ASSOCIATION CODE FIRST ROUND ENDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 136, 10 June 1940, Page 13

ASSOCIATION CODE

FIRST ROUND ENDS

WATERSIDE AND SWIFTS IN LEAD

MARIST NEXT

Games played by first A division: teams in the Wellington Football Association's championship competitions [on Saturday brought the first round ito an end with Swifts and Waterside i level on points at the top of the table, and Marist one point behind. Swifts bad an easy 5-3 win over Technical 'Old Boys at Kelfoum Park, while ! Waterside could only make a 2-aII ■draw of their game with Hospital on. the Basin Reserve. Waterside, however, have a better goal average than ! Swifts. By taking a 7-2 win over ! Petone, at Petoae, Marist went up Into •second place. On. No. 2 ground at 'the Basin Reserve Institute Old Boys I took the winning points from Seatoxm |by the odd goal in three.

I, There were some noteworthy results in. the first. B division. Diamond continued their unbeaten progress by defeating Onslow 15-1, and Moera Stop Out, a new team in the division this year, displaced Lower Hutt as runnersup by defeating the Hutt team 10-0. i Miramar Rangers had a 4-1 win over Nada and are now level with Lower Hutt in third place. The plucky Training College team scored its first win of the season, defeating Stop Out by 3 goals to 2, and has thus drawn level with Stop Out and Nada at the bottom of the table.

Rain before and during some matches made conditions difficult.