THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 955, 24 April 1930, Page 7

THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG

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"ROUSEABOUT"

M. J. Turnbull, who was a member of A. H. H. Gilligan’s M.C.C. team in New Zealand, has been appointed captain of the Glamorgan county cricket eleven for the coming season. New Styles in Conferences The recent conference in Auckland between the emissaries of the X.Z.A.A.A. and the X.Z.U.C. was held in the sitting-room of a City hotel. Thus a new style for conferences was set. Delegates lounged in couches or tried to cluster round card , tables—a much more comfortable proposition than the hard-seated chairs and the round tables usually associated with conferences of any kind. What Might Have Been This also serves to remind “flouseabout” that an hotel is not altogether the worst of places for the staging of cycle conferences. Had a satisfactory arrangement been reached, the meeting could have adjourned to another place and drunk the health of the X.Z.A.A.A. —perhaps even at the A.A.A.'s expense. This shows what an opportunity the cyclists lost when they could not see their way clear to accept the council’s proposals. * * * Cooke Seeks Century A. E. Cooke, generally admitted to be the tijiest inside back this country has had since the war, and classed by some people as equal to the best of all time, is playing Rugby again in the Wairarapa district this year. In form Cooke is certain of selection in the Xew Zealand team to meet the British side, for he is still the most able five-eighth the Dominion has. If lie does play in the tests, Cooke' will probably join the select band of players who have scored a century of points for Xew Zealand. He already has 97 on his score sheet. Only seven players have reached three figures in representative matches for Xew Zealand, they being AV. J. Wallace, 1903-04-05-07-08 All Black. 367 points: M. F. Xicholls, 1921-22-24-25-26-28 All Black, 253 points: J. Hunter, 1905-07-OS All Black, 141 points; T. AV. Lynch, 1913-14 All Black, 107 points: J. Steel, 1920-21-22-23-24 All Black. 105 points; E. J. Roberts, 1913-14-20-21 All Black, 104 points; and R. .AV. Roberts, 1913-14 All Black, 101 points.

Rose Will Go to Games When the N.Z.A.A.A. men were in Auckland, 4*flouseabout” was informed by one that there was nothing surer than that R. A. Rose, Xew Zealand’s great distance runner, would be going to the Olympic Games at Los Angeles in 1932. Rose was already down to training again, he said, and pointed out that the Taranaki farmer was still a young runner, as far as distance athletes go.

The touch -in-goal flags now in use at Lancaster Park, Christchurch, have standards made of cane enclosed in rubber so that they will bend without breaking if players collide with them. Officialdom!

"When the delegates from the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association conducted their searching inquiry into amateur athletics in Auckland, they had a stenographer present who took a verbatim report of all the speeches. Was this to impress Auckland with tho efficiency of Wellington officialdom! To Check Speculation A rather belated explanation by members of the New Zealand Rugby Union’s Management Committee is that the number of £1 seats at the British team’s matches is to be strictly limited, and that one object in making that charge for seats in limited number is to check the speculation which occurred, without benefit to the New Zealand Rugby Union, in seats for the Springboks’ matches in this country.

Five Years Champion — But He’s Not Allowed to Compete any More!