Sportsman's Notebook Current And Past Champions Clash

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29798, 14 April 1962, Page 17

Sportsman's Notebook Current And Past Champions Clash

The first meeting this year between the current New Zealand junior champion. G. L. B.rd. and the former titleholder. G D Davidson, should be the special tit-bit of the squash rackets match between Christchurch and Timaru at the Chester street courts on Sunday. They will clash in the top match. Bird for Timaru and Davidson for Christchurch, and in view of the coming • >urnament season, the outc .me will be of special inThe form of L. Milne, a f armer New Zealand representative. will also be watched closely. With teams of at least 12 for the first meeting in this home-and-away fixture. Christchurch has a good chance of victory Although without H. S. Gair. M. O Holdsworth and possibly R G Pattinson. it will have a team of even strength which could prove too strong for T.maru in the lower posi-

in addition, newcomers this season provide the local te«.n with players at the top who should test Bird. K. R Green. N F Coe. and W. A Green for the first time. Christchurch will be headed by Davidson and Milne, with L. G Holder and M D Grant, followed by D R Preston and P M Hill, if Pattinson cannot play Preston. who provided s6me of the highlights of last season, will be home from Dunedin for the week-end and will make his first Christchurch appearance of the season. ¥ ¥ ¥

Record-Breakers Four New Zealand records were broken by two Canterbury weight-lifters in special attempts recently. C. Fraser, a feather-weight, lifted 201*«lb to beat the previous bench press record of 1901 b and in an attempt on the dead lift record was successful with an effort of 414 3 41 b. which broke the existing record by IPilb J Penny improved on both the national middle-weight and light heavy-weight pullover and press records with a lift of 217»i1b. * ¥ ¥ Kiwis Playing A feature of the opening Rugby League games tomorrow will be the appearance of Canterbury’s current Kiwis, M. L Cooke. J. A Bond, and A N. Amer, who will be playing their first match since their return from the tour of Great Britain and France in December.

Most interest will centre on Bond to see if he has re-tained-the splendid form he showed on tour. He will play first five-eighths, and Amer will play w-ing three-Tua-ter for Papanui against , .7 Et rna ln attraction at the Show Grounds. Bond vwill be opposed by the dependable 1960 Canterbury representative, P. V. Smith Bond has always been a very good footballer and glowing reports from overseas suggested that he improved even further on tour. A last-minute selection in tne touring team, he developed into one of the outstanding backs in the party and played in all six tests in his first year as a Kiwi. * ¥ ¥ Swimming Records The swimming season just ended has been notable for the record-breaking feats of Canterbury competitors. Six New Zealand and 58 Canterbury times were bettered, 19 of the fresh marks being recorded in senior women’s events, in which every record was broken during the season.