COMING WEEK'S REVIEW

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 37, 6 April 1928, Page 4

COMING WEEK'S REVIEW

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Tor the week commencing April 7 there will be plenty of sporting broad: vasts to satisfy the most fervent fan. Commencing with Easter Saturday, a description of the Auckland Club’s Itaster meeting by station LYA This meeting is one of the features of the A.R Cs. calendar, and the racing is always of a particularly attractive nature, The principal event on the programme is the Kaster Handicap, of one mile, in which a very fine field has been entered. Present indications point to the winner and runner-up in the Thompson Handicap-Joy King and Bright Glow-as being particular: ly hard to dispose of. Other inter: ésting events om the progremme are the Brighton Hurdles, the Great Northern St. Leger, in which Sattap will probably be a runner, and in whom northern sportsmen wili see a vastly improved horse from the Great Northern Derby. There is also the Great Northern Oaks, for three-year-old fillies, and the Great Northern Champagne Stakes, in which a much improved two-year-old, Episode, will this time meet the best of his age in the dispute for two-year-old supremacy. I{pisode will encounter most opposition from Raasay and Prince Humphrey. Trotting. For those who prefer the sport of trotting, on the same day station 3YA will broadcast a description of the Metropolitan ‘Trotting Club’s meeting from the course at Addington. ‘This programme is sure to be very attractive, as the fields are very large, and contain representative horses from all parts of the Dominion, prominent visitors nominated being Padlock, Nelson Fame, Jewel Pointer, and Peterwah; in addition all the best of the local horses have been accorded a nomination, and so there is every reason to believe that the club will number another asuccessful meeting to its already large number.

~ On Easter Monday the Auckland meeting will conclude, and the Canterbury Jockey Club will commence their Easter meeting at Riccarton, where the chief race of the day, the Easter Handicap, of seven furlongs, has drawn a high-class field of acceptors. On the same day the Champagne Stakes, for two-year-olds, will be run, together with an attractive programme of minor events. The only attraction on Tuesday will be the description of the second, and final, day of the C.J.C. meeting, when ‘the chief attraction is, the Autumn Handicap, of one mile and a half. The Challenge Stakes, weight-for-age, will also be invested with more than usnal interest, owing to the presence of that great horse, Reremoana, whose puccess im races of this character has

been one of the features of the racing season. , Wednesday, the concluding day of the M.T.C. meeting at Addington, will provide an end to the racing and trotting activities for the week, . and again a great day’s sport is certaii. Boxing. The many sporting activities will conclude on Saturday night, when station 4¥A will broadcast a ringside description of the featherweight contest between Gillespie, the champion _ of Australia, and Griffiths (of* Dunedin). Boxing enthusiasts are being well catered for from Dunedin this. winter, as in addition to this contest, arrange ments are in hand to broadcast a description of the bonts between Gillespie and Leckie (the New Zealand

champion) on the following Saturday, and further bouts betwen Leckie and Griffiths and Australia’s best. At present there is a regular Anstralian invasion in boxing circles, and _ all the best Australian lighter weiglsts are at present in the Dominion in search of contests. The chief reason of this is the remarkable performances of Johnny Leckie, of Dunedin Leckie has already beaten -two of the invaders, Melton, at Wellington, and Green, at Napier, and before these lines appear in print will have met Harley, of Melbourne. ‘There is no doubt that Tjeckie is one of the greatest products of the New Zealand ring, and listeners will appreciate the opportunity of hearing accounts of these bouts from the ringside. There is not likely to be one dull moment while Leckie is in the ring, and we feel sure that, in the hands of a very capable announcer at Dunedin, these fixtures will lose none of their thrill over the air. For those who have not tried to hear 4VYA lately, it might be as well to mention that this station is now being heard at good strength throughout the Dominion, and one recent report from the Somerset stated that AYA had been heard when 2300 miles off the New Zealand coast,