Our Sports Summary

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLIX, Issue 40, 12 October 1922, Page 31

Our Sports Summary

WMW-'y ' ; NAPIER. r With" the defeat, by 40 points to 8, of the King Country team by Hawke’s Bay for the Ranfurly Shield, football has terminated for the present season in Napier •(writes a correspondent). The M. 8.0.8. did very well, .this year in-Rugby football, and succeeded in putting five .teams on the field every Saturdayf The senior team, often playing splendid football, finished third in the competition, whilst the 3rd grade, playing off for the final, was beaten, .afteri a fast and' exciting ' game, •by 3 points to nil. The senior team had two / representatives in the team which touted the South Island, and several others.were picked to represent Napier against outside teams. The Marist School teams have , also given a very good account of themselves this season, .the junior grade competition being won by the school after very strenuous .games, and the senior school team finished, third' on the list. • ' ASHBURTON. St. Mary’s Tennis Club opened the present season on last Saturday afternoon (writes our own correspondent). Unfortunately the club is being confronted with an . apparent injustice, which is being vigorously resented. After occupying two courts in the Domain for many years the club .is now under notice to quit on December 31.".A.special general meeting of members and supporters has been convened to go thoroughly into the matter, -; ; .v CHRISTCHURCH. ■ The annual meeting of the Christchurch Cathedral Tennis Club was held on the 21st nit., Mr. J. R. Hayward presiding over a large attendance of members. Owing to the heavy expenditure on the courts during the year the credit balance in the club’s funds is small. With his Lordship Dr. Brodie and Sir George Clifford as patrons, the following office-hearers were elected: —President, Mr. - J. R. Hayward; club captain, Mr. J. E. Behrens; vice-captain and secretary. Mr. C. Dix; treasurer, Mr. J. J. Flood; committee Misses 0. Stcinmetz, Doocey. O’Brien, Blair, and Brittendeu, Messrs. L. O’Malley, O’Longhlin, McNamara, Upjohn, and Roache; delegate to Tennis Association, Mr. J. F. Behrens. A separate court is being set aside for learners, who will receive every consideration at the hands of the committee. ; CATHOLIC ATHLETES MEET IN BOHEMIA. More than 2000 Catholic athletic associations took part in the great contests that opened at Brunn, under the auspices of the ..Orels, or Eagles— great Catholic gymnastic organisation in the Czecho-Slovak Republic. There is possibly nothing quite like this athletic meeting anywhere else in the world; for the‘'spirit of religion and the spirit of sport were so closely intermingled as to make tho whole gathering unique. _ , £<»£ The proceedings began with a solemn act of worship in the Cathedral at Brunn. After that Mgr. Sramek, who is Minister of Railways in the Cabinet and President of the :Confederation of the Eagles, gave an address of welcome to the athletes from Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, and Russian Subcarpathia. -The speech was wildly cheered, and at its conclusion the heads of the regional associations • nominated Mgr, Sramek as their first honorary member. The daily contests in the huge stadium began. each day with the celebration of military Mass, at which all the contestants and most of-the spectators were present. ; 'ln a later note, Catholic Netcs Service, London, states : ■ Now that the athletic contests, organised in Brunn by the Orels, an association of Catholic gymnastic societies, are over, it is possible to give an adequate review of these unique events. . . More than 50,000 spectators assembled daily in the ’ vast stadium to watch the events, in which some 12,000 athletes of both sexes took part. From all parts of Bohemia, Moravia., Slovakia they came, together with contestants from. Vienna; marching into the stadium with six bands of music and more than a thousand flags. Mgr. Batina celebrated Mass in the stadium, and then 2880 young girls went through their exercises, to be followed by 3520 lads. These contests were kept up each day that the congress .lasted. On the opening day there was a large attendance of 1 official personages, among them Generals Bily. and Stehlik, and many Senators and Deputies of the Popular Party. But besides the Czecho-Slovaks taking part in the contests, there was a very good representation from other v States. Among them were members of athletic associations ■in Paris, Brussels, Florence, Rome,. Milan, Laibach, and Czecho-Slovaks domiciled in the United States. ■ The had secured an ■imposing list of honorftary presidents, among whom were found the Papal Nuncio at Prague, Marshal Foch, the Cardinal Primate of Poland, ; the Archbishop of Prague, the’. Metropolitan, of. Moravia, the Bishop of Lwow, and • the . Bishops of/ Laibach; * Nitra, Hand: Nancy. .■.■ . ‘ - A: ;; ' ' { ■ ;

Wars and Rumors -of Wars

ARCHBISHOP MANNIX’S PROPHETIC UTTERANCES nr Speaklag at Broken Hilt on Sunday,. September 10, Most Rev. Dr. Mannix referred, to his wartime utterances winch, in view of the latest, war. scare, have special significance. . His - Grace said: ‘‘During the war I told the people who attacked me: so bitterly that if, as they said they were, fighting to end all wars, . they were going a very bad way about it. I told them that if they fought to a finish; as they were then talking of doing, they would probably be nearly finished themselves before they had finished their enemies, and that when peace was made it would be almost as bad as war, and would be only peace ; while they were taking breath to prepare for another war or many'wars ** ‘For that I was again, called a traitor, and it was said that a mail who made such utterances ought toHjer-deported from Australia and kept out of the British Empire upon winch the sun never sets Now, everybody knows that the position they have got themselves into is almost as'Bad as war. Many more people have died of starvation since peace was made than died during,- the: war.: To say that during the progress of the war was treason, and the person making the statement a .-traitor. During the war they were told by a great man that never again would they t ade with their German foe; that never again would 1 Austi aha buy even as much as a safety razor from the Germans. I told them it was ridiculous, and that if they were wise they would hold their tongues and not say such aud'That 1 ! F°¥ Hi? T- that lr hat , policy would never succeed, ;:!• , “ xt did it would not he in the interests of Australia, put against her interests. , What do we find now ? We : find that Australia has only very.recently traded with Germany, and- that -the rest of the world has been trading with Germany direct for « very long time. Australia has s been trading: indirectly n ith Germany, and in consequence has been paying more for certam goods than she would have paid had Hie trading with Germany been direct. It would now seem that, as the other nations of the world have come to agree with me and those who thought like me at the time I made those utterances, there is no need for the" rest of Australia to hold out. We waited until the whole of the world was out of step with Australia, and then we tried to limp up after the rest. Very hkelv the renunciation of me to which 1 have referred reached some of you" here, and maybe some of you were carried away at the time,by newspaper articles and speeches T by politicians. . I want to tell you that f had nothing to gain by making those speeches. lam not a politician in receipt of £6OO or£looo a year.' I am sure .that wee I in receipt of those amounts of money “W politics would not be worth it.” , - J

Retirement of a Veteran Postman

RECORD SERVICES RECOGNISED. w+ When the other week Mr. W. J. Mulrooney,. the veteran letter-earner of Dunedin, was presented by. his colleagues with a morris chair on the eve of his retirement, the' chief' postmaster (Mr McCrae) said that the recipient was not only the senior letter-carrier of the district, but the senior oitob'e? 6r i aqq Ne ™ Zeal£ *? d - ,He joined .'the service on October 01, 1883, at Dunedin, his native town, when Mr. Archibald Barr was chief postmaster and Mr. George Miller had charge of the delivery department, and he has served ins 39 years without any serious interruption. Mr McCrea went on to say that Mr. Mulrooney had been the 1 ecipient of similar honors on previous occasions: being presented with a marble clock on ; his marriage, and with a suitable gilt on the celebration, of the; silver jubilee of his wedding. Iho daily life of a letter-carrier when Mr Mulrooney put on the uniform entailed a terrific amount of walking. Three of the runs which he worked at various times were nothing short of pedestrian tours. One included the who .of Caversham, St. Clair, and. Fitzroy. Another comprehended the Mornington region. The third consisted of Kensington and. South Dunedin to the beach, and took in Anderson Bav to the tram-terminus. In acknowledging the honor done him by his fellowemployees of -the Postal Department, Mr. Mulrooney - referred with pride to the fact that he -was the happy father of ten children,’ eight of whom are still living. .-Three of- his sons fought in France 1 during .the Great War, while a fourth was in camp when the Armistice was declared. I ersonally he had drawn the amount of his . life insurance "from the Savings Bank, and invested it in' the first war loan. If an y man can say ,he did more than that for .his native country, I will take off my hat' to ■ him. ''Mr. Mulrooney was; amongst the earliest pupils of the Christian Brothers’ School in Dunedin. - "