CANTERBURY HAS WIN

Press, Issue 32345, 10 July 1970, Page 11

CANTERBURY HAS WIN

Police Play At Greymouth (From Our Own Reporter) GREYMOUTH, July 8. Canterbury won in both sports when teams representing the Canterbury and West Coast police districts met in indoor basketball and Rugby matches in Greymouth yesterday. A close finish was seen in the basketball match, played in the morning. The score was 29-all when the gong sounded for time. The ball, however, was then on its way to the net and when it scored Canterbury won by 31 points to 29. Canterbury also won the; Rugby match, played at Rugby Park, by 14 points to j 6, after leading 11-nil at halftime. Canterbury scored! three tries, one converted, and a field goal, and West Coast scored a penalty goal and an unconverted try. Tries for Canterbury were scored by B. Goodwin (2), and J. Borlase, B. Ramsey converting one. For West ! Coast A. Kay kicked a penalty (goal and R. Scott scored a try. At an after-match function “the log,” the emblem of supremacy between the two centres, was presented to the captain of the Canterbury team, B. Ramsey, by Chief Inspector M. J. K. Ford, offi-cer-in-charge of the West ! Coast police district, who (congratulated the winners on I their success. ;