THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 827, 22 November 1929, Page 7

THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG

ti ■ i • caQ —— Many a true word is spoken in jest. Someone, the other day, described golf as a ‘’topping” game. Politely asking the New South Wales ftugby League not to interfere in donestic affairs which do not concern it ho Queensland Rugby League has inimated to that body that it will nol ittend a conference with the Brisbane Tugby League in either Brisbane o: Sydney, at the present juncture. Sc lie Queensland dispute looks like being ntensified. Nightmarch must have been a nightmare to Phar Lap’s backers. Welsh Rugby Captain Ivor Jones, the best Rugby for ware in "Wales last season, and captain of the Welsh team, has been offeree £ 500 to join the Leeds Rugby League Club. So far, there is no news of hi.' reply to the offer. Jones is one of tin selections for the British team whiel is to be seen in New Zealand nex The newly-formed Canadian Rugby Union has decided to adopt «the British code of rules. Billy Grime jßilly Grime. noted Australia! ■cathcr-to-light-weight boxer. hat >ne of his spasms of sustained energy vhen he beat American Lou Bloom ir Melbourne a week or so ago. Grime vorked well throughout, and won liar.lily on points. But Bloom, although ough. was not very enterprising. A million-to-one-chance freak deal occurred in a game of auction bridge in London a few weeks ago. A complete suit was dealt to each player. ’Flying Scotsman” lan Smith, the “Plying Scotsman.’ vho may possibly be the only Scottish •epresentative in the British Rffgbv cam to come t<* this part of the world icxt year, is playing tor the London Scottish this season, having finished lis studies at Edinburgh. Smith beongs to a Border family, but was born n Australia, so that he will be traveling “home” with the British team. L. C. Eastman, of Essex, formerly coach to the Otago Cricket Association, is now coaching in South Africa. C. T. Tlix. who was the Riccarton Ticket Club’s most successful bowlei ! 1 years ago. and who still is its prin;ipal harvester, does not like being 'ailed a veteran. Tie still feels a bii coltish. A T-ILix-y coir, though! Canterbury Swimming This year the Canterbury Swimming I’entro will probably be without the services of the diving troupe that was such an attraction at carnivals last season. G. Tiplcr is now in Australia md K. Cameron will probably leave or Sydney next week. It is to be icped that other diving enthusiast.*? rill come forward to take their places