RUGBY FOOTBALL
SHEILD MATCH RAGITAIKI 8, TE PUKE 3. Rangitaiki resisted the third Hnrinui Shield challenge of the season On Saturday at Matata when it beat Te Puke by 8 points to 3 in a fairly even game in which the.Te Puke pack and the Rangitaiki back line were the dominant This was* the strongest bid for the shield that Te Puke has made for some time.
Te Puke did not settle down early, ana-Rangitaiki Dressed them back. Soon Paul Tania’ burst through and opened the account with a good try which Was converted and Rangitaiki led by five points to nil. Te Poke livened* up and good runs by Ahoibiro and Kelly looked dangerous. Kelly was unsupported or a try might have followed, Then free kicks to Rangitaiki when the Te Poke forwards lifted in scrums eased the position. A second try by Moore followed and Rangitaiki led by eight points to halftime.
In the. second spell the game became faster. Stevens made a good break and Wilson ran to the line. He was hurt in a tackle but returned. Satherly then took a free kick and goaled from the 25 to make the score eight points to three in Rangitaiki’s favour. Te Puke for the remainder of the spell bustled Rangitaiki, but failed to add to their score, and the game resulted Rangitaiki 8, Te Poke 3.
In the junior curtain raiser Rang?!* taiki 9, beat Te Puke 3.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TPT19380719.2.15
Bibliographic details
Te Puke Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 57, 19 July 1938, Page 2
Word Count
241RUGBY FOOTBALL Te Puke Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 57, 19 July 1938, Page 2
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Te Puke Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.