THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1033, 25 July 1930, Page 7

THE SPORTSMAN'S LOG

A Cardinal Error.—J. B. Hobbs’s j attitude toward a’Beckett’s catch. $ * s* Winifred Brown, the Lancashire girl who won the King’s Cup air race recently, was a member of the British women’s hockey team which visited Australia in 1927. England has not yet won u cricket Test with Australia at Leeds. Six of these Tests have now been played there. v Australia has won two and four have been drawn. Perhaps that was why the rain was so kind to England the other day! Burghley One Up When L. Facelli, Italian title-holder, ' was beaten by Lord Burghley in the ! 440 yards hurdles championship of ' England the other day, he lay on his face sobbing. This was a 1 “rubber” race, the third meeting of the j pair in the English championship. I Burghley won in 1928, but Facelli beat | him last year. This time Facelli was the first man over the last hurdle, but ! Burghley beat him to the worsted in i 53 4-ssec , Brilliant Golf For consistency of performance, the best woman golfer in Kngland for many years past has been Joyce Wethered, who won the British women’s championship again last year, but did not defend her title this year. Recently she showed remarkable form in a friendly four-ball game at St. Andrew's. She and Bobby Jones played Roger Wethered and Dale Bourne—the last-named is the Cambridge crack. The game was arranged on the spur of the moment, but it became so thrilling, and Joyce Wethered played such brilliant golf, that a big crowd of spectators gathered quickly. Joyce Wethered

went round in 7l>, only one more stroke ’han Bobby Jones. Bourne also returned 75, and Roger Wethered took v# - , . . ■Medium-pace Bowling An Australian paper says that the j Australian cricket team’s selectors for the matches on tour have to contend, j when they are considering A. C. Hur- j wood, with a strong influence In the j party which does not believe in the j importance of medium-pace bowlers against the best batsmen. The idea of this section of the party is that bowlers of the type of A. Fairfax, K. a’Beckett, and Hurwood, after they have finished swinging with the new ball, merely “play in” the modern firstclass batsmen, wlio “pack up” so sedulous’^.