RUGBY FOOTBALL.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3404, 14 September 1920, Page 4

RUGBY FOOTBALL.

ARROW v- GLENQRCHY. An Arrowtown team journeyed to the Head of Lake on Saturday last and played a match with Glei.o.chy in the afternoon. The game, an evenly contested one, ' ndel in favour oi the home team by 3 points (a try scored by Long) to nil- In the first quarter of an hour the play was more or less confined to Gleaorc'ay's 25, Arrow missr-fng several chances oi sco:ing- Morgan the.i cleaned for the home team, and from this till , half-[time the game was oi an even nature Ten minutes after starting the second sipell J- Thornton and Long were conspicuous tin a passsing l-ush, which resulted in Long's crossing the Line and scoring the only try of the day. Arrow tried to make things even. They were attacking for the greater part of the sip. i'lAt one time Arrow marked tea a good position and Fletcher placed the balu , neatly between the posts, but th;.' score was disallowed on account oi the oval having touched a Gienoichy forward just after it was kicked. . Arrow team would probably have done better if the forwards had got the ball out more frequently to their backs. There was b mo.eo.ver. too much line kicking. The Gle:orchy team have g:e.itly impioved t;i ir fa; an and give good p.omwse of developing into a- strong combination. Mr W. Fan'ant acted as refereeThe visitors- were entertain d by the home team at the Earnslaw Hot .1, where a finst-class- luncheon was videdThe return journey was made in the evening.