GOOD INSIDE BACK

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 137, 26 June 1937, Page 17

GOOD INSIDE BACK

^ . ■ i " ' . ■ DAVE TREVATHAN - ■ .,4 OTAGQ'S FNErHGHni$ ] 5v« j., 8tead leffies ' The Weakness that hfis hpparent in the New Zealand five-'eighth line for the past few -years would he more .than remedied |f Daye Trivathaij'j pf ' Otago, were. ipclu|ed,* fop at the' moment, and' for seyeral' V^ars past," tliere have bebn' \few' .he|ter equipped all-round players' *||i * ihe game, says a Dunedin writer. H# Is a player who, in the hardest gam«^ is always cool and colleeted; it ' being this estimable quality- that :has helped him to win mqny. games for hiS fide, both in club and interprovindal football. He uiidoubfedly" has""tfit blg football temperament, and ..the- more important the issue at stake the' better does he seein to play. There is a misiaken idea abroad that he is slow. Anyone who knows anything about the game will realise that that is a fallacy when. it i? stated that he is the first five-eighth o£ a eiub teaqn that, during the pasfc'few years, has turned on back displays that have been too good for the fastest oppositiplt, including the Otago Umversity bapk^ who have a reputation throughoui New Zealand for their speed. A player of very sound' judgment, he has something of tiie genius of Mark Meholls in his direction of attack, sWinglng lt this way or that to suit' the occasion and catch the opposition unawares. He has scored many finevtries himself in breaking through near' the line. Apart frqm his ability as a player in a combination, he has a wonderful boot, and his record of scoring in this way must stand favourably in the record of New Zealand Rugby for all time. In 1935 he scored more than a hundred points in cljub nnd representative • games, and last year, he reached the double century, this including 75 points in fhe. mn.e representative matches of .the season: Trevathan ls a match winner. As a drop kick there have been few to equal him, as figures shOw. Nor.does he overdo the pot,-for his average of success with his efforts is- -about 80 * per .cent., Chariie ^Qliver,- the vicecaptain of the 1935-?6 All Blacks, was pne of those who urged Trevathan's inclusion in the New Zealand team of last year, and. another who supp'orts the claim for liiS jhciusipn is W. J. Stead, of Southland, ' who pays this tribute: "Trevathan is a match-win-ner, and -a source of^nnoyance to- all opponents.'' Trevathan learned his football pt Macandrew Road school, which was the football nursery of Jack Hore, and has played In most of the grade.s for his club, Southern.

"ENGUSH-GHU. SKATING CHAMPION "Is ' !

SUCCESSOR TO SONJA &ENIE CECILIA COLLED.GE'S RISE TO FAME.- \. t Tall, long-limbed, fuzzy-hdlred,' her stauesque flgure and gleaming teeth her chief claims to beauty,; 16-year-old Cecilia Colledge, has borne her fame and importance pretty well. When Sonja Henie, -of Sweden, ieft the ranks of the amateur skaters, her most f ormidable rival,"' eool and relentless, well mgh as perfect as Sonja herself, and even more youthful, adopted the crown of world figure skating as her inheritance. This sueoessor to the bewitching Sonja is Cecilia Colledge who now holds the world's championship, which she won in London In March. • At six years of age Cecilia Colledge was taken to the Pyrenees- for a winter sports hollday and went on ice for the - first time. At seven she watched _ a figure-skating championship, decided her one atnbition was to win one. . » No Time for School Since then her life has been a roun. of training; competitions, exhibitions yvinters in Switzerland, nerve-wracK-ing championships all over Europe. mayoral receptions, banquets, sayinp words into microphones, showing he; pretty teeth to the camera, signinp nutographs, and, above all, training thoroughly even to remorselessness. Her life is too public, tQo crowded, to leave time for schooi.' She does lessons at home as she -can fit them in* _ She is very well bred, smiles easily, has the social self-asurance of an cxperieneed hostess' and unbends to her admirers with the practised and elegant charm of a prlma donna. She went to America in April and gave exhibitions in that highly publicised Madison Square Garden and other centres, and expert judgos oi figure skating (and you have hi' be expert^ to judge it in world's championship class), trty that Cecilia is even more 1- " u7 correct than Sonja Henie in '