WEEK-END ATTRACTIONS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22961, 12 February 1938, Page 12

WEEK-END ATTRACTIONS

EPSOM TROTTING MEETING VARIETY OF FIXTURES A wide variety of sporting attractions and numerous other entertainments have been arranged for the weekend and outdoor fixtures should be well patronised if the weather is favourable. Trotting enthusiasts will be catered for to-day by the meeting at Epsom, where an exceptionally brilliant field will be engaged in the Great Northern Trotting Derby.

One of the outstanding fixtures today will be the annual regatta of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron at Kawau. Some close finishes are anticipated in the games to be played under the control of the Auckland Cricket Association, when the second series in the second round of the senior championship will be completed. Post-section play in the inter-club series of the Auckland Lawn Tennis Association will be continued. Sixtynine crews will be "engaged in events at the annual Mercer Regatta, which is one of the popular fixtures of the rowing season. An interesting feature of the fixture to-day will be the special event for crews of blind oarsmen. They are members of the Jubilee Rowing Club, an organisation devoted to the training of the blind in the sport of rowing.

Sports meetings will be held at Blandford Park and at Hunua and in the evening there will be midget car racing and motor-cycle broadsiding at, the Western Springs Stadium. Several firms and organisations have also arranged picnics during* the week-end.