WEST COAST WINS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 July 1946, Page 5

WEST COAST WINS

Decisive Victory Over England. Margin of Nine Points Playing magnificent wet-day football, West Coast established an early lead of eight points and were never afterwards headed, although England got within three points at the interval, when the score was West Coast 8, England 5. ' ' . . The final score was: West Coast 17, England 8. Tries were scored for West Coast by Teen, Ord, and K. Mountford. Nuttall converted one try, while McNaughton also converted one and kicked two penalty goals. For England A. J. Risman and I. Owens scored unconverted tries and E. H. Ward kicked a penalty goal. Mr. J. Mathews was referee. MOUNTFORD IN ENGLAND (Recd. 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 28. Cecil Mountford, the New Zealand stand-off half back, who signed up for three years with the Wigan Rugby League Club, has arrived at Wigan. Mountford, who was a mine deputy in New Zealand, hopes to take a mine manager’s certificate at Wigan’s famous mining college, while playing for the Wigan Club. .

SUSPECTED GANG LEADER RELEASED

(Rec. 2.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 28.

The Georgia State police chief said a man had been arrested who fitted the description of the leader of the armed band which shot four . negroes near Monroe, but the suspect was released when a. farmer named ’ Harrison failed to identify him. Harrison was the man who was driving the four negroes in a car when the lynchers seized and shot them.