DUFF CUP COMPETITION
SENIOR SOCCER MATQHES THISTLE RETAINS LEADERSHIP. STRATFORD ONE POINT BEHIND. Duff Cup competition matches for senior Taranaki Association football teams were continued on Saturday. Thistle beat Moturoa by five goals to nil, Albion beat Hawera by one goal to nil and Stratford claimed a default win from Manaia. The Stratford team waited on the Stratford ground until 3.45 pm. but the Manaia team did not arrive. The starting time should have been 2.45 p.m. As a result of Saturday’s matches the relative positions of the leading teams on the points ladder has been altered, Stratfprd displacing Hawera, which after the last series of games a fortnight ago shared the leadership with Thistle. Hawera is now third and Albion has taken fourth place from Moturoa. The points are as follows: —
Pts Ch. P. W. D. L. for ag. pts Thistle .... 4 3 1 0 7 1 7 Stratford* .... 4 2 2 0 6 4 6 Hawera .... 4 2 1 1 17 6 5 Albion .... 4 1 1 2 2 7 3 Moturoa .. .... 4 1 0 3 8 13 2 Manaia* .... 4 0 1 3 1 10 1 /'Stratford beat Manaia by default.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 August 1935, Page 12
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194DUFF CUP COMPETITION Taranaki Daily News, 19 August 1935, Page 12
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