NO STEAM UNBEATEN IN TOP DIVISION
PONEKE BEAT HUTT; ATHLETIC PILE ON POINTS
' ~ The fourth series of senior A grade Rugby football matches, played on Saturday-afternoon in excellent weather, accounted for ari-evening up of places in the bidding for championship honours. Hutt. were the. only team to face the series with an unbeaten record in the; first division, and they were defeated by Ponekc in a strerfuously-contested and stirring match at Athletic Park. Poneke played with great dash and determination, and Hutt, though responding well, were not equal to winning the day. It was a game full of incident, and holding interest keenly from start to finish. Wellington College Old Boys won from Wellington Jit Newtown Park, though they were put to a solid test, in the second spell particularly. Marist, as is usual with them, were a handful for Petbne to tackle, and they scored a convincing win at Petone. Athletics improvement accounted for a runaway victory over Eastloiirne on the Hutt Recreation Ground, Athletic carrying all before them.: The results place Poneke, Hutt, Marist, and Wellington College" Old Boys on '.level terms with three wins each, Petone arid Athletic l>eing'next with two "wins each. ■ "■. ■■
'In the second division University* Oriental, and St. Patrick's College Old Boys maintained their unbeaten record, though the lastnamedVwere hard put:to it; to win from Johnsonville. , :
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 112, 14 May 1934, Page 5
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222NO STEAM UNBEATEN IN TOP DIVISION Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 112, 14 May 1934, Page 5
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