NOTED NAME IN SPORT

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27984, 2 June 1956, Page 3

NOTED NAME IN SPORT

KINVIG FAMILY HAS FINE RECORD As distance racing for women athletes in Canterbury was introduced only last season, the performance of Miss Alison Kinvig, a 16-year-old who

won the junior section and war first home in the open race at the Kennett Cup at Riccarton racecourse last week-end, was an excellent one. She ran the the mile and a half in

9min 21 sec. which would have given her a mile in something better than six minutes.

Miss Kinvig came home ahead of the Macdonald sisters, whose brothers John and Jim are prominent Canter-

bury athletes. She also beat Miss Gwyn Williams, a sister of Kerry Williams, the national crosscountry champion. Miss Williams won this race last year. Miss Kinvig's sister Anne, her senior by a year, also competed and finished well up in the field.

She’has been prominent in the weekly runs of the Anglican Ladies’ Harrier Club this season. The Kinvig sisters both of whom hold life-saving awards are taking a stage or two further a remarkable family record in sport. Their father is Mr F. L. Kinvig, e prominent East Christchurch cricketer before the war, and with K. C. Wilson, a Canterbury badminton champion in the early 1930’5. He is now a bowler, and with his father, Mr A. G. Kinvig, competes in national tournaments.

Mr A. G. Kinvig was a particularly accomplished cricketer. He played for Otago and Canterbury with success as an all-rounder, beginning his representative career before the turn of the century In Christchurch he played for the old Sydenham-Addington club. As a bowler, Mr Kinvig was outstanding. He won the national pai&fe title with F. Laurenson in 1929 and had many bowling successes in association with H. C. Wilson, a former AH Black full-back, and the father of K. C. Wilson with whom Mr F. L. Kinvig won his badminton title. Mr A. G.

Kinvig was in a rink skipped by H. C. Wilson which won the Christchurch Centre’s champion of champion rinks in 1931, and tney were the champion of champions pair in 1934. Mr Kinvig and T. G. Fox won the same title in 1941.

Mr Kinvig senior has grandsons who are also making their mark in sport. Peter Rennell, a harrier from 1944 to 1952, was twice junior champion of Canterbury, a junior representative from 1944 to 1946, once being captain, and a senior representative from 1948 to 1951, again leading the province once. He won the west Coast three-

member of the executive of the crosscountry running management committee.

His brother Bernard has also done some running, but a younger brother, Paul, has not so far had time, because he plays soccer. He has been a Canterbury representative since he was 10 —he is now 17. Paul now plays for the Nomads senior team, and his presence should be a comfort to the side, for Paul has not in his soccer career been in anything but a winning team. At St. Bede’s College Paul twice won the intermediate cross-country, but soccer still claims his attention. The future is in the safe hands of Michael and John Rennell, the youngest boys in the family, both of whom are playing for the Nomads club.