HARD-EARNED POINTS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 136, 12 June 1933, Page 12

HARD-EARNED POINTS

Lively and exciting bursts of play, main- < ly by the forwards, made the match be- 1 tween Wellington College Old Boys and 1 Athletic: at.' Newtown Park an interesting I one for a good attendance of spectators, i From start to finish it was a very keenly i fought contest, with the Athletic for- j wards playing all oiit and meeting the i Old Boys' pack with their own hustling i style of'-game. - The result was .that Old j Boys had little latitude. They were given a solid testing, bflt Athletic were not quite good enough, Old Boys winning by •■ 11 points to 8. . • < The teams were: — ] Old Boys.—Masters; Hollia, Dustin, A. , Wright; Atkins. Baldwin; B. S. 'Sadie?; , Lamasoiv Bydder, T. Reynolds, J. Key- , nolds, Blakeley, Darroch, 'Meadows, N. GreufelL Athletic—Scotland; A. Campbell, Up- . church, Prichard: Heazlewood, English; Tindill; J. Campbell,' Mollier, Watson, ' Jolly, Boyd, Lamberg, Gustofsen, Logan. Playing with the sun at their backs, ! Athletic very soon made it plain that they I were going to make a strong bid for the honours. The forwards played splendidly in every respect. In the set scrums and line-outs they obtained more of the ball than their opponents;, but nearly ■ always their work was undone by the ! backs. Old Boys' backs, on the other ■ hand, although their opportunities were ; restricted, were a' more nippy combination, and when they got into action Tindill and Upehureh usually were to be found doing the work of abput four men ; in their efforts to check them. There was no score until a few minutes before the end of the first spell, when Atkins finished off a short bout of passina with a try for Old Boys. Masters failed to convert. In the second snell a nenalty goal by Masters and a try by Hollis, converted by . Masters' with a fine kick, brought Old Boys' score up to eleven points. Athletic