Two qualify for chess
Two Christchurch Boys ! High School pupils, Tonv ; Pool and Roger Nokes, j qualified for the national j schoolboys’ chess tournaj ment at Dunedin during the August holidays, when they j took top placings in the ! Canterbury tournament this week. Pool was first with six 'points and a half from a possible seven. He 'hared the lead with Nokes for mx rounds, but Nokes struggled to draw a rook and pawn ■ ending against a former ! Canterbun schoolboy reprej sentative, Phillip Bates in I the final round. ' Mark Lancaster (Nelson ) College) was third, and Prue I Patterson (Christchurch I Girls' High School) received ! a special prize for the top schoolgirl. Cricket.— The former England wicketkeeper. John Aturrav (Middlesex!. has claimed the world record for the number of I catches in a first-class career. Hp has taken 1236, beating the 36- | year-old record of Herbet StrudI wick (Surrey).
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Press, Issue 33845, 17 May 1975, Page 48
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