THE SPORTSMA'S LOG

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 791, 11 October 1929, Page 12

THE SPORTSMA'S LOG

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Scholarships for golf caddies have been founded at Pittsburg University. We take off our hats to the man who accomplished the impossible —the man who learned to play golf by taking lessons from six different pros, at one time. Golfers talk of “eagles” and “birdies,” but the woman golfer at Lyttelton who drove a ball into a sheep’s fleece a few days ago put over a new one—a mutton-birdie. The annual “Sex Test Golf Match” at Stoke Poges resulted in a victory for the women by 12 matches to 3. In the top match in the singles Miss Joyce Wetliered beat W. L. Hope by 4

Jack Harris Retires. The splendid game which J. H. Harris played for the South Island against the North Island marked the retirement of that well-known New Zealand and Canterbury representative full-back. This old boy of Christchurch Boys’ High School first played for Canterbury in 1923. and has represented ilv p. ;ivhr: • in close on 40

mat dies. He played for the South Island in 1925 and again this year, and for New Zealand in Australia in 1925, his appearances i n that tour including three matches ngainst New South Wales. In the season just ended Harris played better than lie had if one for some years, probably bc-

cause he was feeling fitter than he had been, and was less affected by injuries. Smart ground-fielding solid tackling, and determined stopping of forward rushes have been great features of Harris’s play. A true sportsman as well as a fine player, Jack Harris will be missed from the Rugby field when added responsibilities keep him out of the game next year. * * In a club cricket match in England recently one side did not score at all—not even a bye. One bowler took seven wickets and another two, and one batsman was run out. Otago's Annual Meeting. Unusual interest was taken in the election of office-bearers at the annual meeting of the Otago Cricket Association. For 10 seats .on the executive

< onunittee there were 13 nominations, and there was a dead-heat for tenth place. Four .well-known players secured seats, namely R. C. Torrance, R. C. Blunt, J. Dunning and F. Binney, while A. Galland and George Dickinson were defeated. There was also a ballot in the vice-presidential election, the successful candidates being C. Todd. W. W. MacKersy, G. A. Martin, and L. J. Joel. G. A. Wycherley was elected president unopposed. The “state of parties” in respect of club representation shows Carisbrook with five members, Dunedin four. Albion three, Grange two and Old Boy’s one. Dunedin Cricket Prospects. J. Jacobs, former Canterbury representative batsman, is the only player of note who will be new to Dunedin cricket this season. He will play for the Carisbrook Club, as will Hawkesworth, a wicketkeeper, who will replace the Wellingrtonian Clark, the last-mentioned having left Dunedin. The senior elevens of the other clubs will be very little different from what they were last summer. Eric Brown, a promising batsman who played for Grange a couple of years ago and then went north, is back again and has joined up with Dunedin. There is some talk of Carisbrook’s nominating a second, first-grade team to fill the vacancy in that grade. For years the club ran two first-grade elevens, both of which invariably did well.