POLO TOURNEY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 616, 19 March 1929, Page 13

POLO TOURNEY

I CONTESTS AT CAMBRIDGE TWELVE TEAMS COMPETE • g (From Our Own Correspondent J L _ CAMBRIDGE, To-day. i The Auckland Provincial Polo .Association's annual tournament i ,a opened at Cambridge yesterday in ! threatening weather. The tourna- j ment is being held on Mr. Jas. Taylor’s i >0 grounds "Bardowie.” There are 12 teams competing for j r e the junior and provincial cups, and the 1 handicap cups contests extend over the i whole week, concluding witn the Cam- • :li bridge Polo Club's annual sports on | Saturday. ! The clubs represented in the 12 teams II are: Cambridge (four teams), Matangi •I. (four teams), Waimai (two teams) Te | l\ Mata and Waihou B. At the horse lines there are fully 3 20 j 1 ponies. The class of pony used this i o. year is the best seen in polo com- ! )’ petition in the Waikato for a long time, indicating the increasing entlius- [. iasm and interest in the game. ;o In the junior cup Matangi C 3 goals, beat Cambridge C 2 goals, n Rain was falling this morning. n Additional results: is JUNIOR CUP Waihou B, 7 goals, beat Waimai B, h 3 goals; Cambridge B, 7 goals, beat ir Matangi B, 3 goals. PROVINCIAL CUP Cambridge A (Blenneriiassett, M. h Garland, Mac Nicol, Hines) 11 goals, te beat Te Mata (W. Ransteud, R. Runn stead, Taylor, Hinton), 5 goals; Matangi A (W. Chitty. R. Townsend, M. Phillips, G. Ranstead), 11 goals, beat Waimai A (Snodgrass, Upton, Henry, Wight). 4 goals. ie The Handicap Cup competition coml(r menc.es to-day. The handicaps are: Cambridge A, scr; Matangi A, 2 goals; 1 - Cambridge B, 8 goals; To Mata, 8 - goals; Matangi B, 12 goals; Waihou B, •r J 2 goals; Waimai A, 14 goals; Matangi C. 20 goals; Waimai B, 20 goals: Cams bridge C, 21 goals.