EPITOME OF SPORTING NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3343, 9 October 1911, Page 6

EPITOME OF SPORTING NEWS.

INTERESTING WEEKLY REVIEW. (By “Max O’Reilly”). The woman bowler has arrived; she has been admitted a member of the Patea Bowling Club. It is said that golf and tennis have spoilt the- ladies’ touch for needlework, so that probably accounts for women seeking a milder form of exercise, though recently we have read about the woman bill-poster and the woman club- swinger—a Miss Hilda Williams. w|ithi 21b clubs—3o swings a minuter-starting at 10.30 and finishing at 12 o’clock p.m. Certainly we have no bishopess, no popes®, nor Doges© of Venice, but there- are plenty of women- clerics arid women rulers of one 1 kind and another, and all we now want is the domestic servant, and then woman will have fulfilled the complete orb of her destiny. * * * * * Len Robinson, the Gisborne boxer., with a long list of victories behind him, was defeated at Sydney by O’Brien. From the start the men- made the pace hot, round after round being fought at bewildering speed, and it was 'still anyone’s fight when- half the journey had been- traversed. Thereafter O’Brien forged ahead and wore hie opponent down. The end came in the fourteenth round, when- “Robbie,” after being knockedrtlown for eight seconds, arose so weak that his second very wisely threw in the towel. Robinson new challenges anyone in- Australia- or New Zealand to box at 9st 41b. * . * * * *r Alf: Gault, who defeated Tim Tracey at Wanganui on Friday night, September 29. for the lightweight championship of New Zealand, is an Auckland la-d, and has been very successful 1 in his native town. He went to about twelve months ago, but suffered several defeats just anterior to a long illness- Alf. Gault is a nephew of Mr Wm. Gault, of this town. ‘[Old Bill” was an all-round athlete in the palmy days of Auckland. * #■ * * * Sydney is adopting Melbourne’s showy methods in certain football matches. At Erskmev.ille Oval lately, when the hell announced the close of the- third quarter, there issued from the pavilion air army of attendants with towels and refreshments, and for a while the centre of the ground presented an animated scene. There was a brisk using of the towels, a hurried tendering of stimulants, and brief pieces of advice given to both teams. The players were tended like professional pugilists to whom the towel and sponge are indispensable in a prize_ fight. When the bell rang for a resumption of play it took two policemen several minutes to clear the ground; and the curious feature of all the fuss and theatrical display was that the tea-m that received the most attention was the one that suffered defeat.—Sydney Morning Herald. *** * . An innovation in football has 4° b® recorded in the fact of the N.S-W. Rugby League tendering a benefit to its first selection committee, probably as a solatium for the hard and rude remarks made by the disappointed aspirants for positions in the teams, and the amount panned out at £915. It is on the tapis nw that competition will be very keen, in future for seats on the selection committee, almost rivalling the quest for offioe of hardened political camnaigners. No mention is yet made of a benefit for the referees, but writer reckons they are en-itiled to double the consideration of a selection committee. The same league has voted £4OO to the insurance fund, and £4OO to the hospitals, and even now has a superfluity of -cash. *** * . * The somewhat lofty position assumed by Diok Arnst in his demand for £750 expenses to .proceed to England to row Barry is not viewed in sportiing circles with much favor, but the champion sculler is master of the situation, and indicated that he meant business when he curtly replied to a' cable from England offering him £SOO, “Insufficient.” Arnst announced lately that he was not anxious to leave Australia, as he was likely to engage m a lucrative business. It transpires that he is already engaged in a lucrative calling, judging by his success at the. various gun clubs’ meetings. There is still some talk of the champion seeking glory and gonce in the roped! ring- If it the Lust of Loot that lias Dick Arnst down, ho will dp well to tussel with Brother Johnson, and though he will get a horrible hiding, his share of the gate will run into thousands. Writer, who has followed the -game for years—from the press seats —-has never seen a hiding that he wouldn’t have taken for half the money, and reckon he was well paid.