COLLEGE WIN.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 829, 1 August 1933, Page 11

COLLEGE WIN.

Fast Forward Game Against Otago B.H.S. WEIGHT AND BACKING UP. With an advantage of nearly one stone per man, the Christ's College forwards dominated play in the jubilee match against the Otago Boys’ High School on the College ground yesterday afternoon. College won by eight points to nil because they were more even and better combined, back and forward. The game did not provide a good exhibition of team combination, but served to show up many fine individual players. Such juvenile giants as Fisher, Hay and Orbell played a great part in wearing down the Otago pack, who lost their thrust in the later stages of the game and were pushed about the field from the scrums. A. R. W. Ormond, the College captain, showed what fast breaking away and backing up meant. That was a feature of the play of the < ollege vanguard. They won most o'f the scrums and broke up smartly to join in the attack when it swung their f: ay- Their loose rushes took a power of stopping, and they kept up at full pressure all the way. Several of the ( ollege forwards were head and shoulders above the visitors in the lineouts, and had only to tip the l?al! back to give their fast and versatile backs another canter. The forwards were heavy enough to crash their wavthrough, in any case, and they gave many demonstrations of that to a plucky opposition. For a fast winging- forward there was r.o one on the field to measure up to Ormond. Gifted with a keen sense of anticipation, he was always ready to seize on an opening. His positional Play on defence was clever. Georgeson, one of the Otago players on the side of the 3-2-3 scrum, had him fairly well marked, but was scarcely his equal in all-round play. Crisp, the College half, had the advantage of playing behind the better pack of forwards. He was always at hand to revive rushes which broke down, and generally was very sound. The honours of the half-back duel, however, should go to M’Kay, of Otago, who played a wonderful game against heavy odds. Otago Backs Harassed. Individually, the Otago backs were a potential danger, but collectively their movements were upset by the fast breaking away of the College forwards and the solid defence of the inside hacks, who very often smothered the passing bouts before they reached the wingers. The Otago thrust came from Davidson and .Mahony, the two fiveeighths, both of whom aired a useful swerve and were the pivot of most of the attacks. They stood up to a great deal of hard work in marking Pearson and Thompson, both of whom were fast and heady players who handled a great deal of leather. Pearson had a real day out. He is a • apital first five-eighth, and gathered in some almost untakeable passes, though generally Crisp's transfers were welltimed. Pearlson used the blind side effectively, especially when the hardrunning Harpur was on that flank. The first try came from that ruse. Harpur was .well marked after that, but the l>ig winger turned on a tricky swerve and generally got as far as he wanted to by sheer weight and pace. The second College try went to Broad, the other winger, who flashed up to take a pass from Flower after a dazzling rush, and made a straight run for the line, passing several opponents in the process. Payne, who marked Broad, was the better winger on the Otago side. Coupland, Gore and Harkess were the bf-st of the Otago pack in the tight work, and Coupland, always up with the play, started several dangerous rushes. -They did not eet the same support from the rest of the pack as did the College leaders.