TO-DAY'S SPORTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22687, 27 March 1937, Page 13

TO-DAY'S SPORTS

MANY ATTRACTIONS RACING AT ELLERSLIE CHAMPIONSHIP MEETINGS With racing, swimming, tennis, golf, howls, yachting and athletics meetings and races arranged, Auckland holidaymakers for the remaining days .of Easter have a wide variety of diversions to choose from. Large crowds may also be expected to find their way to the beaches and a dense volume of motor traffic has already taken to the roads. The most popular of the Easter fixtures is generally the Auckland Racing Club's meeting at Ellerslie, which will being to-day and conclude on Monday. The Great Northern Oaks and the Champagne Stakes will attract much attention at to-day's meeting. Two tennis tournaments have been arranged within the province. The North Island championships will be held at Hamilton and at the Windmill Road courts the Auckland Lawn Tennis Association's hard-court championships, started yesterday, will be continued to-day and on Monday and Tuesday. Because the infantile paralysis epidemic precautions interfered with the holding of the New Zealand swimming championships, a special meeting has been arranged at the 'lepid Baths for to-day and Monday. Most of tho more prominent swimmers from the southern provinces have come north to compete with the Auckland champions, and the results may bo taken to indicate tho country's most successful swimineis of this season.

One of the most important events of tho bowling year, the Auckland Bowling Centre's Easter tournament, will be continued to-day and on Monday and Tuesday. The Easter fours are the chief attraction.

A very large field will compete for the honours in the Auckland provincial golf championships, which will be started at Middlemore to-day. The annual Easter tournament of the North Shore Golf Club is also being held.

A sports gathering at Coromandel will be the climax of tho carnival which was started by the despatch of two yacht races from King's Wharf on Thursday niplit for Coromandel, and yachtsmen will, also be catered for by the Cowes Bay regatta to-day.