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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 11, Issue 5 (August 1, 1936)

The late Mr. E. G. Sutherland

The late Mr. E. G. Sutherland.

New Zealand has produced many fine all-round athletes on track and field, but few could boast of a better record than E. G. (“Buz”) Sutherland. Born in the Manawatu district fortytwo years ago, he represented both New Zealand and South Africa in international athletics, won English, Scottish, South African, and New Zealand athletic titles, and filled fifth place in the most arduous of all athletic contests at the Olympic Games in 1924—the decathlon.

Sutherland won thirteen New Zealand titles embracing the broad jump, hop, step and jump, high jump, pole vault, shot putt, and javelin throw.

At a Rotary luncheon in South Canterbury the other day the talk drifted round to smoking, and an ancient mariner remarked, “I'd be lost without my pipe! When some months ago I consulted my doctor for throat trouble he hinted I might have to give up smoking altogether. I was flabbergasted! Seeing me upset he asked what brand of tobacco I usually smoked. ‘Cut it out!’ he roared when I told him, ‘like so many brands today it's foul with nicotine!’ Then he calmed down. ‘You'll have to go slow for a bit,’ he said, ‘but smoking in moderation—till you're better—won't hurt you, so long as it's toasted—the genuine toasted I mean, mind. I smoke it myself. There's next to no nicotine in it.’ Well, I did as I was told and was soon O.K. again. But I still stick to toasted. You can't beat it!” Smokers everywhere will say, “Hear! hear!” But, as the doctor said it must be genuine toasted—Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold.*

When this accomplished athlete was killed at Palmerston North early in July as the result of a fall from his bicycle—a handbag caught on the handle-bars and prevented the free progress of the machine—New Zealand lost one of its most accomplished athletic sons. His widow, formerly Miss Marjorie Collins, was wellknown as a prominent lady sprinter a few years ago.

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Three months ago it was almost impossible for New Zealanders to attend a boxing contest; there was not a bout on the horizon. To-day the gloved sport is beginning to regain the position it occupied before the advent of the “modern” wrestlers. Much of the credit for this return to popularity may be given Cyril Pluto, of Australia, and Roy de Gans, American negro. These men came to New Zealand at a time when boxing contests were rare, but with a display of honest-to-goodness fighting rapidly re-established the sport. New Zealanders are ripe for another boom period of boxing, and with Joe Hall, Australia's best featherweight, in the country to meet New Zealand's best, the lighter men who were neglected over a period when heavyweights in Southland supplied the only boxing in the Dominion, are girding their loins and preparing to reap a financial harvest.

New Zealanders have been proud to act as hosts to the Fijian women's hockey team during the last few weeks. A visit from any overseas team is always a matter of import and the latest “invasion” has given the fair sex something to talk about.