Sports Review

Adequate refreshments, of course, were on hand to cater for patriotic throats in the searing heat.

To confuse matters a little more, the weekend golfers and bowlers played each other at golf and bowls. A complicated system of scoring was designed to give players a chance in their “foreign” sports.

But handicap or no handicap the golfers won the golf and the bowlers won the bowls.

When it came to a grand tally of points it was found that the golfers had aggregated 280 during the day against the 257 by the bowlers. So the golfers were declared the winners.

Nadi in a Bid for Fiji

Sports Honours

r[E Nadi area of Fiji is bidding to take over leadership of rugby football and cricket in Fiji— on performances.

An enterprising band of rugby enthusiasts has formed a union, and has gained provisional affiliation with the Fiji Rugby Union. Dis satisfied with the way affairs were conducted by the Northern District Rugby Union (headquarters at Lautoka), they decided they could do better on their own and cater for more players.

Three teams from the Nadi area played in the competition at Lautoka last season. Now there are 11 teams from Nadi and thereabouts, and the first practice games were held as early as March 15.

As there are several players from Nadi with international experience the standard of the game shouid soon be raised to a stan dard to equal that of Suva In

will be that between Suva and Nadi at Suva towards the end of the season.

The uplift in the standard of rugby and cricket at Nadi has done much to shift the emphasis on sport from the capital city.

You Can Pick Them

By Their Plaster Casts

From Pat Robertson, In Lae, NG r[E basketball season has been under way for some time—any visitor can tell that by noting the number of local girls with their limbs in plaster.

A check shows that so far this season the girls have totted up between them a total of 20 weeks in plaster—almost half a year.

Rough playing doesn’t cause the injuries—but hard and slippery playing areas. The enthusiatic girls play at night on a piece of ground next to the oval.

Upstarts Will Try

Their Luck

From a Honiara Correspondent IIIHE Honiara (British Solomons) X soccer competition is to have a new team this year—a Euro pean one. Up to the present the competition has been in the hands of native teams from the Missions and Government departments.

But nobody at this stage really believes that the bid for white supremacy on the soccer field will be a serious one. The enthusiastic Melanesian teams, fielding men who really know how to handle a ball, trounced teams from two British Navy ships last year.