Sportsman’s Notebook TECHNOS TROPHY AGAIN THIS SEASON

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29383, 9 December 1960, Page 7

Sportsman’s Notebook TECHNOS TROPHY AGAIN THIS SEASON

Major and minor association cricket representative teams will this season again have the opportunity to compete for the Technos Trophy, awarded by a Swiss watch manufacturing firm as an incentive to brighter cricket. The Technos Trophy, presented for the first time last season. was won by the Canterbury Plunket Shield team. As in last season, watches will be presented to the members of the winning team. The firm concerned, through its New Zealand representative, has again made this offer for the 1960-61 season. The trophy and watches will be presented to the team which, in the opinion of a panel appointed by the New Zealand Cricket Council’s Board of Control, contributes the most during the season to brighter and more interesting cricket. The trophy is not a challenge trophy, but each association holding it receives also a silver plaque to mark the award. The watches will be presented at a dinner and reception to be held in the home town of the winning team or association and the competition is not limited to the major association teams if the panel thinks it fit to award it to a minor association. The panel will comprise the same judges as in the 1959-60 season. Centre Court Tennis The Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association’s featured contest on Saturday afternoon will be that between University and Cashmere I in the senior mixed grade. The main matches in this contest will be played on the centre court at Wilding Park, commencing at 1 p.m. In the top men’s singles C. G. Judge (University) will meet B. J. Shirlaw (Cashmere I). These two players have already met twice this season, in the Carnival Week tournament and in a ranking match, and Judge has won narrowly on each occasion. Cashmere’s top woman player, Miss J. Davidson, will not be playing tomorrow as she is manager of the Canterbury Howe Shield team which will be playing at Greymouth. Mrs G. Middelberg (University) will therefore play Mrs E. Campbell. Other players are L. J. Walpole and Miss S. Mackay (University) and M. C. Healey and Mrs A. Ryan (Cashmere). * * * Sporting Double

A father-and-son combination made the headlines in Sydney newspapers this week when both were selected to represent New South Wales, in different sports. Russell Waugh senior was chosen for the New South Wales bowls team for a match against Australia. His son, Russell Waugh junior, in the absence of

several leading players on duty with the Australian test team, gained selection in the New South Wales cricket side for a Sheffield Shield match against Western Australia, which commences today. He is a batsman and leg-spin bowler. # * » British Soccer Tour Although a tentative itinerary for a tour of New Zealand next season by a British Soccer team had been drawn up some time ago, no definite information has been received, said the secretary of the New Zealand Football Association (Mir J. W. Arcus) in Wellington this week. The itinerary allows for matches in Auckland (two), Christchurch, Wellington, Dunedin and Napier. The Dominion association had asked that players such as Stanley Matthews, Tom Finney and Billy Wright, and the British Football Association has said that those men will be kept in mind when the team is chosen. * * * Senior Mixed Tennis The competitions committee of the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Associtaion, at a meeting this week, decided that in matches in the senior mixed competition, only the third set shall be to advantage. This follows an exceptionally long mixed doubles match in the contest between University and United in the first round of the senior mixed grade, where D. R. Preston and Miss S. Mackay (University) beat B. R. Judge and Miss H. Blick (United), 8-10, 8-6, 9-7. This left insufficient time for those players to complete their singles matches before the courts were to be vacated at 1 p.m.