D BATTERY, N.Z.P.A. SPORTS

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 50, 27 February 1918, Page 3

D BATTERY, N.Z.P.A. SPORTS

—♦— Favoured with blue skies and bright warm sunshine, the D Battery held its sporte while in camp last Saturday afternoon. The camp was thrown open to visitors both in the afternoon and the evening, when a camp fire concert was held. The results of the- sports are as follow: — 100 yds Handicap — Trumpeter' Finch 1, Bombardier Edwards 2. Best Turn-out (horse a.nd man)— Driver Littlejohn 1, Specialist' Slinn ancTGunner Bies 2. Sack Race—Bombardier Young 1, Gunner Gasquoine 2. Officers' Race—Captain M'Evedy 1, Chaplain-Captain Wataon 2 (prize money donated to fund). 220 yds Battery Championship—Driver Hisjop 1, Sergeant Lusk 2. Single Ladies' Race-^Miss Brown .1, Miss Purely 2. Potato Race—Bombardier Young 1, Bombardier Murie 2. Married Ladies' Race—Mrs.- Murphy 1, Mrs. G. Brown 2. I Thread-the-Necdle Race—Mrs. Parata and Gunner Fake 1. Girls' (under ' 15 , years) Race—Miss Sira Wharewhare 1, Miss Connie Stevens 2. Tug of War—Quartermaster-Sergeant Durey (captain), Captain M'Evedy, Ser-Keant-Major Taylor, Sergeant Whalley, Bombardier Cpnder. Specialist Doughty, Corpora.! Mitchell, Gunners Mnrie, M'flraith, Alderson, and Flaws. This'team beat Sergeant-Major Waterland's team. Section Gun 'Drill—Left Section (Sergeant Hall, Sergeant Pope,. Corporal Carter, Corporal Greig, Bombardier Young. Gunners Flaws, Cross, Fake. Cowrie. Drsniond). Driving Competition—"A" Sub-Section (Sergeant Turner, Drivers Potts. Allen, Coate) 1; "C" Sub-Section (Serereant Hall, Drivers Miller, Turner, Montgomery), 2.