WEEK END ATTRACTIONS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22670, 6 March 1937, Page 16

WEEK END ATTRACTIONS

WIDE VARIETY OF SPORTS j CYCLING CHAMPIONSHIPS A wide variety of sporting events has been arranged in Auckland for to-day. In addition to tho usual competitive attractions of the various athletic organisations, several annual events will also be held, the New Zealand cycling championships being among these. The fourth Beries of matches of the Auckland Cricket Association's firstgrade competition will bo started. At Eden Park the second and third teams in tho championship, Grafton and Eden, will meet on the main wicket, while Ponsonby will play University, and Y.M.C.A. will play King's Old Boys on the other wickets. At Devonport, tho competition leaders, North Shore, and Parnell, will meet. A number of golf clubs will hold their usual Saturday games, while the opening ceremony of the season will be held at Remuera. The weekly club and in-ter-club bowling competitions, and the final of the Auckland Bowling Centre's Christmas tourney at the Carlton Club's green, will cater for bowlers. The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, the Ponsonby Cruising Club the Howiek Sailing Club, the Manukau Yacht and Motor-Boat Club and the i Manukau Cruising Club have arranged full programmes for tho week-end, and a rowing regatta will be held to-day at "YVhangarei. Athletes have had an excellent programme of races arranged for them in ' the 59th Victor Ludoruin Cup carnival ; of the Auckland Amateur Athletic and Cycle Club, which is to be held this afternoon at Carlaw Park. Cyclists will also have the New Zealand cycling championships at Western Springs, which will be opened this afternoon and continued at night. 1 The annual harbour swimming race for the Worrall Cup, to be conducted by the Eastern .Suburbs Amateur Swimming and Life-Saving Club from Lady's Bay, St. Heliers, to Kohimarama Wharf, a distance of slightly over one and a-half miles, will be one of the main attractions. There will also be a swimming carnival at North Shore. Tomorrow the Auckland metropolitan surf championships will be held at Karekarc Beach, beginning at 1.30 o'clock. A flying display and a motor-cvcle race meeting will be held at tho Waikato airport, Hamilton, in tho afternoon, and to-morrow there will be speed trials on Muriwai Beach. The annual Albany Show to-day, the Franklin races at Pukekohe, and the usual round of tennis competitions at the Stanley Street courts, will complete the attractions.