LIGHT-HEARTED GAME

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 38, 14 August 1939, Page 15

LIGHT-HEARTED GAME

The Wellmgton-Marisl Brothers Old Boys iatch proved one thing, that Rugby, when approached in the-right spirit, can still be made very attractive. There was nothing .-ittaching to Saturday's game. The players took it lightheartedly and the referee ruled in the same spirit. The result was that it developed into the most entertaining club match at Athletic Park this year. With the ball fired about as it was, high scoring was the natural outcome, particularly since neither team really extended itself to halt several of the attacks. Altogether op points were registered. 35 to Wellington and 20 to Marist. Maybe the game basically was not sound, text-book critics probably found much to grumble at, but the public thoroughly enjoyed the spectacle. It was a match replete with incident. The changes at times were kaleidoscopic. There was quite a string of spectacular try-producing efforts, some of them positive gems, which lost nothing because they ?.,?!' ,under otl W circumstances, have been ? ille?, T the earlT stages. Tries were scored for Wellington by. Paterson (3) (Paterson. in fact had something of a field day, he potted a goal as well), Veitch, Cochrane, and Thompson. Taylor converted four tries and kicked a penalty ??? r,T,t m,? also converted a try. Higgins (2). O'Malley, and GiUespie were try-getters for Marist. O.Malley converted two tries, and Fitzgerald landed a pot. The referee was Mr. J. Hepburn