SIDELINES

Press, 2 May 1981, Page 16

SIDELINES

TWO WELLINGTON players last week-enu Became tne first to be sent off fit this season’s Rothmans Soccer League competition. During -National Mutual Miramar’s match against Wellington Diamond United, Malcolm Innes (Miramar) and Mike Simenoff (W.D.U.) were ordered off bj ■ the referee, Mr Gary Fleet, during the second half. The twc bring to 53 the number of players to have been dismissed during the 11 full years of the league. Only one player, Sam Malcolmson, has been,sent off three times in the league, and that was with three different clubs, W.D.U., Stop Out and Eastern ; Suburbs. MEMBERS of the Seido Karate Club in Christchurch were delighted, with the news last;week from its world headquarters in New York. Sensei William Oliver, a fifth dan in the style, had just won the grand ‘ championship at the Henry Chois; All-American tournament. In this, one of the major karate tournaments in the. world, the New Yorker won both the over-all kata and the free-fighting in his lightweight division, a “first/’ 1 , • COLIN WALDRON, the Australian rugby referee who controlled Canterbury’s game against Queensland at Brisbane last Sunday, will be in action at Rugby Park this afternoon. He is in Christchurch on a : trans-Tasman exchange of referees and has been given charge of the early senior game between Albion and Belfast. It might be unwise for any players — or spectators — to crack any of the old jokes about the referee ; needing glasses. MrWaldron is \by profession an optometrist. • . ■„ THE TRADITION of. West Coast hospitality is mirrored in the tasty afternoon teas provided for visitors at half-times of rugby, league matches at Wingham Park, Greymouth. One who had the chance to experience it for the first time during v Soi ! tf l I sland trial last Su nday was the Kiwi full-back, Michael O’Donnell. Although he has. made numerous appearances at Wingham Park as a member of Waro-Rakau junior - sides and for the last decade as a Canterbury representative, he had spent all previous half-times closeted in one of the dressing rooms. But O’Donnell could not play in the trial because a collision with his Kiwi team-mate, Barry Edkins at training two days earlier left him with seven stitches near his -right eye. MANLY-WARRINGAH suffered an unexpectedly heavy defeat to Newtown in the fifth round of the Sydney rugby league premiership last Sunday, and is in the lower half of the table. But the. former Canterbury and Kiwi prop, Mark Broadhurst, continued his remarkable try-scoring record. Broadhurst contributed one of Manly’s two tries in* its 20-8 loss. He has now touched down in four of the five premiership rounds, and was again a scorer when Manly humbled Central Districts in its first Tooth Cup game. EUAN SPENCE was overlooked when senior club cricket milestones were published recently. The Sydenham batsman brought up his 1000 runs with, an innings of 46 against St Albans in the tenth round, a match in which Ken Congdon also reached the four figures. Spence has totalled 1034 runs and last season took 11 catches, a fact which was alsc overlooked. TWO Cathedral Grammar boys, Andrew Wallace and Christopher Newsom, won the under-12 boys doubles event.at the Canterbury schools* table tennis tournament recently. Gremlins caused the names to be misspelt beyond recognition in the-results published Earlier. .