Sports Brevities

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 September 1947, Page 9

Sports Brevities

Kurnara Basketball Team The Kumara basketball team was successful in its final game at Hokitika last Saturday,' and having lost only one competition game this round, was declared the winner of the B section.

Cycling Handicaps Several West Coast cyclists will participate in the Timaru to Christchurch road race to be conducted this week-end. They have been placed on the following marks: H. Pratt (4min), E. Maguigan (Bmin), D. Clark (26min), J. Alexander (28min), P. Egan (39min), A. King and T. Egan (42min),

Auckland Women’s Golf Final Mrs G. W. Hollis, former New Zealand champion, won the Auckland provincial women’s gdlr championship yesterday by beating Miss Zoe Hudson, of Christchurch, at the nineteenth hole. Miss Hudson had a winning chance on the eighteenth green, 'but took three putts. She missed a nut.t of about a yard to lose the match at the next hole.—(P. Ad

McCready Beats O’Toole In. the final match of the wrestling season at Dunedin. Earl McCready (17st 41b) defeated Tommy O’Toole (17st), by two fails to one. O'Toole took the first, fall in the fourth round with a body press following a series of forward chanceries. McCready equalised in the sixth round, O’Toole missing with a forward chancery’ and falling back for McCready to pin him with a body press. McCreudy gained the deciding fall in the seventh round with a rocking chair splits.—(P. A.) Tennis At Les Angeles

Kramer easily brushed off a challenge from Vladimir Cernik (Czechoslovakia), and beat him, 6-1, 6-1, today to enter the quarter-finals of the Pacific South-West tennis tournament. Earl Cochell, of New York, who yesterday beat Geoff Brown (Australia), beat Francisco Segura, of Ecuador, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, in a quarter-final match. Pancho Gonzales (Los Angeles) entered the quarter-finals by defeating Bob Falkenburg, 6-4, 8-6. Miss Louise Brough. American women’s champion, defaulted because of illness.— Los'Angeles, September 24.