RUGBY FOOTBALL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1939, Page 5

RUGBY FOOTBALL

I EASY WIN FOR SOUTHLAND. 1 - | WELLINGTON OUTCLASSED. I (By Telegraph—Press Association.) 1 WELLINGTON, This Day. I j Southland, holders of the Ranfurly I i Shield, maintained their unbeaten I Rugby football record of this season by I out-playing Wellington at Athletic ' Park yesterday afternoon by 16 points to 3. The home team were outclassed - in the second spell. Southland owed their victory to tigerish tackling by both forwards and backs. Lambourn, the Wellington hooker. secured the ball from the majority of the scrums, and Tindill sent the Wellington backs away time and again, only to see a Southland back come out of the blue to bowl the man with the ball off his feet with a flying tackle. Though Wellington had the advantage of a helpful northerly breeze in the first spell, Southland led by 3 points to nil at half-time. Early in the I game, Wesney, the Southland centrethreequarter, snapped up a dropped pass, and sent on to Sutherland, the winger, who kicked ahead, and Grace, the second five-eighths, with a rare I burst of speed, opened the scoring with . a try. wide out, which Wesney failed to convert. Early in the second spell, a SouthI land forward got offside, and Taylor l evened the scores with a penalty goal. [ After this it was all'-Southland. A I hard fight on the Wellington line saw I Ward, who was in the thick of every- [ thing, score Southland’s second try. I which Wesney converted with a good [ kick from well out. A little later, Tindill was penalised for not putting the ball fairly into the scrum, and Wesney, who had his kicking boots on, again put the ball over I the crossbar. The Ranfurly Shield holders, with their forwards working well, again attacked, and J. Purdue | shot the ball out to Saxton, and the Southland captain- was over the line before a defender could lay a hand on him. Wesney kicked his third goal, and Southland won by 16 points to 3. FIJIAN TEAM. DRAW PLAYED AT NELSON. NELSON, September 6. Playing the fourth match of their Dominion tour, the Fijian Rugby footballers met a combined team from Nelson and Golden Bay-Mootueka unions at Trafalgar Park this afternoon, and the result was a draw (6 all) with the honours of the game in favour of the visitors. In the first spell, the combined team slipped across in quick succession for two unconverted tries, McKay and the Nelson captain, Karsten, being the scorers. Drier conditions prevailed for the rest of the match, and the Fijians, showing renewed zest for the game, soon got on top of the combined team. It was only good tackling that kept them out. Nalase and Vorege scored tries, which were not converted. CANTERBURY DEFEATED. WIN FOR OTAGO. CHRISTCHURCH, September 6. The Otago Rugby team, depleted , after a strenuous tour of the North ( Island, surprised by beating Canter- ■ bury by 10 points to 3 at Lancaster ‘ I Park today. The visiting team was ' I without eight of its leading players and ( was reduced to playing a forward in ( ' half-back position, but it still had more , dash and spirit than Canterbury. N. A. Mitchell, All Black captain of ( 1938, was the outstanding back on the ( field, but it was D. Trevathan’s kick-

ing that really won the game for Otago. He potted a goal in the second half and put the result beyond reasonable doubt with a good penalty goal. The other Otago scorer was B. A. Tavlor, who scored a try in the first half. For Canterbury McAuliffe kicked a penalty goal. REPRESENTATIVE GAME. WAIRARAPA TEAM TO PLAY MANAWATU. The following is the Wairarapa senior team to play Manawatu at Palmerston North on Saturday next. The bus will leave Carterton at 9.30 o’clock: — Full-back, Fitzgerald (Carterton); three-quarters, Hogan, Brown (Carterton), W. Peterson (Red Star); fiveeighths, Brunton (Greytown), Hatton (Old Boys); half, Denbee (Old Boys); i forwards, Stringfellow (Greytown), Percy (Masterton), Ross (Gladstone),! Humphries (Greytown), H. Matheson (Carterton), J. Walker (Carterton), ■ Mitchell (Old Boys), R. Howard (Red ; Star). Reserves: R. O'Callaghan (Old : Boys), E. Thompson (Carterton); for- ; wards, K. Joblin (Gladstone), A. Ma- ' theson (Carterton).