Big loss to golf

Press, 20 November 1981, Page 15

Big loss to golf

Golf lost a devoted disciple in the death recently of Ron Challis. No-one could have had the game closer to his heart. He began his golf at Waimairi Beach, where he was club captain for a year, and for some time he was a member there as well as at Waitikiri. where he had a term as president. He was a

Waitikiri representative on the Canterbury Provincial Golf Association, and a member of the Eagles Golfing Society of Canterbury. Ron Challis spent countless hours in voluntary administrative work at Waitikiri, but he will be remembered mainly for his affection for the game, his sportsmanship and his sense of humour.

The All Blacks’ right wing, Stuart Wilson, whose try in the first test against France in Toulouse last week-end boosted his aggregate to 14, only two behind lan Kirkpatrick’s New Zealand record. - Wilson has doubled his figure by scoring a record 'seven test tries in a calendar year for 1981; previously he scored four against Scotland and two against South Africa. The first of his test tries was scored against France at the Parc des Princes, in Paris, where he will reappear this week-end.

The 1980-81 Canterbury “Greyhound of the Year.” Tredeka Lass (left), will endeavour to win a second successive New Zealand championship when she contests the $3OOO final of the Lion- Breweries-sponsored event at Queen Elizabeth II Park this evening. When Tredeka Lass won

last year’s championship she gave her veteran’owner and trainer, Bill Kingston, his second national championship. But it had been a long wait: his first success was in 1951. The black and white No Pardons-Bishopdale Lass bitch was the youngest runner in the field last year

at 19 months. She scotched her northern critics who suggested that she was only top on her home track when she was sent to Auckland and won the inaugural running of the Trans Tasman series. Tredeka Lass easily won the $6OOO final at Mt Smart Stadium and in her wake was the top Auckland long-

tail and race favourite. Bright and Shiny. Tredeka Lass seems to race best when drawn wide and it might be to her disadvantage that she will start from trap two in the final tonight. She was a little disappointing when second in the semi-finals last week but she will be the popular

choice for many in the final and even more popular if she succeeds. One of the main threats to Tredeka Lass will be another Canterbury bitch, Devoted Lady (right), which can boast a win over the New Zealand champion. The fawn and white Twilight Ben-Wakanui Lass

bitch is in peak form and cruised to victories at her last two starts. Devoted Lady is another runner which prefers a wide draw and she has box six in the final. If Devoted Lady can avoid trouble on the first bend, she will be in the thick of things at the finish for she has the speed and stamina to run a fast 560 m.