SPORT IN BRIEF

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33577, 4 July 1974, Page 26

SPORT IN BRIEF

Cricket selectors The former New Zealand

test cricketer, J. Guy, of Gisborne, has been appointed convener of the Northern Districts cricket selectors for the 1974-75 season. His coselector will be Mr I. Leggat, of Hamilton. Bantam-weight title Hong Soo-hwan, of South Korea, will fight Arnold Taylor, of South Africa, for his World Boxing Association bantam-weight title in Durban tonight. It will be Taylor’s first 1 title defence since

he took the title from Romeo Anaya, of Mexico, in Johannesburg last November.

Hole-in-one

Mrs M. Cleland recorded her first hole-in-one at the Kaiapoi Golf Club course this week. She scored her ace on the 160 m first hole, using a 3-wood. The last hole-in-one at the first was in October last year, when Mrs Y. Bell started the club match-play championship final with a perfect shot. No postponement The International Football Federation (F.1.F.A.) has rejected a request from the Argentine football team that its World Cup match against East. Germany in Frankfurt today be postponed because of national mourning for the death of President Peron. However, there will be a minute’s silence before the game. <4f7iZetics titles The New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association has changed the date of the national track and field championships at Dunedin to February 28 and March 1 to avoid clashing with the oneday test between New Zealand and the M.C.C. on March 8.

Round Britain race The Frenchman, A. Colas, the winner of the singlehanded transatlantic race in 1972, will be the favourite for line honours in the round-Britain yacht race

which will begin at Plymouth on Saturday. Colas will sail the 70ft trimaran Manureva, in which he won the transatlantic event; the craft was then named Pen-Duick IV. The race, which has attracted a record entry of 67 yachts, is expected to take at least 20 days. Tour de France

The Dutchman, G. Karsten, now leads the Tour de France. He had threatened to withdraw after a time penalty was announced when he forgot to take a drug test at the end of the fourth stage, but the penalty was lifted. Karsten beat the Belgian, E. Merckx, in two fifth-stage sprints, and now leads Merckx over all by 2sec. The fifth stage was won by R. de Witte (Belgium).