PEOPLE IN THE PLAY

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28660, 9 August 1958, Page 5

PEOPLE IN THE PLAY

The St. Albans senior cricket team will probably have the services of G. G. Couli through-

out the coming summer. In recent seasons Coull, a Plunket Shield allrounder. has been able to play only a limited number of matches because his work takes him into country. A leftarm bowler

and determined right-hand batsman, Coull will be a great asset to the team.

A former Hutt Valley representative table tennis player, D. Carlton, has been showing good form in the Christchurch competitions this season. Carlton, who has been playing for the Panthers team, has shown good ball control and Very, quick footwork. He will play in the Canterbury team against South Canterbury this evening. He won the men’s plate event at the national championships several years ago.

Captain and coach of the Australian soccer sidle which has begun its tour of New Zealand is Joe Marston. Marston was in England for a few years, and while there played for Preston in the 1954 English F.A. Cup final. He was a member of all the test.. sides against New Zealand in 1948 and played in all five tests against the Blackpool team this year.

Reputedly the hardest hitter in. women’s tennis, Miss Maria Bueno, of Brazil, has been invited to play in Australia next summer. Miss Bueno was one of the most prominent women players in the Wimbledon tournament and her visit is expected to help stimulate women’s tennis in Australia.

There were Many competitors in the various grades provided for men at the Canterbury harrier titles, who were quite content to drop to a walk up the first climb on to.ttye smaU hill at Motukarara racecourse, and no doubt they would have felt thoroughly ashamed had they seen the winner of the junior, (under 15) women's race. Although she was slowed a little by the climb, 12-year-old Margaret Dixey did not falter in her stride, and her ability on this part ot the course must have contributed greatly to her final lead of more than one minute and a half.

In the South Island Chatham Cup final, Malcolm Wild captained his team to a thrilling win and'Canterbury supporters will be wishing him luck as he takes the field at the head of his team today .in the final at Wellington. A ‘former Junior National Cup player, Wild has fulfilled earlier promise and is now one of Canterbury’s best halves.

In the last few seasons few forwards have come close to rivalling the jumping of the . big Wellington

lock, I. N. MacEwan, in the line-outs. In those years Mac Ewan outjumped practically every other class line-out forward but many times lost possession through lack of experi-

ence of line-out play. His

form last Saturday in the inter-island match suggested that he is now afi excellent line-out forward in every respect. His jumping was still the best, and there .were very few occasions on which, after taking the ball, he did not get it back.