CUPS FOR SPORTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 May 1922, Page 5

CUPS FOR SPORTS.

OPPOSED BY SCHOOL TEACHERS. COMPETITIONS NOT SUPPORTED. MOASCAR CUP RETURNED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The conference of representatives of the Secondary School Teachers’ Association was continued to-day. The report of the committee appointed to deal with the questions of shooting and athletic competitions was brought up and adopted. The committee reported that, broadly speaking, in regard to athletic competitions they were unanimously of opinion that general competitions among secondary schools were not in the best interests of the pupils and should be discouraged; also that no further trophies should be accepted for competition. This applied to such cups as the Riddiford Cup for cadets and the ►SKerrett Cup for Association football. Ar regarded the Moascar Cup, presented to the New Zealand Rugby Union by the New Zealand Mounted Division in Egypt, the committee, while fully appreciative of the sentimental reasons attacking to it, considered that competition by secondary schools for the cup was detrimental to the best interests of pupils, and that the New Zealand Rugby Union be asked to utilise the cups for another purpose. Regarding the Heathcote-Williams challenge shield, for cricket, the finding of the committee 'was that, as competition for this shield had beneficial effects, and had done much to improve cricket in our schoofj, the competition should continue on the same lines as at present.