FOOTBALL.

Grey River Argus, 27 June 1922, Page 6

FOOTBALL.

DEFEAT MAORIS. Maori', have eh;,: r injckkd. ■ SRDNER, June !?•;. | At -Rugby New South Wales lent the Maoris by 28 (six tries, two vvrted and two penalty goals) u, (two converted tries and one penally go<il). The game was hard throughout, though lacking the brilliancy and U ~-n-ness ness of Saturday’s match. The rever sal of form is due primarily to the vast improvement of N.S.W's. forwards, who benefited considerably by the inclusion of Davis, Fvwles, and Smith, who played trout row through. X< Zealand occupying similar posit "n ; - The Maoris were severely handi<n|iped by injury to Jacobs’s knee. Malm was also injure I. Phillips opened for the visitors, flashing across the line after a combined rush. Jacobs kicked a goal. Ihe half-time scores were Wales 14, Maoris 5. New South Wales added mother l-l points in the second spell. I’eina left a couple of opponents standing in a race for the line and Akuria guttled and later kicked a penalty. The Maoiis now have eight men on the injured list ns a result of knocks in two matches. As a consequence Wednesday's li.x-ure against Metropolis has been postponed till July. ST. GEORGE NOT TO PLAY. DUNEDIN, June 26. Owing to the death in his family. C. ’ St. George (Southland) is unable 1<» play in the inter island match. R. Matheson H<tago) has been appointed to pley halt back. MOUATT’S CASE. WELLINGTON, June 23. The Wellington Rugby Inion held a] special meeting to night to consider the re-opening of the ease of Mouatt, the! Berhampore forward who was ordered I off the field last Saturday during the match against I’etone, and was subsequently suspended for three playing haturdavs. After hearing more of the matter this evening, the Union decided that there was nothing to warrant an j alteration of its previous decision. WESTLAND GAMES. The Westland Rugby fixtures wer* decided on Saturday in spite of the wot weather and heavy ground. All games were of necessity confined to the work of the forwards, ami the teams with the better scrum p- ek emerged the vie tors. Results of the games are: - Senior. Kokatahi 1.3, Excelsior 0. Kumara 9, United 0. Juniors. Excelsiors IL 6, Arahura .3. Pirates .3, Kokatahi IL 0. Kiwis IL 8, Ilari Hari 0. NOTES. At r. meeting of the Bailor Rugby Union on Saturday evening, it was de cided to ask three’ players who had been ordered off the field by the referee to attend a meeting of the union on Julv j 15. The Westport Rival Club has arranged to tour the Coast early in August. Messrs Svenson and Goodall, Bullei ’s fenresvit'. kt • vch in the South Island football term, left Westport yesterday morning for Wellington. LEAGUE FOOTBALL. As showing the keenness of U’O competition for the Pollard Cup, t’.‘ position as summarised is’ somewhat interesting. The Blackball team is at present leading with seven points and four games to play. In the event of that team losing all matches ami Waiuta defeating Runanga, and likewise Kohinoor defeating all the respective teams, it would then mean a play off between Runanga ami Kohinoor with I<* points each. 'Phis is Kohinoor’s only show of being in the final. However this team can somewhat alter the situation as in the event of Blackball defeating Runanga and Kohinoor in their respective games, and losing to Waiuta. 'Phis will make Blackball 1.3 points. Should Waiuta win all matches from now on they will have scored 13 points also, making a play off necessary. Should the Runanga team win all matches they can win the cup outright with 14 points. While on the other hand if Blackball win all their games they will have won the cup with a to.al of 15 points. The remaining matches in the senior competition wiil be watched with interest by followers of the game and some of the finest exhibitions can be looked forward to. It has now advanced to such a stage when all teams find that training is more essential to enable them to maintain their respective positions in the cup, ami it goes without saying that the competition is undoubtedly the keenest in the short history of the League game on the Coast. LEAGUE MAORIS BADLY BEATEN SYDNEY, June 26. (Rec. June 26, 10.15.) The Maori League footballers played Metropolitan ns a curtain-raiser to the match Kangaroos versus Australasian. Although the home team was only about the fourth beat New South Wales combination, the visitors rarely penetrated the former’s territory. Metro politan were six to nil at interval and afterwards scored with monotonous rapidity. The Maoris’ tackling was patactically weak, and the final scores were: Metropolitan 38, (ten tries r.nd lour goals), Maoris nil. In the contest, Eaulkner was carried , off the field with his leg fractured above the ankle. Kangaroos beat the Rest of Aust rail a bv 35 to 24.