People In The Play

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27860, 7 January 1956, Page 3

People In The Play

1 AUSTRALIAN sprint =r swimming champion Jon Hendricks'has made a more rapid recovery from his foot injury than was expected and may yet compete in the New South Wales swimming championships this month. It now seems certain that he will be able to compete in the Australian titled in Sydney next February. Two of New Zealand’s most promising athletes, R. Richards, the national pole-Vault title holder, and P. Smith, one of the country’s fastest runners up to a quarter-mile, will both travel from Dunedin to make seven appearances at the invitation of the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay Centre from January 7 to January 21.

Hutt golfer. I. Woodbury, aged only i 16 years, won his club’s 36-hole open medal championship last week. Woodbury is on a five handicap, and was ' three strokes ahead of several established club players who are on handicaps of one. George Piper, of the Mai tai Bowling Club. Nelson, passed through Christchurch this week on his way to Dunedin to compete in the forty-first Dominion bowling tournament. Ho is a former councillor of the New Zealand . Bowling Association. In Dunedin he' is taking part in his thirtieth national championship, probably a record. I

-| TWO of New Zea- > x land's leading B | women athletes. Joy B (Crotty, the national B 75yds, 100yds and ■ 220yds champion. <Wai- « kato) and Miriam y j Whisker, the shot put and discus I champion (Auckland* will make a j two-week visit, for five meetings. 1o Melbourne this month. They will ■ leave on January 20. By the end of this season H. R. Cave will probably have led New Zealand •in 12 test matches in the summer. I This total is far in excess of those lof other New Zealand captains, although it will bo achieved in the one season. W. A. Hadlee led New Zea- . ’and in eight matches. T. C. la»wry and M. L. Page in seven each. G. O. i Rabone in five. B. Sutcliffe in four, I and W. M. Wallace in two.