PEOPLE IN THE PLAY

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28630, 5 July 1958, Page 5

PEOPLE IN THE PLAY

There is every chance that Beverley Weigel will win a gold medal in the women’s long

jump at the British Empire Games at Cardiff this month, and will also set a record in that event. Miss Weigel has been jumping extremely well in training and she recently leaped 20ft 71in,

an outstanding performance. The well-known former groundsman of the Basin Reserve, Wellington, A. (“Budge”) Brewer, celebrated his golden wedding at his Titahi Bay home in which he has spent several years in retirement. Brewer gained a reputation for his ability in preparing wickets or football fields at Basin Reserve, where he was groundsman for 30 years.

The Fendalton Amateur Swimming Club, winner of the Canterbury Swimming Association Pennant competition last season, will ■ lose two valuable young members, Paul and Stephen Schmidt, who will shift soon to Wellington. Both are breaststroke swimmers showing exceptional promise. Paul represented the province at Dunedin in the junior championships last year. After competing in the Empire Games at Cardiff, the New Zealand heavy-weight wrestler J. Silva, will join Viking Palm in Sweden and will probably remain there, until the 1960 Olympic Games.

A former Christchurch table tennis player, Mr A. J. Depree, has been appointed secretary of the Nelson City Table Tennis Association, which is one of three associations controlling the game in the province of Nelson. While in Christchurch Mr Depree was a member of the University club.

The All Black and Canterbury hooker for the last nine years, D. A. Young, marked his

ninety - fourth appearance for the province on Wednesday with one of the best games of his long and d i s t inguished career. He play* d his first match for Canterbury in 1948 but was not chosen again

until 1950, when he played 10 games. From that time on he has been the regular Canterbury hooker.

Father and son were two of, the most successful competitors in the Ashley Miniature Rifle Association’s championships recently. In the senior championship, E. Hislop shot possibles on his two targets to score 200.20, sharing the honours for the individual aggregate with P. Ellis. His son, B. Hislop, who left Rangiora High School last year, won the president’s grade title with a combined score of 199.13, equalling the winning score in the junior grade. Both are members of the Amberley club.