LACROSSE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11680, 15 June 1901, Page 7

LACROSSE.

The lacrosse championship matches will be ' resumed this afternoon, when North Shore will meet Parnell, Ponsonby A play Grey Lynn, and Suburbs play Ponsonby B. Las; Saturday's contest between Ponsonby B and Grey Lynn proved a great battle. Roth teams being composed of new men, who ere exceedingly enthusiastic and possessing a fair ' knowledge of crosse work they were consej quently keen on each other': goal. Ponsonby I won through the efforts of their goalkeeper, I How, and because the member-- of the learn ! kept the places assigned them in the field. : Harris, at centre, improves with every I game. As was anticipated m flu-e columns, Graham's place is on the defence, in which poj sition he acquitted himself very creditably. |_ Rccs, McCoy, Bridtfnv.iite, Cooke, uinl | Bart In tt worked together lik.i a machine. j Grey Lynn's corpus delicti •-;.-; -arc Ito be I in a habit, of the members of the team to i play anywhere but in their right places. For I instance, at the fac<vo!F three men were playI ing at third man: (joint was in hi-, position. j but what use would he have been after the ! ball passed third man? lie could not have i hoped to check at least three attack men , without assistance. The. secret of :-oece-s is for each player— particularly the defence player— to keep his I position, and thus reduce scientific theory to ! a practical hast-;. Writers and e>:nerts on the i game of lacrosse have stated that the atI tack is practically s'ron-rov than the defence, ' and it therefore behove-, a team to first <-,«" all' j guard it-< rear, or, in other words, to have- a j reli dee del me? near goal. When that is done, and they have prevented the ■'other fel- ! lows'' from .-coving, thev can then round up i their attack department. Tho following reference, to the match be- ! tween the North ami South of England an ncared in the Rydnev Referee: —" The ! North, for the tenth year in succession, Ai'--j monstrated its suporiorit.v over the (Smith at i lacrosse last Saturday t-.-vs the last II lustra- ! ted Sporting and Dramatic New- to hand), j when, at Hie Crystal Pa'ac\ the Southerner* j were defeated by 7 goals to 4 Owing to in-

eessant rain, the ground was in an extremely heavy condition. a fact which placed the better-trained team bio litis instance the visiting side! at considerable advantage. Hi?

I Grace, th" Duke rf Argyll (president of the i South of Kngle.nd Lacrosse Association) keenj ly watched the game, and at its conclusion ■ congratulated the team-, with whom he was : afterward- photographed." I The New Zealand lacrosse .Assooiaiion might with profit em-dafn the English and i Australian bodies by providing, as an adj ditional attraction for the holding of sports i in connection with the game. I New South Wale- Pornsso representatives | have decided to play a second match against : S""f'i Australia at Adelaide on July' .--(i ! This afternoon Ponsonby \ will be without j 'he services of .1. R. Lundon and probably i CI. Anderson. j Those members of the Suburbs team who j were not rafereeing last Saturday held a very ; useful practice. I If 'field captain- are to become a success, , the gentlemen holding those positions will j dc well to make, their presence b00,,-,, to the I teams which have the honour of their reurej sentation. i Attention has already been directed to the . want of punctuality disp'nyed bv the council : in commencing the 'cc- 1 matches. Of course, I it is recognised tint the association can tin | nothing in (he matter without the co-opera- : tion of the individual players, ere! it is there : fore to be hoped that (he letter will attend ; early, and thus asnist in -tatting the matches : to time. j Ruddock and Stewart are a rtallv good psir I of centres, and it was a treat to watch them ' working last week. Had the former a good j "home" to keep with him, and thus allow ; the full advantage to be taken of Ids run- ; ning, the game at the finish would have j borne a somewhat different complexion.