HAWKE'S BAY DEFEAT WANGANUI BY 11 TO 0.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 31 August 1908, Page 5

HAWKE'S BAY DEFEAT WANGANUI BY 11 TO 0.

ACCIDENTS TO WANGANUI MEN

HOGAN'S LEG BROKEN. (Per Press Association.)

_ NAPIER^ August 30/ Ihe. representative match Wariganui v • Hawke s Bay was played on the v Recreation Ground .this afternoon and resulted m a win for Hawke's Bay by 11 points to nil. The day was beautifully fe a +i. \ grou£d iri conation, thojigh rather on the hard side Hawke s Bay won the toss and played with a strong breeze and sun in their SEr 111' 4 W^~ anuif were kept-cfc^iriu-vrZ £ n ■ c defence during the first :half. but it must be admitted that under the adverse c,rcumst?.nces they played the better football. The game was of a scrambling nature in the first half Hanganui showing more combination' and^in^ mQ re precise; in their moveS^M *H" Wl^l /'«**. •;; Hawke's -Bay^sjirst score.-dame about from a mark secured by Wall, and which was converted by /he playS' SI otner score was from a scrum' on" Wariganui s imerßenwick secured and passed to Walshe, and from him the^ball to Kenyon, who threaded his. way through the opposition and grounded besxde the posts. Wall converted.- ---; A t pe■ ■ ended, without further score Unchanging ends, the majority expectm^;^ 5 a"F\ nui>win by a handsome margin. Hawke's Bay's play, however, waa a revelation to their ; BUpuorters. rihey never gave their opoonents a chance, arid had them penned ~uo almost all through, the half. The only score was^atry by Wall, after a brilliant bout of passing. Symes failed.-to increase. Hawke's Bay played a^beautiivl c?, game and many chances were nulhned by their selfishness arid overeagerriess,.. Wanganui were ' h&rer' dangerous and were only over the half way ■lme five times, v Seeling effected some prexty saves,, getting his side' out of trouble time and again. . He and Abbott tried shots at goal from penalties but were unsuccessful. The game thus ended in a win for Hawke's Bay by 11 points to nil. -,-.-B. m McKenzie, Wairarapa, was a. most -emcient referee. , . \

About five minutes after the start kL P y^ a Ost re Srettable accident happened. Wanganui were forced and from the succeeding kick;off; the .ball came to T Symes. Hawke's Bay's fullback... Hogan tried-.to intercept Symes' kick and the. latter's foot caught and the splintering noise which- folio Wed plainly denoted a broken leg/- The members of St. John's Ambulance Brigadei who attend all matches, arid whose services are greatly 'appreciate* by the players, attended to the pufferer, and alter making Hogan comfortable removed him to the hospital in the ambu- '?? cc- ,The occurrence was purely accidental and was greatly regretted by ™e + teams and the spectators- alik£ Souter filled; the vacancy and. Gibbons took Patpn Si place later on, the latter >in^rendere<^wiable to cpjay owing to an m]ury to his leg. : ' S