Football

Duffy's Gen, Issue VI, 5 June 1945, Page 3

Football

Ine Station Rugby bit-ion has now reached the completion oi the first round. As anticipated, the standard of football has attained quite a high level. Points after the first round are as follows : -

Norfolk football- fans had their great day last week. To. mark the , conclusion of the : first round in the football competition, represent | atives of the North and South Islands met in battle. The following « teams had been chosen oy the selectors - P/o Catrun for North and j Dpi. Bob Garvin for South : -

! Island,- Oswald, Wilson, le Fleming, Massey (later replaced by f Burdett and finally by Roderick), Brown, Magnusson, Fraser, Chaney i replaced by burgess), Gillespie, Frale, Cummings,' Pedersen, i'/hyte, Wilson and pi chard son*

I S.cuthlsland - Richards, Hishon, Freeman, Talbot, Dewar, Taylor, | Sparrow, palmer, Edmonds, McLaughlan, Windle, Hird, Rowe, Stewart and Hallantyne. ’ ’

Enormous crowds linnet the field. The first game - Islanders v The Rest iollowed with great interest; it was an easy win for the. Islanders oy 1'1:0. But when the North and South teams appeared on the field the" trouble really started. The barracking was simply terrific n- Unfortunately iu was almost impossible to decide who was on which side because evv-ybouy insisted on shouting ”COME GN NEW. ZEALAND”, However, there were some disparaging remarks about Stewart Islanders and Little Americans and "Foreigners” as both sides chose to call each other. ri , .p l 6 ® araG itself was most one-sided, North never really had a show, Their forwards seemed too light and the superior technique of the South team had them completely baffled. At half time the. score was , H 1 South e favour (scores by Dewar, Hishon and Pichardo) and the i ln +i result was 21:3(Dewar, Palmer, Taylor and Sparrow scoring for couth and Pedersen for North*) b .Corners, well known in New Zealand rugby circles, acted as referee, and h declared afterwards that the standard of the game was It k ’not e A^o. r a + y senior games he had seen lately back in New 'Zealand. VrT>wHr m 7 J 0 naGO , the best players of the South team, but Dewar, laylor, nishon, Palmer, Hird and Sparrow all n-ave an MPu N Recount of themselves. In the North team Fraser ires among TncidentniiS d f E ° E ? deplck ' fiho should have entered the game earlier. Ma bT 40 . minutes proved a bit toe. long for the Southern olayers Mt.f m tMMN ted 1 NO f th 4. Islanders assert that North would have’wen if imu game had only lasted a little longer. South'’t“?ni ha nnd tat Pb i ßlande ? £ l have challenged the victorious t..,ari, and this should certainly be a game worth looking forward

E slander Camp £ Signals Works Mt ,-Ba te s Points Score Islanders —• 8:3 8:3 6:0 6:0 6:0 6:0 9:11' 9:11' 6 6 29:12; 29:16 Camp 3:8 — 8:5 6:-6 1'2:0 5 29:19 S igna1s 0:6 5:8 — 9: 0 3 :'3 ■ 3 17 7 Works 0:6 6 : 6 0:9 — 14 :■ 6 16:6 6 20:27 hit .■Bates 11:9 0:12 3:3 6 : 16- — u 20:38 20:38 SOUTH v I’TORTIf -UH - The Game of the Sea; son.-