Sports Log

NZ Truth, Issue 1210, 7 February 1929, Page 15

Sports Log

POLE TO PENCIL

QEORGE BATSTONE, who once threatened to eclipse the deeds of Champion George Harvey m the polevaulting, division, has taken over the secretaryship of the Ki'rwee Amateur Athletic Club, a country club operating under the jurisdiction of the Canterbury Centre. There is probably no one m the province with a better idea of the requirements of a country club, and if enthusiasm goes for anything In the sport, Kirwee should flourish under the Batstone administration. And if George decides to give his own event another go, he should be equal to still silencing all comers. ( IN THE BOOM pOWING is m the boom at Waitara. Eight teams competed In three heats for the Drysdale Cup. The final saw A. Rowe's crew dead-heat with Obsson's, the latter winning iri the row off. R. St. George was unlucky m his heat. The Aratapu, which only berths' about once a week, chose the exact moment when he was passing to swing out, with the result that he had, to pull out wide and, even. then was only beaten a canvas. r ;,V?-. ' ■ -. .■'■:;• ' ■■•:'. yk ....'■■ useful,b6ys ; > TAN TREDEAVEN 'duly landed the job as spinnaker hand for the Colleen, Canterbury's Sanders Cup defender, and will have associated with him as lightweight for'ard hand, George Brassel, one of the most popular boys m the sport m Canterbury. Lan has had a wealth of experience at the spinnaker m Sanders Cup racing, and ms exhibitions on Secret m the trials this season merely served to emphasize, how lucky Canterbury is to possess such a nimble hand-in either rough or calm weather. , „G'eo);ge Brassel represented iliyttelton'Sin'vt'h.q.Jast two Corn- ; Ny.ialtyCuij^^ has "been -one of "the ■outstanding features m Takapuna class racing m Canterbury' for some. time. ,