SIDELINES

Press, 30 August 1980, Page 24

SIDELINES

A TABLE showing the final positions of the secondary' schools’ first fifteens, printed earlier this week, did an injustice to Burnside High School, which was showp as having won one match. The points were: St Bede’s 11, C.B.H.S. 9, Burnside H.S. 6, St Andrew’s 5, Shirley B.H.S. 5, Christ’s College 4, Linwood H.S. 2. ROSS DURANT joined a select soccer group recently. He became the fifth player to make 100 Rothmans League appearances for Trans Tours United when he played against Stop Out at Lower Hutt in United’s penultimate league match earlier this month. The other players in the group are Graham Griffiths, lan Park, Steve Sumner and Kees Doomenbal. THE WANGANUI Marist under-19 rugby side will be in Christchurch next week-end to play its Christchurch counterparts, and, more importantly, visit a team-mate jn Burwood Hospital. The team-mate, Stekios Meimairis, is in the hospital’s spinal unit, as the result of a rugby accident earlier this year, and his team has decided to forego a trip it had planned to Australia to visit him. The under-19 sides will meet in a curtain-raiser at Rugby Park on Sunday to a match between the Marist senior team and a 3ZB Invitation XV. RICHARD PURSER, the elder of the renowned Taranaki badminton brothers, has fashioned a record of success 4t national level which will perhaps never be equalled. He has won nine open singles titles, has shared nine men’s doubles victories — seven with his brother Bryan — and has picked up a staggering 14 mixed doubles titles. The remarkable aspect about the mixed doubles success is that Purser has had five different partners in that time, and next week he will seek to win his fifteenth title with a sixth partner, Canterbury’s Diane Erikson. MEMBERS and supporters of the High School Old Boys rugby club will have a hectic afternoon tomorrow. The finals of four lower grade competitions — senior B, second grade, fourth grade and under-19 — will be played at Lancaster Park and Old Boys teams will contest three of them. COMPREHENSIVE coverage of golf at provincial level is an extra feature of the seventh edition of the DB Golf Annual (Moa Publications; 157 pn), edited, as it has been since its inception by Jim Wallace. The national interprovincial men’s and women’s teams’ contests are covered in great detail — the Freyberg Rose Bowl has 25 pages devoted to it — but it is perhans a case of quantity rather than quality. There are a number of inaccuracies starting with the dust' cover where a notable name in New Zealand golf. Bob Glading, has been misspelt. Canterbury golfers might wonder who Janet Ross is and there is an error in the report on Canterbury’s match against Auckland at the Freyberg in Nelson. However, the annual, well illustrated, is still a very worthy publication and presents a detailed record of results of all tournaments in the country. There is an excellent profile on Jean Whitehead and good coverage of the professional circuit, — R.L.S. 1