THE LEAGUE CODE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 193, 16 August 1926, Page 11

THE LEAGUE CODE.

II ■ • CLUB COMPETITIONS RESUMED. GOOD GAME AT CARLAW PARK. CITY BEAT MARIST BROS. EASY TVTNS FOR RICHMOND AND DEVONPORT. The resumption of club competitions provided the attraction to League followers on Saturday, and at Carlaw Park, although the attendance fell below other weeks, it was satisfactory. With the New Zealand League team away it was thought many of the club *r_ms would be weakened, but this was not borne out in the match between City and Marist Bros., where the play wa: up to the best standard and quite the equal of any shown this season. Marist Bros., with an advantage of 11 points at lone stage, looked certain winners, but the second half saw City corae into their own, and, playing great football, they had Marists completely beaten, eventually winning by 22 points to 13. On No. 2 ground Richmond rattled on the points against Newton, and ran out comfortable winners by 30 points to 5, while at Devonport the home side never gave Grafton a chance and scored a runaway win by 42 points to 8. CITY V. MARISTS. The clash between the City and Marist Brothers senior thirteens provided the chief attraction staged by the A.R.L., and though from both sides were absent some of their star players, now en route to England, the class of football served up was quite good. Marists quickly settled into their stride, and with the City side giving a very patchy display the Brothers took up the attack, and soon registered a try, Sweeney touching down after a smart piece of following up. The same player put on another good try a little later, and was associated with Noble when the latter put the third down to Marists' credit. Pickering had converted one of the tries and with the score 11 to nil in favour of the Brothers at half-time, the chances of City looked anything but good. However the second half saw a complete change, and whereas City had failed badly in the' first spell, they rose to the occasion and played all over Tykes. The snappy movements which has always beeen a feature of the play of the red and blacks, was once more produced, and with the backs, particularly Wetherill. Wade and Bass, running fast and determinedly, Marists were soon In trouble. All through the second half City held the upper hand, and brought off some nice tries. Wade was responsible for three tries, Wetherill two and Lewis one. Wetherill converting two. Pickering added a goal to Marists* half-time total and the final score was: City 22 Marist 13 Mr. Mincham was referee. DEVONPORT V. GRAFTON. Considerably weakened through the absence of Avery, Herring and Dufty, the Grafton team visited Devonport and met the home side. Even at full strength Grafton would hardly be a match for Devonport, and under the conditions prevailing. It was not surprising to find the seasiders having matters pretty well all their own way. Grafton began well and actually registered the opening score, but the Devonport men soon afterwards settled down into their stride, and playing right up to their best form, they -really never gave Grafton a look-in. At times Devonport play rather good football, and unfortunately for Grafton it happened to be one of those days on Saturday. The >v.\icks threw the ball about as though they c .Id do nothing wrong, and as- a matter tf fact they couldn't. Once they star «i to score they kept it up, and running a . oss Grafton's line at short intrevals. tLe* piled on the points very rapidly, the final scores being : Devonport 42, Grafton S. For Devonport tries were scored by Stewart .md Hemingway (two each) and L. Scot * A. Scott. £' La >ng. Cleaver, and C'Brien (one each), while A. Scott converted four and bea-gar and Rykers one each. Fit Grafton. »> ebb and Coross scored tries a. VI Lucas placed a penalty goal. KINGSLAND V. OTAHUHV. A good, clean sporting game whic-. k. solved itself into a mud scramble was, _». result of the meeting of Kingsiand *v* utahunu on the Domain on Saturday •r'txV noon. Both sets of players had a JDt t,t inn with each other, and the _p«*tat-ra We ri?. Seated to most amusing eplaodes. Within three minute. F. Herring opened up a splendid piece of pl*y by paaiing to ust. The latter made a dodar ran and transferred to Caster. Lilt, coming round spin, secured and scored 2 great try. Herring missed the Kick. Kingsiand 3, otahuhu 0. otahuh-. made a temporary entry into tb*lr opponents' twenty-five, Where once again Herring made an openly After a characteristic ran he passed i? *__*» w l»o ran in behind the uprights. J?™™* landed the goal. Kingsiand 8, UtaBSW 0. Carter was carried off with an injured »_ile and Kindly replaced him. hubsequtot to a long spell of uninteresting play, mainly due to the muddy state of the fronnd and a freasy ball. Otahuhu made a combined rush which resulted in a force. _?* was no further score at half-time. Four minutes after the resumption of i Ei? y ' G " S1 ™ms dribbled the ball from the ru 6 ? i. c Ure and scored. Kingsiand 11, Ut&nuhu 0. The next score came through a good movement initiated by Riley and in which List, Herring and G. Simms took part, enabling the last-mentioned to score. Herring added the extras. A great deal of run ensued, and List ran from half-wav and scored for Herring to goal. Kingsiand JtJ* Otahuhu 0. Just on time List crossed the line to score his fourth try and the game ended: Kingsiand 24 Otahuhu Ho

RICHMOND'S EASY WIN.

Weakened by the absence of Mansill and «~iarke, Newton made an inglorious showing ? ga i° st Richmond, and were soundly beaten Kif p P intß to 5 - Right through Richmond * _„ D PP er hand, and scores came steadily. Taylor opened with a free for Richmond, and then converted a try scored Dy Prentice. Little scored for Newton, ana Redwood next scored for Richmond, -tayior converting, and also kicking another penalty goal. At half time Richmond led py lo points to 3. In the second half Herewini reduced Richmond's lead with a penalty goal, but then Richmond went on t0 ad d a further 15 points. Taylor. Bass and Prentice scoring tries, Taylor convening two. and also kicked another penalty goal. On the day the Richmond forwards were too good for the Newton pack, and nad the Richmond backs been able to comoine effectively the score would probably nave been larger. Right though the Newton display was marked by individual enort without a semblance of co-ordination and team play. NORTHCOTE V. MANGERE. Some nippy forward movements characterised the first few minutes after play commenced. After 25 minutes of play the same became fast and spectacular, with many pretty exhibitions. Following this •LJpscombe (Mangere) intercepted a bad p s?. s . by Speight and raced away to score easily behind the posts. The kick failed. t Af™, 8 y *"* Northcote a chance, and vJikV dr °PP ed the ball over the posts. ;„T?. C , ote 7 c , re right iDtO jt after spell in -£* ed p . lay " The - V were a Z* in unlucky sa-o- ™ CroSSlng - s "-enuons efforts at last ItZ J n ,f pS ° n snap U P the bal > °n the "™ £,« J^ 0 , re J an unconverted try. Wile?sht S,"J l . Cked a P enalf y goal- With but with m m '° ute . 5 t0 So. Northcote attacked J_eß« ~c Tl £ ol i r and Dean shot over. J. tte S final C Tco!e?:- Same CloSed with Northcote 10 _, *__na__ a tt _ u ___^________ at __ B ____________ «_

ELLERSLIE V. PARNELL. The game, played at Carlaw Park, opened rather sensationally, each side scoring inside the first two minutes. McClure opened Ellerslie's account. Cook converting, and almost immediately from close play on Ellerslie's line Lawrence got across, Paton missing the shot. Ellerslie 5. Parnell 3. Both sides indulged in a lot of kicking, and smart following up by L. AYilliams and Crogan threatened a score, but Perry brought off a particularly good save, and be got in a long kick which was the beginning of a movement ending in a score. Snappy passing started by Lawrence saw the ball come back to him for a score. Parnell 6. Ellerslie 5. Ellerslie began the second spell well. R. Johnson finishing off a neat bout of passing. Cook converting. Ellerslie 10. Parnell 6. For ten minutes Ellerslie sustained the attack. Williams. Shand and R. Johnson each being within an ace of scoring. There was always plenty doing, and scrum after scrum was formed on Ellerslie's line, but they could not break through, and the game ended:— Ellerslie 10 Parnell 6 Mr. T. Hill refereed. OTAGO LOSE AGAIN. EXCITING GAME WITH CANTERBURY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHLRCH. Saturday. In perfect weather this afternoon Can- j terbury and. Otago League teams battled at Monica Park. Canterbury opened against the sun and from a scrum Webber, Sullivan, Eckhoff and Connelly got going. Cameron bore through the Canterbury backs, but Blackaby saved. Olliver made a brilliant run but Falzar brought him down. Tonkin and Fitzgerald by pretty passing, gave Canterbury the advantage, a fine score being opened by Fitzgerald dribbling through the Otago defence. Mundy failed to convert. Warr took a pass beautifully from Batchelor and went through to score under the posts. MuDdy missed the kick. In the following serum Ellis dribbled to Otago's line and Collie scored and goaled. Fitzgerald dummied and by good luck made an opening for Mundy, whose score was converted by Collie. The Canterbury backs and forwards were getting all over Otago as the spell came to an end. Early in the second spell Hansen scored a fine try, and Sullivan goaled. Vorrath retired hurt, and Jacobs came on. playing half-back. Connelly, Hansen, and Eckhoff worked a good movement, and Jacobs capped it off. Sullivan's kick failed. An in-pass from Tonkin to Batchelor ended in a score, and Warr goaled. Fitz- j gerald and Mundy made an opening for | Batchelor, who scored. Collie failed at goal. Jacobs then made a brilliant run. and fol- | lowing it he passed to Cameron, who scored ■ wide out. Eckhoff missed with the kick. j Webber, Jacobs, Hansen, and Connelly ' were in a passing bout, from which Connelly | scored. Eckhoff missed the kick. Cameron ] picked up in the ruck and gave to Hansen, j who passed out to Connelly, who made a brilliant try. Eckhoff again missed. Jacobs again made a great dash, and Oliver scored after a fast run. The last few minutes were very exciting, with Otago attacking. Warr intercepted a pass, and gave to Lynskey, who went over and goaled. The game ended: — Canterbury 29 Otago 20 GAMES IN THE SOUTH. DUNEDIN". Kaitangata 11, drew with Athletic 1L Pacific 8. beat Kaikoral 5. Christian Bros. 14, beat City 12.