Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Monday 3 June 1940, page 7


ENLISTMENTS OF

SPORTSMEN

Clubs Help Funds

Adrian Quist Australian tennis champion and Davis Cup player Len Thomas captain-coach of North Melbourne football club and W ( Chicken ) Smallhorn Fitzroy champion are among the latest leading sportsmen to enlist

Quist who is 27 won the Queensland championship last month. He was recently appointed NSW manager of the Dunlop Sports Company but has returned to Melbourne to complete business matters before enlisting He was been a member of the 6th Battalion Royal Melbourne Regiment for more than a j end

Thomas was captain coach of Hawthorn last season and was formerly a champion at South Melbourne where he played for 12 years with a break of a car when he

coached Horsham in 1935

Smailliw n who is ployed for Fitzroy since 1939 and is still one of the best wing men in the game won the Brownlow Medal in 1933 Les Ucillj Fitzroy social sect clary has joined Smallhorn

More than a team of League footballers has already enlisted and other players including several champions hope to complete their arrangements this week so that they can join up

League officials are almost unanimous that the game should continue They point out that judging by the inquiries made by players footballers will do their share in serving their country Club committees will be prepared to carry on with juniors rather than deprive the public of the

game

The League expects to provide between £4 000 and £5 000 for war funds this

season

Richmond and South Melbourne committees will meet this week to decide details of their assistance

Jack Higgins Victoria's star baseball pitcher and R Bird Collingwood baseballer and cricketer have enlisted E McKneil (also a Melbourne cricketer)

K Ti unable (son of the former Test player) and Keig Melbourne baseballers and Newman Collingwood have applied to

enter the RAAF

Brunswick will devote the proceeds from the match against Northcote on Saturday to patriotic funds Players have offered to forgo match payments and officials will pay for admittance Members will also be asked to pay

SO LCC TENNIS

MCC indicated on Saturday that it would follow the lead given by Royal

South Yarra and withdraw tennis teams from pennant competitions The L T A V council will meet to-night to consider abandoning the pennant If the pennant is cancelled matches may be organised

for war funds

The Squash Rackets Association will consider the cancellation of its pennant

to-day

The Australian Lacrosse Council decided on Saturday to abandon the Australian carnival and Interstate matches

MOW ERS IN DIFFICULTIES

So many members of rowing clubs in Victoria have enlisted that the VRA may be unable to carry on a regatta programme next season

Mercantiles membership has been so affected that difficulty is being experienced in maintaining an executive Mr Walter Joseph secretary for 10 years and throughout the last war has consented to act

once more

Banks club is in much the same plight Messrs Geoff Ward Jack Thompson and Frank Morris old members have replaced enlisting members as secretary treasurer and captain respectively