RUGBY FOOTBALL

Grey River Argus, 28 May 1938, Page 8

RUGBY FOOTBALL

1 TO-DAY’S GAMES. Three senior games will be played i in Greymouth to-day, and the principal attraction will be the meeting of! Stars and Cobden at Victorian Park, .vhich will be used for lire first time. Cobden at present lead in the Championship, one point ahead of Stars, who are keen to take the lead to-day. , On the No. 1 ground at Rugby Park, ? Excelsiors and United will meet, and Celtic will play Pirates on the No. 2 f ground. United and Star third grad- (. ers will provide the curtain-raiser at _ Victoria Park, and Celtic and Star , juniors will play at 1.30 p.m., at Rug ( by Park. Other matches are set down for Cobden, Kotuku, Te Kinga . and the Technical School grounds. POSITION OF TEAMS J J The position of the senior teams to )' date is:—Kewis (played four games) . 8 points; Cobden (four) 6, Stars >' (four) 5, United (three) 4; Excelsiors [ (three) 3; Blaketown (three) 2; CelJ tic (three) 0: Pirates (four) 0. J Pirates (to play Celtic at Grey- / mouth):—Agnew, Davidson, Pfahlert, Mclntyre, A. Tuhuru, S. Tuhuru, H? I Tainui, Ritchie (2), Growcott, Park- ' er, Hewlett, Harris, George, James,' O’Connor, Woolhouse. Excelsior seniors to play United at Greymouth.—Wallace, Hanrahan, Old ham, Turley, Keys, McCarthy, HaviJl. King, Tainui, McDermott, Bruhn, Johnson, Bradley, Turner. Reserves, 1 Stewart. I Kiwi seniors to play Blaketown at; Hokitika: —Stapleton, Cooper, West! (2), Carroll, Roberts (2), Davidson,! Leslie (2), Chinn, Pierson, Gilmour,] Buckingham, Weiblitz, Diedrichs Pan-| ton. SUITES?

f TO-DAY’S TEAMS. r t Cobden Seniors v. Star, Victoria i, Park, 3 p.m.—Lindbom (2), Collins. I Vaughan, King, Gilmour, Eggleton, - Kiely, Williams, Kirkwood, Thomson 1 Spencer. King, Moss, Newton. Birch- 1 -I field, Manning. (Meet at Club Hotel -' at 2.15). Cobden Juniors v. Kotuku, at Koi tuku: —Clark, Allan, Vaughan, Mgs' Laughlin, Murphy, Gilmour. Morrish, i Morris, Jackson, Watkins, Griffiths, s Kittelty, Ownesworth, Nesbit, Barlow J Moss, Cook, Burn. (Bus leaves Cob- ■ cten 1.30; Post Office 1.40).

> Cobden Thirds v. Blaketown, at Cobden, at I.3o:—Groursky, McGuire, - Cochrane, Pike, McLean, Inglis, Masi kell, Knowles, Culling, Skeats. ■ Baynes, Burrell, Jeffries, Marley, Mc- ; Millan, Smith, Devlin, Roche and • Brown. United seniors v. Excelsiors, Rugby Park 3 p.m.: Hamilton, Hendry, Williams, Garde, Attwell, Costello, Ellis. Cox, Sinclair (2). Browning, Hopkinson, Glen. Sorenson. Blair, Smith, Rathbun, Rose, Robertson. I United Thirds v. Stars, Victoria I Park, 1.30 p.m.: Dewar. Beck, Kerr, Crankshaw, Williams, Ross, Leitch, Carruthers, Mathieson, Todd, McCar-| thy, Ross, Leach. Anderson, McDon-i aid, Batty, Fagerlund. I United Fourths v. Technical A, at Technical ground, 1.30 p.m.: J. Conza (2), Sweetman, Rae, Bennett, Walton, Nott, McCarthy, Ross. Brown, Rae, Thomson, Barrow, Stokes. Leach. Te Kinga v. Magpies, at Te Kinga: Bennett, Hibbs, Ashby, Spicer, Hodgkinson, Southern, Dowell, Beardsley, (2), Ryan, Penny, Birchfield, Becker, Willis. Rankin. Emergency: Robinson, Richardson, De Lore.