ANNUAL BANKS MATCH.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 64, 13 September 1926, Page 15

ANNUAL BANKS MATCH.

The annual match between teams representing the Bank of New Zealand and the rest of the banks was played on Wakefield Park in a high wind, which spoiled any possibilities of good footb.ll. The game was played in four 15-minute spells, so as to give each side a fair turn with the wind. Bank New Zealand opened with the wind, but only scored 3 points, the result of a penalty kick by Sharp. In the next turn the Rest equalised, but could not draw ahead, with a try by Jorgensen, which Davies failed to convert. 3-3. The Rest, on the whole a better team, managed to keep their opponents from scoring at all in the third quarter of the_ game, when B.N.Z. once more had the wind, and when it came to the final spell ronrned over their exhausted adversaries with a quick succession of tries by Trisham, Murray, Pankhurst, and Turvey. The first try was unconverted, Grant converted the next two, and Turvey his own try, making the final score: Rest 21, B.N.Z. 3.

Mr. Hogg refcrced efficiently