Round the World

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 169, 19 August 1929, Page 2

Round the World

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

VARIOUS HAPPENINGS CABXxE ITEMS OP GENERAL INTEREST,

Cross Country Race. For tlie fourtli succcssive year M. J. MacKeuzie won tlie New Soutli Wales ten thousand metres cross country titlo in 34 miuutes 34 seconds. Cotton Board. Tlie cotton board of arbitration consists of Sir Eigbv Swift, Sir Artlmr Balfour, Afr C. T. Tramp, Sir Arcliibald Ross and Mr A. Cl. Walkden. They expect to commence sitting on Wednesday. Graf Zeppelin. The United States Pacific fleet in tlie Orient received a radio that tlie Graf Zeppelin is flying steadilv. The conditions were excellent and slie was niaking 62 miles an liour. Sbe was over Yalcutsk, Siberia, on Sunday. Hational Sporting Club. The scene of many famons figlits for the past thirty years, tlie National Sporting Club at Covent Garden, London, has been sold.' For the coming season . matchcs will be staged at tlie Stadium Club, Higli Holborn, pending negotiations for anotlier- site. Cycling Record. Cecil Walker, of Australia, smashed the world's bicycle record for fifty miles hv seven minntes one second, and won the fifty miles ohanvpionsliip race against eighteen riders in oue liour fortv-two minutes seven seconds at the Yelodrome Sauccr, New York, Professional Billiards, Sraith, playing with confidenoe and coolness, yestqrdav reduced .a lot of the leewov* and carried an unfinished hreak to 770. Later lie niade anotlier 743. Tbe scores at the close of play were : Lindrum 1 1,14-5. Smith 10,704. Lindrum had a very Iean time. Tlie mateh will hc continued oyer next. week. ' . ■ • Rcbbery Under Arms. ... An aniied man entered a fruit shop at oollhara, N.S.W.. and inquired for apples in the window. Wlien the shopkeeper tnrned round he discovered a revolvor pointing in ln's face, and he was commanded to hand over his takings. Tlie shonkeeper handed tlie gitnman hetween -£12 and £15.' Tlie thicf then {lisanneared.