ASSOCIATION.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18399, 4 June 1925, Page 10

ASSOCIATION.

CANTERBURY (5) V. WELLINGTON (3). (PHKSS ASSOCIATION HLEOBAU.) WELLINGTON, June 3. No better game of Soccer has been seen in Wellington for the last twelve months than the meeting between Canterbury and Wellington to-day. Conditions were against good football —a southerly buster, heavy ' rain, and waterlogced ground—yet an open pame .on both sides, particularly Canterbury, was delightful to watch. The to-js enabled Canterbury to open with the wind belling them, and inside the first minute Isies opened the visitors' , account with a good shot, which Ewing should have eaved. Mfikins the.pace fast, .Canterbury hemmed Wellington in, and six minutes later Trotter Hdded another goal,. Ewing having no chince. Wellington strained . hard to replv. Ballard, after a solo run, gave a great centre, I'iit Wi : scn beat the centre forward. A dropping shot from Irvino v/si tipped 'over the Var, but pressing hrrd. Wellington was rewarded bv Ballard gettincr through and beating Wilson with a terrible drive. Canterbury's third -poal came through T=les, who fiecured a-r.d hud a- clear shot Gre-enaw.iv cleverly drawing the defence. Ewing mulled the shot badly. lie should have paved it easilv. Trotter added a fourth poil from a rebound from the crossbar. The half-time score was: Canterbury 4, Wellington 1. . The second spell favoured; Wellington, but the home forward work was not eo good, the right wing being weak. At one period Cante'bury were under constant pressure, and though Wellington were hovering round the goal they could r.ot score. Several shots were accidentally diverted by the visitors' defence. McKee reduced the lead for Wellington with , a lovely shot SO yards out, a centre from Ballard making the opening. Orr scored, but was given offside, and the Wellington, backs, . crossing over tho half-way line,, let Trotter through, for a solo run, which gave the visitors another goal. Onthen netted from a corner forced by Ballard. Sound defence held Wellington at bav, and the . game ended in' a' deserved victory for Canterbury by 5 -goals to 3. The visitors were heartily congratulated on thei'-.standard' of play, local enthusiasts conceding that the best team won. MATCH IN SYDNEY. ENGLISH TEAM WINS. (by CABLE—PHESS ASSOCIATION—COPKItGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND H.Z. CABLJE ASSOCIATION.) (Received Jujie 3rd, ' 10.-10 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 3. The English Soccer team;met the Metropolitan team in >fine .weather, and in the presence of SOOO spectators. The game was strenuously contested, Metropolitan playing forcefully,, but the -Englishmen's persistent ■ attack enabled them to establish a lead "of two to nil at half-time. The second half was played at a' fast pace. ThoEnglish forwards proving too gcod for the locals, the visitors added another goal, winning 3—l. Metropolitan's, score was from a penalty kick.