Our Sports Summary

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 16, 6 May 1925, Page 41

Our Sports Summary

€ • FOOTBALL AT OAMARTJ. / v 5L- (From our own correspondent.) R t The kick-off ;S of the football f: season here £was 'a match between the Marist Club '■ of ■ fWaimate and the local Athletic Club. The '.[ Marist /"Club -'-was- victorious 5 by ' 6 to nil. & Connors scored for Waimate 'and' kicked a /^penalty goal. ' ?v iVVi-'"" - , m . ~;,„ FOOTBALL , AT„ NAPIER.. .baimv?- (From our own correspondent.) ' To the great surprise of many, Hastings defeated M. 8.0.8., in the game played the \ other Saturday, and they won on their merits. The absence of the Brownlie Brothers . from the Hastings pack was /disappointing to many, but the game could not have been ' more 'exciting and thrilling had they been ■ playing. From< start, to finish it was fought ' out at a desperate pace, and till the end the ! issue was in doubt, but Hastings played the better football and ;> thoroughly deserved; to win. For the first of the r season the "game , was a remarkable one and* if it can be taken ; as an indication as 1 to future football, Nelson I Park should have-its seating- capacity taxed ,to the utmost. In such a hard and fast game : it was only to be expected that "knocks" should be the order, but on both sides some 1 of the players 1 went too for'and several warn-ings-were given. 'Of the' Hastings team, E. . and S. Mitchell, N..Greenside and the Beuth brothers played great fo.otWl, Campbell being the outsanding forward. Swainson, Gemmell and Harris were' the pick'of the ' "Greens" pack. Their backs were outclassed by Hastings, Falwasser being too well marked to do much good. Mr. W. O'Neill - capably controlled the game, ~....,.,.,..,....,...„,„ „... .„„., , ;..-, RUGBY LEAGUE IN AUSTRALIA. The Rugby League .football ■ season is well under way, and the- practice matches played under the code on Saturday were an indication of how the code will be .demonstrated this year (says'; the Catholic Press (Sydney) for April 23). Referees showed a determination to insist on the complete observance of 9the . scrum rules and the policy of playing the ball and not the man, with 'the result that the games were speeded tip 1 "considerably. This augurs well for the standard of the contests that will be witnessed during the coming season, arid there should b» no rep pi- 2 tion of the unseemly incidents that marred last winter's games. All teams, with one exception, had a try-out on Saturday, and all are confident of fielding an unbeatable 13. f.<* ENGLISH SOCCER TEAM.n"f: Vi ¥-, The big event in international football this year will be the coming of the English Soccer team, the first to tour Australia (says an Australian exchange).' Notwithstanding the Icriticism levelled at the selection,^ we are assured by those who know that a team selected from those now T on ' their way will be ' hard %to beat. They will • have no light task in *i New South Wales, for the rugged coal miner '■'bothers very little about chess-board movements, but makes for goal and crashes down those who opposei him. v Hence it is : anticipated that the Newcastle, Maitland, and

South Coast Leagues will be the most strenuous opponents of the Englishmen. At least five included in the team are internationals, of whom Spencer (half back) * and Hardy (goal) - recently played in the England-Scot-land match. 7 Others : are Simms, ' Davidson (goal), and Caesar, an amateur belonging to Dulwich Hamlet, a well known London amateur team. He played right half back for English' Amateurs ’ against South Africa at Tottenham. The famous Tottenham Hotspur Club are sending thfpe brilliant players in Elkcs, Poynton, and Sage. V “T7r