OLD BOYS BEAT INGLEWOOD

Taranaki Daily News, 13 June 1932, Page 4

OLD BOYS BEAT INGLEWOOD

FAST, HARD-FOUGHT, EVEN GAME

OLD BOYS’ BACKS DECIDE MATCH. Old Boys defeated Inglewood in a. fast, even game at Inglewood by 17 points (four tries, one, converted, and a penalty goal) to 9 (two tries and a penalty goal). It was the first time Old Boys had defeated Inglewood at Inglewood. The game was mostly the Old Boys’ backs against the Inglewood forwards. The Old Boys’ backs made many brilliant passing rushes and all played well, with Mace, Josephs and Tippins shining. The Inglewood forwards could not be singled out as all played well and made several great forward rushes.

Priar was very safe at full-back for Old Boys, while Inglewood missed Hunt at full-back, though Thomason played a fair game. Corkill and Ross were the outstanding Inglewood backs. All the Old Boys’ forwards stuck well to their job and worked'hard, although at times they were overwhelmed. The score at half-time was six all and later, when it reached nine all, the crowd grew very excited: Towards the end Old Boys’ backs told the tale and scored twice, but in the last ten minutes Inglewood were attacking strenuously and were nearly over on several occasions.

Both sides had an even share of the ball from the scrums, Inglewood playing the 2 —3—2 and Old Boys 3—3 —2. The teams took the field as follow: —

Old Boys: Priar; Tippins, Rutherford, Josephs; Fookes, Mace; Olsen; Mace, Fookes; Tiplady, Evans, Luxton; McLean, Clark, Insull.

Inglewood: Thomason;. O’Byrne, Me-. Roberts, Ross; Cowley, O’Keefe; Corkill; Lawrence, Evans;- Scanlon, Baxter, Devereux; Christensen, Major; Coles.

Old Boys pressed but a force relieved Inglewood. From a kick by Corkill Inglewood followed up fast to catch Josephs, but Priar relieved. Inglewood worked back and had Old Boys defending till K. Fookes started a passing rush in which all the backs took part for the ball to return to Fookes, who just managed to cross the line as he was tackled. Priar failed to. convert the try. Inglewood forced twice. Play was very fast, first one side gaining the advantage and then the other. McLean broke away and from off-side, play by an Inglewood forward Priar landed a good : goal. From the' kick off the Inglewood forwards started a great rush for Major to cross the line. Inglewood gained the length of the field with a great forward rush and had Old Boys defending. O’Keefe was nearly over. From a scrum Corkill whipped round and scored a try which Thomason failed to. convert.

In the second half of the game there was hard, even play, in neutral territory till Mace started a passing rush for Josephs to score a great try. Priar failed to add the extra points. Inglewood pressed hard and were awarded a free kick and Corkill goaled, making the score 9 all.. The crowd was now very excited. From hard play in Inglewood’s twenty-five' Mace cut in neatly to let Insull work his' way over the line to score in. a scramble. Inglewoo<j worked back with forward rushes and Thomason found the corner .with a great kick. Inglewood pressed hard and after two five-yard ’scrums were awarded a free kick, but Corkill failed to goal with a good attempt. Old Boysgained ground with a dash by Tippins and from a struggle in the corner they passed right across the field for Josephs to score in the other corner, Priar added the extra points with a great goal. Inglewood kept Old Boys pinned to their line and were nearly over on several

Old Boys 17 Inglewood 9 Mr. Nodder refereed.

STRATFOIRD-CELTIC DRAW

NOT VERY SPECTACULAR GAME.

THE BACKS STILL NOT WORKED.

Not a great deal of excitement could be raised in the Stratford-Celtic match at Stretford, which was drawn, until the closing stages. Then play, especially in the forward division, became fast and furious with scores even and each team striving for victory. It was a splendid finish, but the greater part of the match was close and dull for the large crowd. It was held up frequently for injuries and infringements, and there must have been nearly a score of free kicks. The scores (a try to a penalty kick) very : fairly represented the merits of the teams. In all sixteen extra minutes had to be played because of time' lost through injuries. Once again bad tactics and faults that were persevered with kept the ball almost continuously away from outside backs and robbed the game of much interest which could have been created. The teams were:— ,

Celtic: Young; McMillan, Oarryer, Lash; Cook, Henry; Lawrence; Penniall, Johnson, P. Ford, Ritter, F. Ford, J. Walker, Beardmore, T. Walker. Stratford: Collins; Blackmore, E. Walter, Grace;. Haughton, Sangster; Taylor; Smith, J. Young, Hinton, Fryday, McGuinness, J. Walter, R. Young, Fastier. The first sensational incident after a hard start was a spectacular run .by J. Walker with Beardmore in attendance. The pair neatly eluded Collins, and a straight-out race ensued for. the line. Collins was faster than Walker and managed to catch the Celtic forward as he threw himself over.the line. The referee did not allow the try. The next quarter of an hour was rather uninteresting, but at the end of that time Young kicked a fine penalty goal against the wind. A couple of forces were made by Celtic, aftei - which Penniall had to retire with an injured leg, C. Ford taking his place. Both teams were playing with considerably more vigour, but neither could make a definite impression until just on halftime, when Hinton shot out of the scrummage and fell over the ball, which had been kicked almost to touch in goal. A try was awarded and the spell ended with the scores 3 all.

On resuming Celtic had the advantage of the breeze, and a magnificent line kick by Young advanced his team well into Stratford's territory, .Smith, Hinton and Walter drove them back, but Celtic came again and only by hard slogging did Stratford finally get back to half-way. There was nothing to enthuse about in the ensuing play. Sangster kept cutting in, a fact to which the Celtic backs were fully alive, yet Sangster would not alter his tactics and the outside men were starved. Taylor at half also erred in the same direction. Celtic backs seldom got going because they were too much concerned in watching their opponents. Moreover, they consistently dropped passes. Thus the crowd was treated to a tight game with little to keep it interesting. The last twelve minutes produced infinitely better play. Stratford forwards made great efforts to score, but all they gave was returned in kind, and the game swept from one end to the other. Both packs played as though inspired during the closing stages, when Stratford

ranged about Celtic’s line sending in repeated attacks. Despite the utmost endeavour, however, no score could be gained. Stratford 3 Celtic 3 Mr. N. H. Tunnicliffe refereed,