PEOPLE IN THE PLAY

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27990, 9 June 1956, Page 3

PEOPLE IN THE PLAY

Gordon Holland won considerable = admiration for his courage during = his bout at the Rakaia amateur n boxing tournament this week. = Against a more experienced oppon- = ent he was clearly out-pointed, but g he never yielded an inch. He is a = son of the noted motor-cyclist. e Mick Holland.

= The University front ranker J. 5 D. Stewart fully earned the dis- = tinction of captaining Canterbury

= against the = West Coast 'g last Monday. = Stewart has = played cpn- > n sistently good = football in the = seven years he = has played in | the province’s = senior A re- | pre s e ntative 5 side. Last = Monday he 9 = played his ■ = 26th game for

= Canterbury. He first played for = Canterbury while a student at = Canterbury Agricultural College, c Lincoln, in 1949. There are few = front row forwards in Canterbury § who put as much into their play as = Stewart.

g ☆ = Four names have been released = by the Canterbury Referees’ Asso- == ciation as A grade referees. Top of = the list is Mr H. Royce, who played = in England until his arrival in New 5 Zealand. Mr C. Anderson also 5 comes from overseas. After his ar- | riyal in New Zealand from Scots land. Mr Anderson represented = Canterbury and was three times a e member of the Chatham Cup win- = ning team, twice with Watersiders, = Wellington, and once with Western. 5 Mr I. Rillcliffe is well known to all e Canterbury players. He turned out j| for Nomads and R.N Z.A.F., and dess scribed himself as a utility player. = He has been 11 years a referee and = is popular secretary of the Canter--5 bury Referees’ Association. Mr J. = Davidson is another New Zealand- = er. and has been refereeing for e eight years, after playing for sevE eral seasons with Shamrock.

= Although she lacks height | M. Kummer (Digbys) has shown = some solid defence play this season = in the Canterbury Basketball = Association’s senior competitions e She was a Canterbury representan tive in 1954 but was not available = last year because of injury.

The chairman of the Auckland Rugby Union, Mr T. H. Pearce, was named in the “world fifteen” chosen by the Springboks manager. Dr. Danie Craven, from players from other countries he opposed during his career. Dr. Craven said in Brisbane that during the 1937 tour of New Zealand was the only front-row forward able to master “Boy” Louw. Pearce was in the Auckland team, but was emergency for the three test matches.

Johnny White. Western’s tall inside forward, earned himself a round of applause towards end of the Overseas-born v. New-Zea-land-born match on Monday, when he scored a beautiful -goal—for his opponents. White was back giving a hand on defence, and tapped the ball back to his goalkeeper, J. Calligan. Usually these taps given by defending players roll slowly towards the goalkeeper, but White has a powerful boot, and his tap was a moderately-paced kick that rose a yard or so and sailed past the astounded Calligan into the net.

Had he started the season in his present form, Kevin Meates would almost certainly have played in the

trial matches which ended at Lancaster Park on Wednesday. With his training interrupted by injury, Meates was below his best in the early club games, but in recent weeks has been playing splendidly. Meates

has already played 42 matches for Canterbury, and should add something more this season to a notable record.

R. A. Jarden is in great danger of being eclipsed as the star attraction, in Wellington by the “bumping” Maori winger T. Katene. Katene came into prominence last yeai as a wing three-quarters who relies not on a fend or a swerve to take him past defenders, but a bump of his heavily-built hips. By this method he scored several tries. Bumping, however, is not enough to take a wing threequarters into a New Zealand side. He lacks speed and in this department he can never hope to outclass Jarden.

Dorothy Munnerly (formerly Dorothy Hughes) has retired from representative basketball. She has represented Canterbury since 1949

and the South Island from 1950 to 1955. She has proved that with good footwork and'correct timing, a lack of height is not a disadvantage in basketball. With her twin sister Mary, she plays for Digbys senior team. Their sister Alison, a former New Zealand representative, is at present in England. ☆ Although at 31 he is not taking athletics quite so seriously as formerly, Empire Games representa-

tive Jim Daly is far from being a spent force, as his runs in the early season cross - country races have shown. Even though Daly has time for only a limited amount of coaching of younger athletes. many

Christchurch runners could profit from the reply given to a young Canterbury athlete by Murray Halberg when asked for advice. “Why ask me when you have Jim Daly here in Christchurch,” said Halberg. “Next to Lydiard (Halberg’s coach). Daly knows more about distance running than any one else in the country.”

One of the most promising defence players in the Canterbury Basketball Association’s senior competitions is P. Edmonds (Technical) who was a forward in the Otago representative team last year. She jumps and intercepts well and her team-mate C. Brown combines well with her.

a change in position from first five-eighths 'to half-back has brought success to J. Lett. In 1954 Lett represented Wellington as a first five-eighths. Recently he played with distinction as halfback for Featherston against Carterton in the Wairarapa union’s competitions, scoring 17 of his side’s points.

Three former pupils of the Port Chalmers primary school—D. Thomson, B. Malcolm and J. E. Ellis—are aspirants for Olympic rowing honours. They have been selected for the Olympic rowing eight this year. The three men, besides attending the same school, were also class-mates. They have always rowed together for the Queen’s Drive Boating Club.