TAURANGA TO PLAY A-GRADE?

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 15099, 6 October 1949, Page 3

TAURANGA TO PLAY A-GRADE?

SUGGESTION AT BASKETBALL MEETING MORE THAN ONE MATCH FOR. LAKE CUP A recommendation that, as the Tauranga representative basketball team had won the B-grade cup at the Dominion basketball tournament for three years, the association should make application to play in the senior grade at Manawatu next year, was made by Mrs D. W. Johnson, at the final 1949 monthly meeting of the basketball executive on Tuesday evening. She also suggested to the incoming committee that there should be more than one match for the Lake Cup (for annual competition between Maori and Pakeha teams) as competition among A, B and C teams wou'd be a fairer way to decide the issue. The delegates to the Dominion Council meeting in Dunedin, held at the time of the tournament, reported that it had been decided that local association's affiliation fees to the New Zealand Association would be increased for this year. It had also been decided that no ribbed basketballs could be used. Mrs Woods suggested that two cups should be presented by the association to- be awarded to the ninners-up each year in the junior A and B grades' primary school basketball competitions.