SIDELINES

Press, 6 December 1985, Page 24

SIDELINES

ROSS BAYLISS continues to set the early pace in Z the competition between senior wicket-keepers for ; most dismissals in the Trusteebank cricket compet- » itions this summer. The High School Old Boys - player has snared 15 catches and one stumping, J giving himself a lead of one dismissal on the < Riccarton wicket-keeper, Brent Glanville (12 J catches, three stumpings) and Paul Rutledge, of St Albans (11 catches, four stumpings). Peter Grigg (East-Shirley) has 11 catches among his 12 victims, while the Sydenham < — and Canterbury — wicketkeeiper, Ash Hart, has eight catches and three stumpings. 1 OUR COLONIAL COUSINS across .the gasman* y° u know, the ones who win less gold? medals-’=than us -'fit' Olympic Games, and whose forebears are;.mentioned only in hushed tones, take some amazing liberties from time to time. The latest has been perpetrated;in hockey circles. The president of the New Zealand Hockey Association, Mr Ron Jones, was in Perth's: week ago for the Champions Trophy tournament where he noticed several people wearing T-shirts with the logo: “World Cup, Melbourne, 1990.’ y The fact is, Australia has not been awarded the hockey World Cup yet. It is in a twoway battle with New Zealand, and the Kiwis think they have an advantage in. the running. We will know next April whether the Aussies will have to burn those T- ] shirts. That is when the International Hockey Federation < will decide whether Melbourne or Wellington will be the i venue. ‘ ! ON THE SUBJECT OF AUSSIES, some seem to J consider New Zealand the seventh state. An article * in "The Australian" newspaper recently said a j record entry has been received for this year's «r Sydney to Hobart yacht race, won incidentally last * year by Lion New Zealand. The largest entry for this • year’s race, said the article, ; was from New South J Wales' (94), followed by Vidtdrid^^37)^(Tasmania (20), New Zealand (13), West Australia (six) and J South Australia (four). Nine overseas entries have \ been received, continued the story. 1 ... *