SCHOOL GAMES.

Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9627, 28 September 1923, Page 2

SCHOOL GAMES.

SUCCESSFUL FUNCTION AT RESERVE.

There was a large attendance at the Reserve yesterday, when 'the annual school games were held, and proved most successful. These games, winch/ ; are of undoubted benefit the child- | ron, engendering- at once a love of open-air games arid a sense of sports- j manship, two.things inseparable from, j the character of the average New Zoa- : lander. » : •These games were instituted in 1904, and. for some years the sports, including games and athletic events, were held in the grounds of Wacren-ga-a-hika College. .Public support was not forthcoming to any great extent, however, and fell off, the games being discontinued about 11 or : 12 years ago. The games were revived after a year or two of inactivity and were held on the Show grounds at To Hapara, and in more recent 1 years on tiie Reserve. A steady increase has occurred in the number of entries, and this year reached such a high figure that" it was decided to hold .separate days for games and lor athletic events. Athletic sports will in consequence he held sometime later in the year, probably in -December. Yesterday’s games were a marked success in every way, the arrangements being capably carried out by an , energetic body of officials. . - 'The following arc the results of vesterda y’ s gain es : TUG OF WAR. —Open.— First Round.—Convent beat Maugapapa "A”; Te Hapara beat Mangap ap a “B” ; Gisborne “A” beat lie Arai; Patutalii beat Haiti. ' Second Round. —Gisborne a B” won by 'default from Te Karaka; Te Hu- i para beat Convent; Gisborne “A” beat Patutalii. , Semi-final. —Te Hapara beat Orxborne “B” ; Gisborne “A” a bye. Final. —Te Hapara beat Gisborne“A-” —Under 13First Round. —Manga papa “A” 'heat Gisborne “B” ; Mangapapa “B” beat Te Hapara “A” ; Gisborne “A ’ beat Te Hapara “B” ; Haiti a bye.. Second Round. —Haiti beat Gisborne “A”; Mangapapa “A” beat Mangapapa “R.” Final —Mangapapa <: A” beat Haiti.

FOOTBALL. —-Open. First Round. —Mangapapa “A*’ beat Gisborne "B”; Gisborne "A’ beat Convent; Te Hapara beat Te Arai; Patutalii beat Mangapapa "B” ; Haiti beat Te Karaka ; Wliatatutu beat Gisborne ‘‘C.” Second Round. —Mangapapa ‘"A” beat Patutalii; Gisborne_ A” beat Haiti; Te Hapara beat Vhatatutm Semi-final. —Gisborne "A” beat Te Hapara; Mangapapa “A” a bye. Final. —Gisborne "A” beat Mangapapa 'A.” -—Under 14.First Round. —Te Hapara "A” beat Gisborne ‘B ’; Mangapapa beat Te Hapara :! B” ; Mangapapa “B” beat Haiti; Gisborne i- A” beat Te Arai; Patutalii a bye. Second Round. —Gisborne ; ‘A”« beat Patutalii; Mangapapa ‘A’ beat Mangapapa ! -B’ : ; Te Hapara "A” a bye. Semi-final. —Te Hapara “A'', beat Gisborne "A”; Mangapapa !: A” a bye. , ri , Final. —Mangapapa '‘A’ beat re Hapara "A.” -—Under 13. First Round. —Gisborne “A” beat Mangapapa “B” : Mangapapa ''A’’ beat Gisborne "B” ; Convent beat r le Hapara “A 1 ' ; Makauri beat Haiti : To Hapara !, B” beat Patutalii; Te Karaka a bye. Second Round. —Gisborne '‘A’ beat Te Hapara "B” ; Makauri beat Mangapapa "A ; Convent beat r l.e lvaraka. Semi-final. —-Convent beat- Gisborne "A” ; Makauri a bye. Final.—Convent beat Makauri. —Under 12. — _ First Round. —Te Hapara ‘‘A’’ beat Mangapapa "B" : Mangapapa "A beqt Convent: Haiti beat Gisborne • B”; Gisborne ‘‘A” beat Te Hapara "B”; Pul)a beat Gisborne "CM Second Round. —Te Hapara '' A’' beat Mangapapa “A” ; Gisborne “A" beat- Pulia; Haiti a bye. Semi-final. —Gisborne "A 0 beat Haiti; Te Hapara “A” a bye. Final. —Gisborne ‘‘A” beat Te Hapara "A”

BASKET BALL. —Open. —- Eirst Round.- —Gisborne “A” . beat Convent; To Hapara beat Haiti; le Arai beat Gisborne. "B” ; Mangapapa beat Patutalii; Te Karakrf beat Gisborne “C.” Second Round—Te Hapara beat Gisborne ‘‘A’ ; Te Arai beat Mangapapa ; Te Karaka a bye. Semi-final. —Te Hapara beat To Karaka: Te Arai a bye. Final. —Te Hapara beat Te Arai. —Under 13.- — First Round.- —Mangapapa beat Haiti: To Karaka beat Gisborne - B': Te Hapara beat Gisborne “A.’’ Second Round,- -Mangapapa beat Te Hapara; Te Karaka a bye. Final—To Karaka beat Mangapapa BALL GAME. -—Under 11. — Mangapapa “A’’ 1. Also competed: Te Hapara Gisborne A, B, and C, Mangapapa B and C, Convent, and Haiti. —Under 13. Mangapapa ‘‘A” 1. Also competed: Mangapapa B and C, Gisborne A, B, C-, and D, Te Hapara, Te Arai, Te Karaka, Convent, and Kaiti. —Open. — Gisborne “A' ! 1. Also competed: Gisborne B, Te Hapara, Te Arai, Te Karaka, Kaiti, Makauri, Mangapapa, Convent. RELAY RACE. —Open. — Mangapapa- ‘‘A” 1, C-onvcnt 2, Gisborne “A” 3. —Under 14. — Mangapapa ‘A* I, Mangapapa ‘B’ 2, Te Hapara “A” 3. —Under 13. Convent 1, Mangapapa “A” 2, Gisborne “A” 3. —Under 12. Gisborne ' A’’ 1, Mangapapa 11 A" 2, Te Hapara 3.