SPORTS AND GAMES

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1930, Page 6

SPORTS AND GAMES

SOCCER. The Westland F.A. made the dravz last evening for the semi-final of the Hcslin Cup, the result being:—Taylorville v Cobden, at Dobson. Kick off at 2.45 p.m. C. Hogg, referee. Dobson bye. GREY FLYING CLUB. The annual meeting of the Grey Flying Club was held.last evening in the club’s rooms, and there was a large number of members present. The following were the officers elected for the coming year: Patron, Mr A. Kyle; President, Mr J. A. Jackson; VicePresidents: Messrs Cairns, Colligan, G. McGirr, McLeod, R. Poschich, A. Hill, A. Behan, Kim Williams, C. G. Moore, Peebles, P. Blanchficld, Patterson, Allen Smith, J. W. Chalk, J. McLean, S. Burnett White, Milner, H. C. Jackson, D. Cochrane, Dennehy; secretary, R. Poschich; assistant secretary, A. McMaster. The club intend holding their first race in a month’s time, and also intend holding long distance races this season from Nelson and Wellington. The club wishes to thank those who presented them with trophies for last season’s racing. Also Mr Hitchings, the pigeon judge in the Grey Chow for valuable information regarding pigeon rearing and flying. HOCKEY. To-morrow afternoon tfle Mawhera Hockey Club are holding a seven-a-

side tournament at the Victoria Park, for the Scalmer Cup, the first match to take place at two oclock. The following will represent Mawhera’s first team:—N. McGrath, N. Furness, J. Holder, D. Dcwer, B. Milligan, C. Hannum, M. Furness. Second team: Mrs McKane, M. Lyttle, H. Currie, C. Tanner, N. Gif kins, F. Rustin. The following will represent United A and B teams to play in the tournament. at Victoria Park at 2 p.m. tomorrow: —R. Cooper, 1. Neville, D. Gray, E. Lockington, L. Boddy, G. Grant, E. Peillon, M. Kyle, N. Castle, K. Flaherty, K. McGirr, D. Sutton, P. Gillooly, M. Seebeck. BOXING.

Percy Hawes, formerly of Westport', has been nominated to represent Canterbury at the New Zealand amateur boxing championships at Palmerston North this month. LEAGUE FOOTBALL. The following will represent Runanga against Marist on Sunday at 1.15: —S. Kennedy, A. Hill, B. McTaggart, J. Clark, R. Morris, V. Armstrong, N. Leech, N. Speakman, C. Crowe, B. Unwin, S. Pender, S. Greening, A. Hunter. Bus leaves Miners’ Hall at 12.45. BASKETBALL. Competition matches are as follow: —Wednesday. August 13, at. Grey Tennis Courts:—Technical B v. Columba B, 2.30 p.m.; Old Girls B v. Columba B, 4 p.m. Saturday, August 16, at Grey Tennis Courts: —Columba A v. Old Girls A. 2 p.m.; Columba A v. Technical A 3.30 p.m. RUGBY MATCH.

The. following are the teams for the Banks v. Public Works game to-mor-row (Wednesday) afternoon, players to be on the field by 3.30 p.m.:— ' Banks. —Abbie, Hay-McKenzie, Haglund, Bruce, Smith, Scott, Jenkins (captain), Shuttleworth, Bowes, Frew, O’Halloran, Howes, Bolitho, Warnes, and Buchanan.

Public Works—Derrick, Dyhrbei'g, Hunter, Wraight, Moonie, Tregurtha, Dabscheck, Nash, Eggleton, Kennedy, Hodge, De Castro, Fairhall, Smith, Inglis, Wilson, Hodgkinson, and Neal.

PIGEON SHOOTING.

CHRISTCHURCH, August 11

The New Zealand live pigeon championship was fired to-day in dull weather, but. an absence of wind was welcomed by the shooters. There were 31 entries. The championship was Avon by M. Pratt (Hamilton), with E. F. Stead (Christchurch) as runnerup. In tho first shoot eight killed twenty birds, viz., E. P. Graham, H. Grenfell. B. McElwick, J. Pratt, R. S. Taylor, E. F. Stead, H. M. Wright and W. G. Gerard. These divided the prize money. In the shoot-off, Pratt ( '.hot 19 straight. Stead failed at tho 19th, Wright, at the 16th, Taylor at the 11th, Gerard and Grenfell at the 6th, Graham at the sth, and McElwick missed tho first bird.

AMERICA CUP. RUGBY. August 11. Sir Thomas Lipton sailed for America, to-day to race his yacht. “Shamrock the Fifth,” against the yacht “Selectra,” to represent, the United States for the America Cup. He is extremely optimistic about the Shamrock’s chances