NOT EXTENDED

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1937, Page 6

NOT EXTENDED

GOALKEEPER'S HOLIDAY

ASSOCIATION TOURISTS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

WANGANUI, This Day,

The English amateur Association football team was never extended in its match against a combined WanganuiTaranaki team yesterday and won by 12 goals to nil. The game was played on a sodden ground befort over 2000 spectators. Rain held off until the spectators arrived and then fell steadily for most of the match.

The Englishmen led 5-nil at halftime, their positional play, and short, snappy passing repeatedly undoing everything that their opponents accomplished. It was a treat to watch the cross-field tactics of the visitors and to note how carefully each kick placed the ball to a waiting team mate. But for the Wanganui goalkeeper, Alex Healey, the score would have been well in the twenties. His performance was remarkable considering that 90 per cent, of the play hovered around his goal. In contrast the English goalkeeper had time to sign autograph books while play was in progress.

The outstanding player on the English side was Joy, centre-half, who was never ■extended throughout the match but gave glimpses of what he would be capable of If pressed. Matthews, centre-forward, was the most prolific scorer, getting six of the goals. He showed himself a forceful player, his footwork and headwork alike being accurate and deadly. Healey had more to contend with in this man thar. any of the others. Parr, outside right, also played an excellent game, his cornering being Eoundly judged. Davis, outside left, was also sound but the visitors lost him through injury in the second, spell. He strained a muscle in his leg.

Apart from Healey, Whiting, lefthalf, and Proudfoot, left-back, were outstanding in the Wanganui-Tara-naki team, which was never anything but a side of individuals. The English team never passed the ball to disadvantage, whereas the home players would attempt combination only to find an Englishman ready to accept a pass not intended for him. Matthews scored six goals, Joy two, Parr two, and Davey and Leek one each.