SIDELINES
IN THE SUMMER MONTHS, the Kaiapoi Golf Club holds a series of four stroke rounds (the best three counting) for a trophy known as the Burglar’s Tankard. It is aptly named; in the last round recently, Tim Mitchell made a valiant effort to steal it from the leading contenders. Mitchell, who negotiates the course on a motor-bike — a war wound has affected a knee — stormed around in a personal best of 77 which, with his handicap deducted, gave him a net 58! It was not quite good enough to take the tankard, however. It was won by Graeme Wilson after a play-off with Neville Eder.
SURJIT SINGH, whom New Zealand crowds will remember as a talented full-back in the 1975 Indian hockey team that toured this country, was killed in a car crash in the Punjab recently. Aged 32, Surjit first represented India at the World Cup in Amsterdam in 1973. He was a member of the Indian team that won the World Cup in Kuala Lumpur in 1975, and captained India at the Montreal Olympics in 1976, and the World Cup in Bombay in 1982 — his last international tournament. A policeman, he was travelling to Armitsar to organise his benefit match when the accident happened.
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