Our Sports Summary

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 28, 19 July 1923, Page 33

Our Sports Summary

Great Revival in Athletic Action in Dublin ; Ireland was always famed for the prowess of its athletes. In this field its young had been of late years put out of action. This year a great revival in athletics is observable. Football matches are the order of the day. Sports are being organised with energy. University College, Dublin, and Trinity have met in the football field for the first time since the Catholic University came into existence. In athletics there . are, or were, politics. Last year certain differences in the South were settled. This year an obstacle to harmony in the domain of sport between North and South has beeen removed. Ireland will, it is expected, make a good show at the Olympic games next year. , In the cultivation of the national pastimes a foremost part is taken by the Catholic secondary schools and colleges. So well-trained are the youths in these institutions that they often defeat teams consisting of adults. 4~>rt _ The Late Dean Thomas McKenna's Aid to Sport Writing of the death of Dean Thomas McKenna, the Pahiatua Herald says: As a young man the late Dean was a fine athelete. He played Rugby football for the Wairarapa representative team and in the early days of Pahiatua was one of the prominent members of the old Pahiatua Cricket Club. Up to quite recent years he was one of the best players in the Pahiatua Tennis Club, and frequently played in interclub matches. The late Dean was a big man physically. lie was broadminded, generous, warm-hearted, open-handed, and these qualities, accompanied by a fund of good humor, made him popular with all classes of the community. None was more ready than he to acknowledge on all Occasions the willing help he received from many who were not of his own faith. <*X> .