ONEHUNGA'S HALF-DOZEN.

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

ONEHUNGA'S HALF-DOZEN.

Six goals for Onehunga! The palmiest days of the Manukau Club were recalled by Saturday's score, when Y.M.C.A. yielded the points at Waikaraka Park. Admittedly the visitors played below their best form, but it would be unfair to disparage the work of the home side, who were "well together," and showed better combination than in any previous match this season. There was a welcome infusion of dash into the forward movements, and the wing men were not afraid to shoot. It is to be doubted whether Moon is to be preferred to Griffiths in the centre position, but the line worked smoothly enough on Saturday and the present arrangement may be worth persevering with. A pleasant feature of the match was the highly promising form shown by Lindsay, a fifth grade player who came in at the last moment to fill the vacancy caused by the absence of Jones. Lindsay had played in a junior grade fixture at the Domain earlier in the afternoon, but he was on the spot to see his senior colleagues perform and cheerfully volunteered to turn out at outside left. He might have been forgiven had he shown signs of fatigue, and he couid not have been blamed if he had been outclassed in play, but as a matter of fact he was an outstandingly useful forward from start to finish. He had the bad luck to receive a severe kick on the ankle soon after he had scored his first goal, and he was out of action for nearly five minutes. When he resumed he was limping painfully, but he continued to put his heart into the task and he had the satisfaction of scoring again. It was a pretty goal, the youngster accepting Whimster's flag kick cleverly and I making no mistake with a first-time | drive.

The home defence played with customary soundness, and Whimster and Gill both did notably pood work in the forward rank. Y.AI.C.A. appeared strangely unbalanced, and a lot of work came the way of Mowat and Otter. Humphreys scored a characteristic goal, but he was not suited by the inside right position, being inclined to wander too much in his attempts to help the halves. Woods was erratic in his shooting. and MeAuslan and Kemp were well marked by Woodhall and Bentley. Hilliard did not play one of his best games in goal. Altogether it was a bad day for the Young Men.