FIRST GAMES OF SEASON

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 100, 1 May 1939, Page 15

FIRST GAMES OF SEASON

PROMOTED TEAM DOES WELL

RESULTS AT A GLANCE, First A Division, Seatoun 9 Technical 0.8. ». 0 Waterside ..... 6 Hospital , 2 Petone 2 Swifts ~,,,.., I Oiamonri 3 Marist 3 First B Division, Si'ui. Wanclerera 4 Training Co}. . 1 Na.(!a 6 Stop Out •' 3 Lower Hutt ... 6 Miramar Bangers 1 Institute 0.8. ~ 5 Onslqw ~..,,., 1 CHAMPIONSHIP TABLES. First A Division, i " . ' Goals. Ch, / P. W. li, D. F. A. pts, Seatoun 1 X ~ — « 0 3 Waterside I X — — 6 8 2 Petone 1 X — — 2 X % IMnmond , "., I •— — 1 3 3 X Marlsi 1 -- —■ 1 3 3 I Swifts 1 — 1 — 1 3 — Hospital I — 1 — 2 6 «~ Technical 0.8. .. 1 — 1 — 0 n — First 8 Division. ■ ■ .. Goal?. Ch, P. W. h. D, F. A. pts, I^nwei Huit .... 1 l —. — 6 X a InaUtute 1 1 •— -«* 5' I 3 Si-ol Wanderera ..X 1 — — 4 1 3 Nada 1 1 — — 6 3 2 Stop Out ~.;v. 1 — 1 — 3 6^ Training Col. ... X — X «-' X. 4 — Onslow i. 1 —' X'-'l f —' | Miramar Ranptera .X — X •— X 8 —•.

In the first games of the Association football season, played on Saturday, first division scores generally were large, two exceptions being the 3-all draw between Diamond and Marist, and Petone's 2-1 win over Swifts, the promoted team from the first B division. Swifts went really well and gave a taste of the strength they niay be expected to develop as the season progresses. Diamond and Marist played a scrappy draw, Diamond showing superiority to the Marist eleven. Seatoun had the biggest win of the day, defeating Technical Old Boys 9-0, and Hospital began the season badly by going down 6-2 to Waterside at Porirua. In the first D division Scottish Wanderers, last year in the first A division, managed to beat the newly-formed Training College team by only 4-1. Lower Hutt and Institute had easy wins at the - expense of Miramar Rangers and Onslow respectively, and Nada beat Stop Out by 6 goals to 3. Ground and overhead conditions were fair.