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Southland Times, Issue 19509, 8 May 1922, Page 7

PIRATES (34) V. MARIST (9). (Black). (Green and Black.) Pirates:—backs—Brain.; Diack, Gilmour, Macdonald; St George, Hazlett; Dykes; forwards—Smite., Broughton, Cockroft, Johnston, Archer, Galbraith, Clark, Ashley. Marist:—backs—Kelly; Cooke, Cosgrove, Toomey; Woods, Coakley; Jas. Ryan; forwards—Meffin, R. Weils, Mahoney, G Ryan, Jerry Ryan, Winders, Miller, Timpany. Passing rushes and quick following up enabled Pirates to put on 23 points by half time to their opponents’ three. In the next spell play was much more even, Pirates addiLg 11 more points and Greens six. On the line out and in scrums and rucks Greens more than held their own, but in open play Pirates were superior The Pirate hookers got most ball but the quick, break-aw ay tactics of the opposing forwards very considerably reduced this advantage. The Black backs were not up to last week’s standard, erratic passing and dropped transfers spoiling a lot of their rushes. At no time did the Pirate forwards look like killing themselves with hard work. All of Marist’s nine points were obtained by Cooke (two penalties and a try), who kicked a splendid goal from near half way in the second spell. Playing with the wind Pirates entrusted the kick off to Cockroft who was making his first appearance. For the first quarter of an hour the players seemed most concerned about the new kicking into touch rule, but they soon, got the hang of it and some good kicks were made, the crowd not being slow to recognise a deserving effort. First blood was drawn by Pirates from a parsing rush which Ashley started from loose forward play near half way. Hazlett, St George, and Diack handled in turn, the last named running behind the posts for a score. Diack converted. Pirates 5, Marist nil Two minutes later a Pirates’ passing rush finished near the posts with a forward paw. Loose play on the line followed the resultant scrum and Johnston snapped up the ball from a Green fnrgayd F rftrn j riwtfauywt