SURPRISES ON SATURDAY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 67, 17 September 1923, Page 10

SURPRISES ON SATURDAY

-SUCCESS OF B DIVISION TEAMS

| .WATERSIDE SUFFER DEFEAT.

~ Saturday went to prove that the ele.'.ftient of glorious uncertainty is by no

-means lacking' from the Association -game. The leading teams in the B "division, Institute and Scottish Wandsurprised everybody at Associa—tion.Park 'by ' defeating Diamonds and —Waterside, '.'two of the leading teams in —the A division. Institute, fielding their "Usual eleven, found themselves up against t'a, considerably weakened Diamond team, several members of which were absent ..".with the Wellington representatives in v-Christchurch. Although Diamonds scorned first, Institute quickly levelled up, Cand by means of attractive play passed njpxe experienced opponents. and Scottish Wanderers ••fought-^a- keen- battle on No. 2 ground '£at the Park, and the latter, playing Cgood football, finished up winners by "3S goals to 1. Another surprise on „ "Saturday was the sound defeat which "Hospital suffered at the hands of Both teams were disorganised Ufa some extent by the absence of several players, and the rain made the very difficult. The V.M.C.A. ~team played Nelson Wanderers at Nel--eon on Saturday in the Chatham Cup ~tie, and 'had little difficulty in registering a .win by' 8 goals to 1. Canterbury defeated the Wellington representatives at Christchurch by 7 goals to 3. " Results of club games at a glance:— X Scottish Wandererß 2, Waterside 1. ■j Institute 3, Diamonds 1. ir{ Welgasco 1, Marist 0. £ Thistle 5, Hospital 1. £ South .Wellington 2, V.M.C.A. B 1. '{SCOTTISH WANDERERS v. WATERS ' ■'.*' ' SIDE. jj Scottish -Wandererß were at the top of ~iheir form when they met Watersiders rbn No., 2 ground at the Park; they set ■■Tup a. rattling pace and left the field ;■ with a 2-1 win to their credit, a win -that they fully deserved on the play. EWatersiders were without three or four Sof their regular men, but even, so, their had not expected to see them *go down to the Wanderers, but the win 2was a. jstraight-but victory, with nothing of'mer e good luck about it. Lothian opened the scoring, making the of an opportunity given him by a by WatsrsiderV left back, cardrying on a. few yards and shooting hard "past Porteoiis. : "Wanderers just missed adding anothe? point or two during the. ■i ext few minute, and Porteous.probably. 7haU as busy a time as he has had this Reason. Anton evened matters shortly "after the commencement of the second f spell, and with a point on each side the pace speeded up considerably. Wanderers again pressed down, and several Vmes' went ' fight through the dofence, -but .were.unable to get past'Porteous. Watersiders started off from good play iH-the-half-line,-'t'TO left wing men shpwi/|^~out;"'but:"ihe'"Scotties' back men held the attack v.eil. When the attack again ?urMdvj~Portepus,; bustled by a bunched•Jpr''s;ar.(l'BisnV gave.away a corner, ajia'from sii "excellently placed kick Galbraith ■ hsaded through • cleverly, giving ■ Wavißerei-s theTlead again. . Watersiders were all' out. for a draw at least during the last fifteen minute's of; play, jiiid gave the Wanderers' defence a deal of work, breaking through time after time to the last life, the goalie. Corners ■were given away, and the* draw seemed Lkely enough till within three or four minutes of time, when the Scotties 1 again took charge and galloped down' to Porieous's goal. They pressed solidly, and the goalkeeper, in endeavouring to get the ball away, was penalised for carrying too far. The ball was placed for the' Kick five yards or so from goal, r but'just as the kick was to be taken the whistle v. ent for time ; another half-second or so would possibly have seen the win go up 1o 3tl, .but that ha]f-second was a halfsecond late in coming.