HERRING PARK

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 719, 19 July 1929, Page 13

HERRING PARK

WILL BE SITE FOR NEW DIRT-TRACK STADIUM Plans for the big dirt-trank motor racing stadium, which, it was announced some weeks ago would be built in Auckland, are now well ahead. The proposed capital of £IO,OOO is already in hand, and Herring Park, situated at the back of the Grey Lynn Library, has been secured as the site of the new venture. It is announced that building will start early in September, and the stadium will, it is expected, be completed and ready for racing in the last week of November. There will be seating accommodation for 20,000 people. Although for some years now dirttrack racing has taken one of the foremost places of the various sporting attractions in Australia, it did not make its debut in the Dominion until last year, when a stadium was built at Kilbirnie, Wellington. In the one season in which it was operating in the capital city it took on well, and consequently gained an astounding amount of popularity. Miss Fay Taylor, the crack woman motor-cyclist, fulfilled a contract to ride, and the fine exhibitions of dirt-track racing given by her meant much to the success of the venture.

The track at Herring Park will be a four-lap one, modelled on the lines of the Brisbane speedway, which lends itself perhaps more to speed than actual thrills. It will be lighted on the same principle as the Kilbirnie stadium —or, to come closer home, Blandford Park. According to Miss Fay Taylor, the lighting at Kilbirnie was the best under which she had ever ridden.

TEACHING TENNIS IN SOUTH

OLLIVJER ENGAGED AS COACH Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Today. Arrangements were finally agreed upon at last evening’s meeting of the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association for the appointment of G. Ollivier as coach to the association. The scheme of coaching is the first of its nature to be adopted in the Dominion. Pupils will pay £1 for eight half-hour lessons. BASKETBALL TEAMS The following players will represent their various clubs in matches to be played under the auspices of the Auckland Basketball Association: KILLARUA Senior Grade.—Misses N. Jacombs, R. Edwards, E. Hunt, J. Alison, L. Adams, J. Macdougall. M. West, C. Turner, J. Sticlibury. Third Grade.—Misses D. Lane, B. Williams M. Sadler, M. Sewell, B. Robinson, T. Arnold, P. Willmette, S. Batty, J. Warring. ST. DAVID’S GUIDES Fifth Grade.—Misses M. Wynne, S. Smith, J. Delores, F. Bruce, F. Shilcock, R. Mann, J. Taylor, V. Reilly, J. Maud.