SPORTSLANTS

Arawa Guerilla, Issue 1, 1 April 1942, Page 3

SPORTSLANTS

HOCKEY Interest is ’working up in the stick game and the Maori girls’ team are looking forward to the day when they can have a contest. , '■ FOOTBALL The sound of boot against ball draws like a magnet after mess every night now. We hope to field good teams for tine local 'competitions during the coming season. Players are earnestly practising each Saturday. The forty and fifty aside soccer matches on the aerodrome provides healthy and breathtaking fun for many who have been inactive for years. BASKETBALL Were our ears red when our manly basketball team was whacked by a girls’ team on a recent Sunday. I’ll say. Even at the afternoon tea afterwards there were slight flushes on the manly cheeks of our former unbeatables. CRICKET We have some real good weilders of the willow. In a game against the Air Force the latter went out for. a total of 120. Our team were only two wickets down for 134. Somebody said we had an All Black cricketer amongst us, but really Private Ces Dacre was holding back. Sgt. Delamore and Sgt. Yarnton were the two who did all the hitting and brought the score up.

In a. match between B. and C. Company Warwick Snedden made the only century of the season.. The young Auckland Brabin Cup captain did well but a hustling fieldsman reckoned the bowling was rotten. Good work Warwick. ATHLETICS S.M. R. Keats headed a fine body of men to contest events at the Auckland Provincial Athletic Championships at iWaikaraka Park. There were in the team ‘besides the leader, Sgt. Farquhar, Pte. Ansell-Brown, Pte. H. Farley, Pte. Dougherty, Pte. Garner, Pte. Walker and ■Pte. Mortimer. S/M Keats was leaping 'well and jumped sft. lOin. to equal the (junior record. . In the relays, the teams came third in the half-mile and second 'in the four mile. Not too bad when it is considered that our men prior to the contests had been fed wisely and well over a long period and all had quite a lot of extra weight to carry.

At the local High School sports representatives of the Army and Air Force turned out to fight Stirling contests in front of adoring young maidens. Although the Air .Force looked awfully sweet in their running; gear and had the advantage of the feminine gallery on the sideline, they did not have it all their own way. S/.M Keats came home first in the 100 yards Service championship, while the Army team came second in the one mile relay. Next time our boys say that- they will part their hair in the centre, have a perm, , and put red stripes down the sides of their pants and then they will show just-what they can do.