RUGBY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17079, 7 July 1926, Page 3

RUGBY

WHATATUTU \s VICTORY. WANDERERS BEATEN IN DECISIVE GAME. (Notes by “Onlooker.”) 1 lie deciding game jn the Waikoliu Mib-( niun’s competition was played on Saturday, and resulted in a victory for \Y hut at ul u, by eleven points to six. The rivalry between the teams was keen, as always, and the game was played at a line pace. Wanderers and Whatatutu were standing level in the competition, ami though the match wa.s not the final of llic series, it was realised that the best of the two would almost certainly secure the sub-Unio-n championship At half-time Wanderers led by sixpoints to nil, but in the second half Whatatutu turned the tables. One of tin*- most: impressive performances seen on a .sub-Union ground was given by an ex-English public school boy representative, who played at centre-three-quarter, ami gave a finished exhibition of play from that position. FROM ALL SOURCES. RUGBY NOTES OF INTEREST. The Auckland Rugby Union has received from the Poverty Bay Union an acceptance of the invitation to visit the Northern city in September, and lias referred the question of terms to the finance committee, with a recommendation that the minor Union be granted a percentage of the gate. It: is satisfying to note that ti percentage of the profits x\ ill be allocated to the visitors, but what concerns Poverty Bay is the amount per cent. The four of the Bay team will take in Hamilton and another centre, and will cost a good deal of money. A complaint was received recently by the N.Z. R.F.U. from a youthful enthusiast who stated that he had commenced the season with a third-grade team, his weight then being 10s!., but in consequence of his weight having increased in the interim by lfilbs., lie had been barred from the grade. His letter stated that lie was not a crack player, and that lie could not get a game in the juniors. The New Zealand body decided that- it was a matter for the Ohakune authority, under which the youth formerly played. A sudden reverse suffered by an Auckland team possessed almost unique circumstances, for ten points were raised against the unlucky fifteen without a man of the side touching the ball. A Ponsonby player scored for his team just, as the .first spell ended, and the try was converted; on the resumption, Ponsonby kicked off, and another player, following up fast, got possession and scored again, a conversion again resulting. Thp incident must surely be almost without parallel. “Bantam” matches, which are no new thing 10 Gisborne football spectators, have been proving tremendously popular in the Nelson district, where they have just been introduced. The games are sanwiched between flu* sessions of senior matches. ALL BLACKS’ TOUR. NEXT SATURDAY’S MATCH. NEW SOUTH WALES TEAM. (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.! SYDNEY, July (i. The New South Wales team to play New Zealand on Saturday next has been selected as follows: Ross, S. King, Towers, Grossman, Sheehan, W. ‘Meagher, Judd, Blackwood. Woods,, Finley. Fox, Elthorn (captain), J. Ford 'lves (only fourteen names cabled); reserves, Hessloin, E. Ford, J. Duncan, Burke, Telford, Tailored, and Rigney.