Change Of Harrier Course Favoured

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31088, 17 June 1966, Page 5

Change Of Harrier Course Favoured

A change will have to be made from the type of course favoured in New Zealand at present for cross-country championship events. This view was expressed after the Kennett Cup races by P. N. Sidon (Dunedin), who was captain of the New Zealand harrier team which competed in the world championships in Belgium last year, when New Zealand finished third. Sidon commented favourably on the Kennett Cup course at Queen Elizabeth 11 Park and its similarity with the type of course used for the world championships at Brussels.

There, the flat course with low hurdles was a marked contrast to the tougher undulating courses with numerous fences favoured in New Zealand. A New Zealand team will be sent to the world championships again early next year, when the event will be held in Wales. There seemed to be a good chance that New Zealand teams would continue to go overseas to the world championships and other races every two or three years, said Sidon. If this was to be so then there was much to be gained by departing from the more rugged type of course used in New Zealand in favour of the flatter, faster courses with lower and fewer hurdles now in common use overseas.

Three-Week U.K. Tour

(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY. Australia’s top Rugby League club side, St. George, has been offered £5600 to make a three-week tour of England after the Australian season ends in mid-Septem-ber. Present intentions were to play St. Helens, Halifax, Swinton, Leeds and Wigan. “We think this would be the start of Rugby League world championship on a club basis,” said Mr F. Facer, secretary of the St. George club. St. George has won the Sydney premiership for the last 10 years and at present is in second place, three points behind the leader, Balmain, with half the season gone.

Speed Key To Aust’s Win

(N.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN. Speed on attack, superior positional play, accurate goalshooting and a co-ordinated defence enabled the AllAustralian women’s basketball team to beat Otago, 51-24, yesterday. The long lobs used by the Australians bothered Otago, but where Australia had complete dominance was in its goal-shooting. Miss C. White, the Australian goal-shoot, needed the first quarter to settle down, but afterwards she had astonishing success from all parts of the circle. U.K. COUNTY CRICKET (N.Z.P.A. Reuter—Copyright) LONDON. Close of play scores in yesterday’s English county cricket matches were: At Dartford: Essex 157/8 (65 overs), Kent 122/2 (44 overs). At the Oval: Surrey 302 (M. Willett 67), Cambridge University 27/3). At Manchester: Warwickshire 151 (64.3 overs) (K. IbaduMa 51; J. B. Statham 5/60, P. Lever 5/51), Lancashire 54/3 (31 overs). At Hove: Nottinghamshire 159/7 (65 overs) (J. Snow 4/38), Sussex 107/3 (40 overs). At Oxford: Oxford University 102 (D. Steele 4/24), Northamptonshire 16/0. At Bradford: Hampshire 151/8 (65 overs) (B. Reed 59; A. Nicholson 4/52), Yorkshir. 82/7 (36.1 overs). At Leicester: Middlesex 163 (P. Parfitt 57; G. A. R. Lock 5/33), Leicestershire 54/1.