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LACK OF FINANCE has forced the England Amateur Athletic Association to cancel a tour of New Zealand and Australia this season by its under-23 team. Doug Goodman, the chairman of the England selectors, was quoted in the •‘Times’’ as saying: “Our hosts were unable to raise the necessary sponsorship for us to undertake the trip so we have cancelled it.”

GLENN HODDLE, the talented England soccer midfielder, intends to leave Tottenham at the end of the current season, for foreign shores. In a newspaper interview, Hoddle said: “I would not have said this at the start of the season, but I know I must make the break. It will be one of the biggest regrets of my life if I don’t play abroad and discover just how good Glenn Hoddle is.” Aged 29 Hoddle, has been with Tottenham throughout his career.

BORIS BECKER AND STEFFI GRAF were voted the West German sportsman and sportswoman of the year yesterday in a poll by the country’s sports journalists. Becker, aged 19, won his second Wimbledon title and rose to No. 2 in the world rankings in 1986. Graf, aged 1 7, won eight tournaments during the year and climbed to No. 3 on the computer list. She is the first tennis player to win the sportswoman of the year tile.

A SIX-FIGURE SUM has been given by New Zealand Breweries, the sponsor of the inaugural men’s softball league which starts early next year. The sponsorship will be used to mainly to cover travel and accommodation costs for the 12 teams involved. The Lion Red Series will begin on February 7 and end with the top four play-offs on March 28 and 29. The round-robin competition will involve the top two club teams from each of the Auckland, Wellington, and Hutt associations and one each from North Shore, Counties, Waikato, Hawke’s Bay, Canterbury and Southland.

JIMMY HALL has a knack of recovering quickly from softball injuries and he is still hopeful of playing again this season despite breaking an ankle last month. The New Zealand world series short-stop plays his club softball in Wellington these days but has been back down in Christchurch during his enforced rest. Hall, who has been supporting his old team, Burnside, from the sideline, wants to be back on the diamond with Poneke-Kilburnie by February when the inaugural men’s national league begins.

DAVE PATERSON, a New Zealander, has been made captain of the Oxford University karate blues team to fight against Cambridge in March. Paterson, who was awarded his second degree black belt with Seido Karate in Christchurch earlier this year, has also taken up rowing since he arrived at Oxford in September. Paterson says he has been included in a novice eight, along with an American, a Canadian, an Australian, a Frenchman and three Englishmen. In recent years he has been studying at the University of Western Australia and he won an Australian scholarship to complete his doctorate of physiology at Oxford.

■ S at™"“ Y H Open twilight meeting, Christchurch Techni- gjiW cal club, starts 3.30 p.m. ■ Trust Bank first grade championship (sixth §3 round, second day, all start 10.30 a.m.); ma Burnside-West v Old Collegians, Elmwood ■ Park; Lancaster Park v Riccarton, Lancaster gg Park; East-Shirley v St Albans, Hagley 1; Old Bia Boys v Sydenham, Sydenham Park; Marist v B® Woolston W.M.C., Ham. ■ Suburban Senior A (second day): Merivale- FSB Papanui v Upper Riccarton, Riccarton 1; Mm Southern Districts v Heathcote, Beckenham EbH 1; Hornby v Hoon Hay, Hoon Hay 1; New ■ Brighton v Sumner, St Leonards. 08 Women’s (round six, second day): Sydenham wW v Lancaster Park, Porritt 1; St Albans v Riccarton, Porritt 2. __ H SOFTBALL g® Dalgety Crown Travel premier men: Burnside HM v Papanui, 1.15 p.m., Merivale v Papanui, 3 ““ H. p.m., Papanui Domain; Richmond v Suburbs, 1.15 p.m., Richmond v United, 3 p.m., both Western Park. ! SWIMMING ““ B South Island championships at Maori gark, Timaru. Sessions start 9 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. Wla and 9 a.m. Sunday. IHsliS TENNIS ■ Hurricanes Wire Elmwood junior tennis tournament, Elmwood tennis club. 9’s, 11 ’s HS and 12’s start Saturday morning. Finals day on Wednesday. ■SUNDAY O] ROAD RUNNING [, i Rangiora 20 miler, starts Armagh St. bridge, HS a.m., finishes Dudley park. ROWING | D.B. ultra eights race, Estuary Causeway to BH Kerrs Reach, 9 a.m. start. H SOFTBALL Dalgety premier men: Richmond v Papanui, teptii 10.30 a.m., Suburbs v Merivale, 12 noon; ■HI Burnside v United, 2 p.m., all at Western I 1 *’*' TENNIS CT B.N.Z. senior inter-club competition, Wilding BaM Park, start 1.00 p.m. Men: (Section 1): Edgeware v Te Kura; ESI KSH Elmwood v Fendalton. (Section 2): Shirley v ||ji| ISS Cashmere; Avonhead v United. HBI Women: Shirley v United; Avondside v H Fendalton; Barrington v Elmwood. EIPF] TRACK CYCLING Amateur and novice handicap and scratch Mfel races. Denton Park, starts 7 p.m. ■ TRIATHLON Hannahs Triathlon. Starts Corsairs Bay 9.30 B® a.m. I®