LEAGUE FOOTBALL

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1933, Page 11

LEAGUE FOOTBALL

COAST’S EASY WIN.

[I’ER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, August 16

Tho youthful West Coast Rugby League team opened their northern tour here to-day by giving the Wellington representative thirteen a les son in how the League game should be played. The visitors scored an easy victory by 29 points to 10. The weather was bitterly cold, and this, no doubt, largely accounted for tho fact that there were only about 200 spectators present at the game, The match was attractive, in which the visitors had all the best of the play. Tho West Coasters completely dominated tho play in the first spell, and they piled on 18 points to nil before half-time. Masters, Behan, Calder and O’Brien each scored a try, and Dodds converted three of the tries. The Wellington team showed not a shred of combination, but they tackled resolutely, and this served to check many of the attacking movements undertaken by the speedy West Coasters.

It was expected that the Wellington team would make a fight of it in the second .spell, when they had the breeze behind them, but no sooner had hostilities been re-opened than the West Coast team electrified spectators with a dazzling display of passing, which bewildered the home side, and ended up in Newton scoring a try close to the posts, Dodds scoring \he extra points.—-West Coast 23, Wellington nil. Todd, the Wellington centre-three-quarter, cleverly intercepted, and, amid great excitement, he ran throeparts of the length of the field to plant the ball behind the posts for a try. Simons had no difficulty in converting.—West Coast 23, Wellington 5. This stirred the southerners, and they came at. the Wellington line with a burst of snappy passing, which ended in O’Brien scoring his second try. which Devonport failed to convert — West. Coast 26, Wellington 5. Later, from a scrum, Perkins scored for Wellington and Todd goaled.—West Coast 26, Wellington 10. Just before the game ended. West Coast launched a fierce offensive, and O’Connor hopped over the line for a try, on which Devonport. failed to improve, leaving the final scores: West Coast 29, Wellington 10.

Blackball seniors v. Marist at Blackball on Sunday—R. Clark, J. Anderson, Leitch, R. Neilson, Ritchie, Weir, Kinsella (capt.), Hodgson, Smith, W. Clark; J. Anderson, Glasson, L. Neilson. Emerg.: Bowkott, J. Clark.