SPORTS BREVITIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 745, 19 August 1929, Page 7

SPORTS BREVITIES

In the eastern lawn tennis championships at Rye, New York, in the final Tilden defeated Hunter, o—2, 6- —2. 10 —S In the doubles Bell and Mangi'n defeated Austin and Cliff.— A.P.A.-U.S. For the fourth successive year M. J. MacKenzie won the New South Wales 10.000 'metres cross-country championship on Saturday, in 34min 34sec. In his billiards match against Walter Lind rum, who led by over 2,000 when i play began on Saturday, Willie Smith, j playing with confidence and coolness, , reduced much of the leeway and carried his unfinished break to 770. Later ! he made another of 743. The scores at close of play were:—Lindrum, 11,145; Smith. 10.704. Lindrum had a very i lean time. The match will be continued this week. At the Melbourne Stadium on Sat- % urday evening John Pesek, 13st 71b, defeated Rocky Marshall. 13st 91b. in the sixth round of a wrestling match. After being thrown Marshall could not proceed. The National Sporting Club’s pre- : mises at Covent Garden, London, the | scene of many famous boxing fights ! for the past 30 years, has been sold. In : the coming season matches will be | staged at the Stadium Club. High Hol- | born, pending negotiations for another | site.—A.P.A.-U.S. At the Velodrome Saucer track. New York, on Saturday, Cecil Walker (Australia) reduced the world’s bicycling record for 50 miles by 7min Isec. He won the 50-mile championship race against is riders in Ihr 42min “see.— A.P.A.-U.S.