Sportsman’s Notebook Schools’ Rowing For Maadi Cup Tomorrow

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28541, 21 March 1958, Page 6

Sportsman’s Notebook Schools’ Rowing For Maadi Cup Tomorrow

Canterbury oarsmen will take part in two events for the first time tomorrow. They are the Maadi Cup race for the intersecondary schools’ eight-oared championship of New Zealand and a tournament between the Otago, Southland and Canterbury provinces in composite representative eights. Both events are being held on Lake Waihola, about 25 miles south of Dunedin on a one mile course.

As its name suggests, the Maadi Cup has an unusual origin. It was won by the 2nd N.Z.E.F. eight on the Nile in World War II and was subsequently presented to the New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association. The association decided to give the cup for school eights’ rowing. It has since become widely known and is now a keenly-sought trophy. The first race for the cup was held in 1947 and since then the contest has been held in Auckland and Wanganui in alternate years. This year’s race is the first to be held in the South Island and four of the nine schools taking part today will be doing so for the first time.

It is to be regretted that only one of the five local schools that include rowing among their summer sports is able to travel to Dunedin. However, the Christchurch Boys’ High School eight— R. Truscott (stroke), S. L. Amyes, H. W. Cranefield, B. G. Taylor, R. D. Rastrick, J. R. Nicholls, I. C. Athfield, J. Casserley (bow) and R. McDonald (coxwain)—has shown some very good form in training and is expected to give a good account of itself. Boys’ High School has been fortunate in that the whole of last year's crew has returned to school, which has enabled it to race at a number of regattas over the • long vacation. Its greatest success was in winning the youths’ eights at the Christchurch regatta. The schools competing at Lake Waihola are Mount Albert Grammar School (the holders), Penrose High School, Hamilton Boys’ High School, Wanganui Technical College, Christchurch Boys’ High School, Otago Boys’ High School, King’s High School, Christian Brothers’ College and King Edward Technical College. Two representative provincial crews are also travelling to Dunedin to take part in the triangular tournament. The senior eight,— J. James (stroke), B. Reid, D. Angland, C. L. Bell, E. Akins, R. Jury, K. Stockman, I. Clifford (bow), and R. Gibson (coxswain) —has had insufficient training as a crew to be able to produce its best effort, but should provide strong competition for the Otago and Southland crews. The colts’ eight, comprising M. C. Corsbie (stroke), E. J. Martin, P. Keegan, B. Aitchison, H. Lamplugh, K. Armstrong, A. Sims, J. Millward (bow), and M. Wylie (coxswain), has also had little training, but with weight and fitness on its side, should give a good account of itself.

It is hoped that this tournament will become a permanent fixture. */ * * Universities Tennis When the New Zealand Universities’ tennis championships are played at Wilding Park next month, three of the most prominent players will be B. E. Woolf, R. A. Wong and Miss Jill Glenie, of Auckland. Wong and Miss Glenie are the present national junior champions, and all three have played overseas. Last year, Woolf toured England and the Continent playing tennis, and was prominent in several competitions. He beat a British Davis Cup player in one encounter. * * * Aquapolo Aquapolo is the latest water sport craze in Australia, according to Mrs Grace Walker, Griffiths Cup challenger, in Wellington. Stock boats, used for racing in stock boat events, are also used for aquapolo. The game is played with a rubber ball 6ft in diameter. Light frame fenders are fitted to the bows of the boats and teams of six aside entertain large crowds. It is not unusual, according to Mrs Walker, for players to loose all sense of direction in the confusion and curtains of spray, and many of them end up on the beach among the spectators. Damage to propellers and shafts is considered an “occupational hazard.” * * * Soviet Sport An illustration of the thoroughness with which the Soviet Union prepares for sports can be found in athletics this year. The Russian athletic championships will be held in Tallinn, in the north of the country. This site has been chosen because its climate most closely resembles that of Stockholm, which will be the venue for this year’s European championships. The Russians are ensuring that their athletes have a chance to become accustomed to the climate. * ¥ ¥ Auckland League Heavy expenditure on Carlaw Park, Auckland, which cost £3559 for maintenance alone, caused the Auckland Rugby League to suffer a loss of £567 in 1957. This was disclosed in the league’s annual report. Actual expenses at the park were £6602. * ¥ * Another Tindill One of a handful who have represented New Zealand at both cricket and Rugby, E. W. Tindill now confines his appearances to an odd social cricket match while doing much for sport as secretary of the Wellington Cricket Association, a senior umpire and a leading Rugby referee. But it should be some time before the name disappears from sporting records for Tindill has several sons who show all of their father’s keenness and much of i his ability at both sports. The eldest son. Paul, who recently left high school, is also a halfback at Rugby, a left-hand bat and wicketkeeper at cricket Eric Tindill played all his club cricket for the Midland Club in Wellington and Paul has rapidly come

through, the same club’s lower grade teams to the second A grade where he made 59 not out recently. The Midland club hopes that before long another Tindill will be keeping wickets for its senior team. * * ♦ Betty Cuthbert Althought Betty Cuthbert, the Olympic sprint champion, recently set another world’s record for the 220 yards, her exceptional time of 23.55ec was not considered by her coach, June Matson, to be her best performance. She claims Miss Cuthbert will set records for the 220 yards and the 100 yards at the Empire Games with times of at least 23.35ec and lOHsec, respectively. Athletic experts believe that a woman doing 10.3 sec for 100 yards is the equivalent of a man covering the same distance in 9.2 sec. The natural difference in strength, sprint, stride and stamina more than make up the difference. * * ¥ Soccer Tactics Russian association football writers are claiming yet another discovery by their country’s players. The deep-lying centreforward, which is regarded as a British novelty of recent years, is now said to have been invented by the Russian international Pyotr Isakov. 30 years ago. Two wellknown centre-forwards who have used this in recent years are Naidov Hidzekuti, a member of the Hungarian team which beat England, 6-3, at Wembley in 1953, and Don Revie, the hero of Manchester City’s surprise victory over Birmingham City in the 1955-56 Cup Final.

/ Sports Carnival At Lake Bryndwr tomorrow, a carnival featuring racing cars, speedboats, and water ski-ihg will be held by the Canterbury Car Club *and the Lake Bryndwr Water Ski Club. Drivers from clubs in Timaru, Ashburton, and Kaiapoi will compete in the track races, which will be from both scratch and handicap. * * * Family Final John Souter, aged 15, a former Canterbury lawn tennis men’s singles titleholder, recently won the final of the Wellington club’s championship. The runner-up was his father, Mr Bruce Souter, a former South Island doubles champion. J. B. Souter beat his father, from whom he has received much of his coaching and encouragement, <S-2, 6-1. “He wiped me off the court,’’ said Mr B. E. Souter afterwards. Souter will play in the Whangarei grass court Easter tournament.