PEOPLE IN THE PLAY

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28938, 4 July 1959, Page 5

PEOPLE IN THE PLAY

Among ■ the many former prominent All Blacks who attended the University of fian t«rhiirv*>

want ernury's Rugby Club's toventy - fifth Jubilee celebrations earlier •this week was t. T. Savage, Cant erbury’s Sole representative in the IMB New Zealand team which toured Kfttlth Afrira

Boutn Africa. ? Savage is now living at PahiaBin the Bush union’s dishut his playing days are He does a little coaching How and then. ★ ■ When the Canterbury ski Championships are held at ■bunt Cbeeseman on August 1

and 2, the New Zealand repres e n tative, Scott Yates, will be watched with interest in aetian on his home ground. Yates, a youngster who made a rapid rise to prominence . last

2 season when he was selected S from a tough field of contend--2 ers for the New Zealand team, S has the stamp of a first-class 5 racer. Other members of the S Canterbury Winter Sports 2 Club, including the reigning 2 national champion, R. S. A. S Chaffey, are likely to dominate 2 the championships.

In Sydney recently, the New Zealand Rugby League team visited the Paddington Technical College. One of the team members, Graham Kennedy, who played against the touring Paddington school team several years ago, was made an honorary prefect of the school and was presented with a prefect’s badge. ★ Two of Australia’s bestknown cricketers, Neil Harvey and Norm O'Neill, have been chosen as members of the framing squad from which the New South Wales representative baseball team will be chosen. Harvey playa at Second base, and Q’Neill in the outfield. Earlier in the year, O’Neill rejected an offer to play professional baseball in the United State* The University badminton player, Mto G. Hepkinson, Will be the province’s able repre-

. sentative at the national -trials, which . being held in Wellington are to aid the ' selection of ; the New Zea- > land teams to : play in the Whyte Trophy

and. Über Cup matches this season. |fiss flopkinson reached the final of the women’s singles at last year’s national championships, and was subsequently ranked second in the Dominion. She is unbeaten in three seasons of representative play.