FOOTBALL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 31 August 1925, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

NEW SOUTH WALES ON TOUR

ANOTHER WIN. OTA GO-SOUTHLAND BEATEN. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, Aug. 29. The visiting New South. Wales team met- a combined Qtago-Southland side at the Carisbrook ground to-day, the visitors winning by 22 points to 17. The ground was heavy and treachererous after the heavy rain earlier in the week, and a surprisingly good display of passing by the visitors’ backs .was given in the circumstances. The forwards were always ready to lend a hand in passing rushes. Otterey scored first for the combined team, and Stevenson goaled. Shortly afterwards Lawton touched down in a good position, finishing up a pretty passing limit, but the kick at goal failed. Then Kilby opened up play near, the New South Welshmen’s line. •i iicl Murray scored, Stevenson goaling. Play shifted to the other end, and Bryant scored from the ruck. Afterwards came the best passing rush of the spell, Bowers finishing the movement in a fair position, but tlie kick failed. Tlie spell ended.: Combined team 10, New South Wales 9.

The second spell opened at a furious pace, the visitors giving a fine display of handling the greasy ball. Bowers finished off a fine movement with a try at the corner, hut no goal resulted. Then Murray drop-kicked a goal and Stevenson kicked a penalty., Lawton scored a beautiful try and Crosean goaled, equalising the scores at 17 all. Bigney then scored and Lawton goaled. The game ended without further score.

SEDTXfN SHIELD

STILL RETAINED BY MARL. . BOROUGH,

BLENHEIM, Aug. 29

Marlborough were again in defending the Seddou Shield to-day, defeating Nelson by 16 points to nil in the presence of an enormous crowd and in bright Sunny weather. The Marlborough forwards were far superior to their opponents, and though the Nelson, hacks .showed u,p well in tlie first stages of tiho game, they were eclipsed by the Marlborough backs over the latter part of the journey, the change® in the Malilbqrough five-eighths since Last week .having .a'marked effect-. A feature of the match was the accurate .tackling on both -side®. Since the competition started in 1906 Marlborough have played 23 matches; won 16, lost four and drawn three. West Coast are the next challengers, i

INTER -PR 0 VINCI AL MATCHES

WA'IR.ARIAPA DEFEATS WEST COAST. WESTPORT, Aug! 29. In glorious weather and in the •presence of a large gathering of the public Waira.rapa defeated Buffer to-day by ,21 points to 3. The score, however, does not reflect tilie state of play, as Buffer held if ,anything the advantage, bub lacked scoring capacity. WVainarapa led by 8 to nil at the. end of itlhe first .spell. ' When play was resumed .Beard ‘scored Buffers,’ only try close to the goal, but the kick failed. Additional tries, were subsequently scored by the visitors. W ANG ANUI DRF RATED.

PALATERiSTON N., Aug.. 30. Ttho la«b home- rep-res e-.n uvUve .liiiaLtcih of the season -resulted in the first, win for ibh© combined Mann.wiaitii-anil Mono-, whemia unions., who defeated Wanganui by IS points: to 17. 'The game Wisus nuvst exciting, the sides scoring ‘practically .alternately ithrougihout,.

A KING COUNTRY GAME

'PAUMARUNUI, Aug. 29

King Country and Waikato combined defeated Auckland to-day by 19 points to 9 in a brilliant 'lnaibch.

INTER-CLUB GAMES OHIRISrGHURGH AND DUNEDIN. ■CHRJSTCH'URaH, Aug. 30. The only Rugby match played yesterdayl was that for the Payne trophy between the champion teams of Dunedin and Christchurch, Pirates and Old Bovs respectively. Pirates suffered their first defeat of the .season, going down 18 —11 in what was the best game seen at Lancaster Park -this .year. The weather was fine, but alter nearly a week’s rain the ground was in bad condition. AUCKLAND, Aug. 29. The Rugby results in the Pollard Cup competition were:—Grafton 19 beat Maris* 3; G raimmiar Old Boys 12 beat King’s Old Boys 8; North Shore 31' beat Suburbs 8; College R ifles 10 •beat Maiiiikam, 8; Univerifiity 29 beat Newton 6.

INTFJIXSCHOOL MATCH. • MASTKRTON, A up;. 30. The AVii'.HT'arapa. I llifth School -fimt fif••been, wi miens of <tih£> Waiii.ranaipa -third grade co-nrpeitiltiiioii, defeated We 1! i n gto n 'College first fifteen- by 17 points to nil in a friendly mmitclh hero yesterday. JTJNIG'R :SMfl-PIXALS. RLTHAM’S EASY WTN. . FJkham defeated Ohang-a.i at Haiwera oil -Saturday by a margin oi eleve.ii points, -aifter an open game. Divning the first half Ohangai had the ih-o-nioims, the -superb penalty 'kicking of Lire and Hunt giving them the lead of w’bc points -to nil. .During the vseioond spell, however, with, the wind ■in their favour, FHiham made the pa-ce -.lively and ran up a «siib-sbantia.l s-csoro ol 17 points, -being five tries, one of which was -converted.

Play was dull during tlie first .spell, being confined mostly to a very open biaicl° jgamte without any iseuisatroriain features until Lee took a penalty kick from near the centre-line and luekeu an excellent goad. Eiltliain pressed hard , but Ohaugaii saved the situation by finding the line.- Lee took another lcick, but was not as lucky as on the previou® occasion. W.ithin a few yards of centre-way Hunt took a shot and, with the sun in his eyes, added three more points to 'Ohan,gaits score by putting the ball over. Half-time sounded soon after with the score : Ohangai 6, Blfhaan 6. ~ , > c . • In the second spell the pliay was taw, with Elbha-m continually on the attack. •Elth'am did not shine in goal kicking, and a penalty kick from a good position, shortly after the beginning of the »seoond hailf, railed. The forwards then rushed down the field in a splendid concerted movement, but Hingi forced, and shortly after Sangi&ter slipped over from a. scrummage and scored. Stoning was then fast and furious, the •remainder of the tries being taken in rapid succession. Ividell rushed dvoi and planted the ball near the post®, but tlio kick failed. Ohangai forced twice within -a few minutes, but Pennington shortly after dashed over front a five yards .scrum. Again the kick failed. With, ai isplendid show of speed Pennington got over and scored tlie hyst try, bringing the total points to fifteen iviid McDonald added two more with a splendid kick. Ohangai began to Allow some life from then, and Hunt took a penalty kick, but it failed, Play ended then with the «core: .Elllthnm 1.7, Ohangai -6. Mr. A Neilson was the referee.