AN OLD-TIME EASTER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18065, 17 April 1933, Page 4

AN OLD-TIME EASTER

DISTRICT SUCCESSES GISBORNE IN LIMELIGHT Many followers of sports fixtures will have united the numerous successes and prominent- performance? registered on Saturday by district representatives in various fields of sports and pastimes and will endorse lie comment of the observant oldimer who remarked that the district was having “something like the holi!ays wc used lo have.” The comieaf is based mainly on the following performances:— Racing.)—The (successes of Kinsel and Stick at Hastings, and the ’placing of Lordly Knight in the Easter Handicap at Auckland. Cricket.—The first innings lead of the Poverty Bay representatives ovei the champion Auckland club, Parnell, in the match commenced at the Ova' on Saturday. Football.—The success of Celtic Football Club in the first round of the hirist Rugby Association tournament it Wanganui, entitling the Gisborne team to enter the final round with Auckland, this match being set down for this afternoon; the drawn game played by Gisborne Old Boys’ seniors with Napier Technical Old Boys’ seniors, on the Childers road reserve, and the win of the Gisborne Old toys’ thirds against Napier H. 5.0.8 thirds, on the same ground. Bowls. —The prominent parts taken by town clubs’ representatives in the Burton Trophy tournament, leading places in all three sections being held against strong competition from visiting rinks. Rowing.—The success of the Poverty Bay Rowing Club in the Neill Shield sculling contests at Wairoa, and the ■parallel success of the Gisborne Rowing Club in the Pair-oar Shield contests, rowed on the same course against competition from Wairoa and Napier. Rifle shooting.—Gisborne Defence Rifle Club’s success in the .Collins 'hield match at the Hawke's Bay Rifle Association’s annual shoot at Tastings.