Fighter and cricketer

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33050, 18 October 1972, Page 34

Fighter and cricketer

With six wickets down, and trailing High School Old Boys by 200 runs on the first innings, Bumside-West-University will face a desperate fight on the second day of its senior cricket match next Saturday. But Bumside, with its two present batsmen, is well qualified to fight At one end will be G. T. Dowling, the New Zealand and Canterbury representative last season, and at the other a battler in the true sense of the word—D. Rackley.

Rackley Is a member of the Nelson family which distinguished itself at the national amateur boxing championships at Nelson recently and a brother of the Olympic representative, 3. Rackley. A right-hand batsman. Rackley has played four games for Nelson but his boxing career is much more notable. At the nationals this month he won the intermediate light middle-weight and welter-weight titles and was named "the most scientific boxer” in the intermediate grade. In addition, another brother won a title and their father, Mr L. Rackley, won the trophy for the “best trainer.” There is a saying among bowlers: “If you can’t bowl them out, knock them out.” It might be better for the Old Boys bowlers to hold back their bouncers when facing Rackley next Saturday. He knows more about “knock-outs” than they do.