MANAWATU.

NZ Truth, Issue 1018, 30 May 1925, Page 11

MANAWATU.

A silent worker m Old Boys pack is Guy.; ,' ■ -■'■_ ■' ' ' ;'; ... ■; - . ;:' ; McHerron, was like a fish out of water at wing forward last Saturday. Look .where they will for his mate, Ron Evans must be the Manawatu first five-eighths. The Kia Toa-Western game ' was such' a; hopeless sort : of. affair. .that comment: on. the game, players : or referee would be "slaying the slain." 'Palmer, after being relegated to junior ranks the day/./Old Boys played Kia Toa, was reinstated for the' Woodville game and. shaped nicely. He was asleep, though, on one. occasion when, after throwing ih the. ball from a lineout, a forward- threw it quickly back. Harry had only to fall over the line.. Old Boys have beaten Feilding ; and Woodville, ; the two hardest teams to put down .m Manawatu. i;No:bther town team has. yet beaten either this season. But on the other i hand, Old Boys went ;down to* Western. -and Kia Toa m turn.. Thei'e is no disputing the ; fact . that territorially the Blacks dominated both games. ■ ' ; Hard ; ; luck for Wo<3dyille. '. Their crack back, Gifford,' was injured; last week m a lorry and car collision. : : He \yas driving the- former,'. while, the person- doing ,the needful m the tank of ligrhter : armament Wae none other than Hanson, an. ; outstanding Manawatu forward ,iiul923; The Blues ;i:avebeen^ looking for ;him : for v soirie time, especi- 1 ally .as lie is said to. be; camping somewhere handy to Woodville, on a survey - party? They reckon they will press-gang him mow to eyen up for the Gifford' affair^ ',T :.:■■ .

Hugh McKenzie is back from Shannon, or rather he isn't^ playing for Shannon any longer. He had no residential qualification, anyway. "Hugh assisted Old Boys •on Saturday and duly made his presence felt atWoodville. They had him hooking, ' but tho quidnuncs seem to want him at fiveeighths to stiffen up the defence, which goes to pieces after Evans has been put out of action.