SOCCER COMPETITION

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 278, 21 August 1944, Page 3

SOCCER COMPETITION

Wellington Win Yeoman Cup ■Wellington won Hie Association football contest tor tho Yeoman Cup against Hutt on Saturday afternoon by four games to two. A team representative of Wellington city ami suburban clubs met a team representative of Hutt 5 alley clubs in each of Hie six divisions ami 'Wellington won all except the first and sixth division games. The cup was presented anonymously this season to Hie 'Wellington Football Association which decided to name it after the late Mr. Harry Yeoman and put it tip for competition between Wellington and the Hutt Valley. The system or computation was to allow two points for a win and one for a draw and if points tiad been equal Hie totals ot goals would have been used to decide the winners. ... , The first division game which was played at Basin Reserve No. 1, produced attractive football. McKinley scored for Hutt soon after play bud begun with the wind in tho Iluft players’ faces. Three minutes later Irvin., equalized but toward the end of the half Sharpe obtained Hutt's freoud goal. It scented that Hutt, though they had tho wind at their backs In the second half, would not be able to keep their one-point load, for Wellington were frequently in attacking position. However, a strong Hutt defence and some unfortunate shooting at goal by Wellington, caused the score to remain 2-1 in favour of Hull till the end of the ea in l ’tl>e second division game on Hie other '•■round at the Basin Reserve, Wellington won, 5-2, Yeoman (4) and Helliwelt scoring for Wellington, and Mereu and Allan for Hutt. flames In the other divisions resulted as fallows—Fourth division: Wellington 2, Hutt 1. Fifth-division: Wellington 4, Ilntt o. Sixth division: Hutt. 1. Wellington 2. Seventh division: Wellington 2, l.lutt. I.