League Players Sign

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31946, 25 March 1969, Page 17

League Players Sign

Two Rugby league players with experience as West Coast representatives, P. C. Mason and D. Menzies, have been signed by the MaristWestern Suburbs club for the 1969 season.

G. Dennehy, another former Greymouth Marist player, has also joined the club.

■ Mason, a 22-year-old hooker, had a testing first-class debut when he was selected to play -against Britain two years ago. ; However, he acquitted him- , self well, sharing the scrums, 15-15, with P. J. Flanagan and

being prominent on defence and in possession. A schoolboy Kiwi in 1960 and 1961, when he was also captain, Mason recently returned from a working holiday in Australia after injury had kept him on the sideline much of last season. A strong-running centre, Menzies played for his former province against J. W. Raper’s Invitation XIII at the end of last season. He was a member of the Runanga club on the West Coast. Dennehy, a brother of the former South Island forward, A. P. Dennehy, has been a useful prop for Greymouth Marist

The player-coach, P. V. B. Smith, will probably play loose forward in place of the 1968 Canterbury representative, G. M. Teen, who will transfer to the newly-formed University club, of which he is secretary. Another member of the University team that took part in the winter tournament last year, G. J. Rosanowski, will continue to play for Linwood.

The Marist-Western Suburbs players have been training under the guidance of Mr C. F. Reece, a marathon runner who was nominated for the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth.

Hole-ln-One.— Mrs A. Wilson, a member of the Russley Ladies' Golf Club, sank her tee shot at the third hole on Saturday. She used a 7-iron on the 127-yard hole.

Molloy Eighth.— G. Molloy (New Zealand), riding a Bultaco, finished eighth in J a 12$ c.c. motor-cycle raee at Modena, - in Italy, on Sunday. Molloy was two laps behind the winning Italian, W. Villa, who averaged 59.77 miles an hour in the 44i-mile race.