Champions Return

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30559, 30 September 1964, Page 19

Champions Return

’J’HERE is a possibility that the great New Zealand left-hand batsman of the period around World War 11. M. P. Donnelly, will be seen in Christchurch in the coming season. Donnelly, who was a big success on both the. 1937 and 1949 tours of England. has been in communication with the Canterbury Cricket Supporters’ Club. He has signified that I Zingari. a club side in Australia with which he is connected, will be visiting the country and will probably be in Christchurch about March, next year.

The secretary of the Supporters’ Club (Mr N. B. Ullrich) said yesterday that a match between I Zingari and a team from the supporters’ club was a distinct probability.

q'HE former world speedway champion, R. Moore, who retired from international competition last year after breaking a leg in a bad crash at Wimbledon, is to make a return to racing in another branch of the motorcycling sport. He has entered for the South Island open scramble championship to be held on Sunday over 15 laps of the tortuous Findlay's Farm circuit at Halswell.

| Moore, who now lives in Christchurch, w'on the world speedway championship three times. He has also held many British and New Zealand speedway titles. On Sunday, he will be mounted on a 250 c.c. Greeves scrambler, a machine ideally suited for the tricky course.