THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 809, 1 November 1929, Page 7

THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG

Sydney Women’s Rowing Club reoenUy won three events at one .regatta. Still, ~bis was not a flawless triple victory, for we notice that A. Mann wasin two of the club’s successful crews. Making a great fuss about Pr.rno Camera, Italy’s 20st heavyweight boxer. English papers reckon that he is a world-beater who needs only to oppose someone of his own weight to be a real maneater. Primely carnivorous, apparently. Reported that Tom Keeney’s idea ol 11 comfortable old age has an hotel ir the background. Not. we hope, in the usual sense of propping up one’s old age with an hotel! Roger Blunt Absent Tho Caris brook Cricket Club was without the assistance of Roger Blunt

in its opening first grade match in Dunedin, the former Canterbury champion being gn his way to Sydney to give evidence in the court proceedings in connection with claims made against the Union Steam Ship Co., Ltd.. by relatives

of some of the people drowned as tin result of the collision in Sydney Har bour between the Tahiti (on which tin ~ , ' an(l cricketers who touret England Mere returning home) and tiller rv steamer Greycliffe. "A great captain in the M. A. Noble tradition,” is how J. A. Newman sums up his view of South Afr ca s cricket leader, H. S. Deane.

Women Cyclists England has some redoubtable women cyclists. The winner of a 12hour race held by the Rosslyn Women’s Cycling Club rode 195 miles. At the 110-mile check station her time was bln* 23min. The event was unpaced, and the competitors used tubular tvres. The average time for changing these tyres is one minute for the rear wheel, and 30sec for the front wheel. Suits the Wicket “Tho most promising bowler I’ve seen for a long time,” says J. A. Newman, of Hampshire. “is‘ W. Voce, of Nottinghamshire. He certainly is a potential test match player. Voce is a left-hander Mho started as a slombowler, but now can be as fast as H. Larwood for some overs. He adapts his pace to the Micket. On fast wickets he boM r ls fast, and on slow M’ickets he bowls a slow ball and spins it. Voce is tall, well built, and strong, and can stand a lot of work. He comes from a good cricket school, for Nottingham seems to breed cricketers.”

When Phil Scott’s manager suggested that Primo Camera should join a circus, he should have mentioned Ringling’s, instead of Barnum and Bailey’s. Turf Wicket Now "Now that South Africa has started playing cricket on turf Mickets, instead of matting, it Mill, I think, be only four or five years before South Africa becomes very serious opposition to both England and ; Australia in test cricket.” That is Jack Newman’s opinion. Rotherham’s Catch G. A. Rotherham, an English cricketer. who came to the Dominion a couple of seasons back, and Mho now plays for the Petone Club. Mas married at Dannevirke on Wednesday. Rotherham has represented Wellington in Plunket Shield matches.

Loath to Lose Him One cricket pupil whom J. A. Newman, coach to the Canterbury Cricket Association, is very sorry to lose is J.

Jacobs, now in Dunedin. Newman reckons that Jacobs, who has unusually powerful wrists, would be a champion batsman if he Mould only learn to use his feet properly, especially in driving. With his off-drive. Jacobs puts his

front foot out away from the line of the bat, instead of advancing it in the direction of the stroke, and as near to tho ball as he can place it -while still leaving room for the bat to hit the ball. His faulty footM’ork means, of course, that he does not get over the ball properly, and his stroke lifts the ball in the aii*. Newman was hoping that he Mould be able to correct that fault in Jacobs this season. Newman’s Pupils Two colts in the South African cricket team which recently toured England won fame on that tour. They were D. P. JMorkel and M. G. OwenSmitli Both Mere cricket pupils, in Capetown, of J. A. Newman, the Hampshire professional Mho now is coach to the Canterbury Cricket Association. Four of Newman’s former pupils were in the South African team, the others being A. L. Ochse and A. J. Bell, both fast boM’lers.