SOCCER FOOTBALL

Northern Advocate, 22 July 1935, Page 7

SOCCER FOOTBALL

REVIVAL IN WHANGAREI. BROMWICH CUP COMPETITION. - HIKURANGI BEAT TOWN TEAM., The first Association football match to be played in Whangarei for four years was decided at Kensington Park on Saturday, under the control of the North Auckland Football Association. Hikurangi United beat Whangarei in the round of the Bromwich Cup competition. The old hands who have worked for the re-establishment of the game in the North are making plaps for the. encouragement of the younger players, while holding themselves in readiness to play if required. The Hikurangi team included in its ranks three senior players—D. Hamilton, Lawson and Queripel, and the Whangarei team included F. Gardiner, R. Jennings, T. Caldwell, P. Everett and Swann, the, latter oeing an ex-New Zealand and Navy representative. A number of school boys was incorporated in the team, and among those who were in their first season, Helens and I. McDonald, of Hikurangi, and McNeil and Stewart, of Whangarei, played well. Shortly after the start Miller broke through the centre and scored for Hikurangi, but Whangarei were not long in retaliating and Swann headed the ball into the net. In the second spell Hikurangi scored twice, to take the game by 3 goals to 1. GOAL-LESS DRAW PONSONBY AND Y.M.C.A. SOCCER MATCHES LSpecial to "Northern Advocate ."l AUCKLAND, This Day. Ponsonby, leaders of the championship competition, failed to score against Y.M.C.A. on Saturday afternoon on Blandford Park, and as the former also could not penetrate the defence of their opponents, the points were divided in a goal-less draw. Comrades, who played the curtain-raiser against Shore, gained the victory by the odd goal in three. There was a lively scoring game at St. Helier’s, where Eastern Suburbs drew with College, four goals all. Thistle scraped home against Mount Albert Grammar Old Boys at the schoolground by 3 goals to 2.