SPORTS PROGRAMME

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 92, 12 January 1935, Page 15

SPORTS PROGRAMME

Club Cricket Matches To Be Continued To-day AMATEUR ATHLETICS I The fifth series of matches in the Wellington Cricket Association’s senior championship competition will be concluded this afternoon. University, with 65 on for .t he loss of nine wickets, at the Basin Reserve, will endeavour to reach the 180 set them by Wellington. Kilbirnie, who have scored 41 without loss, will resume their game with Hutt on the Basin Re‘serve. Midland, with 61 for five wickets, will try to overhaul the 291 let up by Wellington College Oid Boys on the Kilbirnie Recreation Ground. Pctone. who have 11 on for the loss of one wicket, will face Institute’s total of 236 on Petone Oval. I’lav will commence at 2 p.m. The Wellington Mercantile Cricket

League will resume its grade championship matches this afternoon, when the j following will be decided in the A grade: | .lasco v. State Fire and Overseas Ship- ! ping v. Bookers-Bricks, on Athletic Park ; Sargoods v. Nivens and Smith and Smith v. Roseneatb. on Wakefield Park; Customs A v. Cowans, on Newtown Park. The Wellington Ladies’ Cricket Association will resume club matches this afternoon, when the following games will be played in the senior grade :—Wesley v. Karori and Swifts v. Technical Old Girls B, on Nairn Street Park; Technical Old Girls A v. College Old Girls, on Emerson Street reserve. Sports at Basin Reserve. An attractive programme will be submitted at the amateur athletic meeting at tlie Basin Reserve this evening. The meeting, which will be Conducted by electric light, will take the form of a triangular contest between the Kiwi, Wellington and Wanganui Athletic Glubs. In addition, the cycling races should prove most interesting witii riders of the calibre of F. J. Grose, of Canterbury, who represented New Zealand at the British Empire Games last year; J. Wade and C. Hanson, of Wanganui; and T. McCord, of Waitarapa, contesting the honours. There will also be a series of open handicap events. The first event will start at 7.45 p.m. Yachting at Evans Bay. The Evans Bay Yacht and Motor-boat Club will hold races for yachts of the Tauranga and Idle Along and second class centreboards to-day. Rifle Shooting. The Wellington Small-bore Rifle Club will commence its first competition to-day over the 50 and 100 yard ranges. The competition will consist of six shoots at each range—four to dount, and will continue until February 17. The Stokes Valley Rifle Club will shoot over the 900 yards range at Trentham for the championship, aggregate nnd president's cups this afternoon. The Suburbs Rifle Club will fire matches for the No. 5 series over 900 yards on the Trentham range this afternoon. The Petone Rifle Club will fire a match over 900 yards at Trentham this afternoon. The Karori Rifle Club will fire a championship match at 900 yards at Trentham to-day.