FOOTBALL. FIRST RUGBY MATCH.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 78, 1 April 1912, Page 2

FOOTBALL. FIRST RUGBY MATCH.

ORIENTAL BEATS PONEKE. ■•I .s . S • The first Rugby match of the season was played on the Athletic Park on Saturday afternoon between Oriental^ and Poneke. It ie an annual affair, the* gato and takings by ticket' going to tho gymnasium funds of the two clubs. The wetvther was very hot for football, and both teams showed the offect of iuade-' quate training before play had been continned very long. Oriental, with vt greater stifiening of veterans, pulled off the game comfortably by 18 points to 3—3 — six tries to one. A feature of the game was that Oriental players went aliout like Sandwich men with advertising in 6criptions tacked on their backs in aid' oi the funds. The first honours of the season fell to the whites, a typical Oriental passing rush carriea out by Carrad", Kinvig, Walker, and Hale, ending in the latter scoring a try. Eberhardt. from a forward scramble, added another before half-time, when the score read — —Oriental 6, Poneke 0, neither try being converted. In the second spell Oarmichael, Walker, Hale and Francis added tries in succession for Oriental, who were thus leading by 18 to 0. The goalkicking was poor. Finally Morris, cleverly followed up "a drop-out of his own, regained possession and ran in from the half-way untouched. The try was unconverted and the game ended — Oriental 18, Ponoko 3. Mr. Simpson was referee. PIFTH^CLASS. A& a curtain-raiser Poneke (fifth-class) played Oriental (fifth) and won by 14 points to nil.