HOLIDAY SPORTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 303, 23 December 1933, Page 8

HOLIDAY SPORTS

RACES AND TOURNAMENTS ENTERTAINMENT FOR EVERYONB While the Christmas and New Year holidays are usually utilised for relaxation at Ihe beaches, tourists resorts and wayside motor camps, sportsmen ln( ] women do not foresake the tennt. courts, the cricket pitches, tho track nor the race carnivals. Meetings’ matches and tournaments have again been arranged for the holiday period and there will be sport for all. * Race-goers will find plenty to interest them at four meetings in the Wellington and Taranaki provinces. Tho Manawatu meeting commences at Awanuni. I almorston North, on Tuesday, Deccm•<*r 26, and will be continued on the following Wednesday and Friday. The laranaki meeting will be held at New Plymouth on Tuesday and Wednesday also, while on January 1 and 2 there ra . cos , nt Stratford and Marton. On Boxing Day, Tuesday, the Wangamu Bowling Centre will commence it, an "" a * cl J ria ‘ n ’as tournament, for which 30 rinks have entered. The elinnntiDon rounds will take place on I uesda.v, Wednesday and Thursday and the post section play on Friday. The Al anganm East rinks are stated to be in hi/’tl, ° / anCl ' ,nf h " n Played thc“' “ ’ ha " b " Wanganui senior representative cricketers will meet a Victoria Univorsity team on Christmas Dav on Cook’s BoxinT’n and P IS V Wi " bn <•'”’'”’>"'o on xing Day, when a junior representative game will also be held on Peat Park between tho association’s junior the Wanganui Me’rcS .h™tin WC ‘’>, n<!SdHy " ,0 North lala n'i O “ n L C ! ,an ’P' onsbi P wi ” be held, on the Putiki range, when tho annual win P b ' t,on for - 303 aba ">Pio""h.> will be commenced, and continued the following day. For the first time in Wanganui an open-air miniature rifle Championship will also tnkn place, and it is expected to prove a big success T own T - Y T r ' s Day ,hn w angnnni Uwn lenms Association will begin its annual tournament, which will last for our days, attracting players from a wide area The pl „ v always „f * high standard, and the tournament well Oarsmen are to travel to New Plymouth on Now Year’s Dav for the annual regatta, and it is understood that ns many crows will be travelling a, in C T he regatta is always p ( , pu . lows the Wa " Kanu ’ ont-nmen for it allows them an opportunity of testing DM? fOr . , ." C CV , Cn,s whic l’ f»JI in the later months, when tho annual string ot regattas occurs. h Track runners win have a choice of three meetings on Boxing Dav, f or athletic competitions are being held nt New Plymouth. Utiku. and Paton, while on New Year s Dnv there will bo sport, at Taihape. The Paten and Taihape gatherings will find much favour with V.anganui runners, and there will also be River City representatives at the other centres. There should, therefore, be an enjoyable round of sport for all sportsmen land women, and the holiday period riiould be filled with interest’