of the Australian hockey team, which will arrive in New Zealand on July 16, is 29 years of age. The majority of the players are in the early twenties, and they are a particularly fast and physically fit combination