SOCCER.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 851, 26 August 1933, Page 10

SOCCER.

Thistle Meet Technical in English Cup. FIRST-ROUND GAMES. Thistle, Western and Nomads survived to-day’s first round of the English Cup knock-out competition. Rangers. with a bye, also enter the semifinal. All to-day’s winners scored by a comfortable margin. THISTLE v. TECHNICAL 0.8. The teams were; Thistle—M. Mitchell, 11. Johnston, G. Sutherland, J. Paton, A. Sutherland, A. Walker, G. Clements, I. Sutherland, R. Adam, J. Bruce, G. Walker. Technical Old Boys—A. Bissett, F. Neate, ~A. Milne, D. Weir. M. Gordon, W. Clark, F. Craggs, J. Mallinson, G. Smith, K. Greenwood, T. Wells. Early, G. Walker, close in, struck the Technical upright, the ball bouncing clear. With Technical attacking. Mitchell was in action to Walls and Smith. A. Walker relieved a period of Technical attacking, and when G. Walker crossed I. Sutherland was handy and scored easily. Thistle 1, Technical 0. Within a minute Bruce just beat Bissett to a rolling ball. The ’keeper fell, and Bruce “ walked ” the ball home. Thistle 2, Technical o.j Walls was slow to a good cross from Craggs and Thistle cleared. Playing attractive, combined football, Thistle took up the running again. Bissett was under fire, saving smartly from I. Sutherland at short range. Technical breke away through Weir and only a smart one-handed save by Mitchell kept Thistle’s goal intact. Half-time score: Thistle 2, Technical 0. Thistle were first away and Adam struck the upright. Then a miss by Bissett let G. Walker in for a ** gift ” goal. Thistle 3, Technical 0. G. Walker scored again within a minute, forcing the ball from Bissett’s grasp as the ’keeper lay on the ground. I. Sutherland was next —an easy goal. Thistle 5, Technical. Mitchell was drawn when Johnston let Greenwood through, but the Technical inside left missed an open goal. Shortly after Gordon missed a “ sitter ” —two goals thrown away. A spell of ragged play followed. Then Adam beat Weir and shot past the out-coming Bissett. Thistle 6, Technical 0. Technical’s goal had several close calls before Clements added another. The game ended: THISTLE 7 TECHNICAL 0.8 0 Referee: Mr J. Cawtheray. WESTERN v. ST ALBANS. Western kicked off, but St Albans were first to attack. Moving rapidly upfield, they harassed the Western defence and forced a corner. G. Colville punched clear and Western were away in a great combined movement that ended with E. Colville trying with a rattling shot. St Albans had the advantage of the sun, and their front line was working well, so that for a time Western were hard pressed. A sudden Western raid found the opposing defence spread-eagled, and Whittington, boring in from the wing, placed well past A. Cullen. Western 1, St Albans 0. Spirited play followed, fft Albans holding the advantage, but unable to finish off the attack. Western now took a turn, and, after a hotly sustained offensive, E. Colville registered from close in. Half-time score: Western 2, St Albans 0. Western were at work early in the second spell and A. Cullen was in action against several hot drives. Gordon went away on the St Albans left and taking the ball smartly upfield he sent across a clinking shot. G. Colville handled this ball but it struck A. M’Millan, the Western left half, and rebounded through the goal. Western 2, St Albans 1. A miss by Dryden let E. Colville through again. Western 3. St Albans 1. End to end play followed until Western forced a corner and E. Colville headed through. The game ended: WESTERN 4 ST ALBANS 1 Referee: Mr S. Doree. NOMADS v. LINWOOD. Rinwood kicked off and for the first ten minutes even exchanges ruled, both ’keepers being called on to save. Nomads opened the scoring when A. Trotter completely beat T. Berry from a neat pass from H. Stoneman. Nomads 1, Din wood 0. Dinwood started to swing the ball about. All the Dinwood backs participated in a great combined movement from which W. Wilson drove home from close in. Nomads 1, Dinwood 1. Dinwood again looked , like scoring when W. Thomas worked the ball downfleld and shot. The ball bounced clear, but J. Gibbs drove past. There was much amusement when T. Berry went for everything through the Nomads' forward line. The first spell ended in midfield with the score: Nomads 1, Rinwood 1. Earlj- in the second spell Nomads received two free kicks, but Dinwood continued to press, Thomas and Wilson often proving dangerous. Nomads pressed for a while, but poor shooting ruined many opportunities. After dominating play for a quarter of an hour Nomads took the lead when F. Adonis followed the ball through. Nomads 2, Dinwood 1. Immediately after C. Sharr centred for Trotter to drive home. Nomads 3, Dinwood 1. Nomads again increased their lead when D. Douglas registered. Nomads 4. Dinwood 1. Dinwood made a great effort, but were repulsed, C. Sharr adding another for Nomads. Nomads 5, Dinwood 1. Nomads were attacking when the game ended: NOMADS S LINWOOD 1 Referee: Mr J. Crewe. ENGLISH PA BE CURTAIN-RAISER. A Canterbury fourth grade team defeated a West Coast combined secondary schools team by 5 goals to 1 at English Park to-day. The game was much more even than the scores indicate. The visitors were on top for half the second spell, but A. M’Kenzie, Canterbury goalkeeper, helped to keep the score down. R. Smith, inside-left, scored three goals for Canterbury, and T. Collins, outsideleft, and C. Adee, inside-right, one each. R Patterson, outside-left, scored for West Coast. Mr H. Weatherhead refereed. Match With Auckland Not Arranged. The Canterbury Football Association has been unsuccessful in its efforts to arrange a match between Canterbury and Auckland teams. The Auckland team passed through Christchurch yesterday morning on Its way to meet Otago at Dunedin to-day for the English Football Association's trophy. The team will play Westland on the West Coast next Wednesday. The Canterbury Association was informed early this week that it would not b© convenient for Auckland to fit in a Christchurch match between the Dunedin and West Cpast games. The matter was further discussed at the Christchurch railway station yesterday morning. however, when the opinion of the Auckland officials was that too much strain would be imposed upon the men if they had to play three representative games in five days. The team will return from Dunedin on Monday, spend MondPay night in Christchurch, go on to Greymouth on Tuesday, play on Wednesday, and return to Christchurch to catch the ferry steamer for the north on Thursday.