ASSOCIATION CODE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 134, 9 June 1939, Page 13

ASSOCIATION CODE

FIRST ROUND GAMES

LAST OF THE SERIES

Though the leading teams will not be playing one another, the final series of games in the first round of the Wellington Football Association's first A division championship tomorrow afternoon contain much interest for followers of the game, in view of the close contest for championship honours between Waterside, Petone, and Sea.toun. The first-named team is leading by one point from Petone, with Seatoun another point back in third place, and tomorrow's results may well have a decisive bearing on the championship position. Seatoun, who stopped their run of defeats by taking the winning points from Marist last Saturday, will need all their skill to repeat the performance against Swifts, whom they are to meet tomorrow on the Basin Reserve. Swifts are in fine fettle this season, and in their last three games have easily defeated Hospital, Marist, and Technical Old Boys. Interest will be lent to the game by the appearance as opposing centre halves of Chapman, of Swifts, a former New Zealand and Otago representative player, and of Boyes, of Seatoun, who performed so creditably for Wellington against Canterbury last Monday. Both Swifts and Seatoun have a justly-earned reputation for speed and science, and their meeting should produce some' of the prettiest football of the season. On the other ground at the Basin Reserve Waterside will play Marist. The former team cannot afford even to draw, but Marist have the name of spoilers, and many championship leaders have fallen to them in previous seasons. They are good enough this year to extend Waterside to the utmost.

Petone will play Diamond at the Petone Recreation Ground and Hospital will meet Technical Old Boys at Porirua.