Seven Sports To Pool Talents

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30286, 12 November 1963, Page 15

Seven Sports To Pool Talents

Several pf New Zealand's sportsmen and women will be in the splash in an event to be held at the Wharenui Amateur Swimming Club tomorrow night. Representatives of seven “dry” sports will be forming teams to take part in a novelty relay carnival that will assist to raise funds for Miss Alison Mitehell to spend two weeks in Auckland for coaching before the Canterbury Swimming Championships. Last year, Miss Mitchell recorded the fastest time in the under 14 years breaststroke. Four of the sports will be represented solely by New Zealand representatives and the others by sportsmen prominent in their respective sports. Treading a rather wetter wicket than even last Saturday will be A. R. MacGiibbon, P. G. Z. Harris. S. C. Guillen and G. T. Dowling, cricket’s hardy quartet. Four men well accustomed to the moisture of Canterbury Pugby fields will represent that sphene—D. C. Leary, R. H. Duff, P. B. Vincent and C. L. Hardie. Some have long advocated that hockey should be a summer sport and I. D. Armstrong, J. C. Abrams, R. Gillespie and E. Barnes will have an opportunity to prove that not all good hockey players go to sleep in the off-season. Heralded for their dexterity on the basketball courts of Britain, four Canterbury members of the New Zealand

team will now try their skill in Wheirenui’s cool waiter. They are Misses C. McMaster, J. Blair and J. Martin, and Mrs P. Edmonds. Canterbury is now acknowledged as New Zealand's strongest Rugby League province and it will be interesting to see if M. L. Cooke, J. H. Fisher, G. Cooper and W. Godfrey can uphold the record off the land. The team did well on CSarlaw Park, Auckland, last season and the conditions will not be that dissimilar. The provincial soccer team did not have a very happy season last winter and the change of climate and surface may be enough encouragement for D. Chapman. I. Graham. F. Madrussen and J. Campbell to restore some lost prestige. The jockeys have discarded their whips and hobbles and are divided into two teams for the water course. The North Island team is led by G. F. Hughes, L. K. Tinsley, J. F. Grylls and W. D. Skelton (now in Palmerston North) while leading the field for the South Island will be C. McDonald, A. Stokes, N. Eastwood and B. Taggart. Each contestant will, all going well, cover 36 2-3 yards, one length of the pool