SOCCER.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 833, 5 August 1933, Page 10

SOCCER.

Technical Extend Western in Hard Game. hurley shield matches. Likelj' to have an important bearing on the championship result, the Western v. Technical Old Boys match, at English Park to-day, produced hard and interesting football. Adopting aggressive tactics, Technical, although facing a stiff breeze, led 1-0 at the interval. A penalty goal levelled the scores, and two more—the first apparently from an off-side position—gave Western a 3-1 win. Positions of Teams. After to-day’s matches, Western, with ten games played, lead for the Hurley Shield with sixteen points. Thistle, played eight, are second with thirteen, and Nomads, played ten, third with twelve points. WESTERN v. TECHNICAL 0.8. The teams were: — Western—G. Colville. S. Cawtheray, W. Kelly, R. Henderson, G. Roberts, A. S. Ellis, W. Whittington, J. Haley, A. M’Millan, W. Ives. T. Nelson. Technical Old Boys—A. Bissett, F. Neate A. Milne, D. Weir, M. Gordon, W. Clark, F. Craggs, J. Mollinson, G. Smith. K. Greenwood, T. Walls. ( Facing a fairly stiff breeze, the youunger and lighter Technical team had their share of play in a brisk opening. Cawtherav ended a spell of Technical attack with a long centre-field clearance, and Nelson and Ives shot, just wide. Smart work by Gordon took plav to Western’s goalmouth, where Colville fended Gordon's closein drive. Despite Western’s advantage in weight, Technical were dominating the game with their aggressive tactics. Ellis was injured in Technical’s territory and before play was halted Craggs streaked through and beat Colville with an unstoppable angle shot. Technical 1. Western 0. Ellis went off, but resumed after receiving attention. Nelson looked likely ten yards from Technical’s goal, but Milne smothered his shot. Roberts shot over, and the spell ended: Technical 1, Western 0. Penned up for a while. Western eventually took play down. They were pressing when Neate handled in the penalty area, and from the spot-kick M’Millan levelled the scores. Technical 1, Western 1. Then Whittington, who appeared to be yards off-side, ran in and scored on the cross. Western 2, Technical 1. Both goals were under fire in hard, even play and only good keeping kept the scoring down. In a Western raid, M’Millan back-passed to Roberts who. with yards to work in, scored easilj\ Western 3, Technical 1. Even exchanges continued until the game ended: WESTERN 3 TECHNICAI 1 Referee: Mr W. Pennington. NOMADS v. LINWOOD. Ltmvood kicked off, and a determined rush by "Wilson ended in Gordon kicking over. Nomads were kept defending for seme time. Relief came when Sharr centred, a good save being executed by Bremford, Linwood's goalie. A smart rush by Nomads saw Douglas centre for Trotter to place a nice goal. Nomads 1, Linwood 0. Nomads were shewing combination, and from a solid rush M’Williams goaled. Nomads 2, Linwood 0. Sharr then sent down another shot which just missed. P. Allen had a bright chance of goal ing, but he hesitated toe- long, the ball going out. Linwood were showing better form and had Nomads defending hard. Nomads were penalised and P. Allen goaled. Nomads 2, Linwood 1. Douglas centred to Adams, who goaled for Nomads. Nomads 3, Linwood 1. A few minutes later Adams goaled again. Nomads 4, Linwood 1. Linwood came again with some bright play, Rollins almost scoring, but Shaw saved well. Half-time score: Nc-mads 4, Linwood 1. Play was up and down the field for the first fifteen minutes. Linwood attacked strongly, good work in the forwards corning from Thomas, Gordon and Allen. Good sent down a hard shot at goal, Shaw stopping cleanly. Bremford was kept busy in goal for Linwood, clearing three successive attempts. Gordon commenced a fine movement, which ended in Thomas beating Shaw for a goal. Nomads 4. Linwood 2. Wilson centred. Rollins heading a shot which just missed the goal. A corner to Linwood had Nomads in trouble, the ball eventually landing on top of the net. Nomads were defending when the game ended. NOMADS 4 LINWOOD 2 Referee: Mr J. Cawtheray. THISTLE v. RANGERS. Thistle kicked off against the wind, with ten men. After ten minutes’ play Rangers took up the attack, E. Barnes testing Mitchell with a fine angle drive. Despite their handicap Thistle took the offensive, R. Ada mscoring. Thistle 1. Rangers 0. Thistle came again. G. Clements sent across a high shot which gave A. Wilder some difficulty to clear. A few minutes later A. Sutherland shot downfield, for J. Bruce to snap the ball home. Thistle 2, Rangers 1. Rangers brightened up, but they made too much allowance for the strong wind. H. Goddard and A. Wilson were prominent on attack. Rangers forced a corner just before the interval. Half-time- score: Thistle 2, Rangers 0. • The second spell started briskly with some fine short passing movements by both sides. In a Thistle raief Bruce had Wilder fully extended to punch over a high shot. Thistle were showing a definite .superiority with a close combination, Clements finishing off the movements with dangerous shooting. Rangers looked like scoring when C. Falloon broke away, but G. Sutherland stopped him. Rangers returned, A. Wilson scoring. Mitchell had no chance. Thistle 2, Rangers 1. From a corner, .A. Sutherland headecP through to make the score Thistle 3, Rangers 3. Rangers were attacking when the game ended: THTSTLE 3 RANGERS 1 Referee—Mr E. B. Harris.

GREYMOUTH MATCHES. (Special to the “ Star.”) GREYMOUTH. August 5. To-day’s Soccer results were: Senior Grade (Westland Cup)—Dobson 3, Runanga 1; Greymouth 4, Taylorville 3. Junior Grade—Greymouth 2, Taylorville 1; Runanga 4, Dobson 0. Third grade: Greymouth 0, Technical B 0. WEST COAST TEAM. The following team has been selected to represent the West Coast against Buller in the Soccer match for the Peter Dawson Cup, to be played on Saturday next: —Goal: Timlin. Fullbacks: Wicks, Marley. Half-backs: Cowe, Pattinson, Marshall. Forwards: Crowe, Shortt, Malpann, Anderson, Coutts. Emergency: Maughan. Referee: Mr A. D. Hamill.