Auckland’s Girl Athletes

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 507, 9 November 1928, Page 6

Auckland’s Girl Athletes

Big Sports Carnival To-Morrow

Girl’s Inter-House Movement

FIVE hundred joyously fit girls will take part in the fifth big annual sports carnival promoted by the Auckland Girls’ Inter-House Sports Association, to be staged at CaiTaw Park to-morrow.

The event in former years, by its entertaining show of animation and skill and perfectness in various branches of sport, has proved itself a strong attraction to hundreds of Aucklanders. And again to-morrow, if the hard training which has taken place before and after work for many weeks, is any indication of the fitness and capabilities of the girls in their numerous and varied intricate drill manoeuvres, besides games of all descriptions, the event should spell another huge display or panorama of colour and health. The competitors are drawn from the city’s soft-goods houses, retail, wholesale and factory. Each house has its own distinctive colours and its own cry or haka. HOLDERS OF TROPHIES A number of cups and trophies has been donated to the association by employers and buyers in various houses. One of the chief of these is the Victoria challenge cup for the highest aggregate points in the whole of the competitive events. It is held by George Court’s. The Sharman Cup for the highest aggregate in team events is held by Macky, Logan’s employees, the physical culture and the

marching cups by George Court's th*. interhouse relay cup by Ambler’s an. the 75yds championship by Milne and Choyce. From start to finish the work of th.* Inter-house Girls’ Sports Association is entirely voluntary and the key to the great success of the annual gather ing is the co-operation of the employers and the officials of the Defence Departmen t. With full consideration for the health of the girls, the employers allow a certain amount of time off for training, while they also show the keenest interest by their advice. Much praise is due to the officials of the Defence Department who spend much of their good time in training the girls in marching and drill. Lieut. Laffey as an organiser has done much excellent work. During the year, several smaller houses have linked up with the association and this fact gives some idea how the movement is gradually spreading and gaining recognition. To-morrow’s programme includes various team games, sprinting, hurdling, physical culture displays and competition, marching displays and competition and then, perhaps the most spectacular and popular item of all. the display given by the “girls brigade.”