BASKETBALL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 272, 30 August 1935, Page 6

BASKETBALL.

DOMINION TOURNAMENT. ASHBURTON LEADS SECTION. (Per Press Association } WELLINGTON, This Day. Tlie Dominion basketball tournament was continued to-day in splendid weather. Results:— First Grade. Canterbury beat Hawke’s Bay, 1510. Otago beat Southland, 17-10. Wellington beat Waikato, 24-9. Auckland beat Poverty Bay, 16-6. Second Grade. Section 1. Southland Minor beat Manawatu 2212. Ashburton beat North Auckland, 209. Section 2. Wairarapa beat Nelson, 17-0. South Canterbury beat Wanganui 17Wellington Minor beat Rotorua 28-. 12. Taranaki beat West Coast 20-7. South Canterbury beat Rotorua, 18MATCHES PLAYED YESTERDAY. Matches played yesterday afternoon resulted: — First Grade. Canterbury beat Auckland, 18-14. Otago beat Hawke’s Bay, 16-9. Wellington beat Poverty Bay, 21-4. Auckland beat Waikato, 19-8. Second Grade. Bush beat North Auckland, 17-5. Wellington Minor beat Nelson, 18-4. South Canterbury beat Taranaki, 17-9. Wairoa beat North Auckland, 13-11. Taranaki beat Nelson, 23-6. Ashburton beat Manawatu, 18-15. Southland Minor beat Marlborough, 20-8. Rotorua beat West Coast, 17-11. Wairarapa beat Wanganui, 25-11. • POSITIONS! OF TEAMS. The scores in points at the close of the second day’s play were as follows: — First Grade —Wellington and Southland, 8; Auckland, Canterbury and Otago, 4; Waikato, 2; Hawke’s Bay and Poverty Bay, 0. Second Grade.—Section I—Ashburton,1 —Ashburton, 8; Southland Minor, 5; Manawatu 4; Wairoa, 3; Bush, 2; Marlborough and North Auckland, 0. Section 2 South Canterbury and Taranaki, 8; Wellington Minor, 6; Rotorua, 4; West Coast, Nelson and Wairarapa, 2; Wanganui, 0. The Otago team’s game against Wellington was close and exciting. The outstanding players for Otago were G. Thompson and E. Sinclair. Against Hawke’s Bay, Otago played its best game to date, O. Howard being outstanding.

THE ASHBURTON PLAYERS. In a letter to the “Guardian” written last evening, Mr S. G. Macfarlane, who is in Wellington during the Dominion basketball tournament, states that the Ashburton players are all in good fettle. There have been two minor injuries, to Mrs Holland and 1 Miss McMillan, but no change in the team is necessary. The weather has been gloriously fine but the wind interfered a little with play yesterday. So far Ashburton had won all its games, that is, four out of the six which it has to play. It will thus probably he the section finalist. Speaking of the New Zealand Reflenees’ Association, Mr Macfarlane, who is president, says that its chief task lias been the triennial revision of the rule book for re-printing.