RUGBY FOOTBALL

Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1929, Page 5

RUGBY FOOTBALL

MAORI REPRESENTATIVES.

PRINCE OF WALES CONTEST.

FOUR TARANAKI MEN IN TEAM.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Wellington, July 23.

The following Rugby team has been selected to represent the Taihouauru district in a challenge for the Prince of Wales Cup at Auckland to-morrow week: Johnson (Manawhenua), Jury (Wairarapa), Pelham (Wellington), Watson (Clifton), Chaney (Wellington), Robinson (Opunake), W. Parata (Manawhenua), Tama Parata (Manawhenua), Walker (Wairarapa), Pine (Wanganui), Ike (Okaiawa), Williams (Hawera), Tatana (Manawhenua), Oxley (Wanganui), Parai (Wellington). Emergencies: Hohaia (Opunake), Taylor (Manawhenua), Conroy (Opunake), Whaanga (Wairarapa). The Ngarauru team to play Wainni Arua at Renana, Wanganui River, tomorrow includes: K. Broughton, T. Bennett, A. Murphy, J. Kerei, J. Rauhina, W. Whakarua, R. Broughton, N. Hunt, D. Broughton, P. Broughton, J. Tainui, T. Broughton, M. Tamou, D. Stermey. Emergencies—Forwards, T. Tamou, J. Karipa, M. Ruru, R. Steven; backs, R. Tamou, Uru, Porangi.

INTER-SCHOOL RUGBY MATCH.

TIMARU BEATS ST. ANDREW’S

Timaru, Last Night

Timaru High School won the second in-ter-school match of the season to-day, defeating St. Andrew’s College, Christchurch, by 14 points to 11. The ground was very heavy as a result of recent rain, but play was bright and interesting. The forwards were evenly matched but the home backs combined more effectively than the visitors and were always dangerous. All Timaru’s tries were the result of back rushes.

FREE FIGHT AT FOOTBALL.

EAST COAST ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE.

Gisborne, July 23,

In consequence of the keen rivalry between the teams engaged in a country match on Saturday a free fight developed, which the emergency referee was unable to stop. /

The regularly-appointed referee did not turn up and a spectator volunteered to carry the whistle, but almost immediately the match went to pieces and very rough play was a feature. Blows were struck and many players were marked in the rough and tumble scrums. It was enough to ruin country football, declared Mr. Parker, chairman of the Rugby Union, when the matter was reported last night.

It was decided to replaj r the match in town under proper control and to demand explanations from the captains of the respective teams. TAINUI SUB-UNION. In continuation of the McMillan Shield competition on Saturday, Awakino defeated Tongaporutu by 19 to nil and Mahoenui defeated Maoris by 9 points to 3. The sole selector, Mr. A. H. Rattenbury, Mahoenui, has selected the following team to represent the Tainui sub-union in the match against the Maniapoto sub-union at Te Kuiti on Saturday:— Full-back: J. Lake (Awakino). Three-quarters: Reid, Hepburn, R. Lake (all of Awakino). Five-eighths: O’Donnell (Tongaporutu), Richards (Mahoenui). Half: Tawhaki (Maori). Rover: Rattenbury (Mahoenui). Back row: Roberts (Mahoenui), Paltridge (Awakino). Breakaways: McNeice (Awakino), McCready (Mahoenui). Lock: Sullivan (Tongaporutu). Hookers: Armstrong (Mahoenui) and R. Waho (Maori). Emergencies: Back, Rauputu (Maori), forward, Tai Taylor (Tongaporutu). THE WELLINGTON COMPETITION. A SURPRISE WIN. After the hardest and fastest game seen on Athletic Park this season, University, last season’s champions and present competition leaders, went down to Petone, led by Mark Nicholls, by 14 points to (5. It was hectic and thrilling Rugby The result of this match makes the competition very interesting in that Atheltic are now only two points behind the leaders. The weather was real Rugby weather when Varsity and Petone took the field at Athletic sPark. Supporters of the villagers were there in force and there a gathering of nearly DUQU- From the kick-off, there -was only one team in it, and it was Petone. Varsity played their usual fast, open game the forwards opening up play and the backs relying on their pace. However they reckoned without the tactics of the astute Mark Nicholls, and before long the Varsity supporters realised what tactical genius was. The Petone forwards, a fast, hard and heavy lot, took complete charge and dominated the play. Coman was fed with the ball from nearly every scrum and the village backs tore into it with a will. AU the pace of the Varsity three-quarter line, Mackay, Ramson arid Eastwood, three athletes of note, failed to stop Elvy, Nicholls and Peterson, who gave the opposition a real gruelling. Elvy was the star back on the ground. He showed all the form of a few seasons back when he was the idol of the Canterbury fans, the form that gained him a place in the All Black team which visited Australia. Elvy made one particularly good run when he was given the ball by Nicholls on the half-way line, brushed aside his faster opponent, East wood, as the Varsity winger tackled him, then threw off Cormack, the full-back, to go over for a brilliant try. It was Elvy at his best and that best would have been useful to any representative team. ;

With the score 14—3 against them at half-time. Varsity set out to wipe off the deficit in the second spell. The students’ pack played- like men possessed, but the best the side could do was a penalty goal by Ramson. It was torrid forward play in this spell, features beiiig hard tackling and heavy

rucking. Many were the stoppages on account of injuries, and Carr, the powerful Petono wing-forward, was compelled to leave the field. But it was not rough play. Petone deserved their win. They fielded the type of forward Wellington is badly in need of to-day, and gave Varsity a real object lesson in hooking, line-out play and rucking. The only department in which the Varsity forwards shone was in dribbling in the loose.

The championship points now stand as follows Varsity 21, Athletic 19, Petono 18, Old Boys 17, Poneke 16, Oriental 11, Berhampore 10, Eastbourne 8, Marist 6, Wellington 4-