THE SPORTSMAN,S LOG.

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 815, 8 November 1929, Page 7

THE SPORTSMAN,S LOG.

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E. D. Andrews is the first New Zealander to win the singles tennis championship of the South of Eng* ind since the late Anthony Wilding won the honour 21* years ago. * * * Nichols’ Double Strange though the fact is, no Essex cricket professional had scored 1,000 runs and taken 100 wickets in a season of first class cricket until this year. M. S. Nichols performed the feat in the season which ended recently. Nichols, who bats left-handed and bowls right-handed, is a member of the M.C.C. team coming through Australia on its way to New Zealand. Clarence Crabbe, 20-year-old swimmer from Honolulu, was the outstanding performer at the America outdoor swimming championships. He won the 440yds freestyle in smin 4sec, the v sOyds in 30.27, the mile in 22.9 4-3, Md the 330yds medley (breast, back, aiid crawl) in 4.14 3-3, this last-men-’oned time clipping 2 l-ssec off the j-’&A record. He also swam third in the 320yds back-stroke, which was won in 2.42

Invitation to Leadbetter k having been suggested that MalLeadbetter, former amateur M’nnt champion of New Zealand, has decided to return to the track this the Wellington Centre of the h ea * an d Amateur Athletic Assoaaon has decided to ask him to coma big Boxing Day meeting ; t 0 k e h el( * * n the capital city. • It 0 ? 8 are also to be extended LkiHott (Auckland), the present j P Zealand sprint champion, and F. * r ° 8e * Canterbury’s crack cyclist.

Rare Feat ' w? rße c kinson f Otago’s fast Occasi onally ‘’goes suddenly as you might put it, with the His tempestuous onslaught : the Australians a couple of th.** o ,’ when he skittled out four be ip*? ln less than two overs, will «membcred. On Saturday week

last he had another wild spasm while playing for High School Old Boys against Grange, in the first round of first grade cricket matches in Dunedin. For a long time the fast stuff made little or no impression on the Grange batsmen, and the score had reached 200 for

" w, cKin«on *»T u • , “ . . *w» -tv . , three wickets bewas rewarded with a iid« „„ ? ut when he did start he if j •; ,? nes about it. First lie an ” aueht behind: then a * Jpckson neck and crop gating the dose on the fol’;Mh. v, . an < B - Morris). This ov4 “‘-trick, and the finish of I ;;r ov Dut With the first ball of his I '‘‘San ,k Dickinson skittled D. I four wickets with 'C in Uti r ba »«-a rare per- “ first grade cricket. I t n . 1 * V K ’’i’no tT er ' c ? n r ©teree has been I !l1 f«atk U*.^ e ou ‘ that AsSociaI ’<* h! k * l! •» 700 yearn old. PerI w«!, w „V m ’ sled the a s e ft some of his brother- | Wlat; * I uncertain tv of cricket! I l hird grade of the Can- ■ Cricket Association’s I . cte„°n - rec ent Saturday. 1 ’! S tth "rcli District High ■ St - Andrew’s B for ■! '*t* kL .**• O’Connor took seven H V f or on * runs, and .!. Kent V *•*** th*n O 8t Olirist Hi ure 11 made I f or 28 < ‘‘ smi& sed St. Andrew’s I ‘ W «■ O’Connor getting three

What Will Hagen Do? Is Walter Hagen, famous golfer, belng bitten by the bug that afflicted Jack Dempsey for a time, when he was alternately retiring from the ring and going to fight again? Hagen was going to visit Australia and New Zealand this year, then he. was going to come out next year, and now it is stated that he is about to retire golf and enter busi-

McConachy’s Form Clark McConachy’s line form in his billiards against Joe Davis is no surprise to people who saw his play in that part of his recent New Zealand tour with Walter Lindrurn, in which his health was at all good. The Timaru player told a Southern writer that he had learned more about billiards from playing against Walter Undrum than he had ever learned before. And British critics are now ranking Walter Lindrurn among the very best the table game has known.

A first-grade cricketer who had some practice against Dan bowling this week remarked to The Suns Christchurch correspondent that the old New Zealand captain could still trouble a great many batsmen if ne chose to return to competitive cricket. * # # A Cricketing Bishop

Bishop Isaac Richards, of Dunedin, was one of those who took part m tltG old-timers' match plajed * n con neetion with the Grange Cricket Club a Jubilee last Monday. His Lordship, “l e Rev. J. Richards, represented Auckland in 1890, and on Labour Day flV As°his it

George Aitken Retires G. G. Aitken, who captained the New Zealand Rugby team against the Springboks in 1921, and who afterward went to Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar, has definitely retired from Rugby football. Aitken got his blue at Oxford and then was picked for Scotland, being a member of the famous “All-Oxford” threequarter line that helped to carry off the international championship. His Scottish descent gave him his qualification for Scotland. Except for a brief visit to New Zealand Aitken has remained at Home since he left Oxford, and until the current season started in England he has played for the London Scottish Club, generally as fly-half,_ or, as New Zealanders know it, five-eighth.

There are so many wrestling champions in New Zealand now that we wonder if the rest of the world is champing at the absence of its champs.

Another Year in England? A few weeks ago, in writing to a friend in Wellington, E. D. Andrews, the well-known New Zealand tennis player who is at present living in England, stated that he might be back in the Dominion in time to take part in the national championships. However, in a later letter received by this week’s mail, ho seemed rather doubtful of doing so, and indicated that he may remain in England for at least another year. He states that his tennis has improved greatly since he went Home, and he had little or no difficulty in accounting for some fine players at the South of England championships, played at Eastbourne.

Some fielding at cricket last Saturday made us think of square legs in round holes.

It is stated in Sydney that C. G. Macartney. who started the new cricket season in brilliant form, but injured an unsound leg while he was batting, has decided to retire from the game. Heavy-weight Dreamland Unofficially reported that in the National Sporting Club's new premises in London there will be special equipment for heavy-weight boxers. Besides the conventional padding, the ring will be covered with an eiderdown mattress and each of the contestants will be provided with his own pillow. Thus would the dreamland of British heavyweights be made more comfortable.

The golfer who does a hole in one on his club’s closing day is just about as unlucky as the man who gets shot on the last day of a war. H. C. Stevens was the unlucky man at the Avondale Club’s closing day at Christchurch on Sunday week last. He holed his tee shot at “The Manukas,” 97 yards.

Tom Carlton, formerly of Victoria, who was coach to the Canterbury Cricket Association just before the Great War, was included in the South Australian eleven to play the M.C.C team. *