New Guinea Lines Up

Its Stars For Perth

Prom a Port Moresby Correspondent The Papua-New Guinea Games Association, which has this year’s Commonwealth Games, Perth, the 1963 South Paci fic Games, Suva, and the Olympic Games of 1964 in Tokyo in its sights, is concentrating on Perth at the moment and is in a mood to let the rest take care of themselves.

IN point of timing the first South Pacific Games are probably un fortunate in that they occur less than a year after the Commonwealth Games and are followed less than a year later by the Olympics.

Papua-New Guinea has already raised, by direct subscription, some thing like £4,500 for the Perth Games in November and expects to have about £6,000 in the kitty before the events actually get under way. But it also expects to use every penny of this in preliminaries in the Terri tory and in getting the team— probably of about 25—to Perth.

Organisers don’t seem to be look ing further ahead than that and they may even be hoping that the good old Government will weigh in with enough to send a team to Suva next year.

Most people seem to feel that it will be expecting a bit much of the general public to produce another £4,500 so soon after this year’s

effort. Donations to the fund have been in amounts of as little as 2/from individual natives but the total is regarded as very satisfactory.

The Perth team will give other Pacific territories an idea of what P-NG is likely to line up against them in Suva.

The tentative team of 25 to Perth is to include seven lawn bowlers— Europeans. The rest of the team will likely be a mixture of all races in the Territory—natives, Europeans, Chinese and Euronesians.

It is thought at present that there will be from eight to 10 athletes; three or four boxers and one or two weight lifters.

The P-NG Amateur Athletic As sociation controls the athletics— running, jumping, javelin throwers.

The P-NG Amateur Sports Union controls the boxing and weight lift ing.

Because of the spread-out nature of the Territory with its scattered towns and settlements, a great deal

The spotlight is on sport in the South Seas, as the Islands try their athletes in preparation for next year's First South Pacific [?]es. Here PIM reports the latest developments on the sport front in South Pacific's biggest territories—Papua-New Guinea and Fiji.

BERING UP: Runners (top left) head for tape at a recent sports meeting in [?]aul —part of a series of meetings to ct the best athletes. At top right, [?]ketball players at a night game on [?]ru get into form and (above) in Suva [?]mising Fijian athlete Anna Ramacake goes over the high jump.

expense is incurred in getting •spective members of the team ether to compete.

During September district impionships were being held in a nber of centres, culminating on tober 6 in the P-NG Athletic ampionships at Lae which will help ;ctors make their final choice.

Dn the night of October 6, the t Territory championships will 9 be held; weight lifting champion ps are to be held in Rabaul at end September and the lawn bowling impionship at Lae in mid-Sep iber.

\fter these preliminaries, the

ateur bodies will nominate those y think fit for selection and the mes Association will then decide v many should go to Perth, fhe principal prospects as of mid itember are:

H Let Ics:

Ulen Crawley, of Port Moresby, sent Australian broad-jump mpion; Robin Barclay, ex-leading stralian junior pole vaulter, now of ;; E. Laboran, a New Ireland ive, now school teaching in haul, who is now jumping at about ft 4 in. and who was sent to Ibourne for coaching last January sre he was considered to have as ch natural potential as Australian mpions Sneazewell and Morrish 0 jump at about 6 ft 10 in.

Amongst the runners there is mien Midi, now a secondary 001 student at Keravat, New tain, who is doing the 440 yards I under 50 secs. )f the sprinters those in the run g are Ordinary Seaman Labert, a iai serving in the RAN at Manus; in Vuia, from Matupi, near haul; Corporal Hore, a Papuan, of PIR; Kevin Wong, a Chinese 00l teacher in Rabaul; Leani Gari, J apuan who is an assistant patrol cer; Bruce Richter, of an old Port ►resby family; and Warrington ua, from Samarai.

Phis group is around even time i from it about three will likely be scted —although sprinters are, ac ding to one of the Games .dais, “springing up all over the ce, all the time” and anything is sly to happen between now and U selection. lavelin throwers in the running ! Esmina, of Port Moresby; Patrol Seer Tony Heriot, of Gulf District; Arnold, a school teacher of idang district; and Laboran (who also the jump exponent).

The best discus thrower is a Euro an—P, Hiob, a teacher at the Port

Moresby Teachers’ Training College.

Boxing , Etc.

Ken Hopkins, of Cape Hoskins, who was Queensland light middleweight amateur champion, 1961; Stanley Hui, a Chinese resident of Rabaul, welterweight; Arthur Mira, of Lae, a light welter; K. O’Brien, of Western Highlands, a welterweight; Warwick Richter, a light welterweight; B. Prichard, of the military forces, a light heavyweight; and P. Dahan, a middleweight.

As weight-lifting flourishes in the Chinese community, all the con-

tenders are Chinese except Emmanuel Stehr, a mixed race contestant from Lae. The two leading Chinese weight-lifters of Rabaul at present are Jackson Seeto and Chic Seeto.

P-NG Administrator, Sir Donald Cleland, and Lady Cleland, are tak ing a keen interest in the Common wealth Games and will be in Perth to see the P-NG team compete. They leave Port Moresby by small Dutch ship on September 17 and will go by way of southern WNG ports to Singapore where they will pick up another ship for Western Australia.