People In The Play

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30218, 24 August 1963, Page 9

People In The Play

■ The former Canterbury • representative golfer, E. H. ; M. Richards, has been in ; splendid form since suc- ; cesses in the Mid-Canter- • bury stroke championship 5 at Ashburton in April. His • recent rounds at Russley • have been consistently • around or under the ■ course par of 73, and have I resulted in Richards being S reduced from a handicap : of one to scratch. Last I week-end only a rather ■ careless putt of a few ■ inches prevented Richards ; from winning the Temple- » ton open title. ★

; Canterbury squash I rackets will soon lose the I successful young Collegiate • A grade player C. C. Kls- ; sling, who will be in • Canada for the next three ■ years. Kissling will study I at McGill University, ■ Montreal, for a Ph.D. He • will leave New Zealand S on September 6.

A major dissappoint-; ment at the Templeton ; open golf tournament was ; the new Canterbury rep- : resentative, A. C. Browne, : of Ashburton, who could I do no better than rounds !

of 82 and 80. Browne was rarely in complete command of his long game, but he played some fine shots, and was always with and some times ahead of R. C. Murray from the tees, But on the greens he could do nothing right, missing several putts of no more than two feet and three-putting far too often for a player of his standard. ★ The popular Canterbury senior reserve basketball captain, Marjorie Coulson, had the misfortune to break her nose during the team's visit to Wellington last week. The accident happened before the Can-terbury-Wellington match, when she collided with a referee. She played in the game, and it was not until she returned to Christchurch that it was discovered that her nose was broken. Marjorie will not be available to play for Canterbury against the West Coast today. ■■••■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■(■a

Although Canterbury is ! not expected to have a ■ representative in the New ; Zealand men’s basketball ; team to visit Formosa to- S wards the end of the year, • the team will almost cer- • tainly have a local official ; accompanying it AS

national-classed referee ! is to be sent with the team ; to Asia, and it appears : likely that the former New : Zeeland player, M. A. Me- j Dougall, the present coach • of the Y-Boys club teams • in Christchurch, will be : chosen. He was selected 1 last year to officiate ait the • world championships in ; Manila, but at the last : moment the championships • were cancelled because of • political reasons. He must • be considered a first choice ; for the coming Asian visit I