WINTER GAMES BEGIN

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22057, 3 April 1937, Page 16

WINTER GAMES BEGIN

FULL PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY FOOTBALL, HOCKEY, AND ATHLETICS The winter games season will begin in earnest to-day. Apart from lawn tennis, in which South Island championship finals will be played today, and bowls, the summer sports have concluded. Football clubs in all cedes have begun practices, arid this afternoon will see also the opening of the cross-country season. Basketball preliminaries are part of the day’s programme. Friendly Rugby matches to-day will include Albion v. Christchurch, at Lancaster Bark oval, and Athletic _v. Technical Old Boys, the new senior grade team, on the south ground at Lancaster Park. Both matches will begin at 2.45 p.m. Friendly games and practice matches will be played in the Association and League football codes. The winter athletic season will begin with pack runs over short trails to-day. The principal cross-country clubs will open their programmes. The final of the Canterbury women’s golf championship will be played at the Shirley links, together with the Islington Cup open mixed foursomes. The Canterbury Basketball Association will open its season with grading day matches at South Hagley Park, play beginning at 2 p.m. The finals of the South Island lawn tennis championship and handicap tournament will be played at Wilding Park this afternoon, beginning at noon with the boys’ doubles, and continuing with the finals of the senior singles events at 1 o’clock. Most of the leading players in Canterbury will be seen in action.