FOOTBALL

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 70, 26 July 1929, Page 5

FOOTBALL

VICTORIA PARK TOMORROW CELTIC v. STRATFORD. For the second meeting between Celtic! and Stratford, on Victoria Park to-morrow, the Celtic will play in the new formation which has been used for a number of matches past, and which is held to have greatly im* proved the game put up by the team. Pryce.and Kettlowell are the wing-three-quarters, Young is in the fiveeight line and O'Keefe is wing forward. It yill be interesting for Stratford people to see how the. foranatiom works..'

Following is the Celtic team : Dodd, Prycej Rijcpiiardscji, \Ktett\Jawtell, Youjng, JBftunton, Biblitz, iG'Kjeefei, Hinton, Eilski, Johnson, Anderson, Robson, McGuinness, Beardmore. Emergencies • Adlam, Grubb, Lindell' Falmning. The team,are asked to assemble at the Commercial Hotel at 2.13 p.m. , ; SCHOOL WINS EASILY. Playing on their own grounds yeaierday 1 , School defeated Celtic thirds by 66 to nil. The game wag by no means a fast oiief;' though back movements were frequent. Celtic tried to keep the game close but School's backs kept breaking away and*, even in forward! play, "School,'had considerably the better of the game. The S.T.H.b. backs were a treat to watch 'ancT worked like clockwork, making the Celtic defence look slow in comparison. The fact that the ball was greasy and the goirw very heavy, did not seem to affect School very much. The School teami; all seemeHi adopt at cutting in and in this wav .gained several good tries. Crossman,,. the half scored about the neatest try; of thef game, when receiving' from, a scrum near the Celtic 25 line, lie. dummied practically the whole Celtic defence by cutting th© scrum <and scorintr, instead of passing to his backs as he had done on former occasions. ' Celtic, though they carried play into the School half several times, never looked as though they could' score. In the second half Celtic rearranged their team but the changed! positions did not seem to help them any. .On the Celtic sicle the players who were most noticeable were: Cook, Carryer and Pettigrew. At times, however, Cottier "and "Whiting played well but the tatter was inclined to be slow. School notched 11 of their points in the first spell but in the second, with the wind at their backs, they warmed to their work and compiled 45 more. ThpJ kicking during ■the-'"first'spell and part of the second was very bad! and several tries, near the posts were not converted. Towards the end of the game, howejver, "Whiting became, better and .was. sending the ball through the posts from difficult angles. Those.' who scored for School were: C. Crossman J. Weston (3), JWhiting (3), E, Townsendl (2), G. •Wellington and P. Faster 1 eacn. This made 14' tries, 7 "of which were converted, bringing the. total to 56. Mr E. Scott referred. By -winning this match. School has won the championship of the Central Division and will now have to play off the winners of the Northern and Southern Divisions, for the Taranaki Championship..