SPORTS AND GAMES

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 December 1936, Page 14

SPORTS AND GAMES

WRESTLING. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] SYDNEY, December 19. At the Leichhardt Stadium, Glen Wade defeated George Pencheff by two falls to one. At the Sydney Stadium Leon Labriola was disqualified in a bout with Mike McGill for repeatedly applying the strangle-hold. OLYMPIC GAMES, BERLIN, December 19. It is announced that Berlin’s expenditure on the Olympic Games was £1,400,000. SNOOKER. LONDON, December 20. Davis won the “Daily Mail’s” Gold Cup for the snooker tournament, beating Lindrum in the final heat. Davis won all the five games he played. Lindrum won three and lost two. Newman 3/2, Smith 2/3, Smith 2/3, Inman 0/5. ALPINE CLUB. A meeting of the West Coast Alpine Club was held at Greymouth, on Saturday evening, Mr. F. A. Kitchingham presiding. Congratualtions and best wishes were expresesd by the Chairman and other speakers to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Greenaway, whose marriage took place recently. Mr. Greenaway, who has been club captain since the inception of the club, and Mrs. Greenaway (formerly Miss Winifred Bell) resigned, in view of their early departure on a holiday • visit to England, and were elected life members of the club. Mr. T. Duffy was subsequently elected club captain, and Miss Clarice Brooks was elected as a member of the committee, replacing Mrs. Greenaway. During the evening, films of the Upper Rakaia snowfields, Upper Wanganui, Whitehorn’s and Harman Passes and the Three-Pass trip were shown by Mr. W. Heinz, and Mr Greenaway gave a talk on avalanche craft. Supper was served.

YACHTING Unfavourable conditions were experienced yesterday for the w’eekly race conducted on the Grey River by the Greymouth Regatta Chib. Only seven yachts competed for the W. Roberts trophies, over two laps of the new five-buoy course. The scratch yacht, Mystic, actually completed the course in the fastest time, but was disqualified for rounding a buoy from the wrong side. The detailed result was as follow: — Seafox (Bellamy and F. Carlyle), handicap 7 mins., time 70 mins., and Rascal (Blacktopp and Doug. Smith), 9 mins—72 mins., equal, 1; Vagabond (Dean, N. Messenger,'Dixon)' 7 mins. —7l mins. 30 secs., 3; Awatea (Brennan pnd McGirr), 8 mins—73 mins., 4. Also competed: Mystic (Brown, Scott, Willis), mlns, (disqualified);

Bounty (Blanchfield and Findlay), 8 mins, (withdrew): Avis (Shuker and Simons) (withdrew). For the Greymouth and Moana regattas. this week, the following entries have been received from the Canterbury Yacht Club:— Omana, Lolita, Patua (all Idle Along Class). The trophies to be competed for are being displayed in the window of Mr. F. Bennett’s premises, Mawhera Quay.