Return Soccer Match With Wellington

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29910, 25 August 1962, Page 9

Return Soccer Match With Wellington

CANTERBURY’S soccer representatives will this afternoon, at the Basin Reserve ground, attempt to win the Gordon Cup from Wellington for the first time since 1957. This trophy is won on the best goal aggregate for the home-and-away fixtures this season and. as Canterbury won the first match in Christchurch, 4-1, Wellington will have to win by at least three goals today to hold it.

If Wellington is to accomplish this, it will have to do considerably better in its home fixture than it has done in the last three seasons Scores in recent matches at the Basin Reserve have been: 1959. Well.ngton 2. Canterbury 2; 1930. Wellington 4. Canterbury 3; 1961, Wellington 1, Canterbury 2.

From the earlier match this season. Wellington was without five of its top players, who were engaged in the test series against the New Caledonians, and for that reason Canterbury will face a stronger team. However, the visitors may also be slightly stronger. , Of the team which beat Wellington so convincingly in the earlier fixture, seven will take the field again this afternoon. They are goalkeeper D. Smith, full-backs P Flynn and A. Ross, winghalf B. Chee, and forwards A. Bishop, P Rennell and J. Price. Two members of the earlier team. T. Haydon and D. Waugh, are now out of consideration through injury, and have been replaced by the City pair, E. Bennett and B. Rumbold. Bennett and Rumbold have played together for Canterbury against Otago, Nelson

and Western already this season, and their combination is improving with every match. Bennett has the ability and control to make opportunities for the hard-shooting Rumbold. The Nomads w'ing-half. G. Donaldson, will be a key man in the Canterbury lineup In all his matches for Canterbury this season this former Englishman has shown a fine appreciation of tactics. His ability to start off an attacking move from a defensive position has contributed in no small measure to the success of the provincial side. Wellington fielded a

strong side, including five internationals, when it lost, 1-0, to Auckland at the Basin Reserve last week. P. Wmting (goal-keeper) and D. Wallace (wing-half could be tile greatest threats to Canterbury’s chances of taking the Gordon Cup.