DUNEDIN.

NZ Truth, 7 June 1924, Page 12

DUNEDIN.

Again on Saturday the conditional were against ffood football and tho game* were finished In drenching rain and In a vory bad ll^ht. 'Varsity 11 and Pirates nro now together out m tho lead, with Kalkornl, 'Varsity A and Albnmbrn two point behind, Alhambra'H defeat of 'Varsity A was duo to two factors— the looxo work of their forwards and the solid defence of MeDouga.ll and King, The; student* got more' than ihHr share of the ball m the (scrums and Johnston whipped it

out cleanly, but deadly tackling very seldom allowed it to get very far along the chain.

Punch McDougall showed some of his old-time shrewdness and worked the short punt and the dummy judiciously. He also anticipated the play cleverly and m this respect he was responsible for at least one of the tries.

The Knox brothers were never off the ball and some" of the students' backs did not relish getting down to the rushes repeatedly led by these two.

Johnston, behind the students' scrum, showed promise and did all his work smartly. He is as game as the proverbial pebble and with . experience should go a long way. Jacobs was weak at full-back.

Except, m scrum work the Blue forwards were not up to first-grade standard and they played with an entire lack of that essential commodity known as ginger. They were a tired and well- beaten lot at the finish.

Considering the elements the Pirates — -Dunedih match was a good one, and for three parts of the game there was very little between the teams. Both sets of forwards revelled m the loose, but Dunedin made the mistake of trying to pick up the greasy ball when they should have kept it on the ground.

There is not a better three-quarter m town to-day than Denis Wise and his two tries on Saturday were beauties. No matter how the greasy. . ball came at him he gathered it m without fail and was into his stride and away m a flash.

Jimmy Wilson and Mick O'Sullivan, the respective wing- forwards, stood but by themselves and worked tirelessly. What the .former- doesn't know about the game isn't worth knowing, but it was only by very little that he shaded his opponent.

Kaikorai had a field day at the expense of the 'Varsity B. marly of whose players are just now away at home for the vacation. The principal feature of a very one-sided game \vas Dickinson's performance. Of his side's big total of 41 points he was responsible for 23, of which he got no, fewer than 17 by goal-kicking.

Southern had their first win on Saturday when they beat Zlngari by 12 points to .5 m a game that was characterised principally by bullocking forward play which at times bordered on roughness. x Zlngin-i are gradually slipping down 'the ladder and will find it hard to climb up again. ■

Another loss was set against Union's name, Taierl Rovers outing them by 9 points to 4 m a game that was little better than a mud scramble. '