EXCITING FINISH

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 125, 30 May 1938, Page 17

EXCITING FINISH

• * v ;' ■ : •' ■_ ATHLETIC OVERTAKE QID ■ : EjGYS

Fortune., smiled, even beamed,,, on Wellington College Old Boys during the greater part of the match with Athletic at Athletic' Park, then changed her mood. Until, the tide turned Old ; Boys' prospacts of.'recording their first . win of the season appeared rosy,' for • -when the first, spell ended they had a lead>f-16 points to nil, * Athletic supporters argued that if one team could score 16 points, so could the other: Athletic did more than that. Gradually Old Boys' lead was whittled down until Athletic were only two points behind. A "pitted" .goal, for which Athletic players have established a reputation, gave them the lead, and to place the issue beyond doubt they scored an unconverted try. It was a lively, keenly-fought match . all the. way, but the. twenty, minutes, in which Athletic msde their -triumphal bid,- surpassed- everything else and made the match for those who saw it—a smaller attendance than |or the matches on the'twp previous Saturdays—a m.pst.exciUna'affair. t Old Boy's took the field for the first spell gYeat 'heart. They had the wind from the north at their backs, and straight away got down Jo business; . reproducing the - fast, nippy, bustling. Worrying type rif game with ibrward.s and back's operating as a body, that was practised by them with success in former years. It worked very yelL pid Boy« won a surprisingly big

share:' ots the bdll from the scrums (although* they did not fare so well in ttyp department in the gppond spell) ana also from the line-outs, qnd in the scrums when the bail did pot go their there - breafc-aways op?r?ting whi?h sorely Athletic; r-w,.-. -vor -v-^v-z It was very definitely Old Boys spell. Baldwin opened the scoring quite early with a penalty gqal, an 4 then converted a try by V, Potlieb- A., Wright then smart try, arid to Burns, winger, yerted,"brought^the spell tb'iS poinis. scare. The h^ |il iM|gi) i( llS&ea" : Inrpvft! gress five Minutes WneH' Wales scored for Athletic. There wa? n° doMbt that Athletia wfre playing better, but. ? speU" that Otd Boya "hegan to ipp back. A clever, fast run by Cooper, .whicly Jed to Karstijn scoring lor Ath.-. iefic under the cross-bar and Tincfill etirtvertingf' wai the iegiiining of the end. tor QJdJooys. ur> by 'Wales gave- mlm' a toy after he 'had just previously missed one in the same way. Tindill WahtecJ Watching, as was shown in the .play which followed. He worked the" blind side of a scrum for Thomson to. score* and this try took Athletic's score to 14 points.' Tindill had been unable t0... convert .Wales'sj trj\ and •"•Siliifbur i: to ponvert the try by Thpm?on, yrom twipe crossed, but was recalled. Athletic kegi ur the ,at.ta«k, ,ahd as coolly as Poulq he, Karstep "potted" a the greatest ,expite?nent.. Athletic now 1 "had the lead. Further success follqwed from anqther pfisa on the blind olf ft gprum by Tindjll, . this, time Guiniven, -the erstvfc'hile forward, ! scoripg. ' Thurston failp'd' with the goal HicK but it did not matter— i Athletic h.a.H won by points tQ J6. • The referee was Sir. ft B. 'Siirimons.