Sportsman’s Notebook Import Restrictions And Sports Dealers

Press, Volume C, Issue 29553, 30 June 1961, Page 7

Sportsman’s Notebook Import Restrictions And Sports Dealers

TTie supplementary import ■ jlu ensin? schedule recentlj'i 'released by the Minister of| Customs (Mr Marshall) has* , left sports goods retailers and, wholesalers uncertain about! ' the effect it will have on ] their trade. The schedule does I] not provide for the alloca-, tion of sports items and the I licences for then will not be granted until the circum-' stances are "most excep- • ■ tional.” | Items affected by the' -sdsedule include: football i I bladders, golf balls, hockey : I b; !L«. hockey sticks. badtnin- ; on Shuttlecocks. squash i balls, rearly all ski-ing equipI meat, component parts of, squash and badminton I rackets, finished golf clubs. I crickw balls, croquet balls. • tennis balls, table tennis ■ I balls, polo balls, indoor I bowls. underwater spear guns, baseballs and bicycles I Most of the managers of ' snorts goods stores questioned yeMerday said they were not I vet sure of the true position, ’.but thought that the trade would not be seriously affectI ed this year, as the orders ifor summer sports goods had already been placed. i After Christmas, however, lit was doubtful whether stocks would be sufficient , for I the finrsh of the summer season and the beginning of winter sports. A spokesman of one c:tv fiim said that as long ias there was no panic and the Cbistmes period was not I busier than usual, stocks! should hold out until the ‘ ; new licences were al’oted in! July. If any difficulty was j going to be experienced it! would be in winter sporting I goodn

McConaehy To Tour The 66-year-o!d world pro- , fessional billards champion, i Clark McConaehy. of Auck- ! land, is preparing for another ; exhibition tour. McConaehy. ; who describes himself as “the [last of the odd pros.” still I believes in a thorough preI paration, and in a recent I practice he made a break of , "80. His biggest break is 1943, ; against Joe Davies in London i in 1932, and in the same year at Manchester he made 408 consecutive cannons. McConaehy is tile only’ first'dass professional still flaying billards. and he has been world champion since 1951 ' On his forthcoming tour of the Auckland district, which ■ will begin on Judy 4. McConachy hopes to score at least another five snooker ■ centuries to bring his tally to 300

As is McConaehy* usual practice he will give the best players in the town* he visit*! 400 rtart in an hour of bsl-j liards and six blacks a frame at snooker. a * « Another Hutton R Hutton. 17-year-old son of Sir Leonard Hutton, scored 164 for bis school Upton, in a recent match against Uppingham. Partnered by G. Turner. Hutton put on 268 for the' first wteket. which is believed to be a record in a public schools match. It was Hutton's fourth cen-i tury for the school, and included 20 fours. Turner made: 115 not out. When Repton! played Uppingham last season Hutton and Turner shared in an opening partner, .ship of 226. b♦ . » Team Tor Golf Tour I TTie New Zealand golf team i to tour Australia from Nov-! ember 2 to November 26 this! year will -consist of six players and not four, as was! originally intended. A letter j from the Australian Golf! Union approving of the sdx-| man team was received at i the last meeting of the coun-j oil of the New Zealand Golf Association. It was decided [that the team and the man-: ager would be announced on! August 25. The acceptance of the New [ Zealand proposal to include! two more men in the team i gives the opportunity to I blood two youngsters in international competition.