RUGBY FOOTBALL

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24372, 7 September 1942, Page 5

RUGBY FOOTBALL

REPRESENTATIVE GAME AUCKLAND V. WELLINGTON (P A.) WELLINGTON, .Sunday In glorious weather, and in the presence of over 10,000 spectators, Auckland defeated Wellington in tho 00th trial of Rugby strength between the two provinces at Athletic Park yesterday afternoon by 19 points to 13 After they had been presented to the GovernorGeneral, the teams were played on to the field by the Royal New Zealand Air Force Band, which marched and counter-marched at the interval. Auckland deserved its victory for the reason that the players opened up the game at every opportunity. They threw the ball on the line-outs well into the field of play and hurled it about with rare abandon in the open, the transfers as often as not landing in tho hands of the opposition Pike hooked the ball for Auckland in the majority of the scrums. The Aucklanders lasted better than their opponents. A feature of the game was the fine displays given by the fullbacks, hingstone (Wellington) and Sorenson (Auckland), who scarcely made a mistake. For Auckland tries were scored by Pearman, Pike, Mills and Pearce, two of which were converted by Sorenson, who also kicked a penalty goal, lor Wellington tries were scored by Hayes, Donovan and Stott, two being converted by Kingstone.

MATCHES IN AUCKLAND AIR CORPS TRAINEES' TEAMS The Auckland Rugby Union's senior competition was continued on Saturday afternoon in fine weather. There was only a moderate attendance at Eden Park, where the teams in the main game, Manukau and C.R.0., were weakened by the absence of plavers in the representative match at Wellington. An interesting curtain-raiser was played between fifteens representing the Auckland and Waikato Air Training Corps, Auckland winning a bright game by a margin of ten points. During the interval between the early match and the main one a parade of trainees was held on the oval, led by the Auckland Artillery Band, said be the oldest in NewZealand. The parade was in the charge of Flying-Officer W. Sexton, and also present were Squadron-Leader P. K. Fowler, Officer Commanding the Air Training Corps wing, and Flight-Lieutenant N. Davenport, wing adjutant. At half-time in the big game the Viand, present holder of the New Zealand marching championship, save a marching display which evoked hearty applause. WarrantOfficer F. B. Smyth was the conductor.

Plav in the main match was ragged in the first spell, but there were brighter patches in the second. Good loose forward rushes characterised the play of. the Manukau team, but the back play on both sides was poor. One exception was Regan, C.R.O. s first five* eighths whose fast straight dashes were a feature of the contest. Metcalfe was weak at fullback for C.R.O. and got his side into difficulties several times. Following were the results: —Manukau, 18 (tries by Boryer. Hetherington, Cameron and Thornton, three converted by Boryer), C.R.0.. I t (tries by Cleary and PoMer. one converted bv Crown, the latter and Cadman also kicking 'penalty goals); Orafton-Poiisonby, 8 (tries by Edwards and. Bowman. Edwards converting one), Technical Old Boys, 0; M.T.I'.. '2l (tries by Riley, Simpson and Mitchell, and two penalty goals each by U. Tittleton and Scott), A.S.C., 1- (tries by Chatham and Day and two penalty goals by Mansill); Air Force No. 2, 11. Garrison, .1. Second Division. —Marist. 2<. Suburbs, 0, Kden. It, Air Force No. 1, 0 Air Training Corps.—Auckland, -! (tries hv Davidson 2, Hadlow, Orr, Kelly and Reeves and penalty goal by Rich), Waikato. II (try by Laidlaw, converted by Lord, who also kicked two penalty goals). CANTERURY TEAM'S WIN (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday The Canterbury Rugby representatives defeated West Coast by 31 points to 11. Scorers for Canterbury were Morgan, a try, a penally goal and five conversions, Pearson two tries, and Kilworlh, Argus and Kerr one each. For West Coast Fisher scored two tries, Davidson kicked a penalty goal and Lindbom converted a try. The game was fast and spectacular. Canterbury asserted its superiority in Ihe second spell, the half-time score being six-all. BILLIARDS CHAMPION (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday The final of the New Zealand billiards championship resulted in a win for R. Carrick (Auckland), holder of the title, who beat S. Moses (Wellington) by 1.100 points to 13(11. The best breaks were:—Carrick, KM), 115, 112, 98. Si), 70, 51, -It), !W, 37, 31, 21), 20; Moses, 71, 50, 55, 55, 10, 10, 42, »«», 31, 32, 20, 25. The winners average was 1.5. WORLD'S MILE RECORD (Reed. 5.35 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, Sept. 5 Gundar Haegg ran a mile in -1m 1 3-ss, thus breaking his own former world's record of -1m 0 l-ss. He had created the latter figures the previous day.