TAIHAPE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 123, 26 May 1936, Page 3

TAIHAPE

GENERAL NEWS Two special attractions will be held in the Town Hall, Taihape, to-morrow b (Wednesday). The annual woolwork i display in connection with the Taihape 0 branch of the W.D.F.U., will take place f in the afternoon, while th* big profes- C sional wrestling bout between Elliot ■ and Forsgren will be held at night, s ■ There will also be some xcrestliug at b ; the wool display as an added aitrac- t I tion. S’ 0 RUGBY FOOTBALL v ‘ HAl"l'.\l‘L' DEI'EAT OI.U BOYS ” ) s . Mautapu defeated Old Buys on No. ’ 2 field on Saturday by H points (two 0 ’ unconverted tries and one converted [, try) to 3 (an unconverted try) after a keenly-contested, but not very excit- | ( ing game. Old Boys displayed improved s I. form on their previous Saturday’s - showing and the Hautapu hack line was unable to function with thnt machine- A like precision that contributed so h largely towards the blue and blacks’ h crushing defeat of Mangaweka the pre- b vious week. After all a team can only play as well as the opposition allows t it, and Old Boys provided much stiffer k opposition than Alangaweka. ( The match was more even than the 1 scores indicate, and although Hautapu deserved their win. the inarpin of their superiority was not as great as the score (11 —>3 in their favour) would lead one to believe. On the general run of play there should not have been g more than five points (Jifferciice in the r scores. ’’ Old Boys had many pcnj.tv kicks at. 1 goal in the first spell within easy range, L but all their efforts were fruitless. It h was one of those days when the ball simply would not go over. Hautapu also I missed several kicks at goai. The teams cl were as follows: — n Hautapu (blue and bLu-k). —Grant, b Keats. Nicholson. Baird, Herbert, T_ Forbes, McLennan. Thompson, G. , Spooner. Powell, Boon, Scheele, Sisson, h Gilbert, Hall. n Old Boys (black and white).—Smith, A Weir. Steed man, Alan ni ng, Hagan, p Bremner. Duncan, O’Brien, Stevens, a. Toomey, Davey, O’(’allaghan. Abraham, f S. Spooner and Hitchcock. h Pirates 6 v. Huia 6 r Ou Saturday, Pirates withstood the first challenge lor the Black and While Cup, when they drew with Huia in a } . hard forward game, which also counted. jfor the championship. It was thought ■ that Pirates would suffer defeat at the ■ I hands of the Aiaori fiftetu, but the I Huia rearguard action was definitely ' quelled by the fast-breaking Pirate forwards. Territorially the advantage was ' with the holders, and had it not been for the cool defensive work of Heke- - nui, who possesses a wouderlul safe pair of bauds, the blacks would have > scored at least three more tries. The n : Huia Custodian will be hard to keep < out of the representative team this f • season. Pirates played their usual • tight game and the red backs did not I receive many opportunities to get. into . action, The game was very willing, . particularly in the tight, and on sev- • eral occasions tempers became decidedly frayed. At the termination of one ' melee a Huia forward was given his I marching orders. ’The outstanding forward o.n the paddock was Charles, who looks a “sitter’ ’ for the Wanganui represea' a lives. A tireless forward, who has a good pair of hands and also uses his head. He initiated practically all the black assaults II on. the Huia line, and was unfortunate that he did not score another try. As usual all the Pirate ruckmen played 11 well although they were pitted against e a heavier pa'ek. D. Deib.dge also ’’ played a good game, bis solid tackling upsetting the Huia. inside backs. Grabant played soundly at ball, but did '■ not send the ball out enough. Lloyd 0 got through some good defensive work, handling neatly. Jones, at second, did not get a great deal of the ball, and was unfortunate with a couple of attempts at goai when the ba l ! swerved away. AJcGonagle put in a couple of good gallops and was sound on defence. Keats, on the wing, did some sound tackling, but neither he nor Stevens saw much of the .bail. For Huia. the brothers Raukawa played well, IL Raukawa pulling his side out of some, awkward positions with well-judged line kicning. A new player for the reds was Wi Hape. who IS showed tons of pace on the wing. ft. | S was his speed which got him his try 6 for Huia. T. Chase, at centre, did not ,s get much chaiK-e with the Pirate for--11 wards on him all the time. All the same he did not plav as well as anticipated. However, his line-k : cking was good. Smith was the best of the Huia '■ forwards, and ably skippered his side. • v Afeldruni got through a lot of work in the tight as did Pine and B. Chase. 1 0 There were a lot of ie'avs in the e ‘ game through injuries, one of the Pir11 ate van men having to leave the field 13 with a nose injury. The final stages of the match were- played in twilight, k* the players playing by ear. Pirates (black).—Shepherd. Stevens.