PEOPLE IN THE PLAY

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31030, 9 April 1966, Page 11

PEOPLE IN THE PLAY

Two former Canterbury golfers played a leading part in Manawatn-Wanga-nui's success in the Shand Cup quadrangular tournament at Palmerston North last week-end. C. L. Jacobsen, formerly of Russley, won his three matches and G. D. Brown, the former Timaru player, won two games and halved the third. Manawatu-Wanga-nui's opponents in the 12man teams’ contest were Wellington, Hawke’s Bay and Taranaki. ♦ ♦ ♦ A keen golfing rivalry appears to be developing in the Stafford family in Timaru. The prominent representative player. Miss B. A. Stafford, broke the Levels course record for women recently with a par round of 74. A few days later the new mark was equalled by Miss Stafford's sister, Mrs D. B. Hayman. Subsequent scores are awaited with interest. ♦ ♦ ♦ The colossus of women’s golf in the far south, Mrs N. D. Cullen, shows no sign of losing her grip. Recently she won the Southland women's match play title for the eleventh time in 13 years. As a result she will lead the Southland team in the Russell Grace Cup series in Nelson in May. # ♦ ♦ The years rest lightly on the former New Zealand cricket representative, D. D. Beard. Fortysix years old in January, Beard recently played the leading role in Thames Valley’s victory against Bay of Plenty in a Hawke Cup elimination match at Paeroa. His splendid medium-pace bowling brought him 10 wickets in the match —3 for 16 and 7 for 46—and in his only innings he scored 33.

Two former Canterbury men's basketball representatives, C. Harley and L. Anderson, now forced to play in the Tuesday night senior-reserve grade because of the switching of the A grade to Saturdays, showed that they bad lost

none of their form by leading Y-Boys B to a comfortable victory over Rangiora A, a team which played in the A grade last season, last week. Neither player had touched a basketball before the match and yet both turned on a display that would have graced any A grade side. Harley scored 14 points.

The stagnant waters of women’s butterfly swimming in New Zealand have been stirred vigorously this season. Miss H. L. Kerr (Auckland) has been largely responsible for a spectacular rise in the standard, having broken the long course 110 yd re-

cord five times in eight weeks and a half. It is heartening to find Miss Kerr is not alone in her quest: Miss K. Taylor (Taranaki), who was a close second to the champion in the title race at Napier, broke the Empire Games target time in Dunedin this week. She is now only I.3sec slower than Miss Kerr, who has been nominated already for Jamaica by the swimming selectors.