ALL-ROUND ATHLETE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 833, 29 November 1929, Page 13

ALL-ROUND ATHLETE

W. G. KALAUGHER’S DOINGS CRICKET AND RUGBY

Touring with the London Optimists’ cricket team in Dorset and Hants during August, W. G. Ivalaugher, the New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, performed particularly well with the ball. Playing against Ringwood he got three wickets for 30 runs; against Blandford, four for 51; against Bournemouth Sports Club, five for 81; against Bournemouth Amateurs, five for 41, and against Dorchester he took eight wickets, all clean-bowled, for four runs—those four runs being got in one hit in his first over. In the first-class averages for the 1929 cricket season, published in “The Times” on September 18, 3>V- G. Ivalaugher was 32nd on the bowling list, his average being 12 wickets at 21.33 runs each. FOOTBALL Playing football" for Northampton against Rugby on September 19, Kalaugher had the bad luck to sprain his ankle so severely that >he was in bed for eight days. This accident prevented him from appearing in the Oxford University Rugby trials. The report of the game against Rugby states that at the start Northampton pressed, and after a round of passing Kalaugher only just failed to score, being pushed over the corner flag. Rugby forwards then livened up and rushed down the field .to the “Saints’ ” twenty-five line, where Ivalaugher fielded the ball and relieved with a good kick to touch. In doing so he was tackled an,d fell with his ankle under him. From then onward he was unable to take any part in the On Saturday, September 14, Northampton beat U.C.S. Old Boys by 26 points to 13. IV. G. Kalaugher was again playing wing-threequarter for Northampton. ... In his notes on this*match “Reynard says; —“Another individual around whom interest centres is W. G. Kalaugher, who made his first appearance on the right wing. Kalaugher had only just returned from a holiday in Scotland, and was very short of practice. With limited opportunities he did as well as could be expected, though he was not nearly as prominent as he can be. Kalaugher is still in the ‘student’ stage, but it is dimcult to believe, that with all his great physical advantages, he will not develop into a menace to opposing defences. He has all in his favour, and a good many hopes rest upon him, for he is the type of man to draw the crowd which makes finances rosy. “Since I wrote the above notes our spiritsi have been dampened by the disasters at Rugby . The fact that the match was lost will not cause so much heartburning as the injuries to Kalaugher and Coley.” . Coley is an English international player.