THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 933, 28 March 1930, Page 7

THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG

Pete Sarron’s gruel at New Ply mouth was made of Meale.

A correspondent asks if the matches played recently by M.C.C. teams against New Zealand and the West Indies have been recognised officially as Tests. The answer is in the affirmative. British comment on the recent Rugby match between England and Ireland shows that the English forwards were excellent in all but line-out play. A linesman at the recent amateur international Soccer match between Scotland and Wales collapsed* from sheer excitement. Yet it was a poor game! Dress Inspector Noticed at the Canterbury Centre’s swimming carnival recently that C. IT. H. Rich, centre consul, was keeping a sharp eye out for swimmers whose costumes did not fulfil the regulations of the New Zealand Swimming Council. Several swimmers had to retire and make hasty changes oP costume. Soccer Gates Slump A slump in gates at Association football matches in Great Britain has caused a big fall in transfer fees, and in the value of “unrealised assets” in the form of players for transfer. Recently a Third Division club signed on for 10s a week a player who looks like being a good goalkeeper. Arthur Richardson For Home Arthur Richardson, one-time South Australian cricketer, has finished his three-year coaching contract with the West Australian Cricket Association, which has decided not to re-engage him. Richardson did a great deal toward improving the standard of cricket in and around Perth. He leaves for England next week, to continue his contract with the Bacup Club in the Lancashire Cricket League. * * * } Rugby Selectors j Another hand is to direct the des- ! tinies of Auckland on the Rugby

field this year. Vin Meredith. Cro w n Prosecutor in Auckland, has made an efficient and successful sole selector for a number of years past, and his mantle now falls on George Nicholson, one of the famous band of All Blacks who first made the silver fern famous

V. R. Meredith ,°, n . the 1905 trip to England. World’s Sprint Championship j The world’s sprint championship will , be decided at Melbourne Motordrome on Saturday. April 5. and Saturday. April 12. The present holder of the title is Lynch Cooper, of Victoria. Don McLennan, the 21-year-old South Island lad. who was recently clocked to do the 100 yards in 9 4-ssec. will represent New Zealand. Reg. Read. Sportsman On the first day of the LinwoodHigli School Old Boys’ (Christchurch) first-grade cricket match. Reg. Read bowled 39 overs for 148 runs and two I wickets. At the tail-end of the match the Saturday after he bowled four overs for 24 runs and three wickets, but the wickets had been taken in the first three overs, at a cost. then, of only 12 runs. There js a reason for the contrast, but this reason was not known, because Read is one of those modest sportsmen who never proffer an “alibi,” as sporting folk call it. On the first day of the match Read was bowling with an injured second finger of his right hand. While i at work he had driven a piece of iron , right through the top of the finger. splitting the nail, and there was a ' big blood-blister just where the finger made contact with the ball. No won- | tier he could not spin the ball! Many | players would seek to escape bowling with such a damaged finger, yet Read ! sent down 234 bails with his finger in | that condition! If there is a better I sportsman or a more honest trier in j New Zealand cricket than Reg Read.,