THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG.

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 725, 26 July 1929, Page 7

THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG.

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Golfers need something stronger than tee in this weather. The Warrnambool - to - Melbourne cycle race, IGS miles, is to be revived this year. It has been set down for the same day as the Timaru-to-Christ-church race, October 5. “Rugby Union Football with the Soft Pedal,” says a heading in an English paper. The pedal extremities that we have seen in Rugby football have beer, anything but soft. The tallest footballer in Australia is reckoned to be L. (“Tiny”) Mills, who has been playing Australian Rules football in Adelaide, but who has now joined the St. Kilda Club, in Melbourne. Mills's height is 6ft 7iin. An Australian paper referred to one of the All Blacks as “Stingfellow.” Perhaps that was because, as an emergency fullback, he has been the tail of the team. N. A. Quinn, the 20-year-old bowler from Griy.uo.land West, who took six wickets for 92 runs in England’s first innings in the third test, last week, is a left-hand bowler, medium-fast. lie usually keeps a good length, and often makes the ball swing in and get up. L. W. Hayes, of Sydney, who recently won the amateur billiards championship of the British Empire, in a special tournament held in South Africa, now has won the amateur championship of New South Wales for the fourth time in succession. That makes eight championships in a row for Hayes, as he has won the Australasian title for the past three years.

Judging from his innings of 150 against Kent last week. Jack Hobbs’s injured shoulder is quite sound again.

A Prolific Scorer Ramson, centre -threequarter for University, has been the most prolific scorer in the Wellington Rugby Union's senior A grade competition this season. His total is 80 points, and includes tries and kicks. Heazlewood, the Athletic fullback, comes next with 74 points, but his score is made up entirely of kicking points. The Promise of Austin W. T. Tilden says that H. W. (“Bunny”) Austin, the progressing young English lawn tennis' player, is a second Cochet in tactics and style. “With any fortune at all in the matter of health,” he says, “there is not an • Englishman other than Austin who can bring back to the country we ‘aliens’ so love the 1a w n ten ni s pres~ * tige that the Motherland of the game lost when those wonderful , Dohertys retired.” Delights In Store for Us The 117 which F. K. Woolley made i for Kent against Hampshire last week ! was his fourth successive century. It | included one six and 14 fours. This week Woolley made S 3 and 93 not out for England against South Africa. So the tall left-hander, who is to be seen in New Zealand at the end of the year, is in great form. Versatile When W. E. Merritt, the crack New Zealand cricketer, is not sending down his cunning twisters, he is playing Rugby for the Christchurch Old Boys team. His long suit appears to be drop-kick-ing. for it is reported from the South that in a game against Christchurch recently he managed two of the finest drop-kicks seen at Lancaster Park loi many a day. Considering how sodden the ball was they were indeed remarkable. The second kick, from near a touch-line, was magnificent. * * * After Twenty-two Years When Mrs. Bundy, whose showing in the recent Wimbledon tennis matches surprised critics, won the championship in 1907 as May Sutton, a ball-boy named Wiggins was so alert that she promised to give him an inscribed racket when next she came to Wimbledon. That was 22 years ago. The ball-boy is now a newspaper seller, and at the recent toxjrnev Mrs. Bundy recognised him outside Wimbledon and paid the long outstanding debt. Good Wicketkeeper C. A. van der Merwe. the South African cricket team’s reserve wicketkeeper, who performed so well behind the stumps in the third test last week, comes from Transvaal. In a match with Natal a few months ago he caught one man and stumped four, in one innings. He is 24 years old. As a Rugby * footballer he is a very promising centre threequarters, playing for Transvaal’s | second fifteen. Some Use! I "Useful as a batsman.” That was i said of 11. G. Owen-Smith when he was i selected as a member of the South (African cricket team for England. His slow leg-break bowling, with an occasional googly. and his fine fielding had been his chief qualifications. But we’ll say that a man who can smack up 129 runs in a test match as breezily as Owen-Smith did last week —and it was not his first bright and prolific innings when things were going badly for his team—certainly is useful as a batsman. Owen-Smith is 20 years of age. He learned his cricket at the Diocesan College. Capetown. Like j several other members of the South African cricket team, he has been prominent in Rugby football in his ; native country.