RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20916, 22 September 1939, Page 11

RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL

STAG TROPHY TIE BIG GAME TOMORROW CITY TO PLAY OLD BOYS KEEN TUSSLE ANTICIPATED When the one-season-old City senior Rugby team steps out on Rugby Park tomorrow afternoon to play the final of the Stag Trophy ohampionship of 1939 against Uld Boys, it will have achieved a marked success, win or lose. To have reached the final after only one season as a club has been the reward of keen organisation and good play. Old Boys* on the other hand, lias been in the leading batch throughout the championship and a great duel for supremacy can be expected. The gate should be one of the largest for a club game for many Tomorrow’s final will be the outcome of a highly interesting and keenly contested competition in which three teams —'Uld Boys, City, and Technical—drew for the honours. In the first play-off Old Boys played good Rugby to defeat Technical. Now the team comes to City, the final obstacle to victory. Old Boys Won In 1936 A win for Old Boys tomorrow would give the team the trophy for the second time, the club having been the first holders of the Stag Trophy when the championship was introduced to Waikato football in 1936. No team has yet annexed the handsome stag on two occasions, and Old Boys will be fighting tomorrow for that honour. City, however, is extremely keen to have its name engraved on the trophy for the first time. Supporters will be there in large numbers to see their teams in action. City today lost the services of its captain, C. Perkins, who has been called to Wellington to participate in the All Black trials. However, City is confident of victory, nevertheless. If uld Boys plays to the form it displayed against Technical in the first play-off on September 9, the s>de will be hard to beat and will present a serious obstacle to City. uld Boys, however, has not always played con-

j eistently to its best form and if the j team is a shade off its top ability toj morrow victory should go to City. j When the Teams Last Met j "When City and Old Boys met in the • first round of the championship Old Boys won by 16 points to 9, although the City team was weakened consid- ! erably at the time. | The semi-final of the Morris Cup j will be played as a curtain-raiser to j the Stag Trophy final. The Morris Cup inter-house competition has atj traded considerable interest and the , semi-final may be expected to pro--1 duce the entertaining football usually associated with this competition. The semi-finalists are the Railway and the Power Board teams. Re-unlon Game One Of the features of tomorrow's Rugby programme in Hamilton will be the annual match between the Hamilton High School first fifteen and the Hamilton High School .Old Boys' team, in connection with the annual reunion which will be held tomorrow. Technical Old Boys juniors will play the Cambridge junior champions, Hautapu, at Cambridge, tomorrow. The draw for the games in Hamilton is as follows : Final of Stag Trophy championship: City v. Old Boys, No. 1 Rugby Park, 2.30 p.m. Semi-final of the Morris Cup (interhouse) : Railway v. Power Board, No. 1 Rugby Park, 1.15 p.m. TEAMS SELECTED ■ The Old Boys team to play City will be selected from the following players:—Slow, B. Paterson, Parsons, Rochford, Finlay, Higginson, Carroll. Crozier, Broad, Gillespie, Richardson, Mac Lean, D. Paterson, Jones, Egan, Waite, Bary, Reece. Bremer, -McKenzie. The Hamilton High School Old Boys’ Association team to play the school first fifteen in the re-union match is its follows:—Foster, Bullock, Tietjens, Whittaker, Smith, P. Taylor, Andrews, Reynolds, Lissette, Holmes, Griffiths, W. McKenzie. Woodwood, Farquliar, J. Tuck, U. Harding. ! City Hague, Wilson, Heywood, Hopcroft, Gerrish, Atkinson, Dobson, Findlater, Chell, Barr, Spiro, Clarkin, Johnson, Dutton, Scott, Cox, Dobbie, Osborne, Dew, Buckingham.