SIDELINES

Press, 2 August 1985, Page 8

SIDELINES

A RUGBY TEAM from Ehr Hsing Senior High School, Keelung, Taiwan, will tour New Zealand from August 5 to August 16. The team of 25 boys will be accompanied by 10 officials, including the Speaker of the Council of Keelung, representatives of the Republic of China Rugby Union, the headmaster of the school, and a reporter. The Ehr Hsing team will play Christchurch Boys’ High School on August 6, and a country schools’ selection the next day, probably at Leeston. It will then play Newlands College in Wellington and finally St Kentigem’s College in Auckland. The tour, which is thought to be the first by a Taiwanese rugby team to New Zealand, resulted from the visit to Taitvan by Christchurch Boys' High School in March last year. The city of Keelung hosted the Fourth Pan-Pacific rugby tournament, at which C.B.H.S. represented New Zealand. STEVE WILSON has had a soccer season to remember. So, for that matter, has his Technical team in the Canterbury Football Association’s fourth division. The side was promoted from the seventh division at the end of last winter and has set some remarkable marks over recent months. To date, it has played 16 matches, winning 13 and losing once, scoring a staggering 125 goals, with 17 against. Included in that was a 21-1 win against University A last week-end — achieved after University had taken an early lead. Wilson has contributed 47 of the team’s goals, Geoff May 28 and Steve Graham 20. Wilson’s outstanding effort came against Papanui, when he scored 10 in a 17-2 victory. DAVID BUCHANAN AND RAY BOOTE may not be mentioned in the same breath as golfing greats Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson, but in Greymouth the pair have earned a special place in golfing folklore. Buchanan notched a hole in one on the par three, 119 metre ninth and was quickly followed by Boote who scored an ace on the par three, 156 metre eleventh. Both golfers had to complete the full round to have their scores recognised. Boote had started late and came up the eighteenth fairway in total darkness. Unfortunately he lost the ball that had earned him his hole in one. NEW ZEALAND’S CRICKETERS might be confronted by a familiar opponent when they compete in the 1987 World Cup tournament in India. Chris Kuggeleijn, the experienced Northern Districts captain who still retains a Dutch passport, has been included in that country’s team to make a brief tour of England. Kuggeleijn has also renewed his Dutch club contract for another two years and must be a strong candidate to represent the Netherlands in the 1986 series which will decide which of the minor cricketing nations is included in the World Cup draw. The qualifying country is in the same section as New Zealand.