FIELD OF SPORT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 133, 18 March 1931, Page 2

FIELD OF SPORT.

NOTES AND COMMENTS. (By "Onlooker.") Fairfield defeated Ashburton A on the first innings amidst intense excitement on Saturday. This win brings Fairfield level in points with Ashburton A but the A team has an uncompleted game to play with Ashburton B. Fairfield declared with seven wickets down for 202 to which useful contributions were made by C. Huff am 59, R. Drennan 21, V. Willis 36, and S. Willis 3.6 not out. Ashburton A's first innings commenced promisingly and 100 runs were on the board before the first wicket fell. J. B. and K. G. Nicoll were responsible for this excellent/ startknocking up 52 and 57 respectively while L. Newton 19, T. Newton 16 not out and H. C. Hynam 10 added substantially to the total.

In the junior competition Power Board heat Rakaia by 37 runs on the hist innings. The chief scorers for Power Board in the second innings were: ,Stuart 32, Kerr 19, Reeves JG and Welsh 13. Top scorer for Rakaia was M. O'Reilly who was undefeated at <l3 at the call of time, in Rakaia's first strike R. Hooper 30, O'Reilly 19 and P. Brown 18 were the best. Bowling for Rakiaia on Saturday R. Hoopei had the best average with four for 2-1. While for Power Board G. Stuart six for 51, and W. Barrett three for 14 were the best.

Technical was defeated by an innings and two runs by High School on Saturday. High School's first innings netted 2."58 while Technical were only able to raise 130 and 120 in their first and second innings respectively, duel' scorers in Technical's first knock were 1.-. Wills and Jim Varcoe each 22 and Jack Varcoe 19. Tn the second strike Holland topped the list with 28 and Todd was a close second with 24. R. Fear, two for eight, in Technical'* first innings and four for 32 in the second and B. Knox, four for 39 in the first were the best bowlers. St. Stephen's outclassed Celtic on Saturday when they won by 22 runs on the first innings. Celtic's first innings total was 99 to which E. Brophy II was the chief contributor. Tn their second strike the Celts made 80, Brophy 31 again being the chief scorer with "Mr Extras" 22 the only other

double figure total. St. Stephen's first Knock produced 121 (C. Stills 36, W. J. Hockings not out 19 and extras 22), while at stumps they had two wickets down for 46, At the present time, the junior competition is in a rather interesting position. Four teams. Power Board, Rakaia, Technical and High School are equal in points. Rakaia has one match to play. To win the Asjiburton Defence Rifle Chili's shoot on Saturday, F. Porter fired exceptionally well. His shooting over both the -500 and 600 yards was most consistent, the scores being 46 and 45 respectively. G. Cromie, the runner-up scored the same points but lost the top position on his handicap. Actually both men shot better than the scratch men who could only total 90, 86, and 84. Minus their handicaps Porter and Cromie had nett scores of 91. F. Clark, who was third with 92 ixiints also had a nett score of 91. Honours in the County Bowling championships, played on the Allenton green on Saturday last, were fairly even. The singles went to G. Tatterson, of Rakaia, the doubles to H. Milsom and W. H. Higgins, of the Ashburton Club, and the rinks were clinched by the Allenton stalwarts, Messrs P. Boothroyd, C. Stevenson, J. Stevenson and J. Templeton. The Gala Cup tennis matches on Saturday produced some interesting competition and Misses V. Cowan and M. Thomas and Mr J. Coward are to he congratulated on winning the senior ladies', junior ladies', and junior men's singles. The final of the senior men's singles between Hobbs and Heenan, yet to be played should prove a good game. The annual match between A and B tennis teams from the girls of the Ashburton High School and Timaru Girls' High School, played at Ashburton on Saturday proved an overwhelming victory for the visitors in both sections. The A grade match was won by the Timaru girls by 9 sets (63 games) to no sets (26 games) and the B match by 7 sets (60 games) to 2 sets (36 games). Good competition should be seen at the annual meeting of the Ashburton Amateur Cycling and Athletic Club to be held on the Domain on Saturday. Representatives will be present from Christchurch, Timaru, and Waimate and there will be a number of cycling and whippet events as well as running and field athletics. G. Bridson, of Auckland, experienced little difficulty in maintaining his 100yds title proving distinctly superior at * the New Zealand Championships held at Wnnganui recently, says an exchange. At no stage was he in danger of defeat and it looked as if it was just an exercise swim for him. Enright proved as ever, and shows little sign of deteriorating. Claridge swam well, but appeared to fade over the last fifteen yards. Blakely was very close to Claridge and swam up to form. He was last away.

George Bronder, six times javelin champion of U.S.A., who has been located in Australia for some time, received a great ovation in the Victorian athletic track and field championships, when he won the javelin throw with 170 ft o£in, a record which, unfortunatelv, could not be allowed owing to the'following wind, states the "Sporting Globe". The American gave an excellent display of throwing the steelpointed spear.

Apart from the fact that their programmes were . already overcrowded, the Victorian Amateur Athletic Association was not over-keen this season about arranging for women's championships to be held conjointly with those of the men. It was considered that it was better for the Victorian Women's Amateur Athletic Association to conduct its own affairs. This was the viewpoint expressed by H. R. Weir, ,hon. general secretary of the Victorian Amateur Athletic Association when replying* to a question as to the reason why his association had turned down the application, from the Women's Association. W. J. Harrod, hon. race secretary of the Victorian Amateur Cyclists' Union stated that his body did everything possible to foster the sport among women.

Ena LStocklev, ex-New Zealand champion and 1928 Olympic, representative, now resident in Sydney, and who had done little swimming last season has made a remarkable return to form. Swimming for a Svdney club, she covered 100 yds in 01 1-H sec, the fastest time of her career.

Fancy an eighteen-year-old-boy with the cartilege from * his right knee removed, winning the Victorian polevaulting record (comments the "Sporting Globe")! This was the phenomenal performance of Fred Irvine Woodhouse, former Melbourne Grammar School champion, when he won the vault with a lean of lift 11m, and he probably would have bettered this had the ground been firm.