SPORTING ACTIVITIES

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 310, 25 September 1943, Page 7

SPORTING ACTIVITIES

New Zealanders In Cairo N.Z.E.F. OmciAL News ’Service. CAIRO, September 22. The National Patriotic Fund Board’s Overseas Commissioner, Lieut.-Colonel Waite, has handed to the reformed Base Band a complete set of new instruments from the board. This was the sixth complete set to be supplied by the board to New Zealand bands in the Middle East. New Zealanders in the Middle East have taken keenly to basketball and softball, and a softball competition was organized during the summer mouths. Practically all the units were represented and a fairly high standard was reached. In the Allied Forces softball league games played at the Gezira Sporting Club's grounds, the N.Z.E.F. representative team displayed good form, steadily improving as the season went on. The N.Z.E.F. team beat .South Africa 11-4, Australia 30-2, R.C.A.F. 14-5 and the United States Army Service Corps 8-7.

In tennis, representative games have been played against South Africa and the Maadi Sporting Club (which has the services of the Egyptian champions). The New Zealanders gained convincing wins on both occasions. The Canterbury lefthander. R. G. Pattinson, was the lending player, though there was little to choose between him and the former New Zealand champion Angas, whose form can be expected to improve as he becomes accustomed to Middle East conditions. I. J. Thomson, V. Potter, R. J. Donkin, I. P. H. Jones, K. W. Dyer and B. D. Duliieid also represented the Second N.Z.E.F. Thirty-eight teams took part in a camp competition.