EASTER SPORT

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 104, 1 April 1926, Page 8

EASTER SPORT

ARRAY OF ATTRACTIONS

Easter this year, as usual, presents a great array of attractions; in fact, followers of every seasonable sport and game are catered for.

Racegoers, wit a a number of meetings to attract their attention, will be well catered for, but most of the interest of local followers of the king of sports will bo centred in the Feilding and Tauherenikau meetings. The first Rugby matches of the season. will eventuate on Saturday, when two Kia Toa teams meot Pirates (Wanganui} at Terrace End Park and on the Technical School grounds. The association football season will open to-morrow with the annual Easter tournament of the St. Andrew’s Club.- Play will take place at North Street Park, and the competing teams will include five from Wellington. The Manawatu Bowling Centro’s annual Easter rinks tournament will also bo commenced to-morrow. Play will continue on Saturday and Easter Monday and will take place on four greens—Palmerston North, Manawatu, Terraco End and Northern. Several cricket matches are set down. To-morrow Wanganui colts will play Manawatu colts, and the latter team, on Saturday and Monday, will oppose a team representing Napier Technical College Old Boys. The Manawatu Golf Club will be conducting its second Easter tournament, play, wherein will commence on Saturday. Competitors will be coming from as far afield as Napier, Wanganui, Whangarei and Miramar.

On Saturday the country clubs’ amateur athletic championships will be decided at the Showgrounds, and, with R. A. Rose competing, there is sure to be a largo attendance of the public. Tennis players will be catered for by a mixed doubles tournament at the Linton street courts on Monday. Play will commence at 10.30 a.m., with an adjournment for lunch. On Monday the Mana-watu Caledonian Society will conduct its 22nd annual sports gathering at the Showgrounds. The programme will comprise dancing, piping, running, cycling, field games and wrestling, in addition to a number of events for school children.

AMATEUR ATHLETICS. COUNTRY CLUBS’ CHAMPIONSHIPS ON SATURDAY. The shield presented by IvTr R. W. McVilly, late general manager of the New Zealand Railways, and now president of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, for annual competition between the country clubs of the Wellington Centre’s district, will again bo competed- for on Saturday, the meeting being scheduled to take place at the Palmerston North Showgrounds. Nineteen championship events figure on the programme, i in addition to a number of handicap and novelty events. Competing for the Masterton Club will be ft. A. Rose, the champion distance runner, who is due to arrive in Palmerston North to-morrow and whose presence at the meeting will undoubtedly prove a great attraction. T. Oakley, the well-known Wairarapa cyclist; C. Campbell, the Wellington middle distance runner, whose half-mile in lmin 58 2-osecs at the local club’s sports meeting last year will be well remembered by those present; G. Harvey, ex-Australian and New Zealand pole vault champion; W. Harvey, New Zealand hammer champion; and A. J. Morgan, well-known field games exponent, are just a few of the competitors who will be present. Points scored by the Wellington, Wanganui and Marton competitors will not count for the shield., ,

RUGBY FOOTBALL. Kia Toa teams for Easter Saturday are: Seniors, v. Pirates (Wanganui), Terrace End Park, at 10 a.m.—'llie team will be selected from the following: Brice, McSweeney, Boldt, Piper, Jackson, . Lolierty (captain), Reatley, Kyan, Parsons, k indiay, Wasley, Eyre, G. .Morgan, Findlay, Pragnell, Hancock, \V. Smith, T. Holden, T. Doherty. Junior thirds v. Pirates (Wanganui), on Terrace End ground, at 10 a.m. —The team will be selected from the following: Bambery, Comber, Baxter, Mitchell, Kush, Gordon Brown, Turnbull) Boyd, Holden, Williams, JLoveday, W. Morgan, Topie, Wasley. L. Brown, J, Strange, Sykes, A Brown. The following will represent Western United versus Dannevirko at Terraco End Park, oh Easter Monday, at 2 p.m.:—J. Robb, D. Horni, H. Ormond, Finlay, Tuck, W r . Hells, A. Pegler, W. itiley, R. Riley, C. Hincks, Dooson, E. Cox, Stowe, R. Sharman, Atkinson, Clovely, Marks. Anyone unable to play please ring R. J. Rells, ’phono 5180. As a curtain-raiser to the senior game between Shannon and Mansts (YVellington) to be played at Shannon Domain on Easter Monday, a third grade game will be played between Shannon and St. Patricks’ (P.N.) The following •will represent St. Patrick’s team (bus leaves Clarendon Hotel, 10.30 a.m. sharp) :—Green, Hannah, Sheerin, McKenzie (2), Nesbit (2), Madgwick, Mabey A. Shearman, Moyes, Corry, Lahood, Kerrigan, Doherty, Dennan, Hunter, Bahout, Caring. Any others desirous of travelling may do so.

The opening Rugby match of the season at Foxton will take place on the racecourse there on Saturday next when the Foxton juniors play Berhampore (Wellington) junior.

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL. The following team will represent the Athletic Club to play Y.M.C.A. (Wellington) in the Easter tourney, to-mor-row at North Streot Park:—Hamman, Aakam, Travers, Stubbs, Whitehouse McKinley, Walker, Hearsey, I. Childs, Rainford and H. Childs; kick off 2 p.m. sharp. , The team to represent St. Andrew s will be chosen from the following players :—Housten, Coates, Oavis, Ransom Bell, Gibb, Marshall, Smith, Facer, Hart, Wheeler Kennedy, Wiliams, Hands, Lock The above players are requested to be at North Stieet Bark at 1.45

'TENNIS TOURNEY ON EASTER MONDAY.

Members of tennis clubs in Palmerflton North and surrounding distric are notified that, provided sufficient entries are forthcoming, a yankee tournament (mixed " doubles—-sealed handicap) will be held at the I almerston North Club’s courts, Linton street, on Easter Monday. Play will • commence at 10.30 a.m., and there will be an adjournment for lunch. Entries may be handed to F. A. McLachlan, J. W. Fergie, J. T. McDonald, C. H. Clem, Miss 0. Haggitt ; or

addressed to secretary at Box 367, or entered on list posted at clubhouse.

CRICKET.

MANAWATU COLTS

The following will represent Manawatu Colts v. Wanganui at Palmerston North on Friday, at 10.15 a.m.: Blenkinsop, Arnott, J. Galliclian, Jewett, McHaffie, Scorgie, Kells, O’Keefe, J. Y'oung, Rose, Hollier; emergency, Young (H.S.). Tho following will represent Manawatu against Napier at Palmerston North on Easter Saturday and Monday, play to commence at 10.30 a.m.: Smillie, Scorgie, Leet, Young, Kells, Hollier, Pilcher, Blenkinsop, McHaffio Spring, C. Webster; emergencies, Rose and O’Keefe.