THE SPRTSMAN'S LOG

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1063, 29 August 1930, Page 7

THE SPRTSMAN'S LOG

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In the early days of cricket scores were recorded by the cutting of notches in sticks. It was well that there were no Bradmans in those days. Ten Wickets in an Innings The feat of taking all 10 wickets in an innings was performed recently in the Central Lancashire Cricket League J,y Aaron Lockett, professional to the Oldham Club. Lockett took 10 Royston wickets for 53 runs, his last right wickets costing only 3 0 runs. Lockett is only a Saturday professional as during the week he is a collier in Staffordshire. W. M. (“Little Bill”) Johnston, who was the world's amateur lawn tennis champion seven years ago, and who was a famous player in Davis Cup matches as well as in tournaments, is fighting severe lung trouble in his California home. Consistent Left-Hander C. \v\ L. Parker, the Gloucestershire left-hand bowler, on the slow side of medium pace, who was among the 14 cricketers from whom England’s team fur the fifth Test was chosen, is only ;i few weeks short of 46 years ot' age. 110 played his first match for Gloucestershire -3 years, ago, but he did not come into prominence until after the Great "War. Since 1920, he hits been the most consistently successful left-hand bowler in England, but* so far ho has played in only one Test match against Australia. That was in the drawn Test at Manchester in 1921, when Australia scored 173 runs in its one innings. Cecil Parkin taking five for 3S. Parker bowled -8 overs, 16 maidens, for 33 runs and two wickets in that innings. Off to the League R. Walker, one of the more prominent of the younger wing-threequarters in Wellington Rugby, who is a member of the Petone team, which won the senior A grade championship this season, left Wellington on Thursday week last, en route to England where, it understood, he has received an engagement to play League Rugby. It is stated that he will join up with the Huddersfield Club, and that the amount he will receive for the coming season is quite substantial. Walker has done very well during the present season, and has been the most prolific scoring threequarter in the Petone team. Previously he played in the Manawatu district, and before that he played for the Oriental Club in Wellington. Barnes’s Brilliant Win J. G. Barnes, who. after a short sojourn in Christchurch, returned to Dunedin recently, followed up his other good performances by winning in brilliant fashion the Otago crosscountry championship last Saturday week. He took the lead before half the distance had been covered, and had no difficulty in retaining it to the end. the second man (A. Mann) being 150 yards away. Barnes’s record is a fine one. including Edmond Cup wins in 1927 and 1928, the Temuka - Timaru race, 1928, and the Cariterbury crosscountry championship in 1928 and 1930. On the track last season he won the Canterbury one mile and three mile championships, and he has put up the fastest time in several important handicaps. A Rugby Veteran A familiar figure will soon be missed from Rugby and cricket matches at Lancaster Park, Christchurch. George H. Mason, former president of the Canterbury and New Zealand Rugby Unions, life member of the Canterbury Rugby Union, and manager of the New Zealand team which toured California and British Columbia in 1913, wib leave Christchurch a few weeks hence to take up permanent residence in the North Island. Andrews Improves Letters from England indicate that E. D. Andrews, at one time tennis singles champion of NeW Zealand, is a very much improved player, and i' meeting with a good deal of success In 1928 he won the North of England men’s championship singles, but last year he lost the title to C. 11. Kingsley This year New Zealand had two competitors in the event. C. E. Malfroy and Andrews, both getting through to the semi-finals. Here L)r. J. C. Gregory pui Malfroy out. 6 —4, 5 —7. 6 —l, but Andrews won the other leg by beating th( holder, Kingsley, 7 —5, 6 —4, and entering the final, where he defeated Gregmy, 6—o, 9 —7. Both the New Zealanders have apparently improved, as it is generally considered that outside of Wimbledon the North of Englam championships attract the best of th't English players. Andrews and Malfroj also reached the final of the doubles championship, but in this case Gregor\ Kingsley proved too experienced.

Fine Performance The Petone fifth grade Rugby team has created something of a "record during the season which is just ending in Wellington. This team won every one of the games it played, a total of 14, scoring 427 points, an average of just .over 30 points a game, with only 20 points against it for the whole of the season. Tennis and Rugby Mr. W. J. Melody has done a good deal for the athletic life of the primary schools of this Dominion. Luring the summer months he devotes himself to the furtherance of tennis among pupils and in the winter he transfers his allegiance to Ilugby. lie is president of the Hutt Valley Primary Schools Rugby Union at Wellington and recently he organised a Rugby tournament along the lines adopted bysecondary schools, four schools from different districts taking part. The boys taking part represented llutt Valley, Rangitikei, Taranaki and Liorowhenua, the tourney being won by Rangitikei with three wins. Last Tuesday the boys were entertained at Parliament House under the auspices of Mr. W. Nash, M.P., and the lion. R. Masters, the final match being played on Wednesday and the boys returning to their homes on Thursday. Soccer in the Schools The Soccer authorities are making a big bid to popularise the game among schoolboys, and with this end in view a tournament was held during the present week at Palmerston North, a similar tournament having been held in the South Island. From these two tournaments teams representing the two islands have been picked and will play a test match in Wellington tomorrow (Saturday). The Primary Schools’ Soccer Association hopes to go still further by sending a team to Australia, out so far it has not been very- successful in its negotiations with Australia. * * * Grimmett’s Glee Clarence Grimmett had on© cal thrill during his great bowling in the first Test at Nottingham. It was not when ho ended E. Hendren’s life of misery at the crease; it was not when he dispatched the great artist, Frank Woolley. with the aid of W. A. Oldfield.

For Grimmett the great moment was when he sent W. It. Hammond back lbw (notes an English paper). The slow bowler outwitted the man who had a habit of scoring double centuries in Australia in 1928. This is how he did it. He served up a “googly” which simply- asked to be hit.

Hammond obliged. He used his feet, and banged the ball through the covers for four. Hammond was then prepared for a leg-break. Grimmett knew this instinctively, and up came the next ball, delivered with the break action. Hammond played for the break, but the ball went straight through, ©rimmett had “thought out” Hammond. Grimmett had bowled for hours against Hammond in Australia, but this was the first occasion on which ho had got his wicket. And he got it again in the second innings, in the same way. Still Unbeaten The dominating strength of the Christian Brothers A team in League Rugby in Dunedin appears to have dampened the enthusiasm of his opponents, who not infrequently turn out short-handed when facing the Greens. City, which has the next strongest team to that of the “Christies,” could muster only 11 men on Saturday week, and as it % lost another through injury during the match, the hope of extending the champion side —if ever such a hope existed —soon faded. The result was a 37 —2 win for Christian Brothers. * • * Why Calder Failed? A letter received in Wellington this week from Mr. It. J. Hobbs, manager of the New Zealand team at the Empire Games, states that R. C. Calder, the diving champion, was not well during the journey to Canada, and was apparently suffering from sciatica. After medical examination this was proved to be the case, and though every possible remedy was tried to get him fit it now seems that he was far from well when the Games started, and this probably affected his performance in the diving events. At one stage, Mr. Hobbs states that he was considering sending Calder into hospital for special treatment, but the letter, written three weeks prior to the Games, does not explain whether this course was followed. The manager states that the team, which travelled with the Australians, received a wonderful reception wherever they went, and their journey from British Columbia to Ontario over the Rq>cky Mountains was one triumphal procession from one town to another, until the whole tour was capped by the warmth of the reception at Hamilton. He adds that the most popular athlete of all the hundreds who attended the Games was Bob Pearce, the big Australian sculler.