SIDELINES

Press, 29 March 1980, Page 21

SIDELINES

THE CHRISTCHURCH Bowling Centre is to lose its popular secretary, Judi Greatorex. She has resigned and will finish at the end of next month. Mrs Greatorex started work in the centre’s office six years ago and she was appointed secretary four years ago. At the time she was the only woman secretary of a New Zealand bowling centre; there have been two others since.

LOTTA HOLLAND’S careful stitching work was treated rather harshly at Lake Horowhenua during the G.R.E. national rowing championships when the Petone coxless four took over from Avon as holder of the massive Rolf Porter Trophy (which has to be carried in a wooden box). The Avon sculler, whose husband, Duncan, is the two man in. the club’s premier coxless four, had made four beautiful singlets - (in the red-and-white. Avon colours) for the-little rowing figures that are an integral part of the trophy. Obviously the club hoped the silverware (held since March 1978) would be a permanent in ’ ts tro Phy cabinet. However, it lost the title and Petone was not too impressed with the Avon singlets. “What’s all this rubbish?” said the nuggety stroke, Viv Haar, on the winner’s dais. A gold Petone (normal size) was used to cover up the figures and later that night the pieces of material were ripped on.

THERE ARE not many more notable pieces of golf turt than the famous Old Nick green at Shirley. Most ot the great New Zealand golfers have putted on its saucered surface,, and when the hole was closed a few years ago, it had a remarkable send-off. The last woman player to hole in one there was the late Eileen Nutt, an outstanding personality? in New Zealand golf administration. On the last day Old Nick was plaved, there was another hole in one, this time by Jim Ward, who has had a close association with the Christchurch club, S ante "V ry anc * administration, for 50 years. jj ow ~J 1 ' r ’ e y Payers will see the green no more. It has been lifted and given to the Waimairi Beach duh, where it will come into use as a putting green in two or three months time.

THE FEMALE athlete in the well-known Hall softballing family has grabbed a wee bit of the limelight herself /.< ? sea , son from her brothers, Alan and Michael (“Jimmy”), who are both in the Canterbury men’s representative team. Kerry Hall, aged 19, thumped 11 home runs — possibly a record for the grade — as a member of the United senior B women’s team during the season, and played a part in its 9-0 win over Burnside in the champion-of-champions final last Saturdav. She will be going up to seniors next season. The parents of the Hall children are. not surprisingly, also heavily involved in the sport; Mrs Shirley? Hail scores for her sons’ Jaks-City team, which Mr Arnie Hall (a former New Zealand representative) coaches.

WAIRAU ROWING CLUB members apparently got a reception only matched by that for Marlborough’s 1973 Ranfurly Shield victors when they returned to Blenheim last week from the nationals at Lake Horowhenua. Wairau picked up five titles (more than any other club), including the two champion pairs successes -of Ivan Sutherland and Sam Le Compte — Wairau’s first red coats for 26 years. Avon, so long the dominant South Island club, had to be content with two titles, but could at least claim a little credit for Wairau’s triumphs; Avon’s Ted Lindstrom, went to Blenheim one peekend before the nationals to give a few coaching tips to the novices and, according to Le Compte, he even, sorted out a couple of problems of the Sutherland-Le Compte pair.

AND THERE was something of a tie-up between Wairau’s last red coat national title of 1954 and the successes of 1980. George MacDonald was a member of that Wairau coxed four which won then and he coached the Wairau novices who walked away? with the eighths and fours titles at the 1980 regatta. MacDonald says that he was attracted back'into coaching primarily because his son, Geoff, was in .the novice eight. The stroke of the No. 1 Wairau novice four incidentally, weighs just 62kg, but Patrick -Heaghey “has a ton of guts and wound it right up,’’’according to Sam Le Compte.