THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG.

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 909, 28 February 1930, Page 7

THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG.

Hgp Canterbury Rugby League declaration —War all the way, Bo b McCullough tn London Bob McCullough, former captain of the Auckland University Rugby team is still pegging away in London Rugby, iml is captaining the London Scottish team this season, as well as playing an occasional game for Middlesex in the county championship. The British bowling team which has been touring South Africa has been beaten so often that “Another British Defeat” has been the common heading to reports of its matches. ... 5 E. W. Mackintosh in Switzerland E. ft • Mackintosh, the crack three-quarter who made such an impression for the Auckland Varsity Rugby team a couple ot seasons back, won the Kandahar Cup skiing race at Murren, Switzerland, recently. This classic event attracts some of Europe's best performers. Mackintosh's time, was the fastest for The American Olympic Association his authorised the issue ot invitations ” 5" nations to take part in the 1932 olvmpic Games at Los Angeles and ,hii winter games at Lake Elacid, New York. * * A dispatch from Nice to English papers says that many players in lawn tennis tournaments there recently have refused to be footfaulted- They have threatened to retire if the umpires foot-fault them, and so the officials have been loath to act, and the trouble has become something of a scandal. What Nice players they are! Unparalleled Incident An Incident unparalleled in modern sculling occurred in the final of a £IOO handicap at Newcastle, England, recently. The competitors were N. HamshaW, of Cliester-le-Street, and R. Bewley, of Ebchester. Ramshaw, who was a very hot favourite, had 17sec start, and Bewley was on 14see. After he had taken seven strokes Bewley fell out of his boat, and Ramshaw paddled home. * * # The Rugby match between Scotland and France which was played at Colombes on New Year’s Day, was very rough at times, and several players had to go off the field for attention to injuries. The New Year resolution of several players must have been that the boot is mightier than the sword.

four minutes dead, many years.

Junior Tennis At the quarterly meeting of the New Zealand Tennis Association, which is to take place on March 10 in Wellington, a motion will be put forward to abolish the junior lawn tennis championship of New Zealand, to be held in Wellington during the May term holidays, and thence every two years, and to substitute a junior hard-court championship to be held every year at a location to be decided each year. It will be remembered that the present system was inaugurated by W. J. Melody last year, his proposal being to hold the championships every two years on grass courts. * * * Got “The Wind Up’ 1 According to some of the Christian Brothers Old Bovs’ (Dunedin) batsmen, George Dickinson bowled so fast on Saturday that the ball fairly “whistled like the wind" as it passed the bat. Add to this the fact that A. Gale “blew in” and made 143 runs in quick time, and it will be seen that the Christian Brothers certainly had “the wind up.” Dickinson’s “bag” was five wickets for 18 runs, and. for the second time this season, he did the hattrick, the other occasion being the first match against the same team. High School Old Boys should secure another three-pointer in the current encounter, which will put them well in the running for Otago’s shield. Primo Camera seems to be hav,r»g a fine time against third-rate and fourth-rate heavyweights in America. Setting -up exercises! * * * At Last Revenge is sweet, say the Southland lawn tennis players. For four years they have been trying to wrest the Anniversary Cup from North Otago, hut without success until last Saturday week, when, at Invercargill, the tables were turned at last. Southland inflicting a heavy defeat on its erstwhile conquerors, who could get away this time with but four matches out of 24. Randolph Bose, New Zealand’s great distance runner, who has done little racing in the past few seasons, but who has been Reeping himself fit in Taranaki, is reported to be in hard training for a race with Leo Lermond at Wellington on March 1.