The Sportman's Log

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 719, 19 July 1929, Page 12

The Sportman's Log

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Second Test, All Blacks v. Australia, at Brisbane, tomorrow. The Scotsman who temporarily gave up golf because his ball was being repainted has now to take second place to the man who has his wooden tees reshafted. Joe Beckett, British heavy-weight boxer, was fined for exceeding the speed limit recently. That’s a thing he was never guilty of in the ring. Sprouts Elder, American motorcyclist, is having a great run of successes on British speedways. Gathering some berries. Johnny Hill, English boxer, who claims the world’s fly-weight championship, is preparing for a summer campaign, an English paper tells us. Presumably the cry will be “Swat that fly!” A project to form an international Rugby Federation in Europe is makingprogress. Rugby “heads” of France. Italy, and Germany met in Paris recently, and formulated a programme, of international matches for next sea- * * * i Lord Burgh ley, famous hurdler, was I beaten by nearly two yards in a 120yds hurdles race, in 15 sec dead, by a German hurdler, Trossbach, in a meeting at Stamford Bridge between the Achilles Club and two German clubs, the Berliner and Deutsch. The Englishman, though,® had barely recovered from influenza. * $ I The “scoop” shot in hockey is not illegal, but dangerous play is. In the circle the “scoop” shot becomes dangerous. as a man might take a flying shot at the ball in the air. So the Xew Zealand Hockey Referees’ Association has ruled that although the “scoop" shot is permissible in other parts of the field, it is not permissible in the circle. Primo Camera, an Italian heavyweight boxer, who stands 6.10, is described as having hands like York hams and feet like yards. Sounds like a bit of prime dairyfed for the Addington markets. The Boston “Herald” (U.S.A.) says that wrestling is the great gold-brick industry in the history of modern sport. Scarcely any important wrestling match in the United States is a genuine contest, and many prominent wrestlers appear under diffe.rent names in various parts of J;he country. M. Myers, of the United States of America, and J. Wright, of Canada, have both side-stepped efforts to match them with Bobby Pearce. Australia’s champion amateur sculler, in races for the Philadelphia Gold Cup, held by Pearce. So Pearce offers any other | sculler in Australia a chance to take ! the trophy from him. University has increased its lead in j the Wellington Rugby competition as j a result of last Saturday’s fixtures, j and now has a lead of four points ! from Athletic and Old Boys, who are : one point ahead of Petono and Poneke. * * * Single-tube Tyres It is reported that the council of j

the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association has decided that singletube tyres may be used in future for road-racing. The question received a good deal of discussion before New Zealand was brought into line with the Australian Athletic Association, which body adopted the change-over some time ago, in preparation for the roadracing season. * * * In the senior A Soccer competition at Wellington, Diamond now has a lead of four points from Pet One, which team is three points ahead of Hospital, Marist and Waterside being one point farther back.