TRAMS YET UNBEATEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 142, 18 June 1929, Page 15

TRAMS YET UNBEATEN.

THISTLE'S GREAT EFFORT.

Y.M. BIG DISAPPOINTMENT.

CELTIC-NORTH SHORE CLASH,

The struggle for supremacy in the senior A grade is proving intensely exciting. Each team opposing the leaders (Trams) has made a determined attempt to lower the colours of the unbeaten corporation side. The B grade competition, which has completed the first round, becomes equally engrossing in the struggle for promotion next year. The position of the teams in both grades at the end of the respective initial rounds promises great combats before the curtain drops for the summer months, for, in addition to the promotion element several prominent senior A grade teams are far from comfortable in their present positions at the bottom of the table. It is incomprehensible how Thistle, with the talent at their disposal, are wooden spoonists with Belmont in the senior A. The Scots have now reached something like going order, and it will be surprising if they do not leap up the ladder in the second round. Equally uncomfortable are Shore, Onehunga and Celtic, to whom each succeeding week will bring its worries to secure much-needed points. Celtic are also an improving team and Onehunga will die fighting desperately. Shore will not accept B grade status lying down, so that it will not be till practically the last kick of the season that some of these teams, to whom relegation is an ever-present danger, will be able to breathe freely.

In the B grade Philomel and Manurewa appear to the most likely candidates for promotion at the present juncture. They are running neck-and-neck, each having suffered defeat only once. These clubs, however, will not have a walk-over, as teams like Corinthians, 2S"orthcote, Eangers and Bon Accord are coming with a late start and are liable to upset calculations. at any moment.