Thrilling Encounter

NZ Truth, Issue 1229, 20 June 1929, Page 17

Thrilling Encounter

* (From '.N.Z. -Truth's" Christchurcl Rep.) Ninety mjnutes of the most thrilling football turned on m years was witnessed by the biggest crowd of the. season at English Park oh Saturday. "/ 7 MOMADS and Thistle provided, a ding- - ■ dbng tussle, at the .termination o! which the score-sheet was blank. .Whenever these teams' meet th< baroiheter of Rivalry points, to "friendly," with indications of a sudden rise tc "electrical" and-' '.'stormy" conditions. "Jim". Frickleton and lan McLeod ofter met to dispute possession and unboxed al their wily wares. ;>lf anyone deserved s goal it was" the veteran, J 'Jim." When Don. Sutherland learns that h« Is not the "whole bunch of Thistles h< will be of greater use to his .side. Hit jazzy migrations with the ball mght keei him warm, but Speirs, a strong poinl of attack,- was cold for passes that did not come. Little W. Dick was not a monumenl of greatness m the Thistle side. Hi.< heart was good, but. his size wouldn't lei him. . Trotter . (Thistle) was not allowed, tc