GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23948, 24 April 1941, Page 14

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

GOLF CHAMPIONS DEFEATED Fifty-three nominations have been received for the Auckland Rugby League's junior competitions, this number comparing favourably with last season. The tentative date set down for the commencement of the season is May JU. A. Gibbs, winner of the Hamilton Golf Club's Easter championship, is a former Ne - son and Ota2o champion. 111 1988 at Balmacewan, he finished first amateur in the New Zealand open event, won by Bobby Locke, the South African. After graduating from Otago University, Gibbs took up his residence in AVairoa and lie won the Hawke s Bay Easter title last year. Stanley Lord, of Street. East Brunswick, Melbourne, was bit by a cricket ball recently on an eye Unit had been totally blind for more than JO years, [lie day after the. accident he could see indistinctly with the eye. He said that the eye went blind due to a cataract, caused, he was told, by an injury, but lie could not remember ever having hurt, the eye. One of the best performances from the time angle made at the New Zealand University athletic tournament was that of the Victoria College man. 1). Tossman, 111 the quarter-mile burdles. In spite of a painful ankle injury which interrupted his training (iurinc the fortnight preceding the meeting ami which recurred with full intensity after the first day's preliminaries, he broke 00 seconds Tossman hurdled very well. Ho he'd his form all the way. and this in itself was a considerable achievement in the teeth (mi the home straight) of a gale, which made correct balance difficult. A feature of leading golf tournaments held at Easter time was the defeat of players who have been prominent in Xew Zealand championship golf during the past few seasons. In the Auckland Club's tournament at Middlemorc. P. G. F. Smith. I»3S amateur champion of New Zealand, was beaten in the final bv A. It. Jones, of Otahuhu, who was making his first appearance 111 open company. R.-H. Glading, North Island amateur champion, was eliminated in the semifinal of the Waikato championship at Hamilton by the ultimate winner, A. Gibbs. J. 1. Hornabrook. New Zealand amateur and open champion, was defeated in the final of the Taranaki championship by T. Jeffery, a brother of J. Jeffery, who has been responsible for some brilliant rounds during the past couple of seasons.