MOTUEKA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 15 July 1925, Page 6

MOTUEKA

RUGBY

REPREBENTATIVE MATCH GOLDEN ISAV V. MOTUEKA The match between Golden Bay a:. 1 Motueka representatives, played at ' Cricket Ground on Saturday, was <4 extreme interest to Golden Bay and Mntueka. football officials, in view of the fact that it will be from these teams that a selection will be made to contest the Scddon Shield at Blenheim on August 3th. In the first, “try out played at la kaka recentiv, Motueka were the victors by 16 points to 6. Several alterations took place in the Bay team before meeting Motueka on their home ground. It was generally anticipated that the scoring on Saturday would be of a more even nature, but the boys from over the Hill seemed to have to so.ie ex tent their usual dash and again met defeat by 26 points to 8. The match was witnessed by an enthusiastic aiid record crowd.

Buys won the toss and elected to defend the southern goal. .Motueka (Black) pressed from the word “go. and within two minutes J. Holyoake crossed Bay's line and opened tin* scoring. N. Holyoake failed to concert — "Motueka 3-0.

Beefs retaliated with Lie usual Bay vim and it was not long before Blacks v ere. giving ground. Bcmsemauti broke through and touched down. \\ ilkes converted. —Bays 5-3. After a penalty had been registered against each team, a pass Sexton to Gibson to Herdman and back to Sexton gave Blacks a chance, la* Sexton was grassed before reaching 'nis objective. A smart piece of play, in which .'J, liolvoake and Papps figured, resulted in the latter getting over near the corner. X. Holyoake again failed to add the major points.—Motueka 6-5. A free kick to Blacks was followed up and a ding-dong tussle in Beds" territory took place, Beds eventually forcing. Blacks gave their opponents little rest. Foskett. securing from a scramble, dived over. Bowers converted. —.Motueka 11-5.

Beds put up a good defence against repeated attacks from flic iocals. but after an attempt by X. Holyoake to hustle, through, were compelled to force. A promising move, lead by Clark, was spoilt, by a, forward pass. Subsequent to a mark by Foskell a determined rush by Blacks was smarl ly slopped by May, who in the process injured his leg and had to retire, D. Nalder taking his place. The ball was taken to mid -field, where give and take play ensued until a. combined move by Sexton. Clark and Foskell saw the latter again seme just on half-time. Bowers eon verted. Motueka. 16-5.

Golden Bay commenced ihc second spell with strong offensive work. The ball, after passing through several hands, fell to F. Riley, who lost m touch, before reaching Blacks' goal line Blacks returned and would have gone through had not a knock-on followed. A Red forward rush, headed by Feary, narrowly missed at the corner. From the throw-in Blacks cleared and pressed play to their opponents’ line, Sexton making an excellent attempt to touch down. Blacks battled away to break up Reds’ defence, during which operation a spirited run by J. Holyoake nearly attained the desired result. Reds relieved and Foskell was called upon on two occasions to effect a save. Shortly afterwards, the most spectacular run of the day was put in motion by J. Holyoake, who secured and set off with a flying start, from over half way, closely pursued by Nalder and Scott. liolyoako arrived just in time to down the ball before- being collared. Clark converted. —Mol-ueka- 21-5. For a few minutes each team luul its share of offensive and defensive work. Sexton and J. llolyoake in turn endeavoured to cross Reds’ line, but were stopped by Riley. Later a mark b\ Nyharn (Red) was turned to account by Sexton, who secured and dashed over the visitors’ line. Papps converted.— Motueka 26-5. \ Blacks kept up a- steady attack, during which Bowers unsuccessfully attempted a pot. From this point Reds recovered and came through with Prince and Feary in the lead. A short kick to touch by Bowers saved the situation. Ju a, scramble that follower! Riley dived over. Wilkes failed at goal.—Motueka 26-8.

Reds livened up. Sutton and Biekley in a forward rush, made a great bid to get away, but the ball went into touch. With a series of short passes play was returned to Reds' 25. Just on the cali of time an attempt by Foskett, Rapps, and Herdman to score was checked by Eilev.

Mr O .A. Banner ably refereed the match.

The Shield team will probably be selected within a week or two. and go into preparatory training before meeting Marlborough next month.