TAIHAPE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 115, 18 May 1933, Page 11

TAIHAPE

REPRESENTATIVE FOOTBALL TAIHAPE V. WANGANUI The annual match between Taihape and Wanganui will be played at Taihape on Saturday and the prospects of the two teams are being freely discussed. Wanganui is sending up a strong team, including Bullock-Doug-las and Brisco (wingers), and the general opinion seems to be that the visitors will be victorious. Taihape, however, intend to maxe a great bid for victory and will have the advantage of playing on their own ground, which is vastly different from Spriggens Park. Hekenui, a former Taihape representative player, will appear in the role of full-back for Wanganui. The Taihape team will take the field as follows: D. Thompson; Smith, McKay and Chase; McLennan, Brogden (1st); Keegan; Kilkolly, Missen, Murphy, W. Thompson, Hall, Gabolinscy, McCarthy, Bellis (capt.). Reserves: Metekingi, Steedman, Gibbs, George, Keating. The above team should be able to give a good account of itself. D. Thompson is undoubtedly the best full-back in Taihape to-day and can be depended upon to fill the position satisfactorily. He has been going well lately and has the happy knack of extricating his side from difficult positions. Chase is regarded as the best threequarter in the district, and if he maintains his present form, Taihape should have no cause for complaint. Smith played a good game on the wing last Saturday, giving his best display of the season and gaining a place in the representative team. How he will fare against strong opposition in either Bullock-Douglas or Brisco remains to be seen. Smith, it will be remembered, was the hero of the Taihape team that defeated Wanganui at Taihape four years ago. He played centre-three-quarter on that occasion and gave a dazzling display. He has not risen, to such heights since that memorable match, but showed some glimpses of his old form on Saturday. McKay, Taihape’s centre-three-quar-ter for Saturday’s match, was a member of the New Zealand Maori team in 1930-31. He did not play football last year, but has shown form this season which stamps him as a player of considerable ability. McLennan and Brogden will fill the five-eighths positions, while Keegan has. been selected as half-back. The writer would prefer to see Brogden half-back and Keegan first five-eign Both are good players and gave a very creditable display in the trial mateh at Utiku last week-end, but there are many followers of the Rugby code in Taihape who consider that the position of these two players in the representative team should be reversed. However, the change can be made during the match if the captain deems it advisable. McLennan has been chosen to fill the position of second five-eighth. He played a sound game in this position last Saturday and can be depended upon to do his share of the work. A good forward pack has been chosen, the only surprise being the inclusion of Hall, who is a back, although he has been knqwn to play in the forwards. Hall has plenty of pace and may prove to be a very useful member of the vanguard. Kilkolly, Missen, Murphy, W. Thompson, McCarthy, Gabolinscy, and “Moke” Beiliss are the other Taihape forwards for Saturday. Beiliss is very fit and is certainly doing his best to stage a “comeback.” His generalship alone will mean good deal to his team. GabQlinscy played a great game in the trial match at Utiku and is a forward of more than average ability. Kilkolly is particularly good in the open and has given some good performances this season. Murphy, Missen. W. Thompson and McCarthy are solid grafters and seldom let up. The match should be an interesting one and a large crowd will doubtless be present to see the pick of Wanganui and Taihape in action. The coveted Pownall Trophy will be at stake. Mr. C. L. Mullany will referee the match.

The Taihape team Is requested to assemble at the Oval Domain this afternoon (Thursday), and at the Three Stars Hall this evening at 7.30 MAJESTIC THEATRE “Payment Deferred,” filmisation of one of London’s outstanding stage hits, will head the programme at the Majestic Theatre to-aay (Thursday). Known as the mystery drama with the most startling climax ever devised, “Payment Deferred” tells the story of a murderer who escapes detection for his own crime only be convicted later for a crime which he did not commit. The significant feature of the play, both in its London and New York productions, was the sensational performance of Charles Laugh ton as the middle-class London bank clerk who is driven to murder his rich nephew to save himself and his family from a debtor’s prison. It is this same Charles Laughton who enacts murderer in the film version. Among the picture’s dramatic highlights arc the scene in which the bank clerk poisons his nephew; the tense moment wLon his wife discovers his secret; his constant terror lest the body of his victim, buried in the garden, be discovered; the suicide of his wife, and the bitterly ironic episode in which the authorities seize the bank clerk for a murder of which he is innocent, but which he cannot explain without confessing his real crime.