50 years ago

Extracts from the Penarth Times of August 20, 1965:

The scene during play on Tuesday at the Junior Welsh Tennis Championships, being held this week at the Rectory Road Tennis Club. The finals will be played on Saturday, and during the first half of the week there has been keen play with Penarth youngsters doing well in the first stages.

Penarth Parks Department have followed their success at Barry with another major triumph by gaining the Gold medal at the Vale of Glamorgan Show at Cowbridge on Wednesday.

The £300 Welsh Professional Golf Tournament, sponsored by the Regent Oil Company, is being played over 72 holes at the Glamorganshire Golf Club, as we go to press.

The Tournament, on Wednesday and Thursday, has attracted 30 professionals and. 26 amateurs and a report of the final result will be published in the next issue.

There was stronger competition than for many years at the Windsor Tennis Club's annual tournament, with the introduction of handicap doubles.

An innovation also, this year, was the splitting of events into two sections - the Open and Handicap.

During a brief visit to Penarth last week, the chairman of the United Nations Technical Assistance Board said he would welcome an extension of voluntary activities in UN work by young people from this country.

A 21-year-old local Go-Kart enthusiast has qualified through the Welsh Championships to enter the British National Karting Championships, to be held in Essex in Saturday and Sunday, September 4 and 5.

Distillers (Plastics) Cricket Club were well beaten in the final of the Barry and District News Knockout competition at the Barry Sports Centre last week

The Cogan Coronation Pigeon Club race from Dunjinfield, held on Saturday, August 14, was a hard and difficult one with only half of the returns on the day.

Last Saturday, Penarth's first 11 travelled to Tondu in the hope of completing the 'double' over the Llynfi Valley side.