Sportsman’s Notebook 80ft FLAGPOLE ERECTED AT NEW BRIGHTON BEACH

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28447, 29 November 1957, Page 3

Sportsman’s Notebook 80ft FLAGPOLE ERECTED AT NEW BRIGHTON BEACH

An 80ft flagpole recently erected at the north-east end of, the new surf club pavilion at New Brighton will be a distinctive feature of the foreshore. Presented to the club by Mr H. Knight, the pole will be used to fly club pennants when surf patrols are in progress and to fly the national flag on ceremonial occasions. Mr Knight has also presented the club with a large Union Jack and New Zealand flags. For 27 years the flagpole was a prominent feature of Mr Knight’s home at South Brighton. Members of the club recently lowered the flagpole, and with the aid of a 17-ton truck loaned by the Army Department transported it to its new location. Yachts and fishing boats several miles off-shore will be able to take their bearings from the new flagpole, since it is easily the highest mast in the vicinity. Tennis Tours Three Canterbury players will undertake tours sponsored by the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association this season. Miss J. Davidson. a former New Zealand junior title-holder, and G. Judge will go on an intermediate tour which will include Martinborough, Hutt Valley (North Island titles), and Wellington (New Zealand) titles. G. Moss, a, member of the winning Canterbury Slazenger Shield team last season, whose game has improved greatly over the last 18 months, will go on a junior tour, including South Canterbury, Marlborough, and Canterbury junior championships.

* * * Fencing Coach Fencing in the Dominion, and in Auckland in particular, will benefit from the recent arrival from England of Mr P. W. Lillie. Mr Lillie, who holds a British Academy diploma, come to New Zealand to take uo a teaching position at an Auckland secondary school, and he is very keen to coach as much as possible. If sufficient Auckland fencers are interested, Mr Lillie intends to establish a summer coaching school. He proposes to have either club coaching with group classes or individual tuition. * * ¥ Junior Tennis This season for the first time the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association will conduct its junior championships separate from the senior titles meeting. In the pasl if there have been big entries there has been difficulty in getting all sections completed, and many of the best juniors have been prevented from entering in sections of the senior championships because their programmes would have been too big. The senior titles will be played on December 26, Boxing Day (a Thursday), and the Friday, Saturday, and Monday, if necessary. The junior fixture will be held from January 8 to 11. Auckland Golf In a dramatic finish, W. W. Smith, of Titirangi, won the Auckland champion-of-champions golf tournament recently at Middlemore. Smith had a two-round total of 150 and his birdies on the seventeenth and eighteenth of the second round gave him the advantage of one stroke over the New Zealand amateur champion, E. J. Macdougall. s? * Rugby Camp The North Auckland Rugby Union has suggested that a players' camp should be held at Easter, to ensure that likely candidates for positions in the representative team are ready for the start of the season. It is proposed that the camp should be held at either Ruakaka or Waitangi. If the players approve of the plan to hold the camp, it will be suggested that they control it themselves. ¥ * * Filipinos’ Wins The Philippines tennis players who are at present in Australia for the inter-zone finals of the Davis Cup competition have been disregarded by writers who have conceded them no chance of making further progress in this year's competition. However, in the early rounds of the South Australian championships two of the Filipinos beat well-known international players. F. Ampon recorded a straight-sets victory over the South African player, T. Fancutt. and his countryman, J. Jose, beat the Belgian, P. Washer, in five sets, 6-3, 0-6, 1-6, 6-1, 6-0.

New Surf Canoe Sumner Surf Club members are well pleased with their new fibreglass surf canoe. The canoe handles well, responds quickly to change of direction and travels through the breaking surf without losing way and seemingly quicker than the conventional type of surf canoe. Although the bottom of the boat is pounded by the waves there have been no signs of strain. The canoe is completely water-tight and ships very little water. # * # Women’s Tennis Because of the interprovincial lawn tennis match against the West Coast last week-end, the senior women’s competition in Christchurch was postponed. The competition will now be played at Wilding Park tomorrow morning and the men’s competition will be played in the afternoon as scheduled. # * * • Cricket Cancelled Because of rain the sub-associa-tions’ shield cricket match which was to have been played between North Canterbury and Suburban at Christchurch on Wednesday and yesterday, was cancelled. The match will now be played next Wednesday and Thursday.