PRACTICE GAMES

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 88, 14 April 1930, Page 6

PRACTICE GAMES

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K WELLINGTOX DO WELL

Many bt tho locd l~ football clubs "took the::oppoitunity oi engaging in piactice games on Saluiday jfteinpon m preparation for the season, Vhich is to be i officially opened shoillj. Senior clubs had arranged matches m aiU of the gymnasium funds, and these ottiacted a good deal of iuteicst Senioi A teams appear- i ed-m-gatnes at Athletic Park, Pctone, and Lower Hutt. A feature of the three games played at Athletic Park was the fine show . ing made by the Wellington Club's senior ..... team,. ~which,. it, h?s.,.been.,d.ecjded .by the Wellington Rugby Union, has to play in the senior B grade this season. Judging by the form.sJip'wJf'-0.n.-.Saturday in the ■latch with-lMiveilityyJ-Wellinßton should be capable ofieMendihg'nioSfclpf the senior A team^thi^aSOig-'iitfdSthefeis a strong opinion; *thafothey shouldw*trifc> be given the oppQttn'nity"bf playing lii the A grader Two iiiiefiiitionajsjy-susii" a British Army representative, who\Tyas'a reserve for Scotland, foriiied.va":. splendid combination behind the paekifpß'Wellington ori'Saturday. The form Bf;4he other teams pjx : ; Athletic Park waswTriily what could be, expected »t a :£f#' outing. Marist 1 porfc Miiletic beat Oriental,.;^nd University Wellington. At Petone the local team beat Poneke, and at the Hutt Kecrea- , tion Ground Old Boys were beaten by Hutt In most of the games changes were made "in the: teams at half-time/the idea being to give as many players as possible