RUGBY FOOTBALL

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23718, 17 August 1942, Page 3

RUGBY FOOTBALL

leading TEAMS AGAIN SUCCESSFUL

fast, open play at LANCASTER PARK -rt,,. results of the games in the Canunuabv Union’s competition on SatterJledo not alter the position of the u rd . a :L teams, A.S.C., Air Force A. and I .irhnrv Regiment, each of which has Pilots Next on the list are Field Regij2 points- points. Brigade, and LinwoodS? el lnical-New Brighton 9 points. Coastal Te fmprv 6>2 points, Athletic-University 6 A p nts ancl Army o points. po 4»«ilts of Saturday’s games played on j furl and in line weather are as l°iwv—A.S.C. 22, Brigade 11; Canter--10 ?,' V po''imcnt 1(1. Athletic-University 8: ls “ iy irnrce A 23, Air Force B 11; AlbioncTithern 8. Army 0; Coastal Artillery 36, ?°h stcliurch-Merivale 15; Moas 24, LinC a Technical-New Brighton 5: Signals 14 Engineers 8: Field Regiment 16, Infantry 3. A.S.C. V, BRIGADE at Lancaster Park, A.S.C. pU.ved a fast, open game, 8 i !\£i£Vs iiiOiC interesting than the an'J iv *Q r .v,-t At one stage in the secfC3}' C poeif **A.S.C. led by only 14 to 11. J i: “ hvt tries in the last stages of the but . trave A.S.C. a comfortable win. S J X/ A SC. forwards started off briskly, j in the first few minutes had their sorely pressed. Headed by OPP nfp Stewart, and Brown, the A.S.C. P oW rardsset up a good dribbling rush, fo T a ftor a kick had been charged down, Safnpr scored. Moran, who was playPtfolidly behind the A.S.C. scrum, set in® moving and Gardiner scored mart burst of speed. Brigade had aft ofrn on attack, and after a, determined H-t Ellis ooened the scoring with a f OTt Before half-time, however. A.S.C. S. control of the game, and tries by Briwn and Ryan, one of which Fitzgerald inverted, made the score 14-3 before the tp nn resuming, I "Brigade infused more dash tn?n its Play, and the forwards had the backs badly bustled. Brigade was „;ii'ipicv not to score more than once, but “Plntually Marshall kicked a penalty goal. nrfeade continued to have the better of Vhp clay, and a centring kick was well Jniinwed by Cameron, who scored near Sp oosts. Marshall converted. The reverse had a good effect on the leading Kf and Ryan and McKane scored tries. Goddard converting the latter The game Sded with A.S.C. leading by 22 points to II Mr V. A. Beaumont was referee. REGIMENT v. ATHLETIC-UNIVERSITY Although Regiment started off the better to the game against Athletic-Uni-versity, the latter led soon after the start top second spell, and It was only in ?helatter stages that Regiment gained the Athletic, superior in the forwards, «f’uD a hot attack from the start of Si “Same, and Knowles, Gilman, and Weale beaded several rushes to the opMsln« goal line. Jones was playing a ffaafne for Regiment, and he started Massing: rush from which Cusack, wing- *. J? 8 ouarters, easily scored. This was SSnwed by a try by Murdoch. Before wLtime Neale scored a try for Athletlcitehierslty. but no goal resulted. Regl-ledathalf-time by 6 points to 3. showed great dash fc, the Second spell, and was unlucky St to score more than one to before urhnrmack went over after a good moveJSn* GUman converted this try. Kearicored for Regiment after a strong a+tark and Thacker converted. r„% e urdo?h addeda try near the posts Jhlcb was converted by Long. Canter w Regiment won by 16 points to 8. Mr O.H Hewland was referee. AIR FORCE A V. AIR FORCE B Bright football was a feature of the game between the two Air Force teamo, luulboth sides played short. The A team was superior from the start and play had not been long in progress before Bowler scored a trywhich Jaston converted. Soon Dalzell scored for the B team. Lee added a try tor the A team, and Easton’s successful kick brought the score to 10-0 as half-time sounded. loon after the start of the second spell Bowler scored his second try. Easton converted. Then Dalzell scored tor the B team, Lunn converting. Beadel added to the A team’s total with a try that Lee Converted, and to this Dalzell replied with his third try during he game, and then Lee converted a try scored for the A team by Bowler. The A team had scored five ■ tries, all of which were converted, and the game ended with the A team leading by 25 points to 11.' Mr B. J. Schlmanskl was referee. ■ ■ ’ COASTAL ARTILLERY V. CHRIST- , CHURCH-MERIVALE was high scoring In the game en Coastal Artillery and MerivaleXKWichurch', no fewer than 51 points bciiM scored. Play was fast and open throughout, but always Artillery held a comfortable advantage. Artillery was the first to score, with a penalty, goal by inditer,’and before half-time’* Gavin scored a try to which Campbell (Chrlst-church-Merivale) replied with a Held goal. Strathern (2) and Wilson scored tries for Artillery., Dewar converting one and Lake added three points for Christchurch. At half-time Artillery led by 17 points to 7. Artillery continued to have the better of the game all through the second spell, and tries were scored by Gavin, Keen, Strathern (2), two of which were converted by Dewar, who also picked a penalty goal. For Christchurch Clark scored a try which Rhodes converted and Sapsford kicked a penalty goal. Mr G. Cowles was referee. MOAS v. LINWOOD-TECHNICAL-NEW BRIGHTON Weakened by the absence of several Of. Us best players, the Linwood-Tech-nlcal-New Brighton team was soundly beaten by Moas, one of the lower teams in the competition. Moas were quickly In the ascendancy and the forwards soon had the opposing team on defence. Hay made a smart dash which ended In Buxton scoring a try which Hay converted. Flynn had two attempts at goal from penalties for the Combined team, but Moas came back strongly and Buxton scored his second try after a smart dash on the blind side. Hay was the next to score from a passing rush, but the. try was not converted and Moas came back again strongly, Mitchell scoring after a good nut by Brooke. Hay added the extra points. The score at half-time was Moas 18,;l4mvood 0. Early In the second spell Hewitt, the Combined half-back, scored Under the posts after a tricky run. Flynn converted. McKenzie and Young conbined In good passing for Moas, and the former scored two tries, one of which Hay converted. The final score was: Moa_s 24, Llnwood-Technical-New Brighton 5. Mr A. T. F. Stokes was referee.

ALBION-SOUTHERN V. ARRMY Albion-Southern, by superior back play, defeated Army, at Lancaster Park, a Close- game- , .Ptoy- was mostly-confined to the forwards in the early stages ot the game, and the few passing rushes; -,attempted by Albion-Southern .were spout by poor handling, Albion-Southern had the better of the exchanges and was rewarded' when Beasley, a forward, scored from a loose rush, for Gllmour to convert. Army put up a good fight and narrowly missed scoring several times, but half-time sounded with Albion-South-ern leading by 5 points toO. Army set off In the second spell with a determined attack, and Reid, Sharp, and Raymond all did useful work. Cullen defended soundly when Attewell made a determined dash for the line. Near the end of the game the Albion backs went away in a good passing movement, and Pegley scored. The game ended In a win for Albion-Southern by 8 points to 0. Aircraftsman A. G, Berry was referee. . SIGNALS V. ENGINEERS. Signals and .Engineers played at the Show Grounds, Signals winning comfortably. Play was very even in the opening spell and the only score was a penalty, goal kicked by Magee for Signals. In the second half, Magee had two more attempts, without success, but McKlllop scored a try and Clark got across a little - later to score a try which was converted t by. Magee. McCammon dashed across .to score for Engineers, and Devereux converted. He also kicked a penalty goal. Reid then scored for Signals. Mr G. R. Gregory was referee. FIELD REGIMENT V. INFANTRY There was plenty of dash in the Field Regiment v. Infantry game, but Field Regiment always held the upper hand. Field Regiment quickly opened its score. Randall crossing the line. Bouterey and Cameron did excellent work for Infantry and the team was rewarded when Hornbrook landed a penalty goal. Thurlow added a try for Field Regiment. In the second half, Walker kicked a penalty goal for Regiment, and Blight added to the score with a neat field goal. also added a try and Field Regiment won by 16 points to 3. Mr H. Flnlayson was referee. LOWER GRADES Second Grade.— Athletic-Unlverslty-Col-leglans 11, Base Depot 8; Linwood beat Christchurch-Merivale by default. Third Grade.—High School Old Boys 11, St. Bede’s College 8; St. Andrew’s College 35, University-Collegians 0; Boys High School 25, Christchurch-Merivale 0; Technical Old Boys 5, Christ’s College 3, SEVEN - A-SIDE COMPETITION A seven-a-side competition under the control of the Canterbury Rugby Union was held at Hagley Park on Saturday. Following were the results of the finals:— Under 18—Papanui Technical (Harris, Deyell, Henderson, Chesney, Rudd, Pascoe, and Grant) 6, beat Technical Old Boys C 3. Under 17.—Technical A (Falconer, Bolton, McGuire, Hack, Lindgard, Ruttledge, Chappie) 5. beat Sumner 0. Under 16.—High School Old Boys B (Kinley, Coulson, Spivey, Robson, Dawson, Hooper, and Kibblewhite) 5, beat New Brighton 0. Under 15— Technical Old Boys A (Coming. Carter, Thackwell, Hansen, Dephoff, Harris, and Woodham) 3. beat Southern A 0. Under seven stone.—Technical A (Fletcher, R. Milne. K. Milne, Logan, Barbarel. Carlson, and Findlay) 6, beat Southern B 0. Under six stone.—Albion (Box, Dawbey. Harneiss, B. Hitchcock, K. Hitchcock, Henderson, and Emmerson) 8, beat Athletic 0. CANTERBURY BEATS OTAGO (P.S.S.) DUNEDIN, August 16. Canterbury beat Otago at Carisbrook by 9 points to 6 in a match which was a long way below representative standard. Otago did most of the attacking In the first half, but the forwards tired and towards the end of the second spell the home team was hard pressed on defence and were well beaten. The side’s defence held sufficiently to prevent Canterbury from increasing the score. The visiting team did not measure up to expectations. The forwards, led by Vorrath, Herman, and Hayles, showed dash in the loose, but were not so impressive in the tight play. .The backs provided tew bright movements, but this to some extent could be accounted for by the solid tackling of their opponents. Kilworth was looking for chances all day, but received few. Roach made occasional dangerous breaks and Callanan was a reliable full-back. Canterbury’s 9 points came from two »oals from penalties kicked by Morgan and a try by Herman. Paewal kicked a penalty goal for Otago and Amott icored a try.