STILL THREE RUGBY TEAMS LEVEL ON TOP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 224, 20 September 1940, Page 10

STILL THREE RUGBY TEAMS LEVEL ON TOP.

Matches which are expected to have a vital bearing on the Rugby championship will be played to-morrow at Eden Park. Three teams are equal in the lead, and two of them, Suburbs and Takapuna, will be seen on the No. 1 ground, though not in opposition. -Takapuna, one of the promoted teams, will meet Technical Old Boys, one of the three sides to defeat Marist this season. This game will be the curtain-raiser to the Suburbs-Training College attraction, and in each case bright football is expected. Three other match in the championship .will be played elsewhere. Marist, last season's champions, is still up in the lead and is expected to account for University on the Ellerslie ground. At the Show Ground Ponsonby will meet North Shore, while Grafton will go to Otahuhu to play the home side. , Gallaher Shield ladder*— ! ' Scores. Ch. „_,_." P- W. L. D. F. A. pts. Marist 0.8.* 14 11 3 - 165 108 22 Suburbs 14 11 3 - 127 110 22 Takapuna 14 11 1 2 175 84 22 Technical 14 9 5 - 159 151 18 "Varsity 14 8 5 1 164 155 17 grafton 14 8 6 - 123 106 16 Training College 14 8 6 - 165 130 16 Ponsonby 14 7 7 - 152 137 14 Otahuhu 14 7 7 - 128 154 14 North Shore 14 6 8 - 177 166 12 •1939 Champion. Teams chosen:— Marist Old Boys.—Rare, Hardy, Molloy. P. BellBooth. Neary, Curtayne. Coon«y, Bond, Langford, McCabe. Sullivan. George, Barry, Mills. Patterson. Reserves: Sorenson, Rae. Barchard Beeston Hogan, Casey. North Shore.—Lalng, Raynes, Lydford, Wynyard Stancich, Graham, Sweetman, O'Sheeban, Sliand' Holt, Martin, Edwards, Scott. Ooodacre, p! Sheehan, Massey, Speight, Exler, Naughton Prentice.

Graf ton.—Tate, Schubert, Dick (2), Meharry Pearman. Wltherldge, McNetcc, Houten. Roddick Don. Barry. Hall. Mills. Tannahill. Lawry, Sayers' McKee, Witherldge, Furlonger. Houten.