PEOPLE IN THE PLAY

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29798, 14 April 1962, Page 9

PEOPLE IN THE PLAY

! R. Tait, the Waikato Rugby League five-eighths, $ who scored 468 points in 4 all matches last season, J began the current season J by scoring 31 points for j his club, Huntley United. 5 on Saturday. Tait’s total of Il points last year was only H 37 behind the world reli cord set by the British J player, B. L. Jones, in the J 1956-57 season. J¥ ¥ ¥ J Members of the Austra- ! lian Universities' athletic £ team, who competed in * Christchurch on Wednes--4 day, were disappointed to 4 learn that they would not J have the opportunity to J see P. G. Snell run durJ ing their tour of New I Zealand. When the team is t in Auckland over Easter 4 Snell will be competing M in the Highland Games at J Hastings. On Easter Sat- ! urday he will run in a handicap 880 yards, and I in a mile handicap on the | Monday. W. D. Baillie is 4 another competitor in the J mile. M. G. Halberg will J take part in a handicap J three miles on the MonII day.

The burly E. J. McDougall hit some of the longest drives seen in Auckland golf for many years when he played in a district association trial at

Akarana recently. At the I seventeenth, which meas- I ures 420 yards, his drive I finished 26 yards in front j of the green—a blow of ! about 375 yards—while at J the 355-yard eighteenth he J reached the green with his | tee shot. A former national i champion. McDougall is 1 playing again as an ama- j teur after a brief profes- J sional career.