FIRST A DIVISION

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 14

FIRST A DIVISION

POOR DISPLAY AT BASIN

Ragged football was played by ' both Maiiht and Waterside on No. 1 giound at the Basin Reserve. Marist weio leading 3-1 at half-time, and the scoie i\as unchanged/ at the end. Neither side showed its true form, and the game was accordingly disappointing. The teams were.— Marist.—Turkington; Mahoney; Laracy; Duffy, Hindle, T. Quirke; Barton, E. Kershaw,/Condon, J. Kershaw, M. Quirke. Waterside.—Gibbons; E. Longbottom, Guest; Abernethy, A. Longbottom, White; Marshall, Patterson, Janes, Dunsmuir, Windley. A brisk southerly wind was against Waterside in the first half and Marist in the second. Marist were the first ones to be dangerous, and Gibbons made a great save from a swift shot by J. Kershaw. Janes threatened Manst's goal, but Hindle shoved him off the ball at the last moment. ' Marist drew first blood from a movement initiated by the left-half, T. Quirke. He sent to Condon, who flicked the ball .out to the right for .Tt Kershaw to score an easy goal. Marist 1, Waterside 0. Play - was loose and open, both sides woiking haul with 110 result until Marist scored another goal, and a 'lucky one. Again T. Qunke worked the ball up his wing anjl- passed it ahead to J. Kershaw. I The latter idiot, but,, the ball was deIfleeted by' a Waterside man and rolled across the goal-mouth, where Condon steadied,:it .and let drive for the back of I the net,". Marist 2, Waterside 0. Marist were hammering away on the right wing, I and Barton was ■sending in some beautiI fully, judged centres. Towards half-time |T. Kershaw 'secured possession near the Watersjde goal and slammed in a rattling ! cross shot. Marist 3, Waterside 0. WaterI'side retaliated' with effect in the few I minutes left before the interval. From a leorner oh the right'the ball travelled over to' the other wing; whence Windley lobbed it rback to centre.- Patterson cut in and took the pass to score a beauty. Marist 3, Waterside 1. • Waterside made 'the pace in the early stages of the second spell, but always failed in front of goal. Condon and Barton broke away upfieltl and the latter let i drive at close range.' The ball crossed the goal line just out of Gibbons's reach, but iwns quickly cleared and a goal' was not I allowed. In, their eagerness the Marist forwards were not infrequently offside and they kejjt Gibbons busy, but the 'keeper I acquitted himself well. Windley had a great scoring chance, but he crossed in--1 stead of shooting and Marshall skied the I ball. A lijlle later , Janes eluded .the Marist defence and whipped in a stinging I shot that hit the cross-bar, and Mahoney cleared from the rebound. Marist continued to have rather the better of the game until the end,1 but there was? 110 further score.;;{f '.. < :;. •• ■ ■ . \ The referee'.was Mr. J. S. Sanderson.-/