Sports Pars

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21081, 6 April 1940, Page 18 (Supplement)

Sports Pars

New Competition A new competition for the Whitiora Bowling Club was introduced at the club last Saturday when a rinks tournament for leads and twos and for threes and skips was held. The president of the club, Mr D. C. Street, when presenting the trophies last Saturday and commenting on the competitions, said that the competition would provide valuable experience for the players. Promising Boy Sprinter A promising boy sprinter is George Rose, of Hamilton Technical College, the winner of the senior championship at the college annual athletic sports held at Hinemoa Park last Monday. George was in the picture all day, coming out well ahead of the next best in the aggregate. His best performance was in the 100 yards which he covered in the remarkably good time of 10 2-ss. to establish a new record for his ! school by l-ss. George is expected | to show out prominently at the WaiI kato Secondary School sports next [ week and as he is barely seventeen years of age he may be seen again in wider spheres of athletic activity later on. Outstanding Girl Athlete Joan Hart, of Motumaoho. at present a junior student at the Hamilton Technical College, has a bright future ahead of her in the athletic world. Joan not only collected the junior championship for girls at the annual sports of the college last Monday but also she established new re- | cords. Her outstanding perform- ! ances were a long jump of 17ft. 4in. ! which was 2ft better than anyj thing previously recorded in that | class for the college, and a hop, step and jump of 35ft. 3in. This was Ift. 3in. better than the previous best and must be close to anything in the Dominion for girls under 14i years of age. Sportsman Passes With the death of W. G. Christie in Hamilton one of the heroes of the old City Rugby football team has passed away. When the City club ! was in its heyday, winning the Ham- ! ilton club championship year after ! year, the Christies, Clarkins and Buckinghams were the players chiefly responsible. Bill Christie was one of the best forwards in the area in those days and was always one of the first choices for Waikato teams. He captained the Hamilton representatives as well as the City club’s team and his premature death removes one of the staunchest supporters of the successfully resusitated City senior team. Schoolboy Jumper As predicted in these columns a fortnight ago Temple Parkhouse, of the Hamilton Technical College, did some spectacular jumping in the intermediate championship at the college’s annual athletic sports last Monday. In the preliminaries held a fortnight before, Temple cleared the bar at sft. Oin., equal to the school record. On Monday last in the finals be showed that he had something up his sleeve by registering sft. 2in. to set a new record for the intermediate class. Temple cut his jumping teeth at the Marist Brothers School in Hamilton East as a primary schoolboy under Brother Clemcus. Polo—A Family Game

No other game is such a family affair as polo. In New Zealand and Australia that is particularly the case, as was shown at the recent tournament of the Cambridge Polo Club in the final of the Senior Cup between Cambridge A and Glen Murray. The Cambridge team comprised two Peake brothers—-Ken and Rob—and Rex Garland and Nelson Garland, also brothers. By a coincidence the Glen Murray team had a similar composition two Allens, and two Atchisons. Polo in the Waikato has always featured brothers in combination, the outstanding example being the renowned Kay brothers who comprised the Te Awamutu team. In 1933 and 1934 they won the Auckland Provincial championship and had for some years previous to that been among the leading Waikato teams. After 1934 the combination was broken up with the retirement of some of the brothers, and now there is no Te Awamutu club functioning. There have been other brothers prominent in the game in this district also. George and Hugh Peake, cousins of the Cambridge Peakes, played together, three Elliot brothers are at present playing for Morrinsville, and a few seasons ago three Fitzgerald brothers played for Waihou. Unusual, . however, was the fact that father and son played for Morrinsville last year—Frank and Jack Klaus, who is now the veteran of the polo turf in New Zealand, is playing for Matangi this season." In Cambridge there are two Brunskill brothers playing in the same team, and two Cox boys in different teams. Many more examples from the Waikato, other parts of New Zealand, and from the past could be quoted. Indeed, polo in New Zealand is a family game. Finest example in the world of family polo was the Australian representative team comprising the four Ashton brothers who competed in the international championships at Hurlingham, England, a few seasons ago.