OKAIAWA JUNIOR TEAM

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1933, Page 10

OKAIAWA JUNIOR TEAM

THE TARANAKI CHAMPIONS.

REVIEW OF PAST ACHIEVEMENTS.

The Okaiawa junior Rugby team will be presented to-night with the trophies won in connection with the Taranaki junior Rugby football championship. The presentation will be made by the president or chairman of the Taranaki Rugby Union. The juniors have a very creditable record, and when the players go up to senior Okaiawa has every prospect of fielding a very good team. The juniors have been for, the past few years under the coaching and training of Mr. W. Johnston, who has taken a keen interest in his fifteen and has spared no effort to bring the players to a high standard. This is the second occasion that the Okaiawa junior team has won the Taranaki championship. The first was in 1900. The teams, however, in the meantime have been performing well although not in the finals. The 1900 junior team contained many splendid players, some of whom were afterwards to make history in representative and international football. Perhaps the most conspicuous was Jim O’Sullivan, who became a member of the 1905 All Black team. Other members of the juniors of 1900 were C. Johnstone, N. Crocker, F. Howard, T. Wells, D. Edwards, Pi Katene, R. Johnstone, Kaarere, Tioma, D. Ryan, P. Brown, H. Cleaver, Tutu, S. Cleaver and W. Carroll. W. Cleaver was the captain of the team and the late Mr. A. Lees was the selector.

The Gibson Banner has been won by Okaiawa four times in the past 12 years, in 1921, 1922, 1932 and 1933. The 1921 team comprised T. Smith (capt.), Morehu, Tuki, Rangi, P. Linn, P. Cameron, K. Meyers, D. Johnston,P. Duggan, Heke, A. Guy, B. Cameron, G. Hollis, C. Martin, Manu, L. James, W. Davis and B. Lumsden. Mr. L. J. Walsdorf was selector. The 1922 team was L. James (capt), L. Castles, Rangi, H. Rudkin, C. McDonald, G. Hollis, K. Meyers, P. Linn, Tuki, H. Manu, H. Griffin, C. Martin, M. Clarke, S. Radford, A. Griffin, P. Cameron, Heke and M. Wright. Mr. Walsdorf was selector.

The 1932 juniors put up a creditable record and won the southern division, also being runner-up to Toko in the final. Of the 16 matches, played 14 were won, one was drawn and one was lost. The points scored were 204 and those against 61. The. team consisted -of D. Blair, R. James, G. Hooper, R. Wallis, T. Nuku, W. Good, Pi Katene, O. Collins, R. Thomas, H. Thomas, D. Green, Doug. McCallum, D. Skipper, H. Jackson, R. Hooper, S. Tippett, Clem Blair and Tom Guy. The 1933 team’s record is 14, matches played, .13 won and 1 lost. The points scored were 294, with 61 against,' an average of 21 and 4 respectively per match. The 1933 team consisted of S. Tippett, D. Skipper, D. Green, H. Thomas, R. Thomas, W. Henry, O. Collins, A. Cleaver, D. Kara, T. Guy, S. Cleaver, P. Toro, T. Toro, ! H. Wards, W. Good, L. Slinger, P. Katene, R. Hooper, Ora and E. Guy. In seven-a-side games the \ Okaiawa juniors have been very successful. In 1929 the team won four contests, the Lovell and Christmas Shield at Manutahi, Hikaka Cup at, Oeo, Alton Cup at Alton and the Mokoia Settlers’ Shield at Mokoia. In 1933 the team again won the Manutahi contest, the Whittle Shield at Rahotu and the Morse Cup at Patea. Many excellent footballers have passed through the ranks of the Okaiawa Football Club and its record is one of which the district is justly proud. That the record of the future will be as good as that of the past is the confident hope of every football enthusiast of Okaiawa.

TE NGUTU LADIES’ GOLF.

L.G.U. MEDAL ROUND ON TUESDAY.

The ladies of Te Ngutu Golf Club will play a L.G.U. medal round on Tuesday. The draw is: Mrs. Treweek v. Miss E. O’Dowd, Miss Mary O’Dowd v. Mrs. Betts, Miss Hutchinson v. Mrs. Penny, O’Sullivan v. Mrs. J. Barclay, Mrs. Fraser v. Mrs. Meuli, Miss Melville v. Mrs. B. Barclay, Miss C. Sutherland v. Oldfield, Miss G. Preece v. Mrs. Hollis, Miss N. Sutherland V. Mrs. Crocker, Mrs. Good v. Miss M. Joyce, Miss Audrey Betts v. Miss Cameron, Miss Washer v. Miss Anderson, Mrs. Bolger v. Mrs. Woods, Mrs. O’Sullivan V. Mrs. Sherwood, Mrs. Luxton v. Mrs. L. Preece, Miss Alice Betts v. Mrs. Mack, Mrs. McIntyre v. Miss Beauchamp, Mrs. Harris v. Mrs. Lees, Miss Lunam v. Mrs. Malone, Mrs. Robertson v. Miss J. Joyce, Mrs. Sharp <v. Miss Maggie O’Dowd, Mrs. Struthers v. another.

WAVERLEY GOLF PRESENTATION.

MR. AND MRS. BLACKISTON LEAVE

Prior to play on Saturday afternoon the members of the Waverley Golf Club farewelled Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Blackiston, who are shortly leaving the district. ~ , . Mr. George Spratt, vice-president ot the club, in making a presentation to Mr. and Mrs. Blackiston, said they had been members of the club since their arrival at Waverley and during the past three years Mr. Blackiston had been president. Mrs. Blackiston was secretary of the ladies’ club for the present season. Their leaving Waverley would be a great loss as both had worked unceasingly in the interests of the club. Mr. Blackiston had bean ever ready to assist his committee and was responsible for introducing an improved system of keeping the handicaps. Mrs. Handley, the ladies’ president, handed Mr. Blackiston a silver cigarette box inscribed and mounted with a golf ball. Mrs. Blackiston was presented with a brass vase and a pair of brass candlesticks.

OPERA HOUSE TALKIES. JESSIE MATTHEWS AT HAWERA. “There Goes the Bride,” which will be screened finally at the Hawera Opera House to-night, is the story of a runaway French bride who, rather than marry her pompous fiance, departs for Paris, where en route she meets exciting adventure and real romance. Jessie Matthews, who dominates the picture, is a sheer delight, for she brings to the screen every ounce of the personality which made her a star of revue. Full of vivacity, pertness and fun, helped by catchy music, she dances her way through this merriest of comedies. Some hundreds of extras were employed in an elaborate ballroom sequence, in which the Savoy Orpheans played the music. ‘The Warrior’s Husband” will be presented at the Grand Theatre, Hawera, to-morrow and Wednesday.