SOCCER'S SIXTH WEEK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 119, 22 May 1928, Page 15

SOCCER'S SIXTH WEEK.

INTERESTING RESULTS. SATURDAY'S SURPRISES. CHAMPIONSHIP EACE EVEN. The positions of the teams in the senior competition of the Soccer code after last Saturday's games were a3 follows:— . Goals. P. W. T,. J). F. A. Pts. Thistle U 6 1 0 10 9 10 y.M.I'.A 6 "> 1.0 IB 8 10 IVmsonbiy .... 0 4 2 0 21 14 8 Onehunga .... 2 1 10 0 7 North .Shore « 3 2 1 17 11 7 Tramways .... « 2 3 1 11 16 5 Nofthoote .... 6 0 5 1 8 27 1 Belmont 6 0 6 0 7,15 0 The table does not indicate the very interesting position arising out of the evenness of the teams and the up and down nature of the fight that is almost Dure to follow. Last Saturday's results hinted that ere the season is closed there will be a more fascinating fight for premier honours than has been experienced for some seasons back. Last week a pleasing featyure was the great improvement of Northcote. The light blues, and especially their painstaking club officials and players, arc entitled to every credit for the manner in which they have battled against what to most organisations'would have been fatal odds. They have reconstructed their senior team, it would almost seem, from the dust< and after the hard game they gave Onehunga on Saturday it is pleasing to think of the 'Cote as having reached the turn in the road. Y.M.C.A. tasted defeat for the first time this season; Belmont once more fell by the single goal, and Shore made an almost sensational collapse before Thistle.