BASKETBALL.

Auckland Star, 4 September 1939, Page 14

BASKETBALL.

AUCKLAND VICTORIOUS. mOTORUA TOURNAMENT. NAPIER BEATEN 22—8 IN FINAL. In the sixth nnnunl Rotorun basketball tournament for the Kurungaltuku Bowl Auckland defeated Napier In the final by 22 goals to 8. In the section play Auckland drew on Friday with Poverty Bay, the former holder of the trophy, and In the play-off on Saturday to decide the winner of the section defeated Poverty Bay by 12 gonls to 5. In the Neinl finals Auckland d-efented Mntamiata A, 11—4, and N'npler defeated Thames, 10—5. At Windmill Road. The second', and Inst, round of the Auckland championship series is now well under way, and with the three leading teams In the senior A grade—K'urrey Mills, Kd'endnle nnd 'Varsity Blues—separated In that order by the nlatter of a point, competition is keen for top plneing. Saturday's results:— Senior A. —'Varsity lilne 15, beat 'Varsity Whites 1 ; Klllarun «!. bent 'Varsity Whites 5 • Rovers 5, beat St. Peter's 3; 'Varsity Bines l!t. heat Killarua 5; Rovers 0. beat Seddon 5: Surrey Hills 11. bent Arahl 3. Senior Reserve. —J.C.L.. 11. beat Manukau Rovers 3 ; A.B.C. 0. beat Grammnr 4 : City Rovers 10. bent Grammar 8: J.C.L. 0. beat Shamrock 5; City Rovers 13, beat Y.W.C.A. * Senior B.—Hellaby's 17. beat Edendnle 8; Arnhl-toii won by default from Atwaters; Arahl-nul «, beat Edendale 2; St. Benedict's 15, bent St. Peter's 2: Balmoral 11. bent Gleaner* 'i\ Arahl-ton 9, heat Glen Eden 5. Second A.—J.C.I,. 10 beat Y.W.C.A. «; ISSM 14. beat VVhltcombe and Tombs i ; Technical 10, bent Arahl 5; Whltcombe and Tombs won by default from 'Varsity -, Smith and Cnughey 17. bent Grammar 3. Second B. —15SM 15. beat Arahl 2; Banks Box 7, beat Technical fi; Y.W.C.A. 1.1. bent Edonvale 1; Aotea «, beat Flamingo 4. Intermediate. —Glen Eden won by default from Training College; Kiwi (1. beat YWC.A A 4: Yates 15. bent Arahl 4; Clark and Mathleson 11. beat North Memorial 0; IZM 17, l>eiU Y.W.C.A. B J; Kiwi 15 beat Grammar 2. Third A.—Greers 20, bent Robinson B 3: Arahl v. Osborne's, both defaulted: West mere 17 beat Y.W.C.A. B !?: Y.W.C.A. x a beat Wyndham Rovers nil. 'Third B.—Smith and Caughey v. t/.M P.. hnth defaulted; Tninakl A won by default from' IZM A; Y.W.C.A. A 10. bent Arahl mil 2; West mere 9. beat Tama k I B 5; Arahl ton v Y.W.C.A. B, both defaults' Fourth.—A-K.l* 6 beat Y.W Papatoetoe ». drew with Held EllerslleO, beat Arahl o; Seddon v, 1. .A., both defaulted; Macduff's won by default from UvrL