SIDELINES

Press, 9 March 1984, Page 8

SIDELINES

CHRISTCHURCH UNITED’s draw in the Air New Zealand Soccer Cup has been slightly amended, giving it three home games followed by two away. United will still begin with a match against National Mutual Miramar on March 25, and will play Napier City Rovers on April 1. Its final home game will be against Dunedin City on April 8. All three will be played at English Park. United will then play a double-header over Easter weekend. It will face McKee Nelson United on April 21 and will meet Wellington Diamond United two days later in the capital city. The final will be played on April 29, a week before the Rothmans League begins.

RAY MARSH, whose batting prowess is well known in Canterbury softball, almost scored a “duck” while playing for Noel Leeming Burnside against Panthers (Southland) during the Pan Am national men’s inter-club tournament at Porritt Park last week. The match was held on an outside diamond, and there were recurring problems with foul hits landing in the adjacent River Avon. Marsh’s effort missed the water, but the madlyspinning ball landed just a centimetre or two away from a duck dozing on the river bank. The suddenly-alert duck quickly left what Marsh was threatening to turn into “fowl territory.”

TOMMY DAVID, the well known Welsh double international, on his switch from rugby union to rugby league: "The biggest difference between league and union is that now I get my hangovers on Mondays instead of Sundays.”

THERE WAS CAUSE for a double celebration in the Jones’ household on Saturday evening. Gary Jones had just scored his first senior century for East-Shirley against High School Old Boys, steering his team to a first-innings victory./On the same afternoon, his sister, Sally, a year older, sade 120 for Lancaster Park in a women’s senior B match against St Albans. Again, it was enough to give her team a win.