WANGANUI’S SPORTING WEEK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 15, 19 January 1939, Page 6

WANGANUI’S SPORTING WEEK

MANY VISITORS TO CITY CRICKET, TENNIS, ROWING AND ATHLETICS This week is to finish as one of the outstanding sporting weeks of the year so far as Wanganui is concerned. The New Zealand junior tennis championships began yesterday and will finish on Saturday, the players taking part coming from various centres in the Dominion. To-morrow a team of cricketers from Wairarapa will open a match with Wanganui on Cook’s Gardens, one of an elimination series for the Hawke Cup. On Saturday the Wanganui regatta will be held and crews from New Plymouth, Waitara, Wellington, and Hawke's Bay will be competing with the Aramoho, Union, and Wanganui crews.

At night on Saturday, under the electric lights on Cook’s Gardens, a team of Wellington athletes will compete with Wanganui in a visit organised as a return to that paid to Wellington by Wanganui runners and field competitors last Saturday. Another sports fixture of immediate interest to Wanganui will be an elimination cricket match for the Hawke Cup. played at Hawera, between Rangitikei and Taranaki. It begins tomorrow and is scheduled to last three days. Fine weather will be necessary to ensure the success of all four sports undertakings. Players and administrators, because of the long run of unseasonal conditions, were hopeful last night that there would be an improvement to-day, to-morrow and on Saturday.