FOOTBALL

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 84, 25 June 1930, Page 8

FOOTBALL

NOTES BY '\SIDEMNi:.'* Inglewood deserved netter iiv their struggle wilh Stratford on Saturday. For a day's hard work pushing and kicking, such as they had they should have had a tryi or a penalty goal for a reward. They v.'erei heaten straight out. The three Strafford tries were good ones and th e result of superior play. Nohpdy could; say Uiat itiglewood suffered from bad luck in hot scoring, though t.h 0 t plage kickers' kicking loot s were just a little off on the day. But for playing a sound, solid sustained game they deserved some recognition in the way of a score. X X For the most part it was rug and tug, hoot and bump, with only occasional flashes of open play. The i'aglewood pack largely held its own, except when the Stratford pack got going in it rush, with a momentum very hard to combat. x—x Stratford got the ball most of the time, and if was dealt with in a crisp and workmanlike manner, ail according to the book; but the .inglewood men also were going ou the book, attd their tackling spoiled many a promising Stratford opening. When' opportunity offered the Ingle wood hacks got going crisply, but they really had no chance to

.show their mettle, except as items

in the melees. Only onco did Noel Ross set steam up in earnest. Me shot out in his well-hwown manner, but the opening was not good and he was brought down. s— X Collins, at full-back for Stratford was never very seriously troubled, but his line-kicking was useful a£ usual. He was successful with his place kicks, duly converting al] the tries. The conditions were very fair for place-kicking, at.id it was disappointing for Ihglewood that both Hunt and Thomson just missed with their kicks. Thomason filled the post of guardian very creditably, and Hunt showed iris versatility by playing a .sterling game at centre three-quarters. His punts and ltoe-

kicks were very useful

x —x Taylor, B. Walter and Bonner made a good three-qu.'i'ter line for Stratford. Bonner hopped off the mark sharply when anything came his way, and made a number of dashes which must have made the opposition feel nervous. His good try was the result of getting going at full steam ,>n the tick. x—x Eor.'.id the scrum, Owen and Fryday were largely in the limelight, taking a .hand in everything. At least once each of them was on the edge of a score, and they deserved a jacore for their hard; 1 work in pur.h.Mg; into the roughest places. But tries were not easy to get on' jthe day, especially \>y i:\en who wer e sat upon by half a, dozen opponents the minute they touched the ball.

X-t-X Grace Reserved his try. Ho keeps a bustle on, find is thereforeliable to be on the spot when scoring is being done. Bublitz was sound behind the scrum. He Showed his ability to mix it by sending at least on c long lob puss in-field. x—x All the iStrat'tord forwards acquitted themselves well. It. Young played a solid game, and he used his height in the lineouts to advantage. As constituted on' the day the pack had plenty of weight, in the scrum and were 'noticeable for their dash in the open. x—x The Ingle wood pack were lacking in the quick starting which characterised their opponents, but they acquitted themselves creditably in the tight and the loose, on a day when the tight was very tight and the loose was not so very loose. x—x The Inglewood threeqnarter line is a good combination. White pushes a swift foot when the time is ripe, w'hich, unfortunately, it was no{i very often Cor him on Saturday. The half and live-eighths have shown their worth against other teams, but on Saturday they were not givua the ball very often. x—x Though properly beaten, the visitors wer e by no means disgraced, i Tlie Strawberries are a tidy little

team and the team that can' beat

them can pat itself on the back

Th e visitors had something to coun

ter everything put up against them, and in no department could their team be described as weak.

To keep their opponents from scor-

ing for the greater part of the sec-

ond spell, us the visitors did, and

to bo able to porduce determined and

sustained thrusts into enemy terri

tory in the closing stages of the game, when bgth hope and wind hegin to fee] the strain, is quite a creditable record.