RUGBY FOOTBALL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17074, 30 August 1917, Page 6

RUGBY FOOTBALL.

INTER-COLLEGE TOURNAMENT,

WANGANUI v. CHRIST'S COLLEGE ■ ._ ■ s

A DRAWN GAME

(Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 29

The final match in the Inter-Col-legiate football tournament resulte-1 in a drawn game '■ three points each) between Christ-:-: Co'!ege and Wanganui Collegiate School. Kennedy scored a try <or V. t-i>.ganui and Hargreaves kicked d penalty go.il I'or Christ's College. ( x.rist's C-u----lege forwards dominate J the pl\y for fully three par'.s of the game and gave their backs plenty of chances, but the passing was ' very feeble indeed. The Wanganui backs Played a far more steady game, and supported their forwards much better than Christ's College backs did their packs. The points scored in the tournament were: Christ's College 1-A; Wanganui 1; Wellington

Ihe following team, has been chosen to represent too Rugby Union in tho matoi against the hockey players on Cook s Gardens on Saturday afternoon • lull-back. Treadwell (Wanganui Old Boys) ; three-quarters, Strachan (Wanganui Old Boys), Campion (Wanganui Old Boys), Lynch (KaJerau);" fiveejghths Williams (Kaierau), Svenson (Pirates)j wing, Beard (Kaierau); forwards, Hulme (Kaierau), Rountree (Kaierau), Stewart (College) Fleming (Pirates), Mouatt (Wanganui OBf Green (Wanganui O.B.), McGregor (Kaierau). Emergencies : Forwards • Hare (College), and Earles (Pirates);' back, Green, (Kaierau), and Delves (Pirates.)

Great interest is being taken in the match. Both teams are In great fettle and a hard and fast spectacular game is assured.. Although the Wanganui reps, aro m great- form, and are of the age when the best can be got out or youth, th c hockey * boys will consist mostlyof old Rugby players, and they are f m good condition from this season's matches of their own association lh« proceeds of the match will co towards swelling the funds for Baby No. o, the Swankers' candidate. Further particulars will be given in the ensuing editions of this paper. One thing is an assured fact, and that is that lovers of Rugby will witness one of the best games ever played on Cook's Gardens. ;