SPORTS TROPHIES

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2312, 3 December 1925, Page 6

SPORTS TROPHIES

MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY OF CUPS. A fine array of trophies Is at present on show at A. E. Ekstodt’s, Ltd., Palmerston North. They are the fifty-guinea challenge cup donated to the Manawatu Golf Club, and the two almost equally valuable cups presented to the Palmerston North Returned Soldiers’ Association. The donor In each case is Mr P. A. McHardy, who is known generally as the “father” of the Anzac Club. Together with the cups is a set of beautiful miniatures. The Golf Club has allocated its trophy to the Manawatu Easter Championship. It cannot he won outright, and is to remain perpetually at the club house. Each year’s winner will have his name’ engraved on a shield affixed to the pedestal, and receive a miniature.

The Anzac Club cups were on Friday evening last al’ocated, one each to Billiards and Snooker handicaps. Starting next winter, the events will bo run on the “Yankee tournament” system, everybody to play everybody. The conditions are that the cups can only become the property of players winning three times. In a contest of this nature, particularly a handicap, the possibility of the cups leaving the Anzac Club appears somewhat remote! The annual winners will, however, have their names engraved on shields and receive a miniature apiece, Mr McHardy having donated six of these cups for a start.