LEAGUE FOOTBALL

Grey River Argus, 27 April 1936, Page 2

LEAGUE FOOTBALL

Yesterday’s Games

MARIST, (BLACKBALL AND

RUNANGA WIN.

Gloriously fine weather favoured yesterday’s sf'cond series of League fixtures and good games resulti d in all grades. Junior and. third gratis fixtures were the only games set down for decis.on at Wingham' Park, all senior games being played in country. There were no surprise defeats, but Ngahere looked like turning the tables on Alarist at Ngahere. The homo team were down 15—8 at half time, bur hard work on the part of the forwards took the score to 29—27 at tho final whistle. Runanga’s training and general fitness again told heavily when they met Pirates at Dunollie. The half time score was B—38 —3 and Pirates appeared to bo going to make a close tight but they failed to cross Runanga’s line in the second half, the game ending 39 points to three. The best game of the day was staged at Brunner between tho local team and Blackball, and a close and thrilling contest ended in Blackball carrying the day by 11 points to 8. Brum ner made up for their defeat by Runanga, and were distinctly unfortunate in not winning the match.

SENIOR MATCHES. Maj st 29, Ngahere 27: Ngahere were probably a little un lucky in not be.ng able to equalise or even exceed Alarist’s score when these teams met at Ngahere before a large attendance. Tho ground, although dry, was by no means of assistance to the players. The teams lined out as follows: —

Alarist; Pollock, Devonport, Roberts, A. Beban, Quinn, O’Brien, O’Connor, Scott, AVilliams, AlcNeight, Seguin. J. Beban, Walsh. Ngahere: Lester, Hill, AVeir, Hogg. A. G'.bson, Farmer, T. Gibson, Alulcare, (>. Gibson. Gilman, AlcGuire, J. Gibson. Bailey.

The game opened tamely, end Marists first score came, in about ten minutes when Roberts put in a good run and passed to AlcNeight, who failed to accept the ball, but kicked on to Devonport, who also kicked to Walsh for the latter to go over. Roh i-rts failed with the kick. Alarist 5, Ngahere 0. Lester made a good effort to kick a field goal but failed Ngahere -forwards pressed hard and for a time looked like scoring. Thr-y were awarded a penalty in <1 difficult position -and Weir’s kick failed by feet. A Gibson soon collected the ball and passed to Farmer, who scored. G.lnian’s kick failed. Alarist 5, Ngahore 3.

J. AVeir was caught offside and Roberts hail a successful kick. Alarist 7, Ngahere 3. AVhen play resumed, T. Gibson picked the ball from the ruck, and initiated a movement, A. Gibson and Wc>ir taking part. The latter cut through and secured a fine try under the post, .later adding the other points. Marist 7, Ngahere 8. After up and down play, A. Beban secured the ball at half way and made a splendid solo effort, successfully dodging past several men to score under the posts. Roberts converted. Marist 12. Ngahere 8. Shortly before half time, O’Brien kicked to Quinn; the latter passed to Roberts, who dashed oyer near the corner. A, Beban missed with the kick. ' Marist 15, Ngahere 8. The scores remained unaltered ’at half

time. On resumpt ion, ted ous play onsued for some minutes, until Marist gain■l ‘he upperhand. O’Connor took the ball to pass to A. Beban, who put .11 a good sprint to the- corner where he scored. ' Roberts failed to add the extra points. Alarist IS, Ngahere 8. This reverse spurred the Ngahere team on and by hard work on the part of the forwards, they hod Marist defending for some time. J. Gibson opened a movement when he took th - ball and passed to Farmer, the latter reverse passed back to J. Gibson, who scorrd, AVer failing with the kick. Marist 18, Ngahere IL Weir broke away, but was tackled rear the line. Alulcare picked up and dashed over, Weir’s kick being successful. Marist 18, Ngahere 16. From a scramble in Ngahere’s twen-ty-five. Devonport secured and crossed the line near the corner. Roberts kick was wide. Alarist 21, Ngahere 3f> Williams took play upfield mto Naahirc’s territory by n dribbling rush and kicked to Walsh, who scored near the posts. Roberts converted. Af’irist 26, Ngahere 16. From a free kick against O Connor, who picked the ball out of the scrum, Ngahere- pressed hard, until Devonport secured end made a brilliant dash up to tlm Ngahore twenty-five where h p passed to Walsh to score under the posts. Roberts 29, Ngahere 16. For the rest of the game. Ngahere held the. upper hand. A penalty try for obstruction was given against AlcNc'ght, but Weir’s kick at goa. was not successful. Alarist 29. Ngahcre 19. Bailor was the next scorer, b P havin<r collected the ball from tho ruck and crossed the ling in n handy position. Weir had no diffieulty with the kick. Alarist 29. Ngahere 24. The last try of the day resulted when Weir picked the- ball un at "half wav and made a straight run to th* Fno. scorn? in the corner. His kick failed. Alarist 29, Ngahere 27. T'nio sounded one minute later with no change in tho scores. Air. D. Faris, controlled the game. SENIOR LEAGUE. Blackball 11, Brunner 8: At ißrunnor, the local side were unable to defeat Blackball, but nevertheless they made <1 surprising recovery after last week’s defeat. The game must easily rank as the best fixture this season, and was fast and ojieii from' bell to bell. Both sets of backs combined excellently, whilst the forwards of both tianis did a heavy day’s work with great credit to themselves. Weir scored twice for AicNaughton securing their other try, whilsJ. Ritch'e converted one try making Blackball’s total of 11 po'nts. Smith and Aloth each scored tries for Brunner and Lee converted once to bring Bruner’s total to 8 points. The good crowd present enjoyed the game to the full extent and it is evident that both teams arc improving rapidly and will be forces to contend with a s the season progresses. Air. F. Bernard was the referee. Runanga 39, Piraites 3: After an evenly contested first spell

in which tlie score was B—38 —3 in the .nun..- team’s favour, Jiunanga Seniors .is the result of several smart individual and comunied movements amongst Hit- backs, ran away with the honours, w.th the add.lion of 30 po.nts, iu the match against Pirates .it Diinoilii. There was a -large attendance. The game was full of ui terest throughout, but poor handling in the first spell spoiled many promis.ng movements, particularly amongst Hie home backs. However, in th<' second spell, the co-ordination of the. backs was much improved, end Ruuaiiga finished off some pretty movements in a polished manner. Masters, .Manderson and Crowe were always dangerous, Masters, a youthiul exponent, showing great prom.se. W. Glynn pkiyt'd a brilliant game iu the Runanga forwards.

Pirate forwards were an even match for the home pack, but. their backs tailed to finish off their movements.

'alder, the Pirates forward, played at five-eighth and was a. success in this position, both in attack and defence. Runanga’s first try early in the game resulted from a smart back movement, topped off by Pattinson. As the result of fast, following up, Caldei scored wide out for pirates, whet) Chisholm was tackled after a good fast run down the sideline.

.Inst on half time, Masters nipped in cleverly to score a good try, when Crowe dropped his pass. Speakman converted. Pirates attacked hotly iu the second spell, and were unlucky not to score, Chisholm being thrown out a tow yards from the line, and then Calder missed an easy penalty. Runanga backs swung into action, but. Pattinson mishandled on the line for Calder to kick clear. A smart movement at halfway saw Alasters cut in prettily and hand in to Pattinson, who scored, and Speakman converted Soon afterwards. Masters handed out io Crowe, and he- accepted a mostdifficult pass to score a merited try at the corner. Speakman’s kick was a fine onr< soaring right between the posts. From the kick-off. Crowe secured and he beat several opposing players to hand back infield to Glynn ami he outpaced the opposition to score at the corner. Speakman failing to goal narrowly. A few m nutes later Pattinson picked up. and cut through to secure a well earned try and Speakman goaled. Pattinson was soon again in the limelight, and after a splendid run handed on to C''owc. and he in-passed to Afandierson, ’+o Masters, and the latter scored under the posts. Hopkins goaled. Alanderson secured from the kick off -and handed to Glynn, who beat several men and then sent in to Crowe, who cut in beautifully between two opposing players and scored under the posts. Speakman goaled. Just in time, Pope scored following a melee near the pirate line, and Crowe failed to goal. Air. H. Feilding. was referee.

JUNIOR GRADE.

Marist 6, Kumfara 2:

This game, at Wingham Park, resulted in a win for the former, who showed better combination than on the previous Sunday. The scores were: Marist 6. Kurnara 2.

The scorers for Marist were Beban. and Knapp, while Keating kicked a penalty for Kurnara. Air. J. Griffen, refereed.

THIRD GRADE.

Pirates 11, Runanga 6

Playing at Runanga, yesterday, Pirates and 'Ruminga Thirds provided a splendid tussle, tho visitors running out victors by II points to 6. A. Alulqueen (2)" and Alorrish scored for Pirates, and J. Alulqueen kicked a penalty. Musgrove and Hector scor-' for Runanga.

‘f.vlar st 19, Brunner 0: ' Playing at Wingham Park, Marist Third's defeated Brunner by J!) points to nil. Tries were scored for Alarist by Beams, Grogan, ’Wilson, Brown and Zampesi, and Ryan converted two. Mr Air. J. Ala-thews refereed a fast and open game.

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