NEW ZEALAND'S
NEW MOVE IN SPORT
National Council Appointed
ALL BRANCHES REPRESENTED
Wellington, May 27, The New Zealand Minister for In- ternal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, has initiated a movement aiming at establishing a National Council to co-ordinate and encour age sports activities for the ad- vancement of health, sport, and re- creation in New Zealand.
At a meeting in Parliament House of Dominion controllers in sport, the Minister, explaining his ideas, said that the Government is very greatly concerned just now with the best means of employing the increased leisure which has come to
TENNIS STAR AN
ATHLETE
Turnbull Plays Football
Sydney, May 209. Don Turnbull will be 28 years of age on May 28. He has put on weight recently, but does not in- tend to get out of training during winter. He plays football in the Amateur League for the St. Peter's. College Old Scholars. The other day he played like a star and kicked five goals.
At night he plays squash rac- quets, and holds the State title. Teams matches in squash are now being played ·în "Adelaide, for the first time, and Turnbull leads the
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workers under the new industrial JAMES PARKS
legislation. This provides for forty hours a week work?
The meeting represented cricket,
COMPLETES HIS
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REMOVAL
WHITE CITY'S BIG AS from the 1st of July next this
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Sydney, May 20.
The biggest totalisator in the world is being built at the White City, London. It will cost £750,- 000, need a staff of --1,500 to operate it, and will be ready next month. It will handle money at the rate of £8,000 a minute.
It will be three times the size of the present largest, that at the Longchamps racecourse,
Paris, and will be bigger than the totes at Ascot, Epsom, and Newmarket combined.
The construction of this giant
·to building is part of a scheme make the White City the greatest
Rugby Union, Rugby League, and THOUSAND RUNS sting stadium in the world.
Soccer football, racing, rowing, cycling, boxing, wrestling, swim- ming, athletics, golf, Olympic Asso- ciation, trotting, rifle, yachting, lawn tennis, bowls, hockey, basket ball, surf life-saving, and other in- terests.
The Minister's address was warmly appreciated. It is clear that it will bear fruit. The Govern- ment is to assist the movement.
Among the things aimed at is the creation of greater facilities open-air play.
ROBERT NICOLL'S PROMISE AS DAVIS
CUP PLAYER
The Thunder Of Applause
23 WICKETS FALL IN ONE DAY
This move would seem to indicate of: that the sporting authorities o England are at last waking up to the need for making better provi- sion for the general public whose support keeps the game going on a large scale.
DOUBLE SYSTEM The largest totalisators in Aus-
Such a scam as greeted. James/tralia are, of course, those at Rand-
To house and install the mach
of
(By THOMAS MOULT)
Hove, June 3. Parks when he completed his wick and Flemington. for 1,000 runs in May and two
days of June we seldom wit ness at an ordinary county cric ket fixture. Parks, who is, of course, the first batsman of the season to reach four figures, did so in his second innings of the day: he needed 25.
at Randwick involved a about £200,000. The installation in
H. W. Austin has great hopes that the 15-year-old Harrow boy, Robert Nicoll, will eventually train on into a Davis Cup player for Great Bri- tain. He made a nice gesture to the youngster. He invited Nicoll to be his partner in the British Hard Court championships Bournemouth.
BUNNY AUSTIN AND TOM WHITTAKER
at
From all round the ring came a thunder of clapping, and it lasted fully a minute: Even a dog joined in with a loud bark after bark, which shows that even animals can be cricket- hearted at Hove.
Melbourne cost more than that.
Taking the whole of the States in which the machine is in use it may be estimated that the cost of instal- lation, buildings, etc., would very nearly equal in the aggregate the 750,000 that is being expended on the establishment of the Julius Totalisator at London White City. In proportion to the population, therefore, Australia's totalisator accommodation eclipses that of the White City,
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A DRAWBACK
HOLOCAUST OF BATSMEN. The day was another holocaust of batsmen 20 of them by a quar- There are many people, however, ter past five, 23 altogether for 293 who, rightly or wrongly, believe runs; Parks's thousand; Sussex in that the Randwick tote would be sight of victory on the first after-taxed beyond the limit of its capa- noon-already the visit of Essex to city if one or two reforms were in- this sunbright grove is remarkable.troduced.
The mantle of Fred Perry, Eng Nobody considered that Sussex In most other countries one of the land's lawn tennis star, tin, is setting an example taking they made 213, but Essex replied concerned is the "double” system with the with only 92, and Sussex, 121 ahead, of betting on the machine. These help of Tom Whittaker, the Arsenal increased their advantage by scor- doubles have proved very popular F. C. trainer, and by doing what he ing 88 for three in the second in-in England, in India, and South Scan to develop new talent for Great nings, so that they now lead by 209
Britain.
with seven wickets in hand.
a physical training Aus- had done well when, batting first, good "drawcards" where racing is
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Africa, and have done a good deal towards popularising racing among the general public;
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There is another way
in which the totalisator could be made more popular at Randwick-by abolish- ing the "change" windows,
Commonly people have the irritat- ing experience of having to stand in queues to obtain change. At Randwick, patrons of the machine are obliged to tender the exact amount when purchasing tickets. Then they have to stand in another line-up to collect their money,
At-Flemington there is no need to bother about change. Change is given at the selling windows and tickets are sold just as quickly as they are at Randwick, where the right amount of money is handed in for tickets.aeritage hated
These experiences cause many people to patronise the books in stead of the totalisator, and the club thus loses a certain amount of revenue each year.
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