TOWN COLTS WIN
12-3 Score Over
Country
Some of Canterbury’s best young players from senior teams took part in the match between Town Colts and Country Colts played as a curtain-raiser to the main match at Lancaster Park Oval on Saturday. There were some outstanding individual breaks especially by the Town backs.
After the. score was 3-3 at halftime, the Town backs showed the better penetration in the second half and went ahead to win by 12 points to 3.
The Country wing, B. Drake, scored first points when he went over in the corner. Town evened when R. Dalton, centre, beat several players to score, also in the corner. In the second half,’the full-back, G. Bradley, kicked a penalty goal for Town, then D. Arnold, five-eighths, potted a goal and B. Robertson, wing, clinched the match when he scored in the corner.
The Town backs were all in excellent form. W. Flewellyn threw some fine passes, Arnold and J. R. Adams were very competent at five-eighths, with Arnold ' the more spectacular. R. Dalton had a lot of thrust at centre, and the wings, Robertson and B. Weenink, were hard to stop. In the forwards, P. Kinninmonth was outstanding all round, G. Gordon showed out in line-outs, and F. Strang in the loose.
The Country forwards got their share of the ball, but the backs did not do nearly as much with it as their opposites. J. Francis and W. Kirkland gave noted forward displays, and Drake and J. Wyllie were most successful of the Country backs. Mr L. A. Lassen was referee. Canterbury Team Selected When Canterbury plays Hawke's Bay at Lancaster Park, on Wednesday. the team win be a very similar one to that which toured the North Island recently. The team is:— W. F. McCormick, R. M. Smith. P. J. Morrissey, J. Hotop (captain), B. A. Watt. R. D. Hoskin. F. Whitta, R. Hockley, M. Dunne. P. Bark, R. Abel, M. W. Allen. J. Le Lievre. J. N. Creighton, B. R. Mann. Reserves: R. C. Cochrane, K. J. O’Shannessey, D. C. Leary, E. Noonan. J. D. Paste. The team will train at the lighted ground at 5.13 p.m. today. Win For Combined Services.—A New Zealand Combined Services Rugby team beat Golden BayMotueka by 6 points to 3 on Saturday,—(PA.)
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29295, 29 August 1960, Page 16
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