Spaorts Review

They Went South

To Sail

FOR the first time, Port Moresby sent an entrant to the Com monwealth VS sailing cham pionships, held near Cronulla, Syd ney, over the Christmas holidays.

The boat, “BH”, sailed by Arthur Roberts with the assistance of lan McDonald and Max Kennedy did not win the championships, but everyone had a lot of fun and gained competition experience hard to acquire in the home port.

The yacht was sent down from Port Moresby on board the Shansi in December.

Tongan Tiger Is

Homeward Bound

Heavyweight Tongan boxer Kitione Lave has sold up his share in a motor garage in Don caster, England, and is on his way home to Tonga with his 21-years old English wife and 17-month-old daughter.

Lave said before leaving England by air that he intended to go into solid training on arrival at Nukua lofa to make a come-back in the ring.

He is at present under penalty in the United Kingdom for plan ning to take part in a bare-fisted fight which was halted by the police.

Surprise End To

Halafihi—Pompey Fight

TONGAN light-heavyweight boxer Johnny Halafihi beat Yolande Pompey (Trinidad) in an elimination bout for the British Empire championship on a foul in the 10th round of a scheduled 12round contest at Birmingham (UK) last month.

It was a disappointing end for the crowd, as both boxers were fairly evenly matched and had, according to reports, turned on a grand fight.

This win brings Halafihi into calcu lations for a fight with world-rated Canadian Yvonne Durelle, who holds the British Empire title. Durelle re cently fought world champion Archie Moore in a title bout but lost the fight when Moore made a sensa tional recovery after having been battered by Durelle in the early rounds.

If Halafihi can beat Durelle and take the Empire title he must be considered as a world title contender.

However, Halafihi might find the going hard as the light-heavy division carries many experienced

boxers. One of these who could uo set the Tongan is South Africa Mike Holt, who has an record of knockouts to his crecb He is well remembered in Austral!, where in a matter of a few weels he slaughtered just about eve light-heavyweight in the markets

Soccer Revived

In N. Britain

AFTER a lapse of several yeaijs the Soccer Association of Net Britain was given a new leae of life in 1958, and 16 native team and two European teams played a premiership competition which hr! recently ended.

Good coaching and strict ccntm by European referees resulted in n remarkable improvement in tH standard of play. This was demoio strated during a recent visit of tlf Royal Navy. The RN fielded thru teams against combined Rabae( teams in which only two European

This fierce-looking Fijian is In Bukavuru, a sprinter, one of foo athletes who left Fiji on Januarys for a tour of the Wairarapa d[?] trict, New Zealand, under t sponsorship of the Masterto Amateur Athletic Association.

The team will he under the mat agement of Mr. Stan Meeks, w has been an active executive of t Athletics’ Association of Fiji sim the early 1930’S. He was manag of the first team to visit New Ze land in 1954, when the Southla[?] Association sponsored the visit that district.

sayed. Two of the local teams were :ctorious; the RN won only one ' the matches. .A challenge round between the jur leading soccer teams in the ;srritory —Mor o b e, North-East, inka and Finschhafen —was played tfew weeks ago; Morobe and Buka eere eliminated and the final be veen North-Easts and Finschhafen as a worthy battle. [ln the season’s district competi on, Morobe built up a points score uat ensured them the victory as B premiers.

hese Were The

Ihemps In 1958

NHE Rarotonga Boxing Association . decided its champs for 1958 at a big elimination contest re intly. (Final results were as follows: fiavyweight: Tauri of Ngatangiia. ight-heavyweight, Arthur of gatangiia. Middleweight, Parau of gatangiia. Welterweight, Matapo of rorangi. Lightweight, Rima of urekura. Featherweight, Tutangata Parekura. Bantamweight, Holi iy of Parekura. Paperweight, ;amaka of Ngatangiia.

Chance For Some

few Blood

From Norman Baxter, in Suva Fiji Cricket Association . showed refreshing enterprise at its annual meeting when it 9 y ed to inaugurate a local Easter icket carnival, the first to be held 1959, in Suva.

Instead of the usual airy talk >out tours which haven’t a hope coming off because of the present ck of top-class players and to a sser extent of finance, the associa m got down to plans to promote te game here in Fiji.

The plan, briefly, is that 10 teams ke part in a three-day carnival f the Crompton Cup, the premier ter-district trophy, the donor of lich (Mr. Robert Crompton) died cently in Christchurch, NZ, at the ;e of 90.

If some district associations cannot >nd teams, Suva will put in extra ies to bring the total to 10.

A carnival is likely to unearth uch new talent and Fiji cricket idly needs new blood to replace e ageing stars who have been on «k too long.

For those who make the grade «re is a possibility of a tour of sw South Wales in 1959-60.

Fiji initiated the move some

months ago and the NSW cricket Association, no doubt remembering the financial and playing successes of Fiji’s Rugby tours of Australia in 1952 and 1954, has shown more than passing interest.

Ratu Edward Cakobau, president of the Fiji Cricket Association, was to discuss a possible tour this month (January) with NSW cricket officials in Sydney and report back to Suva.

The North-East Soccer team which won the Rahaul 1958 premiership.