WELLINGTON BEAT OLD BOYS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 1, 1 July 1935, Page 13

WELLINGTON BEAT OLD BOYS

Despite a cold northerly breeze, conditions were good when Old Boys met Wellington in the lower division of the Senior A grade at Newtown Park on Saturday.

The teams were as follows:—Old Boys: Sturrock; Dickie, Binning, O'Loughlin; Wiggs, Gray; Sadler: Worboys, Clark, Sounness, Gotlieb, CampbeD, Watt, Truscott, Amies. Wellington: Newman; Patterson, Shjrtcliffe, Clark: Kelly, Mehalski; Hislop; Millan, Bracken, Dines. Green, Howartson, Read, Gaudin, Taylor.

Wellington played with the sun and wind behind them in the first half, and were soon on the attack. Play, for the most part was in Old Boys' territory early in the spell, bad handling and sound tackling keeping Wellington out. Old Boys' backs went well whenever Sadler was given opportunities to send them away, Gray making strong dashes and Binning going close in a spectacular run before his pass was dropped. The Wellington pack took play to the other end, where Hislop picked up in the loose and drop-kicked a neat goal. 4-0. Obstruction cost Old Boys a penalty right in front, Newman missing an easy shot, and Sounness missed for Old Boys with an ambitious kick from over half way. Wellington held a 4-0 lead at halftime. Old Boys had an early success in the second half. Sounness kicking a good penalty goal. 4-3. That was the extient of their success, however, for the Wellington pack dominated play for the remainder of the match. Gaudin, Green, and Bracken led Wellington down in a loose rush which

gave Taylor a lucky score, Newman's kick going astray. 7-3. Wellington had almost continuous possession from scrums and line-outs, and Green joined in a neat nassing bout by Shirtclift'e and Patterson and scored close in, Newman's kick again failing. 10-3. The Old Boys' forwards fought their way over the half-way line, and Binning raced away to kick over the full-back s head. Clark came back fast and kicked the ball dead. A good run by Gaudin and dashing play by the pack placed Wellington clown near the. line again and the backs handled crisply for Evans, who had replaced bhirtclifrc, to score. Newman failed again. The match resulted:— Wellington U. Old Boys 3. ' Mr. A. J. Wilson refereed.