DISTRICT RUGBY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20275, 17 June 1940, Page 11

DISTRICT RUGBY

INTERPROVINCIAL PLAY EAST COAST’S VISIT TO-DAY'S REP. MATCH The chief attraction offered to the public to-day by the Poverty Bay Rugby Union was the representative match between East Coast and Poverty Bay, the first interprovincial game on the season’s bill. This game was to have been played a fortnight ago, but was postponed with other King’s Birthday fixtures. The conditions to-day favoured a good display of hard Rugby, the surface of the playing area being firm, and the air being still and cool. The chances of the home side were favoured by a majority of the spectators, but there was a good confident contingent of East Coast enthusiasts to cheer their men along. The curtain-raiser to the representative game was a match between the Poverty Bay third-grade represntatives and the High School first fifteen. Other minor matches also were played during the early part of the afternoon, scores at 2.30 p.m. being:— Third Grade P.B. third grade 3, High School juniors 0. Fifth Grade High School B 6, Marist 5. High School A 17, Intermediate 0.