SUMNER SAGGED

NZ Truth, Issue 1293, 18 September 1930, Page 15

SUMNER SAGGED

When Western Turned Oil The Steam

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Christchurch Rep.) A MENTALLY deficient blind man could have picked the winners m the second-round matches of the English Cup Soccer matches m Christchurch, which just once 'more is evidence m support of the contention that the C.F.A.'s policy of keepingvon nine teams m the first division i':staken, e '..Rugby Union finds that it cannot ice even the best quality club footivith'ia slightly, smaller total of club's this. What earthly has Soccer, > : . ■.■..■■ „-.■ t with half-a-dozen teams, stiffened .--bit frpm. their present .standard — e'rn. Thistle, Nomads, Rangers, New l'on and ' St. Albans or Sumner— the r competition would gain immensely Vestern thought' they had struck a ig m Sumner m the first half, for : youthful seasiders turned on so dingly a fast game that they left : blacks standing— will you believe. it, Petone? But it Was so. 11, as predicted, , condition told for :ern m the endl.and the score" of 1-all range-time developed into 6-1 when vind and other things came round to • Western. , ■; } mads ditched ; St. Albans after a i affair, ahd' New Brighton fended off poi's strong . challenge. Wonderful the lure, of 'the Cup bucks up even weaker" teams. V . istle, stoushing Rangers a week beestabl'.ahed their own right, so that eani Western, Thistle, Nomads and htoa-ifor it.- If Western and Thistle ;,in the semi-finals, it will rob the k-out' of much, of its interest, for Ir of these teams should dispose of ads or tfte, seasiders. ■ ' 11, Noitf ads seem the likely dark ». Thistle and Western . are after other's blood, and Nomads park on fence watching, is final is going, to be interesting. It d not bebeyorid the capacity of No3 — always- tremendous Cup fighters— Dset all calculations.