Championship Rugby

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1075, 12 September 1930, Page 6

Championship Rugby

r-»AMMAR AND PONSONBY Good Game Promised WHENEVER Grammar Old Boys meets Ponsonby.a hard and close game generally results. Tomorrow should prove no exception to the rule when these two teams will meet in the second round of the Auckland Rugby Union’s senior championship. Ponsonby at present holds a two-point lead over Grammar and if successful tomorrow, or if the game is drawn, will win the championship. A win to Grammar will place both teams equal, in which event another game will be played.

In the first round of the competition these teams played a drawn game. Play was fast and open and full of interest. Tomorrow both teams are expected to take the field at full strength, and another keenly contested game should result. Grammar’s strength lies mainly in its powerful pack, the forwards possessing fine understanding of one another’s play. The Ponsonby pack, however, is by no means a light one, and its back division is the best in the competition Whichever way the game goes tomorrow—and it will depend largely upon to what extent the Grammar pack can control the ball —there is no doubt but that a keen, fast game will be the result.. A large attendance is expected. Although they cannot have anv bearing upon tho competition, other senior games will also be played. As a curtain-raiser to the big game. College Rifles will play Grafton. Technical and Marist and Training College and City will meet at the Showgrounds and University will play Manukau at Onehunga. Lower grade competitions will also lie continued. Following are the teams: Senior A. Grade Manukau.—Turel, Albon, Jones, Satherley. Stuart, Cotter, Bryers. Pile, Brinible, Pearce, McGuire, Kiiliu, Pepper, Dixon, Cooney, Satherley. McMahon, Tavlor. Grammar.—Mathcson. A. Singleton, Hutchinson, Wilson, Gardener, Gaiiick, Savory. Lendrum, Weir, Corner, Frankham, Potter (2), Batty (2), Knight (2), Greville, Clcghorn, Mansill, Pollock. E. Singleton. University.—Butler, Stokes, Milliken, Bracewell, Stotter, McKay, Jenkin (2), Rae, Jolly, Barker, Clarke, Anderson, Stacey, Douglas, Edwards, D’Authreau. City.—Blakey, Crook, Carter, Berridge, Stehr, McKay, Sherman, Hanna, Barnes, Whitehead, Sorrenson, Logan, Harclley, Gunn, Roberts, Bridle, Fitzjames, Cohen, King, Tennant. Senior B Grade Manukau.—Lipscombe (2). Muir. McCoy, Sturmey, Re wit i, Simmonds, Kelly, Tyrrell, Kemp, Housliam, Kercopo, Morgan, Penny, Speight, Lamb. University.—MoGlashan. Bourko. Abbott, Bayly, Babbage, Watts, Laurie, Gillett (2). Gregory. Border, Lowe, Watt, McKean, Farrell, Hawkins. Marathon.—Wales, Siddlc, Dickson, Neale, Savory, Mayes. Fowler, Metcalfe, Cooper, Salmon, Sinclair, Blakc-y, Stewart (2), Baton, Gifford, Dauby. Second Grade University Colts. —Robinson. Mulgan. Carson, Bertram, McCoy, Mason (2), Bell, Platts, Addis, Ramsay, aPterson, Andrewes, Henderson, Bloomfield. Mars. Marathon.—Andrews, Bainbridge, Rush, Kivell, Paddy, Slyfield, Sands, Tuck, Webb, •Walker, Palmer, Baker, Mace (2), Miller (2). Third Grade Royal Naval Reserve.—Conte, McLeod, Stuart, Palmer, Cross. Tilly, Watson, Reid, Allen, Broadhead, Benton, Gunn, O’Dell, Barry, Cameron. Third Intermediate Grade Manukau.—Smith (2), McKenna, Airey, Langton, Halford, Stone, Brown. King, Strong (2), Heighway, Paddy, Rutherford, Hinches, Murdoch, Harold, Hatfield, Collins, Ansell, Simmonds, Hood, Spencer. Grammar.—Clapliam, Innes, Stubbs,

Evans, Stehr, Fraser, Stubbs, Adams, Laird, Kelly, Knight, Cairns, Mueller, Pattison, Mcßcath, French. Fourth Grade Manukau.—Pa rk hurst, Tnglis, Wiberg, Houghton, Walker, Broadhurst, Vickery, Christian, King (2), Dickens, Allen, Dunning, Whitcombe, Walbank, McMinn, Larking, Quinlan. JUNIOR NOTES The final series of matches to decide the championship in the third open grado are now being entered upon, and tomorrow the leaders, Penrose and Newton, will meet on Eden Park No. 3 ground In the first of three matches for th© k title. Both teams have been , training hard, and a good exhibition j of football is anticipated. The grade j has produced some exceptionally keen I games during the season, and the , country and city fifteens, who are j rivals for tho premiership. hav£ both developed good combination. At the showgrounds two of three teams iii tho running for the third intermediate grade championship, Grammar and Grafton, will meet, i while the third contestant, Manukau, has been arranged a training match with a team of the same club. The match between Grammar and Grafton promises to bo fast and open, ns both teams rely mainly on their back divisions. In the sixth grade, the leader. Suburbs, should have no difficulty in disposing of Otahuhu, and this being the case, it is practically assured of the championship. The final stages have now been reached in the fourth grade* and tomorrow two of the leaders, Ponsonbv I and Otahuhu, will meet on the Outer Domain. The game is expected to ! provide some of the. brightest football in tho lower grades this season, and a win for tho country team would not be surprising.