BASKETBALL

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 101, 31 May 1930, Page 13

BASKETBALL

notes on last week's games. COMMENTS ON THE PLAY

t (Notes by "Defence") t

The scores in the Bover-Hukarere match gave. an indication of the relative merits of the two teams on Saturday. Rovers certainly played their best garne of tlie season. Q'heir centre play is still too crowded, hut T. Palmer played a good hard game and rau round to take advantage of many openings made. N. Fulford also played a hrilliant game. Rovers' high throwing gave them greater advantage, as Hukarere wercunable to reacli the passes. Again both teams ran frequently and intercepted many lower passes. Hukarere girls were inclined to overguard. in their defence thirds. Two goals at least wero scored by Rovers as a result of penalties aw;arded them for Hukarere's overguarding. Huka rere' s jumping centre and centre goalie were their outstanding players. ex-girls a v. kiwis. This resulted in a draw. In no department was Kiwi's play up to the standard of their last Saturday's game, hut their sure passing and securing of passes gave them many advantages. D. Rae's defence was again sound..* Ex-Girls' centre tliree were. the strongest in the team. They indulged in some excellent passing. Tlie defence shows some lmprovement, hut the goalies speculate far too much and should pass to girls who are in handier positions. b grade open." Ex-Girls found Kiwis a tough proposition, but had their goalies taken more time and taken up better positions at the post, the score would certainly have been matenally altered. Like their A team on Saturday, they forgot the three seeonds of time allowed at the goal — take more advantage of this and you will do better. The jumping centre js a hard worker, but is still inclined to pass too straight ahead. while the defence pass across the goal too frequently. This fault gave Kiwis a great advantage. For Kiwis, H. Hilson was the mostoutstanding player. In fact, she was the best player in the match. She jumps well and her interception was remarkablv good. Do not tuni your back when the opponent attempts 0 goal. Kiwis fail often to observe the rule regarding the slip. D. McLorman was lucky with her one-handed shots at goal. This is a bad practige. She should always pass to the girl in tlie handiest positioh. B. Young is benefiting b.v her new tacties of sliorter and swifter passing Indeed, she showed the gregtest improvement in tlie Kiwi team, scoring eeveral of the goals.

blythe's v. bestall's This match, due to lack of experience, developed into a scrambie m some pails of the game. All girls should acquaint themselves with the new rules as soon as possible. M. McLaren must not be selfish in the goal third. She improved in the second spell. Misses Reacli, McLaren and Field were Bl.ythe's best trio. wliile Restall's best were their jumping centre, left defence and goalies. convent v*. hukarere. These two teams must take things more seriously. They would then play a more scientifie game. _ Convent Old Girls' centre was particularly good, taking and receiving passes very well. Defence is sounder and tlie girls are intepcepting tlie passes very much bettc than at tlie geginning of tlie year. The centre defence was tlie best of the three. Hukarere were not u p to last week's form. Tlie.v were inclined to crowd. Try and keep the play out to the sides a little more. Their outstanding plnyers were T. Makio, T. Smith and W. Barlow.

golf tax. Tliere" has been considerable talk about the land tax wjtli which golt elubs in Australia are threatened, but unwelcome as taxes are, tlie lmpost is not likely to worry very much the ma-joi-rEy of those institutioiis i^ Svdney. The tax in the case of tlie "Royal Sydney — one of the leading clubs — would swell the Federal exchequer to the extent, it is understood, of about £1700 a year, but the Australian Golt Club, it is said, has always paid land tax, so that members of it will not be haunted with the fear of further siibscription imposts, while another of the big clubs, that at Manly, Will only be levied to the extent of sometliing un de- £100. in mourning. Two golfers of about tlie same strength fixed up a "needle" game for a considerable stake. Eacli was supremely confident of tlie issue. On tlie morning of the game one of the players turned up wearing a crepe band round the arm of his golfing jackfet. "Hello," said the other fellow sympathetically, Ifwhat's the matter?" "Ah," said the other gravely, "I'm wearing this beoause my putts are all gomg to be dead to-day." a disease? A London magistrate has declared that golf is a disease. This is open to quostion as it is generally recognised that diseases can be cured.