Good Rugby Played By Whangarei Juniors

Northern Advocate, 22 May 1944, Page 4

Good Rugby Played By Whangarei Juniors

Conditions in striking contra: t to tin previous week-end. when the season opened, obtained for Rugby on Saturday afternoon and as a result games were of better standard.

With a senior competition lacking, large public support is not anticipated. but the standard of football on Saturday, particularly in the main junior game between Kiwis and Horn, flora, was of a type most satisfying to football fans, and the unexpectedly large attendance thoroughly enjoyed the match. Such football should increase attendances.

The all-Maori Kiwis team made plav fast and willing from the outset, and although saveg on several occasions :,y free kicks, gave a good account, in addition threatening the flora flora defence in the first half. It was robust football throughout, although in the second sp.ni the Maoris were tired from their earlier exertions and flora flora gradually assumed ascendancy to win by if points to nil.

Out-weighted and nut-bustled in the tight, the flora. Mora pack was superim in tin' loose and won the ball more cleanly from the scrums to give the backs an ample share. Several nice back movements wore produced but. generally there was a. lack of penetration. Jennings twice crossed for tries, and Clarke scored one, while Mac Nay kicked a penalty go-1 and converted one try.

Jn the curtain-raiser. Rovers and Air Training Corps gave an interesting display. Tile Rovers forwards were too strong for their opponents, and to them went the credit for the win by 17 points to nine. Winning most of the fall from the scrum, they gave the backs plenty of opportunities, and in loose and tight had superiority. A.T.C. should improve its combination with more practice. Ratio, Rosa, Fraser (2) and Brown scored tries for Rovers, Fraser converting one, while Bignell and Johnson scored tries for A.T.C’.. Dobson kicking a penalty goal.

In the third grade game, Air Training Corps and Portland had a hard fight, (ho former winning by nine points to eight. Campbell and Gunson crossed for A.T.C., McDonald kicking a penalty goal, while for Portland, Dobson scored a try which Morgan converted, as well as putting over a penalty goal. Game at Hikurangi A last, hard but clean game was seen at Hikurangi when the local junior team went down to Central, the score being 18 to 3 in Central’s favour. Although Central played largely an individualistic game, the team was superior to Hikurangi in all departments. Try-getters for Central were Pattiscn, who notched two, McDonald and Donaldson, while Pattison converted three tries, so contributing 12 points of his side's score. Hikurangi’s three points came from a penalty goal.

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