POLO TOURNAMENT RESULTS

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 153, 25 March 1938, Page 12

POLO TOURNAMENT RESULTS

New Zealand Team To Visit Sydney Bv Telegraph —Press Association Hamilton, March 24. Tlie New Zealand polo tournaineui was continued at Claudelands to-day when the semi-linals of the Junior Cup were decided. These matches resulted : Morrinsville boat Mataugi. 11-2: Aote.i beat Wailiou B. 9-1. Aoteu and .Morrinsville will meet in tlie .final to-moi row.

Handicap inatehes r.suited: Waiui.u (handicap 10) beat Cambridge D (19). 20-19; Glenmurray (7) beat Waimai A (12), 15-13. With excellent support from polo enthusiasts and sportsmen generally, i: is now certain that a polo team to represent New Zealand will be sent t-‘ Australia to compete in the Centenary Gold Cup event at a large tournament to be held at Sydney in conjunction with the New South Willes sequi-cen-tenary celebrations. The - team will leave Auckland on April 11 by the Awatea and 24 ponies will be taken Every one will be a thoroughbred mount, and they will include the best steeds in the Waikato. The tournament will open during the third week in April. Speculation was rife at the tourua meat as to the selection of the team to represent New Zealand. It is under stdod five players will be chosen ami several Waikato polo enthusiasts wii' make the, trip privately if not selected for the tour and will thus be available as emergencies. Although the selection eommittfe of the New Zealand I’oid Association has not yet announced the team, it has studied form carefully during the tournament this week. K. Peake, the Cambridge sttrr. player, must be considered a certainty for tiie team. Other players who have tierformed well at the tournament, and who are probably in the minds of the selectors, are: G. Peake (Mataugi A), R. Peake (Cambridge A), R. Nolan (Cambridge A), L. It. Kay (Cambridge. A), Robert Mackenzie (Hawke's Bay) and K. Henry (Waimai).