TO-DAY’S SPORTS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21940, 14 November 1936, Page 19

TO-DAY’S SPORTS

PROGRAMME IN CITY OPENING OF SENIOR TENNIS The opening of the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association’s senior inter-club competition will be an interesting event on to-day’s programme of sports events in the city. Although the racing carnival is still holding the interest of sportsmen, cricket, lawn tennis, and bowling competitions will be continued, an important road cycling championship will be contested, and several swimming clubs will open the draw for the Canterbury Cricket Association’s first-grade competition provides matches of unusual interest. Hagley Park will again be the venue of three of the four games, a rearrangement of grounds having been made necessary by the postponement last week. High School Old Boys, one of the two leading teams, will meet Lancaster Park, last year’s champion side, on the No. 1 ground, and this match should produce some fine cricket. St. Albans, who gained a great eight-point victory over Lancaster Park in the last match, will meet Old Collegians at Hagley No. 2. and on the third wicket Riccarton will play East Christchurch. West Christchurch, which heads the competition with Old Boys, will play Sydenham at Sydenham Park. The draw for senior matches in the Christchurch Suburban Association’s competitions is as follows: At Sunnyside, Sunnyside v. Spreydon; at Beckenham Park. Beckenham v. Railway; at Lin wood Park, Working Men’s Club v. Shirley. In the senior matches of the Women’s Cricket Association the draw is as follows: Technical Old Girls v. Mai Moa A, at Ensor’s road; Mai Moa B v.'High School Old Girls, at Malvern Park, Tennis and Cycling The senior lawn tennis competition is beginning earlier than usual this year to enable the. matches to be held fortnightly instead of weekly. In other respects, too. the competition has altered, for United, which in recent years has provided two or more teams and usually the winner, has withdrawn. and there has been a reshuffle of players among the hard-court clubs. Opawa therefore is returning to the competition after a lapse of many years, and with a team, consisting of C. Angas, I. A. Seay, T. W. Patterson, and W. R. Robinson, seems to be much the strongest in the competition. Another new entry is Elmwood. Opawa will play»Cashmere, Elmwood will play Cathedral, and Linwood will meet Canterbury College. All senior and lowergrade games will be played at Wilding Park. c . The important cycling event on today’s programme is the 50 miles South Island road championship, which will be conducted by the New Brighton Cash Cycling Club. A good entry of local and visiting riders has been received, and there should be keen competition both for the places and the title. The race will begin at the Bower Hotel at 2 p.m. and the course is to Cust and back.